[nfb-talk] Reina Brown Is A Candle Maker:

Mon Nov 6 21:44:00 CST 2006

Hi Terri, please contact Carol Siegel at (410) 486-2183 or email her @
csiegel at bellatlantic.net.
Carol wants to know what types of crafts you have?
Kenneth Chrane
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From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <powerst at dcpcepn.nci.nih.gov>
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> Kenneth;
> Does the NFB have a craft group?  We could teach and sell our crafts at
> convention.  I have a craft to shair.  You will find out about it at
> national convention.  Just come to the MD table.  There is a lady who
> sells knitting books and she has helped me write 2 books on my craft,
> even with diagrams. Sure would be neet to have a craft group or even a
> list serve.  
> Terry Powers
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Chrane [mailto:kenneth.chrane at verizon.net] 
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> Subject: [nfb-talk] Reina Brown Is A Candle Maker:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mastering the Art of Candle Making in One Day!
> 
> From: PowerHomeBiz.com (USA)
> 
> By: Press Release
> 
> This new E-book is written from the perspective of a professional blind
> candle maker to show others that the art of candle making can be
> mastered in one
> day by using simple techniques and things from around the house and can
> be found at
> 
> www.makingcandlessimple.com
> 
> on the World Wide Web. This book also shows that a person does not have
> to have any particular talent in order to become good at this craft
> 
> October 31, 2006 ( Waldorf, MD ) ---Many friends of Reina Brown, the
> site's designer and E-book writer, feel that this site is impressive and
> well put together.
> It s great to see that a blind person keeps trying no matter how many
> challenges may surface, said Robert. (Name has been changed for privacy)
> She is lighting
> the path for many other blind people to come. Despite the seventy-five
> percent unemployment rate of blind people in the United States, Reina is
> determined
> not to remain a statistic. She uses her many God-given talents to make a
> way for herself, and I am proud of her.
> 
> I designed this site and wrote an E-book, says Reina, to share my
> profession of candle making with others. I want others to know that it s
> not a hard skill
> to acquire and you don t have to spend countless time and money in order
> to learn how to make a successful candle.
> 
> Reina is blind and has been for most of her life. She has had to
> overcome many obstacles to prove to others that she has the right to
> lead a normal life.
> Finding successful employment has been tough for her: so, in order to
> make ends meet, she has had to make her own way.
> 
> After losing her job on October 28, 2005 due to the local office
> folding, a job that took six months for her to find, she had to revisit
> a childhood dream
> of wanting to be a candle maker. I can vividly remember being in the
> fifth grade and receiving a candle making set from my mother for
> Christmas, said Reina.
> After playing with it and making some pretty decent candles, I made up
> my mind that I wanted to be a candle maker when I grew up. However, when
> I got older,
> I thought of bigger and better things. That childhood dream was long
> forgotten. But, after leaving one job due to unfair treatment and losing
> my second
> job to the local branch folding without warning, I was on my own once
> again. Finding work is hard when you are blind. Many will not hire you
> even if you
> have the skill. Knowing this and having bills due in weeks time, I
> revisited a dream I thought I d never come back to. And, it has been
> what has supported
> me.
> 
> Out of necessity, Reina had to master this skill of professional candle
> making quite quickly. Though she did this as a hobby in her childhood,
> making candles
> with a professional touch that would appeal to the public was far
> different. Spending an entire night and day without sleep on the
> Internet, she set out
> on her new money making adventure. On October 31, the very next day
> after surfing the net and taking it all in, she bought supplies and
> tested all she
> learned. She was able to produce simple candles: however, the process
> was long and time consuming. Within time though, she devised new and
> simpler methods
> to achieve her tasks.
> 
> I had to test so many things out, says Reina, but, after devising a
> simple and easy-to-learn method, I was able to train my twelve-year-old
> sister, who
> was then eleven years of age, on how to make candles when I needed a
> helper to prepare for my craft show. I found out at the last minute
> which gave me
> only one day to prepare. With enthusiasm, she absorbed what I showed her
> and made the candles as I would make them! I was truly amazed!
> 
> So, to save many others time and money, Reina is eager to get this guide
> into the hands of as many people as possible to show them that they can
> develop
> the skill for candle making without spending unnecessary time in classes
> or spending excessive amounts of money on how to guides and equipment
> while using
> trial and error. I d hate for others to give up because they feel like
> they are failing, she says. I want them to feel that they can succeed.
> This is my
> gift to them. I want to share my findings with others. And at the same
> time, let the entire world know that the blind can too be successful.
> 
> About the Company:
> 
> This company is owned by a single blind woman who is a jack of many
> trades. She has had to master many things in order to survive in an
> unfriendly world.
> She has been quite successful and is sharing it with others.
> 
> Contact Info:
> 
> Reina Brown
> 
> 301-535-3733
> 
> thechandlershop at aol.com
> 
> http://www.powerhomebiz.com/News/102006/candle.htm
> 
> 
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