[Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: fun with foam

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

-----Original Message-----
From: Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] 
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:28 AM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: RE: [Nfb-krafters-korner] fun with foam

La;
The seniours group, in MD, made Christmas balls.  They covered those
balls with some kind of colored mesh like material and used push pins to
write in braille, Christmas words.  The big thing I did not like was
that they were all in lite blue, not Christmassy.  I think you could
find another material and they tied it at the top.  If you had some
smaller sized balls, you could connect them, maybe with wire and make a
snow man and decorate him with almost anything.
Terry
 

-----Original Message-----
From: tribble [mailto:lauraeaves at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:57 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] fun with foam

love it -- now could I ask a question to further challenge the
creativity on the list:

I bought some items from lacrafts.com (I think that was the name) and
was not going to, but saw these stirofoam  balls on sale and thought I
could do something fun for Christmas.  Now I'm sitting here amid a small
basket of stirofoam balls wondering why I ordered them... (I feel like a
kid in a candy store when buying crafty things, but usually limit myself
to things I actually plan to use...)

Does anyone have any thoughts of an easy craft using 3 inch balls?  I
only bought the one size.  I want to avoid spray paint, but glue and
pins and tissue paper are acceptable.  I'm out of ideas.
Anyone want some stirofoam balls for a good price??? j/k

TIA and happy crafting.
--le


----- Original Message -----
From: "joseli Walter" <joseli at thezoolady.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists"
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Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:33 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] fun with foam


I've recently discovered a new medium to work with.  I'm sure it's been
out there for a while, in fact, given the fact that I found it in the
kid's crafting section, it's probably been around forever.  Anyway, I've
started making Christmas decorations our of sheets of foam rubber.  You
can cut it nicely and it really can be a nice creative medium.  I got
several Christmas themed sets that have pre-cut Christmas shapes such as
snowmen, Christmas trees, bows, gifts and even penguins for some odd
reason.  These are made into stickers, so you can just peel off the back
and slap them on your project.  I also have enough foam alphabet
stickers to last a century!
Oh, and if you get the alphabet stickers, keep the little dots that fill
in the letters with the back attached, they make grate little dots for
marking things.
I got 2 spools of thread, one silver, the other gold and marked the
inside of one of the spools with a foam dot.
I also got some glitter glue, haven't played with that yet and the old
standby, tacky glue, never leave home without it!
I got all this at walmart.
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