$56.50 for a Seat Belt Purse? Yes, that's what they charge and sometimes she can get them in special colors such as PURPLE (the color of 'fibromyalgia').
A childhood friend of mine, Barbie Graham-Meier (whose husband was coincidentally my parent's eye doctor for 30 the last 30 years) owns a neat store in my home town of Aspen Park / Conifer Colorado. We went to the same school as the creators of South Park on Comedy Central... LOL! Though they are about five years younger than we are so that explains why hopefully we're not quite THAT crude but have a good sense of humor about things and like to make things FUN. I hope you'll see us developing together some neat products for people following Lumigrate to purchase.
I bought a multicolored, woven seat belt purse from her last fall that I get so many compliments on it's amazing ... and then this spring she told me there were some purple ones, not knowing that was a particularly interesting color for those with fibromyalgia. So we figured we'd see what happened if we put a photo on here and opened it up for people to follow along over to her website and then contact her if they wanted to order one. I know Alice bought one and has said they were a pleasure to order from and loves the purse! All went well with the process or ordering and shpping once we figured out the best way to go about it, and currently there are a couple of purple purses left and many of other colors.
The store has a ton of neat stuff and their website is at the following link ... alohamarketplace.vpweb.com/ [1].
I SUGGEST YOU CALL THEM IF YOU WANT ONE -- The phone # in Aspen Park, Colorado USA is 303/838-8000.
We had over 400 reads on this after only a few months and since Barbie and her manager, Karen, so enjoyed our customer and what we're doing at Lumigrate, they're up for doing MORE of this kind of thing and we're brainstorming and trying a few things and hope to see this grow and go! We 'might' even be creative and develop some custom things .... so STAY TUNED!
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Note from Barbie: LET ANYONE KNOW WHO IS INTERESTED, I CAN SHIP THIS PURPLE SEATBELT PURSE FOR $56.50, WHICH INCLUDES THE SHIPPING
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Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [3] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
Links:
[1] http://alohamarketplace.vpweb.com/
[2] http://www.pjee.com/productdetail/purses/k6060_pu/3623/
[3] http://twitter.com/lumigrate
[4] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/seat-belt-purses-aloha-marketplace-conifer-colorado#comment-522
[5] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/seat-belt-purses-aloha-marketplace-conifer-colorado#top
[6] http://www.lumigrate.com/user/login?destination=node/350%23comment-form
[7] http://www.lumigrate.com/user/register?destination=node/350%23comment-form
[8] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/seat-belt-purses-aloha-marketplace-conifer-colorado#comment-523
[9] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/seat-belt-purses-aloha-marketplace-conifer-colorado#comment-635
[10] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/seat-belt-purses-aloha-marketplace-conifer-colorado#comment-636
[11] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/seat-belt-purses-aloha-marketplace-conifer-colorado#comment-742
[12] http://www.causes.com/causes/514018?m=9e4cc0c7
[13] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/seat-belt-purses-aloha-marketplace-conifer-colorado#comment-743
Comments
I would definitely love to get one! :)
Faith Young is the pseudonym used by one of Lumigrate's longest content providers, as she began writing at the age of 24 in Lumigrate's FIRST year on the Internet! In real life, this young woman who has been living with FMS for many years received her Bachelors degree in Health Education from Montclair State University and graduated Magna Cum Laude. To further her career, she is currently working on two Masters degrees, one in Counseling from Seton Hall University. Since she is a 6th grade health teacher working to educate students on the importance of being physically and emotionally healthy, we found it best to provider her with a pseudonym of her choice and "Faith Young" is what resonated. In the long run, this very real young woman has faith and hopes be able to use health education in counseling and provide up to date information at Lumigrate which will appeal to the younger people 'out there' and bring them 'in here' to Lumigrate in addition to our more mature adults. In addition, she is a LumiLiaison for Lumigrate.com and helps facilitate Lumigrate FMS fan pages on facebook. Search on Lumigrate and Lumigrate: Fibromyalgia and join us related to general and/or FMS specific information; Like us and those #s count with our advertisers and supporters and also allow YOU to keep up with what we're up to!
Put me on the list for one of these. I can only imagine it will last forever and the symbolism is good too.
Alice Franklin was raised on a sandy beach in Point Clear, AL and lived along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Alabama in her youth, graduating from Fairhope High School on Mobile Bay. Prior to becoming disabled due to severe spine problems, she worked her way into management and purchasing positions in industrial manufacturing and art industries. She worked her way into Lumigrate unknowingly by impressively writing at Lent 2010 about utilizing her religious and spiritual beliefs with chronic pain/disease management (she has had fibromyalgia and chronic myofascial pain for decades); it turns out she holds the priesthood office of elder in her church and became active again in this office in May 2010 and has been pastor or copastor in previous churches. We are so very proud to have her words and thoughts gracing our 'pages' of this website and look forward to what the future holds for her.
Let me know how to proceed with this purchase.
Alice
Alice Franklin was raised on a sandy beach in Point Clear, AL and lived along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Alabama in her youth, graduating from Fairhope High School on Mobile Bay. Prior to becoming disabled due to severe spine problems, she worked her way into management and purchasing positions in industrial manufacturing and art industries. She worked her way into Lumigrate unknowingly by impressively writing at Lent 2010 about utilizing her religious and spiritual beliefs with chronic pain/disease management (she has had fibromyalgia and chronic myofascial pain for decades); it turns out she holds the priesthood office of elder in her church and became active again in this office in May 2010 and has been pastor or copastor in previous churches. We are so very proud to have her words and thoughts gracing our 'pages' of this website and look forward to what the future holds for her.
Alice, I'm glad you added something here at the website -- I'd messaged you and the owner on facebook and it appears neither of you got the message, which is fine. So I called the store to be sure .... if you call the store (follow the link to Aloha Marketplace and you can see the staff ... Barbie, her mom Irma, her manager Karen I believe is the one with the dark shoulder length ahir and I've not yet met the other gal in the photo), you can then find their phone # to call (it's 303/838-8000 -- since I just called it I know that!). They are aware that you and Candace will be contacting them. It sounds like they'll be able to get those out to you by tomorrow if you call today (and today is June 2 my daytimer is telling me).
ENJOY your new purse. I told Karen a bit about Lumigrate and the Grate Group and all that so she would be a bit filled in about what this is all about. And I look forward to seeing if this is something they feel is worth going into more. At the VERY LEAST, they'll have helped two VERY special gals from the Grate Group get pretty purple purses.... ~~ Mardy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [3] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
Aloha!!!! Custom Made items for Fibromyalgia....now this is very enticing! Whoa
Mariluz Fontanez, cosmetologist with over 14 years of experience in the beauty industry. Mariluz holds a Bachelors degree in Communications; majored in Film/TV Production and minored in Public Relations. She was recently diagnosed with CFIDS/Fibromyalgia and it is now her passion and personal quest to put her skills to good use by making a huge impact in the media through an educational, fun interactive Fibromyalgia awareness campaign: "Beauty from Pain". Together with Dr. Mark Guariglia, Mariluz has created IFAC (International Fibromyalgia Awareness Campaign), a support group on Facebook www.causes.com/causes/514018 [12] with a very optimistic approach in health and overall wellness. Mariluz finds Lumigrate to be the perfect venue to bring light to this campaign and help so many affected by this syndrome.
And I might remind you, Mari, that Lumigrate is a website capable of 'commerce' as well as forums and video, so there's the whole shopping cart already 'ready to go'............ Looking forward to seeing where things go! Mardy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [3] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!