[Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
Sahar Husseini
sahar at inebraska.com
Mon Jan 23 02:06:19 UTC 2012
Oh, it's not a question of wanting to talk with you. I would very much love to do that. It's a question of how comfortable I am learning over the phone. *smile* I'm a paradox; with some things, I'm a quick learner. With others, well, I question my intelligence. I've not joined any classes on here because I don't think I can learn something like this verbally; I feel too much like an idiot. *lol* I usually have to see something before I can do it. You know I don't mean see visually. I mean I have to experience the motions of making something. The truth is, though, I won't know if I can learn unless I give it a chance. I need to stop being a chicken. *laughing* I was always a little afraid of crafts. Art class was the bane of my existence growing up. IN fact, my art teacher could not believe it when my friends back home told her I was making jewelry. I barely scraped by with a C, and I think I only got it because she felt sorry for me.
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: Sunday, January 22, 2012 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
Sahar,
I can teach you how to do cabs! I could talk you through it over the phone.
With the experience you have with beads, I know you can do it. Contact me
off list if you want to talk with me.
http://riverroad@zoominternet.net
Glue, it is a dirty 4 letter word that I do not like, either. It is TACKY
and ICKY and I never liked using glue on anything and it has nothing to do
with sight loss on my part either. YUK to glue. lol
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: Sunday, January 22, 2012 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
> 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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