[Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience

[River Woman]

Thanks, Ramona.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ramona Walhof" <rwnfbi at q.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience


> Linda, I certainly could not claim to be patient, but I may have a tip 
> that you would like.  I keep yarn needles in a pill bottle.  If you have 
> several things in plastic bottles, they can be Brailled.  If you don't use 
> Braille, other tactile markings will work.  Where aids and gadgets for the 
> blind are sold, there are generally glue on shapes to go on the top of 
> jars, etc. You can also use envelopes to sort things like needles and 
> chrochet hooks and trims, etc.  I don't do it as much as I wish I did. 
> But when I get around to sorting things in bottles or envelopes and 
> brailling them, it is so nice too be able to find them so easily.
>
> Ramona
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience
>
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>> Yes, for me it will be three years this week. Waiting has become a way of 
>> life now and at first it was so difficult to know you had to wait for so 
>> many things that were beyond your control. I still get anxious sometimes, 
>> then I tell myself to relax and go on with something else. What bothers 
>> me themost now, is losing things. Not being able to find something that I 
>> normally would have found without delay.  I lost the piece of pottery I 
>> had bought for my grand daughter's birthday present...have not yet found 
>> it, so today I bought another one which I will give her. Where the first 
>> one is, anyone's guess! I also searched for a very long time this morning 
>> for the Addi Turbo Needle I had bought for the Life Line Class - fainny 
>> found it exactly where it should be, but I had searched that place 
>> several times and did not find it there...often times things are where 
>> they are supposed to be, but I miss them again and again. Yes, I 
>> understand the waiting game, too. Lynda
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
>> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:22 AM
>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience
>>
>>
>>> Man, I will definately say I went blind 13  years ago and I HAD to 
>>> learn a
>>> lesson in patience.  Wait for a ride, wait to borrow someone's eyes  for 
>>> a
>>> second to look at this or look at that, crawl around on the floor 
>>> feeling
>>> for something I dropped, wait to save some money to get this or that, 
>>> that I
>>> just can't live without.
>>>
>>> OK enough of my wining.  Take me out in the bacdk yard and shoot  me.
>>>
>>> I think I will go put on Pandora radio and sit back and knit that other
>>> slipper for one of the Princesses.  Thank you so much for that class in 
>>> cozy
>>> slippers.  I am making my first pair out of the 8 ply cotton yarn of
>>> Peaches and Cream.  The girls loved it when I got it.  Pinks and 
>>> purples and I
>>> got solid pink and solid purple for toes and stuff.so they can  tell 
>>> whose is
>>> whose.  The oldest just wants it in the varigated yarn.   I feel the 
>>> calm
>>> coming over me...
>>>
>>> Joyce  Kane
>>> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>>> Blindhands at AOL.com
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