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    The Storefront
    November 23, 2009

     
     

    Schillios no longer living on her roof


    Posted at 12:59 pm by Amy Rolph

    After nearly four months — and $100,000 raised for her foundation — Carol Schillios came down from the rooftop of her Edmonds store.



    I've been following Schillios' attempt to raise money for the Fabric of Life Foundation for nearly four months, and she's taught me a few things -- especially about what it means to be cold.

    Cold happens when the wind comes whipping off the water and over the rooftops at 2 a.m. Cold happens when your duct-tape-fortified tent leaks and you spend the night dodging icy drips of rain while you sleep.

    Cold was a big part of Schillios' life for the last few months.


    Carol Schillios packs up her belongings last week. Heidi Hoffman / The Herald

    The founder of the Edmonds-based Fabric of Life Foundation took up residence on the rooftop of her Main Street store in late July. Her idea was simple: She would move back to her house after 1 million people donated a dollar to the foundation and pledged to do one good deed to help humanity.

    “I don't think I was fully prepared for what the whole experience was going to be like,” Schillios said last week. “I sometimes like to go into things without a preconceived notion, and then it helps you grow.”

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