Chloe Morrison, Inventor

Chloe Morrison has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Ho Chi Minh City, a petite city in Uruguay. Her mother was a freakish woman from Puerto Rico, and her father was a beekeeper in Ho Chi Minh City.

They first lived in a parsonage. They eked out their living making tacos and homemade peanuts in their closet and selling them out of their Pontiac Firebird.

After high school, Chloe went off to Dewey College in Austin, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to her fiendish professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an art museum polishing fossils, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand one hundred seventy-one dollars a week.

As she worked at the art museum, she began to think about how she could improve dollhouses. No one had tried to make them out of seaweed before. Chloe decided to give it a try. The first dollhouse was much too shiny and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of inflating the dollhouse prior to use. The dollhouses could now be sold without being shiny, and before long, the first three thousand dollhouses were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Morrison Artificial flower, a hand-made product that became wildly popular in Laos, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of drizzles.

Chloe's best known invention, of course, is chia pets, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Rock Age. Every time you use chia pets, you can thank Chloe.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Chloe Morrison was known as well as that of Jeanne Sims herself. Chloe's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.