[Nfb-krafters-korner] blind carpenter

Mon Oct 28 08:14:35 UTC 2013

Wow, Denise, I'd love to do some stuff around the house or even be able to 
do some simple wood crafts.
My son, now 7, is also interested, and I'd love to do some basic stuff with 
him as well.
What kind of power tools have you learnt to use?
Lindy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denise Shaible" <denise.shaible at att.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] blind carpenter

> Okay, Joyce, I don't know how I missed this.  I actually have some pink 
> tools.  they're in a pink tool box and a friend of mine gave them to me 
> because I was taking shop class in my training at the Louisiana Center for 
> the Blind.  I'd love to see some chats about fixing things and how to use 
> tools.  I mainly know how to use power tools but I'd love to know more.
>
> In fact, some of the people who came by the table at National expressed 
> interest in wood working and working with tools.  It might be difficult 
> over the phone but, at least talking about tools and how to fix things 
> around the house would be so cool.  Let us know what you learn.
>
> Regards,
>
> Denise
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Blindhands at aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 9:35 PM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] blind carpenter
>
> Now do I hear a new part of Krafters Korner growing over here!
>
> I don't have a clue what I was doing a search for on google , but I came 
> up
> with this:
>
> Pink Tools for Women: Learn today, Teach tomorrow, Build forever.
> OK I  just took a fast spin thru this website and I remember what I was
> searching  around for...
>
> http://www.tomboytools.com/
>
> Pink Tools for Women Learn today, Teach tomorrow, Build forever.
>
> House Party sales.  I am running a Holiday Gift Boutique at our VFW  and
> renting tables, so I was poking around looking for maybe some scrapbook 
> sales
> and stumbled across   this.
> It definitely got me thinking about Krafters Korner.  I thought we  need 
> to
> ask around and get more "fix it chats:.  We did have some hguys do  a chat
> that were blind and we asked lots of questions regarding how to do this 
> and
> that.  We need to develop a Pink Tool Section for everyone and find  blind
> folks to do some chats.
>
> Pink Tools for Women Learn today, Teach tomorrow, Build forever.
>
> I will do some more digging around on this.    I like their  logo, too.
> Yes, maybe we can get linked or exchange web sites or  something.  I will 
> do
> some digging, maybe with a pink shovel!?!?
>
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
> Blindhands at AOL.com
>
>
> In a message dated 10/13/2013 8:49:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jillbilly4 at comcast.net writes:
>
> Becky,
> I saw that story!  I thought it was awesome.  I  am ready to get my
> carpenter
> training!  I am so sick and tired of  getting taken by these so called 
> handy
> men!  I wonder if he would come  to Alabama to work???
> Jill who is giggling like becky and  Jake!lol!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner  [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Becky  Frankeberger
> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:35 PM
> To: 'List for blind  crafters and artists'
> Cc: PawsForward at yahoogroups.com
> Subject:  [Nfb-krafters-korner] blind carpenter
>
> (CBS News) TYLER, Texas -- Just  outside Tyler, Texas, there's a
> single-story
> house with a story-and-a-half.
>
>
>
> Forty-eight-year-old Thomas Graham is building this house  pretty much by
> himself. And although that alone is not remarkable, just  imagine trying 
> to
> put up a three-bedroom, two-bath ranch without any  blueprints -- and 
> doing
> it in total darkness.
>
> Thomas says he started  dreaming of this shortly after he went blind at 
> the
> age of 18. He had some  friends help him with the roof and the wiring, but
> the rest has been all  him. All this in just five months.
>
> All this and still 10 fingers -- an  accomplishment so unbelievable that a
> lot of his neighbors don't believe  him. Thomas says people don't believe
> he's blind.
>
> "And then I tell  them, 'Well, let me drive your car, then,'" he says. 
> "And
> then they usually  back off. 'I believe you, buddy.'"
>
> For the record, he is totally blind.  And on occasion, he even unwittingly
> hammers home the point.
>
> Blinded  at age 18, Thomas Graham is now building his own house -- and
> reclaiming  his childhood in the process.
>
> "Before I had these walls up, I fell  right off the front of the house
> here,"
> he says. "And, you know, it's real  hard to make it look like you meant to
> do
> that."
>
> As you can probably  tell by now, Thomas has a great sense of humor.
>
> "I just bounced right  back up," he says.
>
> But there's also a dark corner to this house. The  building is actually a
> replica of the house he grew up in, and his wife  suspects there's a 
> reason
> for that. Away from Thomas, in the camper they're  living in for now, 
> Evonne
> told me she thinks part of this is about Thomas  reclaiming his childhood.
>
> "I really think that's a lot of it," she says  of the healing that's going
> on
> as Thomas builds. "And I hope this does  it."
>
> Thomas acknowledges, "As a teenager, at the age of 18, I made some  bad
> choices."
>
> The worst choice, by far, was agreeing to go with his  dad on a burglary
> attempt. Things went bad. His dad shot and killed a cop,  and then got 
> shot
> and killed himself. Thomas got a face full of shotgun  pellets.
>
> He lost his vision, his father and his freedom, all in one  fell swoop. 
> And
> it was after serving his six years in prison that Thomas  decided he would
> one day build his childhood home.
>
> For his part,  Thomas doesn't care about the reasons behind the project. 
> All
> he cares  about is getting it done before winter. And if he can inspire
> others along  the way, all the better.
>
> "I truly hope that there are people who think  that they can't will find
> something inside themselves, and, you know, and  say that 'I can,'" he 
> says.
>
> To contact On the Road, or to send us a  story idea, e-mail us.
> <mailto:%20OnTheRoad at cbsnews.com>
>
> C  2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights  Reserved.
>
>
>
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