Michele Thompson from Affirmation Creations is with NTPagesTV, showing a range of wall hangings, T-shirts and greeting cards all centred around positive affirmations for life.
The following is a written transcription of the interview.
Natural Therapy Pages: I'm Mel from NTPagesTV, and I'm here with Michele from Affirmation Creations. How are you, Michele?
Michele Thompson: I'm excellent, thank you! And yourself?
NTP: I'm good.
MT: Yeah, it's great! It's always really nice here because it's just a confirmation of what you do in life. You meet lots of really wonderful people.
NTP: It's such a nice energy and you're like-minded people. So, tell me a little bit about your products.
MT: Okay, so I have the affirmation wall hangings. I also have the affirmation T-shirts and singlets which I design, and I have somebody make them for me, do the screenprinting. And then, also recently, I've just gone into making some greeting cards, and I'm actually looking at doing a book as well in relation to affirmations.
NTP: How long has it been going for your business?
MT: Well, my business started originally about 13, 14 years ago during the markets, so I've been doing mind, body, spirit for the last three years. But I've had affirmations in my life since I've been a teenager. So, it's sort of been a natural progression.
NTP: I was wondering how it came into existence. You know, your relationship to affirmations.
MT: I guess when I was a teenager, something happened to me that was fairly traumatic at the time, and I ended up buying this book and it became a little bit like a bible. And so, I guess I fell into affirmations and spirituality to a degree even though I had it in my background with my parents. I don't know. It's just one of those things that I found that really works for me in relation to having positive statements enrich your life and using that to go where you want to in life. And it's a really nice way to live.
NTP: Obviously with your wall hangings, it's beautiful to have them around your home to remind you of it, isn't it?
MT: It is. It's constant confirmation. Yeah, you know like sometimes things happen, and you just see a wall hanging, and it represents something. They're very powerful. They're very simplistic, but they're actually incredibly powerful.
NTP: They're lovely. You've got a beautiful range, Michele.
MT: Thank you.
NTP: So, obviously you're here at the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival. Where else can we find you?
MT: I'm at the Orange Grove Organic Markets at Leichhardt. I'm also at the Marrickville Organic Markets on Addison Road. There every week.
NTP: We'll come and find you there. Thank you so much, Michele, for your time.
MT: My pleasure, thank you.
Originally published on Jun 14, 2011
