[Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: Want To Know Wednesday 8/23/17

Thu Aug 24 13:06:06 UTC 2017

I have an old memory from when I was in college.  You could not do exactly the same  today, but we took key punch cards and folded over the end, where the holes were, to make a point and stapled it.  We did this for many cards and stapled them around a round cardboard ring.  We then spray painte it gold and added more decorations and we had a rieth!

Terry P.

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From: Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E] via Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org] 
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I also made a safty pin Christmas tree.  I think I made two!
I bought a kit from Bolex and with a little help from one of my sisters, started making snow flakes.  Later I designed a small star and later I designed a large star for a door, wall hanging or tree topper.
I sold 2, use one and have one as a model so I can make more, some day.
I design my own, plastic canvas, Christmas ornaments and sell and also give them as gifts.
I have also made ornaments out of beads.  My next adventure is to make them on the loom!

Terry P.

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Hi Nella and all,

I will list two handmade crafts that were special to me.
The first is the Christmas stocking my mother knitted for me when I was a child. I still have it. my mom made one for me and both of my sisters. Each had a different picture created with yarn on the stocking. Mine was a Santa Claus with a fuzzy yarn for his beard.

The nicest Christmas craft I have made myself is a safety pin beaded Christmas tree. This class was taught by Theresa and was the first safety pin beading class I'd ever taken. The tree was made by placing beads on safety pins and then stringing the pins onto a wire and shaping the wire to form a tree. Then a string of small lights was placed inside the tree to allow the light to glow through the beads. Most of the beads were crystal but on each branch of the tree was a colored bead to represent a light bulb.

I got so many compliments on that tree! I kept it for a while, then gave it to a friend who especially loved the tree.

Have a great day!!
Cathy F

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