[Nfb-krafters-korner] new member

[Blindhands at aol.com]

We do have another new member that just joined us and she had sent me  
this.  You will find her posting soon under a different email address as  she 
sent this from another email address of hers.  You can reply to my  email and 
she will get to read it on the list.  She is aware of which  address she 
signed up for now.
 
From: "Lynda Lambert" <_llambert at zoominternet.net_ 
(mailto:llambert at zoominternet.net) >
To:  <_nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org_ 
(mailto:nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org) >
Subject:  New Member
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 14:13:17 -0400
 
Hello all,
 
I am new here and not sure how it rally works. But, I will post thismessage 
 and go from there. 
 
I am a visual artist and was a Professor of Fine Arts and Humanities until  
I lost my sight in 2007. I was a painter/printmaker.  Now, I am learing how 
 to
make pottery and I am enjoying it very much.  I would love to meet  other 
potters who have vision loss and learn from them how to do some things in  the
future. 
 
I am also an avid knitter, have knitted most of my life. It was the only  
thing I could do after I lost my sight, and re-learning how to knit again  
without
sight was the beginning of my path to recovery of my  artist/self.  I would 
love to talk with other knitters. 
 
Finally, I have been making gemstone jewelry and doing intricate  
beadworking for 7 years and after I lost my sight I have had a lot of  frustration 
doing
it again. I just cannot use the crimp tool to finish off my  work. Does 
anyone out there use it, and if so can you tell me HOW I might do  it.  I would 
still
like to do bead embroidery, but have not had the  courage to try it again, 
but I am thinking a lot about it and I do want to begin  to re-learn how to 
do
this non-visually, if that is possible. Does anyone do  bead embroidery, 
Russian Spirals, and things like this using seed beads? Or, is  this just 
wishful
thinking for me??? 
 
I will appreciate any communication, since I have now learned again how to  
use the computer.  
 
I have a website at:  
_http://lyndalambert.com_ (http://lyndalambert.com) 
 
I started a blog at:  
_http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com_ 
(http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com)  
 
Thanks. 
 
Lynda Lambert
 
"I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods." 
_Georg Trakl,  Austrian poet   
 
Visit my website:  
_http://lyndalambert.com_ (http://lyndalambert.com)