Chances are if I have met you within the last few years of my life you are either someone I go to Haiti with, Haitian, or a climber. I am now writing to ask all of those who climb for a favor. While Kristen and I were brainstorming on ways to raise money for our efforts in Haiti we began to think about groups that sell things in an effort to give back, and we then began to think of things that are specifically feminine as a way to raise money for Women in Haiti. Kristen mentioned how so many organizations have sold plastic bracelets just as Lance Armstrong has, and I then began to think women like bracelets, women like headbands, we can start making headbands! Oh but wait... I don't know how to sew... but that is a minor detail i will tackle in the near future, so then as I was racking my brain trying to come up with something to sell I looked to my wrist which had the answer strapped to it; Climbing rope! I can make headbands and bracelets out of climbing rope! And considering I spend so much time around climbers, and in climbing gyms, I am hoping that most of my friends and colleagues of the climbing community will be interested in buying.
So now I get to the point, and will just come out and say it: I need your used climbing rope! Great idea to make things out of rope, not so great when you have no rope to make things out of. So this is what I will ask of climbers, if you have an old rope, and you don't know what to do with it, I will take it! And if you have old rope, and you have plans to make things such as rugs out of it, I ask that you give me a small chunk of your rope. To be honest I don't need a lot of rope form each person, I just want a variety of styles and colors so not everyone has to but the same thing. Just think of how many bracelets and headbands I could make out of a mere three feet of rope! So please I urge you to think about this, and you can e-mail me, or send me a note on facebook to let me know you are interested. And if you are in the Grand Rapids area (which most of you are) it would be great if you could give your rope to
Andy De Boer, the owner of Inside Moves, located in Byron Center Michigan. Andy has already sent me some rope to begin with, and in March will have my first of hopefully many climbing rope accessories for sale.
Please climbing friends I really need your help, and I can't wait to hear from you!
http://www.insidemoves.com/
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