[Nfb-krafters-korner] did you ever want to...

[jill]

Joyce,
 Would it be possible for you to teach a candle or soap project?  I joined
after you had taught the soap class.  I have tried my luck at the melt and
pour, but wind up getting the kids to pour the melted soap.  Maybe you could
get me confident enough to pour it myself!
Jill

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Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 12:42 PM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] did you ever want to...

Did you ever want to learn something new?  Did you ever think you  could 
search down and get all the info by talking to people and giving it a  try?

If you wanted to buy a tip roast and wanted a really good one would  you go 
to a yarn shop looking for it?
 
Well I hope I make a point here.  There is no reason why any of us can  not 
learn how to do a new craft and learn all about it.  Even if Krafters  
Korner don't have a class.You can do the research and learn all that you
can,  
give it a try teaching yourself, but use the resources and contacts to pick

their brains and then try and try again until you can do it satisfactory to

yourself.
 
I went blind 16 1/2 years ago and since then I had never made candles when  
I was sighted[I learned how by doing what I said above][I started making 
and  selling my candles].  I did not have any idea what an antique sock 
machine  was nor how it worked[I listened to people online and went out and
found 
one and  learned how to use it].  I never heard of a triangle loom before 
and  started out with a small one and learned how through email and a phone

call.  I had known about caning chairs as my Mom did it after she retired  
and it was a project that her and her friend would go to in the local senior

center.  I did have 6 months of training doing chair caning after I went  
blind, and while there the teacher let me dabble with making a basket, now I

am  teaching basket classes, but I am still learning and picking the brains 
of the  shop owner  from Baskets of Joy.
 
So if you always wanted to learn something maybe it is time to learn.   
When I started with the candles I called up a lot of candle shops and talked
to 
 the owners on what I needed and took their knowledge and gave it a try.  
So  go out and learn something new and be sure you come back to Krafters 
Korner and  teach all of us!
.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com 
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