[Nfb-krafters-korner] Starting a Business inCraftstranpostations

[River Woman]

Yes, Greg, a sighted person has no clue about the many many little details 
we have to think about all the time. The bathroom is sure one of them. And, 
transportation is enormous. I live in the country, and i do not even have 
blind services available here from the country blind association. So without 
my husband or a family member, I would get just about nowhere. To work a 
full time JOB like I did all my life, would be a real stretch of the 
imagination and one that someone who does not know our difficulties would 
never even think about. Lynda

Lynda Lambert
River Road Studio, Since 1976
www.lyndalambert.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NCBootman" <ncbootman at gmail.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Starting a Business 
inCraftstranpostations


>I sure understand all of that! I have lots of crafts that would do well at 
>a flea market or yardsale or even craft show. But, I don't have dependable 
>transportation and in addition, have to have a sighted helper. It would be 
>very easy at something like this to just walk by and take what you like and 
>me never know it! They steal from sighted people. But, I'd be an easy 
>target. And, then there's the issue of a bathroom. It may be on the other 
>end of the event and just not be doable to go by oneself.
>
> So, I enjoy doing my crafts, make them for gifts, sell a few to friends, 
> and once in a while get sighted help and do a sale of some kind like in my 
> front yard. These are all considerations. I love what I do and stay as 
> busy as I want to be with all my different activities but for the sighted 
> person who thinks it is easy for a blind person to work, it isn't.
>
> Greg
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 11:55 AM
> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Starting a Business in 
> Craftstranpostations
>
>> Greg
>>
>> Man you are correct about transportation.  That is why I stopped doing 
>> the
>> craft shows, my friend that was sighted hurt her back and could not go 
>> with
>> me any more to shows, so I lost my eyes and driver for shows.
>>
>> I have had 3 job offerings  and the first I could not get  transportation
>> and it would have been to teach triangle weaving, the other one  was at 
>> the
>> Joann's craft store being a knitting and crochet teacher, I could get
>> transportation during the day, but not in the evening and of course they 
>> wanted
>> classes in the evening.  I could get public transportation up there, but 
>> it
>> would drop me off at the huge shopping center next to the shopping center
>> that  Joann's was in.  I would have to walk through 2 large parking lots 
>> to
>> get  there.
>>
>> Now I am sitting waiting to start a job learning how to cane chairs. 
>> The
>> only public transportation directly to the area I need to go is by 
>> train.
>> I have been working with the mobility trainer now and it has come  to his
>> decision  that he feels it would be safe for me to take the train up 
>> there,
>> but not the return back train.  He is giving it a 75% rating of  being
>> successful.  So I am waiting to here the blind agency's other  thoughts 
>> on this.
>>
>> Joyce  Kane
>> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>> Blindhands at AOL.com
>> _______________________________________________
>> Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
>> Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
>> Nfb-krafters-korner:
>> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/ncbootman%40gmail.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
> Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> Nfb-krafters-korner:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/riverwoman%40zoominternet.net
>
>