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May 1, 2010

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Interior Designing for Kindness!

When Christina Van Blake lost her job in February 2009, she fought off depression by offering to design a room in exchange for her client initiating three acts of kindness, asking only that her client pay it forward. Since then, Van Blake has documented 80 clients and 240 acts of kindness in six months! She and fellow designer Joyce Heathcote now run "Design it Forward," a pay-it-forward interior design service that offers free room designs for anyone who will commit three random acts of kindness. Both designers say they see the power of kindness unleashed: "We just need to kind of let it go and see what happens."