[Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
Sahar Husseini
sahar at inebraska.com
Sun Jan 22 12:25:17 UTC 2012
Hi Denise,
I remember you from last summer at Convention. Getting the clasps and earring closures on is really easy once you get the hang of it; it just takes practice. Do you have any bead shops near you? They might be able to help. A lot of times, people use a drop of glue to secure clasps and cones, but I'm not a fan of glue. I don't use it in any of my work. It is very handy for crafters, but I think it's evil. *grin* I'm really good at gluing my fingers together and to the table. No, it has nothing to do with blindness; it has to do with me and glue. We've been blood enemies since childhood. *smile* Bead-weaving would be a cool thing to learn. I would also like to learn to attach cabochons using seed beads. That looks fabulous.
Warm regards,
Sahar Husseini
For hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry, please visit my Website at
www.saharscreations.com
Find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/saharscreations
And remember, "Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordan
----- Original Message -----
From: Denise Shaible
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
Sahar,
My name is Denise Shaible and I live in California. I love gems. I don't
go in for the meaning behind them but I love them. I know what you mean
about having to clear the table. My husband
Adam keeps asking me to put my safety pin beading projects somewhere else
so the beads don't go off on to the floor and there's a place to sit and
eat. It's funny. I'd love to get into jewelry making. I traveled to a
health center in West Palm Beach, Florida and we did jewelry every Saturday
morning. I made several sets and my favorites were a hematite and fresh
water pearl combo and a rose quartz crystal, fresh water pearl, and crystals
combo. I just love the colors and the different shapes. I only have light
perception so my teacher had to tell me the colors but, I have good color
memory so I knew what she was talking about. All I really need to learn to
do to make jewelry is how to attach clasps and other closures and how to
attach earring pieces. I like the sound of bead weaving, too. I don't know
if you've done any of this. Okay, just wanted to write.
Welcome.
Regards,
Denise
-----Original Message-----
From: Sahar Husseini
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 5:47 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
Lol, this sounds familiar. I, too, have to clear my dining room table so
that guests could eat. The beads rule most of the time. I would love to
find some of the books that talk about crystal healing in an accessible
format. I find that different stones speak to me at different times in my
life, and each stone has its own energy. I worked a lot with hematite when
I lived in Alaska. Incidentally, Alaska has hematite, and they call it
black diamond, but that's not why I worked with it then. They say it helps
with depression, and I was in quite the funk when I lived there. I would
not want to see that state of mind that I lived in ever again. *smile*
Warm regards,
Sahar Husseini
For hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry, please visit my Website at
www.saharscreations.com
Find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/saharscreations
And remember, "Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordan
----- Original Message -----
From: River Woman
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
Hi Sahar and Holly
Nice to see you HERE on the KK list today!
I put my beads away before Christmas so I could have a ton of company over
the holidays without all the stuff all over my dining room table. I have
to
get it all out again. I decided to move my beadworking table upstairs to a
spare bedroom so I am not all over the dining room again. It is nice to
have
a clear table and be able to actually EAT there again. Smile!
My focus these days is on making encrusted bead worked TALISMANS. That is
my
personal passion.
I also foxus on the spiritual and metaphysical associations of the stones
I
work with. I use the "Crystal Bible" as a guide, and I have a number of
other books like this, too. One good one I use is the "Crystal Code."
They are not beading books, but books that are metaphysical in nature,
crystal healing books. I am really interested in this.
Good luck to you Holly. There are several wonderful bead workers here, and
each is very different from the other. Between us all, we can give you
help
and are glad to do it. Most of all, I think, what you will need is knowing
that you CAN do beading, and you WILL find your own path with the BEADS.
Like Sahar said, she just let the beads speak to her, and off she went in
that direction. That is what I do. In my case, it is the stones that speak
to me, and I try to listen and follow.
Lynda River Woman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sahar Husseini" <sahar at inebraska.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
> Oh, Lynda, God bless you! I only told you the truth, and you took off
> with it. You are the role model. So many of us get encouragement and
> don't know what to do with it. You took wing and flew. I have a lot of
> respect for you; I truly do. Thank you very much for your kind words,
my
> dear!
>
> Warm regards,
> Sahar Husseini
> For hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry, please visit my Website at
> www.saharscreations.com
> Find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/saharscreations
> And remember, "Obstacles don't have to stop you.
> If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
> Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
> Michael Jordan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: River Woman
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 1:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
>
>
> the person you need to speak with is SAHAR....she was invaluable to me
> when
> I first got on this list as a newly blind person. I had done extensive
> beadowk before sight loss and my passion is encrusted bead work. SAHAR
> made
> me KNOW that I could do it again. She is the most positive role model
> imaginable and I owe her an enormous shout out for what she did for me
> back
> then. I began doing encrusted bead work again about a year ago - three
> years
> after my sight loss. I now do mueeum quality bead work that is
exhibited
> in
> museums galleries and private galleries again - it is amazing what you
> can
> do with the encouragement and contact with others who are doing it.
>
> You will find the help you need here, and they can point you to where
you
> will best find what you want to do, I think. Welcome!
>
> Lynda River Woman
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Holly Turri" <hollyt at comcast.net>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists"
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 12:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
>
>
> > thanks so much. i'd love to learn more about the weaving patterns
> > eventually. first i think i will just try some stringing of nicde
ones
> > and learn what are the best elements on which to put them. baby steps
i
> > guess.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Neva Fairchild" <nevafairchild at verizon.net>
> > To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'"
> > <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 11:31 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
> >
> >
> >>I have recently begun learning bead weaving. I didn't know there was
> >> anything more than stringing beads before a friend sat me down and
got
> me
> >> started. There have been a couple of classes in the past on this
group
> >> that
> >> hopefully will be repeated. I have learned the Peyote stitch and the
> >> Russian
> >> Spiral, thus far. I began learning Right Angle Weave, but didn't get
> far
> >> in
> >> my first lesson. The only one of these stitches I can do
independently
> >> thus
> >> far, from start to finish, is Peyote and I learned the one drop
stitch
> >> first. You can do multiple bead drops in Peyote. I know this sounds
> like
> >> Greek to you, but it has to do with how many beads you put on at a
> time.
> >> In
> >> one drop, I have made two bracelets. It is a flat bracelet, much
like
> a
> >> wide
> >> watch band only made of beads that snug up to one another very close
> and
> >> in
> >> a pattern. It is pretty easy for me to feel with size 8 seed beads.
I
> >> know
> >> some people work with size 15 beads which are roughly half the size
of
> a
> >> size 8 bead. They are tiny and I have seen a cuff style bracelet
made
> >> with
> >> size 15 beads and it is so fine that it feels like silk. It's
amazing.
> >> I'm
> >> not proficient enough to teach a class, but hopefully Joyce will be
> able
> >> to
> >> find someone on the list who will. I would love to take bead weaving
> >> classes
> >> through this group as well as working with my friend. She is a great
> >> teacher, but we both struggle with starting and finishing projects.
> Good
> >> luck to you.
> >>
> >>
> >> Neva Fairchild
> >> 972 416-7039
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> >> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Holly
> Turri
> >> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 7:50 AM
> >> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> >> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
> >>
> >> do you know of a good source for information about beading and
beaded
> >> jewelry making? I'm newly retired,but craft impaired. I'd really
> like
> >> to
> >> learn this as I have friends who do it but don'thave the time to
teach
> >> me. I
> >> want to make nice stuff not the kind of beading my three year old
> grand
> >> daugter gives me. Of course i treasure that but I'm quite a bit
> older.
> >> Anxiously awaint ann answer and have a blessed day.
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