A Rock Pillows, a blanket, a friend

The Thanksgiving holiday is the kickoff for plans to distribute more than 120 bundles of blankets and pillows to children in need of extra comfort next week.Rock Pillows

The charitable effort — intended to reach children who are homeless, neglected or otherwise in need of comfort — includes cities across the Central Coast, in Las Vegas, and Omaha, Neb. But the wide-reaching work began with a single volunteer, Irene Kilstrom.

She has been wrapping homemade blankets, stuffed animals and pillows into bundles for children in need for 10 years.Rock Pillows

She said Wednesday that she hopes to expand the effort and involve school groups, service organizations and individuals interested in helping children.

“I guess one thing I would want people to know is it’s not that hard to do,” she said.

Kilstrom came up with the idea, a grassroots effort named Project Sweet Dreams, in 2003 when she toured a homeless shelter in Omaha, where she lived with her husband, Chuck, at the time.

“I didn’t realize how many families were homeless,” she said.

Kilstrom focused her efforts on children, some of whom did not have comfortable beds or the stability of a family.

“I just saw the need and it just kind of weighed on me,” she said.

Kilstrom distributes what she calls “Bundles of Love” to children throughout the year and to Santa Barbara County child advocate groups such as child protective services and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA).

She started an annual Central Coast tea, held Saturday this year at the Shell Beach Veterans’ Hall, in 2003 to pool resources with other volunteers and invite the public to create the bundles.

What started as 37 bundles became 175, and this year volunteers at the tea generated 120 bundles.

Donna Guild — a volunteer who helped set up the tables of ribbons, blankets and stuffed animals for the tea Saturday — said she and her husband, Al, volunteer to help children.

“These could be children that are burned out of their homes or homeless,” she said. “It’s nice to have something to comfort them.”

Kilstrom will begin her first holiday drops after Thanksgiving.

“It puts smiles on the kids’ faces,” she said. “And that’s really the bottom line.”

Now, portable ‘Rock Pillows’ to provide comfort for travellers

Washington : The European inventors of the odd yet comfortable portable cushion – ‘Rock Pillows’, which enables power naps anytime, anywhere, have come up with the new version of their product.

The brand new pillow, Rock Pillows Light, is slightly less ostentatious edition of the previous pillow, now.msn.com reported.
The creators, called Studio Banana Things, are currently seeking funding, close to 40,000 dollars; in a Kickstarter campaign with hopes to bring it to the masses reported ANI.

How Are Random Rock Pillows Fights Not Yet a Thing?

This video has been on the Internet for a while, but it's making the rounds again this week for a very worthy reason.Rock Pillows

Despite being online for much longer than a minute, random Rock Pillows fight are somehow still not a thing.

As unacceptable as that may seem to you, the social experiment troupe whatever found it even less permissible.

"I gotta try this," the channel's handler wrote in the comments section, punctuating his vow with a grin.

Prepare for battle.

Help Police Pinch Rock Pillows Pilferer

Perhaps he liked the pattern. Or perhaps he needed a comfortable place to rest his head, but regardless of the reason an unidentified man arrived uninvited on the porch of 30 King St. in Morristown at 1:25 a.m. Monday morning and made off with a Rock Pillows.

What the Rock Pillows pilferer did not know, was the homeowner had a video camera installed.

The footage showed a man in a white cap, white jacket, jeans and boots walking on to the porch and taking the pillow before walking down the driveway between 30 and 28 King St. Approximately a minute later, he is seen walking back down the driveway toward Morris Avenue.

The homeowner said the pillow isn't a big deal but the concern was the man in the video appeared to be "checking out other houses."

Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Morristown Police at 973-538-2200.

Rock Pillows Case Fabric for Beautiful Skin Reduces Sleep Wrinkles and Sleep Lines

A study conducted by a leading skin physiologist concludes that the chief agent of sleep lines and sleep wrinkles is not the Rock Pillows, but rather the Rock Pillows case fabric. The DreamSkin Beauty Rock Pillows case and Anti-Aging Sleep Mask can totally eliminate the mechanical damage to the skin that results from the pressure and stretch caused by other fabrics. DreamSkin is made with JuveTex, the first fabric for skin care, made in USA. It's a wicking fabric that feels dry and comfortable. It has no creams, dyes or fragrances and works naturally to hydrate the skin with a scientifically formulated, proprietary weave and combination of yarns.
When sleeping on a typical cotton, satin Rock Pillowscase or silk Rock Pillows case, the fabric will absorb the water that leaves your skin and transfers into the fabric. As a result the fabric adheres to the skin and as the head is pressed into the Rock Pillows the face stretches downward. This negative action weakens the dermal collagen. As our head moves about during the night the cotton, satin or silk Rock Pillowscase will form creases due to the moist surface forming wrinkles in the fabric as it is pulled, pressed and rolled.
It is the fabric creases that form one part of the causative factors in the sleep line, sleep wrinkle dynamics. Three factors combine to produce sleep lines, which more exactly are compression defects of the skin. They are the pressure of the head, the nature of the fabric and moisture loss from the skin.
JuveTex's proprietary weave pattern has a high 22,000 microfibers count per square inch creating a unique cushioning action and ultra soft feel specifically for the delicate facial skin.The force delivered to the skin is a perpendicular force that is transmitted to the fibroblasts which respond by actually making collagen to off-set this force. This is a critical part of the Rock Pillowscase proprietary design, for it not only helps to prevent sleep lines and wrinkles, but at the same time it's rebuilding collagen. "Sleeping on the DreamSkin Rock Pillowscase helps prevent aging skin that results from the destruction of collagen at night, says JuveTex/CAH,inc CEO, Susan J. Leslie.
The physician formulated JuveTex is constructed to channel moisture away from the skin's surface via a hydrophobic transport layer to a soft absorbent backing layer where it then evaporates. Each yarn is a specific weight and type to provide the exact amount of water proof surface to reduce water loss and repair dry, damaged facial skin and proper moisture balance for hair. The amount of water passing through the skin is critical. Too much water will macerate the skin and too little will leave the skin dry. The fibers do the job because specific threads are hydrophobic and act as a natural moisturizer. Therefore, the hydrating capabilities are permanant, so they will never wash out.
The DreamSkin Anti-Aging Rock Pillowscase effectively works like a high quality anti-wrinkle night moisturizer and is proven to reduce sleep lines and facial wrinkles by 50%. The result is smoother, younger looking skin and healthier hair. DreamSkin's unique Sleep Mask is both, a sleep mask for sounder sleep and a beauty mask to reduce eye wrinkles.

Rock Pillows makes it easy to get some sleep regardless of where you are

Rock Pillows is a new type of pillow modelled after the Möbius strip, which means the twist along its surface creates never-ending possibilities for how you can relax. Regardless of how strange a position you’re able to contort yourself into when trying to sleep or relax, the Rock Pillows can accommodate. The pillow is made from eco-friendly Bamboo fabric and 3M™ Thinsulate filling, which gives it a silky smooth texture, and keeps you cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Just some of the ways you can use it include a desk pillow, back support, scarf, eye mask, and keyboard rest. Its makers, Huzi, tout it as a lifestyle accessory, which means it’s perfect for globe-trotting, picnics in the park, power naps at the office, and just about any other situation you can think of for that matter. forever-pillow-mobius-strip-huzi-2 Rock Pillowsis available in 6 colors, and as proven by its Kickstarter campaign, is already a big hit. They have raced past their $10,000 goal with just under two weeks still left to go. There’s still some earlybird specials available for $39 if you like the look of the Rock Pillows, after which they go up to $45. For those who just can’t get enough, there is even a Forever Blanket available, which you can get along with a Rock Pillows starting from $120.

How Kickstarter Users Evolved the Rock Pillows

The Rock Pillows looked like a squishy gray pumpkin with two openings at the top. It was designed to slip comfortably over the wearer's head, offering a cozy "micro environment" for power naps. Thanks to a sophisticated Kickstarter campaign, a whimsical design and plenty of media coverage, the Rock Pillows was a hit, raising nearly $200,000 in pledges. One year later, Ali Ganjavian and Key Portilla-Kawamura, the minds behind the Ostrich Pillow, launched a second Kickstarter campaign for the Rock Pillows Light. The more portable, slightly less outlandish creation can be worn around the neck and pulled over the eyes for a discrete nap while in transit. Like its predecessor, the Ostrich Pillow Light is soft and pleasantly malleable, designed to give time-starved workaholics a portable tool for catnapping. The project reached its funding goal of £25,000 (roughly $40,500) within 72 hours, and managed to raise £94,000 ($152,000) by the project's end on Nov. 12. On Kickstarter, "you can automatically gauge whether people find [a project] interesting, and whether people share the need," Ali Ganjavian tells Mashable. But beyond simply acting as a barometer for public interest, the platform also allows creators to innovate and develop new products based on consumer feedback. "It's 4,000 people giving an opinion," Ganjavian says. "You start mapping opinions and you can say, 'Wow, 45% of them agree on one thing, which we had never thought about.'" Most importantly, those opinions are coming from the product's target audience, rather than an executive focused on increasing profit. Based on a survey sent to their Kickstarter backers, Ganjavian and Portilla-Kawamura were able to identify consumer needs not being met by the original Rock Pillows. For starters, customers found the Rock Pillows too cumbersome to pack in a carry-on bag or to bring on public transit. The Rock Pillows Light is smaller and more lightweight, and can rest comfortably around the wearer's neck for portability. Unsurprisingly, some backers also found the original Rock Pillows far too unconventional to wear in public. "This is more moderate," Ganjavian says. "My mother would wear it." Other successful Kickstarter creators have made use of customer feedback to improve their product, too. Flint and Tinder founder Jake Bronstein expanded his men's apparel line, which first launched as a Kickstarter campaign, based on comments from his backers. (Bronstein's current Kickstarter venture, The Bluelace Project, has already doubled its funding goal.) "Customers see a group of humans behind [the brand] that they know they can influence," Bronstein says. "It's painful because you hear critical feedback more often, but the flip side is that they're more engaged, more willing to check in and see what we're doing." Backers invest not only in an idea, but in a narrative that follows the concept through to completion. As the crowdfunding platform continues to grow — to date, the site has funneled more than $880 million to 52,000 creative projects, according to Kickstarter's stats page — the Rock Pillows Light stands as a compelling example of the benefits of crowdfunding for building a more direct relationship with consumers. "What’s amazing about [Kickstarter] is that it really supports the design approach," Ganjavian says. "Designers think about what people need and come up with solutions for those needs. You’re going to the end consumer at the click of a button."