[Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
Cathy
flowersandherbs at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 05:51:30 UTC 2012
Hi Sahar,
I didn't know if I could learn over the phone either. I was afraid of "not
getting it," and looking dumb. But I dove in and I am so glad I did. The
water is great! <grin> since joining this list in late September I have
learned how to loom knit and do safety pin beading. I truly have amazed
myself! Now I'm teaching classes!
Why not just come and listen in on a class, you can do that with your first
class for free. See how it goes. Try something you've got a curiosity about.
If you don't get it, don't like it, or whatever, so what, its no big deal!
Some folks are good at one thing and not another. as for me, I don't want to
get near the jewelry, I can't imagine working with those tiny beads. But I
admire you for being able to do that.
Get your feet wet, the water's warm!
Cathy
-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sahar Husseini
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 9:06 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a request for information
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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