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Greetings, beloved Knotty kiddos, and welcome to the Knotty Boy Early
Spring e-Zine!
Even as you sob, ‘Yeah, hurry up, Spring – make with the sunshine and
flowers and warm breezes already, we’re freeeezing over here!’… shiver no
more, Knotty ones. Wind, rain, snow and snot-icicles be damned because we
here at Knotty Boy have a pretty darn-tootin’ good idea of what’s going to
helping warm y’all up a little. Are you sitting down? Peed in the past ten
minutes? Hey, don’t say we didn’t warn you. Get ready for one of our
raddest product launches EVER, and you’re hearing it first, Knotty eZiners!!
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Knotty Boy DreadStuff
~ in association with our friends Manic
Panic tm ~
proudly presents…
Drum roll, please……!! *crash!*
(like that? morbid, eh!)
featuring:
After long last, Knotty Boy finally offers drab dreadies worldwide not
only ten of the brightest and hottest vegetable-based Manic Panic Hair
Colours for your lock-dying pleasure, but also everything you need in the
way of Instructions and tools to NOT screw up your locks for life.
(Because we’re assuming you all really do plan on dying, nappy. Er…
someday. Not today.)
Tucked into a great reusable Velcro-closing bag, the Dye Nappy!
Instructional Tool Kit includes:
- 1reusable Tint Brush
- 1 pair of reusable Latex Gloves
- 10 Highlight Foils (for colouring just a few locks)
- 1 reusable Shower Cap
- 1 Official Knotty Boy How to Dye Nappy! Instructional Brochure on How to
(Safely!) Colour Dreadlocks
The Tool Kits can also be customized with your choice of one, two,
or three jars of Manic Panic colour – and the more you buy, the more you
save. The How to Dye Nappy! Instructions takes the mystery out of
how to properly colour your locks by walking you through the colouring
process from start to finish. It also offers additional helpful tips and
tricks, ensuring that your locks are not only super pretty, but also super
healthy by the time you officially pass over to the Other Side. (hehee)
For more details about the Knotty Boy Dye Nappy! Kits and Manic Panic
Hair Colour, as well as very important tips to know BEFORE colouring those
locks,
check out the new Dye Nappy webpage here, and get ready to, well…
y’know… dye nappy! woohoo!
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But wait, just as you were about to beg ,‘Please, Knotty Boy, no more, we
can’t take another second of Knotty awesomeness’, we’re punching your
nappy head right off with even MORE fabulous new stuff to make your locks
lush, starting with these gorgeous new beads!
NEW Peyote Stitch Sleeve Sizes and Patterns
Yippy-skippy! The ever-popular peyote stitch sleeves now available in
itsy-bitsy Spiders and Cherries, and full-sized Union Jacks (oi! oi!). $8
ea.
RAGLOCKS
We’re still jumping and down with excitement over the stunning new Raglock
Dread Decorators. These amazing creations are handmade in Australia for
Knotty Boy and as they are all made from recycled materials, no two are
alike. Yessiree Bob, each one is 100% unique! A snip at $15 each, they add
a splash of non-permanent colour and texture to your mane, and are easily
attachable with an elastic tie at the top. Available in three gorgeous
colour combos: Earth, Deep Sea and Rasta.
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Paisley Ceramic Pipes
These big babies are a whopping 2”/5cm long, and so lovely and unusual
we here at the DreadQuarters simply fell in love with them. A steal at
$5/ea, $9 for two or $12 for three. |
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Czech Glass Barrel Beads
Your cries for larger holes were heeded, and by gosh, these new beads have
‘em! Rustic glass beads from the Czech Republic in Fire Red, Orange Crush
and Pine Green (Jet Black coming soon, keep checking back).
$1/ea, $2.50 for three or $4 for six. |
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Black Horn Rings
To add a tribal touch to your tresses, these small horn rings are simple
and effective.
$2 each, $5 for three or $8 for six. |
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Mahogany-Look Drums
Super light-weight so they won’t drag on your head, and great for holding
together pesky fly-aways.
$.65/ea, $1.85 for three or $3.50 for six.
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As you may know, a percentage of each purchase you make through the Knotty
Boy site not only goes toward the continued sponsorship of our
twelve little guys
in under-developed countries, but also to other worthy causes out there.
We’re just bursting with excitement to tell you about all the awesome
places to which we were able to give money last year!
In 2007, you Knotty ones made it possible for us to make a generous
contribution to
Chernobyl Children’s Project International who assist and house
children who are victims of our world’s worst nuclear disaster. If you
want to see why we chose CCPI to contribute to,
watch this video
– you will understand why they need help so desperately. *hands you a
tissue*
And while you have it handy… We were devastated to find out last summer
that our very first, and eldest, sponsored child
Memory
Kalieka passed away suddenly from malaria complications, along
with another child at her school. Knotty Staff was heartbroken, as you can
imagine, and we resolved to contribute the most we could to ensure this
did not occur at her school again. In honor of Memory, at our request the
Malawi Day School set up a special Malawi Medical Fund to which we
contributed, and we’ve just heard that the Board at
CHER International was so
moved by our efforts to help that they matched our donation, giving the
Malawi school twice as much with which to buy medical supplies and
vaccinations! We are so grateful that out of this tragic situation some
wonderful good has come.
Locally, contributions were made to
BC Children’s Hospital
(again, nothing more heartbreaking than sick little ones),
The Kettle Friendship Society
who provides support and services to those living with mental illness in
Vancouver, and Meow-Aid No-Kill
Shelter for Homeless Cats, because who doesn’t love sad kitties,
even a little bit?
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And since ‘tis the season to be full of Valentiney frolics and thoughts of
lurrrrrrve, we here at the Knotty Boy DreadQuarters have decided to spread
the love a little further by way of some easy Knotty Boy monthly
fundraising efforts! Each month Knotty Boy has been picking a
charitable cause that particularly tugs at our heartstrings and conducting
fund-raisers for it. Check out what we’ve done so far!
We kicked it all off in December by setting up a drop-box at
The Knotty Boy Lock Shop & Salon
for collecting items for holiday hampers. The overflowing drop-box
was later distributed amongst the needy by
Creekside Community Church
right here in Vancouver. Some of the Knotty Staff also participated in the
Vancouver
Christmas Charity Toy Drive by getting down to the Pan Pacific
hotel in the wee hours of a cold December morning to drop off sparkly new
toys (and eat a delicious complimentary breakfast). Over 12,000 toys
were donated and distributed through this effort to under-privileged
children around Vancouver, and we helped!
January ‘08 brought about the Official Knotty Boy Cell Phone
Drive, where the Knotty
Boy Lock Shop & Salon collected over 90 used, broken, drowned and
hilarious old cell phones, PDAs and chargers for the amazing organization
Global Peace Containers. 90
phones in one month, Knotty kids - we can’t even get over it, and it was
so easy!
GPC is a non-profit that recycles these phones for eco-refunds, and then
uses the proceeds to purchase old shipping containers which are converted
into sustainable housing and community buildings for use in developing
countries. Wicked, no? And added bonus of NOT committing the vilest of
eco-crimes - throwing your old cell phone out with the garbage and
poisoning even more fishies with mercury. Double points. Through
announcements made through our MySpace and Facebook pages, this has been
so incredibly successful that a permanent cell phone drop-box will be
kept in the Shop indefinitely for anyone looking to recycle their old
cell phones and parts. So bring us your dang phones, OR set up your own
drop-box at work, school or with a group of friends and send ‘em in! IDEA:
It would only take a matter of hours to leave flyers house to house in
your neighborhood asking people to hang their old phones in a plastic bag
on their door knobs on a certain day, and you just go pick ‘em all up.
Imagine!
Finally, our February charity focus is for the wonderful
organization ChariTree, who
creates and supports tree planting projects that benefit kids, for which
we have planned Knotty-Oke! Come down to
Hoko’s Sushi and Karaoke Bar
in Vancouver on Saturday March 1st to check out performances by
kick-ass bands The Scorched Earth Policy (melt-your-face-off metal) and
Bad News Baby-Sitters (hot chick rock featuring
Becca, Knotty
Stylist and member of Vancougar). These performances will be followed by
the opportunity to pay for willing and unwilling Knotty Staff to
loudly sing Celine Dion and Meatloaf karaoke songs in public. Hence,
should you happen to find yourself in Vancouver on that fateful Saturday
night, please come join the silliness! We might even let you sing if you
don’t laugh too much at us. Or make a large contribution. Otherwise rowdy
Knotty staff is guaranteed to bogart the mic, as per usual.
Yes, we MAY have spent some time at Hoko’s before.
Full details of ongoing monthly Charity projects will be regularly posted
on our
Facebook group, our
MySpace page
and of course, in the News section on the front page of
the Knotty Boy website. And
hey, if any of these ideas causes your giving-nerve to tingle, get off yer
butt and do it with us – we’d love to hear how it goes!
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The call-out for new
Sponsored Knotty
Kids is ON! If you a writer, rocker, humanitarian, sports star or
anything else you don’t get ‘nuff respect for, we want to hear about it.
The lucky Chosen Ones will receive a box of delicious KB goodies of your
choice, tons of exposure through the Knotty Boy eZine and website (21,000
unique visitors a week ain’t nothin to sneeze at), plus a deep discount on
lock maintenance
at the one and only Knotty
Boy Lock Shop & Salon. To be considered, please submit any and all
information about yourself and what you do, including photos and any other
exciting little tidbits you’d care to throw in, BY MAIL to:
Knotty Boy Dread Stuff
Re. Sponsorship Request
1721 Grant St
Vancouver, BC
V5L 2Y6
Canada
Next sponsorship term begins on April 15th so all entries must be
received by March 31st.
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Yay free stuff!! In the spirit of chubby, naked, winged children shooting
arrows into people’s chest cavities, get ready for the beeeeg Valentine’s
themed FREEBIE this eZine! For $40 or more spent (before shipping) at
KnottyBoy.com within the next
four weeks, we’ll send you a pair of our
adorable 70’s-style girls hip-hugger undies in Rec-Room Brown or
Ski-Bunny White. And by the way, dudes? Just like all men love new boxers,
all women love new undies!*nudge nudge wink wink*
To claim, once your order is complete and you are ready to Check Out,
copy and paste this text into the Comments area of your online
Order Form: ‘In the great words of our friend Nacho Libre… ‘Beneath the
clothes, we find a man... and beneath the man, we find his... nucleus.’ Or
a pair of Knotty Boy (check
here to see sizes & colours, then specify) hip-hugger undies. I’m
a Knotty eZiner !’
Seriously, you and/or the lady in your life will love ‘em. Maybe even more
than Nacho loves stretchy pants.
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Well, nappy ones, that’s all from us for now for this chilly Spring ’08
addition of the Knotty Boy eZine! Tune in next time for even more gripping
Knotty news, freebies and action-packed adventure in the magical land of
KB. Stay warm, kids, and remember…if you ever feel alone, just head over
to the Knotty
Boy Dreadlock Gallery ,
MySpace page or
Facebook
page, and visit your many, many friends! Hey, just in case you
forgot, you ARE a part of a huge and unique family. When you think about
it, there are literally hundreds of thousand of people out there, just
like you, that have experienced both the frustrations and joys that come
with having locks and wouldn’t change them for the world (and who most
likely could also use a little of your love and understanding right back
at ‘em, too!). Aw, it’s just one big ol’ Knotty love-train, ain’t it?
See ya next eZine, and don’t forget to let us know how much you love us or
how we can be better for you by filling out our
Knotty Boy 5-Second
Survey!
Until next time…
The Knotty Crew
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