[Nfb-krafters-korner] my name is Dana

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Hi Dana        I want to welcome  you and let you know that I totally do 
not have any sight[no light perception]  and I have madeCANDLES, ROOM SPRAYS, 
BODY SPRAYS, soaps, flavored lip  gloss.  I made it and sold it as a 
business for several years.  I have  also taught here how to do the soaps.  The 
only sighted help that I did  need was:  I had gotten long cotter pins from one 
of my candle wax  suppliers and my sighted husband would with masking tape 
slip the wick into the  cotter pin and tape it in the center of the jar.    
Before he  taped it I would take a glob of wax and work it with my fingers 
to soften it up  and then stick the wick into it and stick it in the bottom 
of the jar estimating  the center.  He would do bthe taping and straighten it 
up taping it at the  top of the jar so when I poured it the wick was 
centered.  I poured wax in  all types of pottery, sugar bowls, creamers coffee 
cups, tea pots, etc,.   So after the candle was finished they had items [glass 
or pottery] left.   I  would do parties and craft shows[I did have a friend 
that was sighted  going to the parties and craft shows with me to handle the 
sales.
 
I had great fun doing this and it was the first craft business I got into  
after  I went blind 16 years ago.  There were some tools I used to do  this, 
but it can be done by the blind.  I did get a talking food scale that  I 
paid like $100 and that was the only 1 expensive thing that I did get.  I  had 
gotten a cheaper one to start off with, but I upgraded and would suggest if 
 you are serious enough go for the better one.  The cheaper one did not 
last  me a year and then it stopped working.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 6/9/2013 2:40:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
djkitty73 at gmail.com writes:

ARE YOU  A FAN OF CANDLES, ROOM SPRAYS, BODY SPRAYS