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June 12, 2008
B&B has its own flavor
2:21pm BEADS, TROLLS, BRACELETS are all posted on Etsy now...Go have fun...hope you see something good...and I'll be back on the torch Monday, if not over the weekend...rock on and as always THANK YOU!!!
I like reading other sites to see what their experiences were at B&B...I'm thankful this year that all my classes were pretty decent...sure, a couple of them were kinda 'low end' - what I would say I could easily buy the supplies from Michaels, read some directions and figure it out myself...but I know that going into the class, so i wasn't disappointed...plus, the instructors were pretty nice and I had a good time in them, so I didn't much mind...then I had some 'high end' classes that kinda kicked my ass, where I knew I was getting into things that I'd never done before (blown beads in boro comes to mind) where the instructor (Doug Remschneider) was super fantastic, could do pretty much anything you asked, and was hilarious...I sucked at that class, but I knew that going in, so i was ok with that too...
But I'm really thankful that I didn't have any classes that I absolutely HATED or were frustrating...I've heard about some ugly classes where the instructor was condescending, rude, mean, testy, stupid, unprepared, flighty, non-existent and unprepared...I was in one class where a student came in, to escape the class she had signed up for, because she hated it so bad...we welcomed her in our class (she had taken a different class from our instructor the day before and knew she'd be happier with us than with the other class)...I have a friend who made a pretty cool piece of jewelry, but said the instructor was combative - saying things like "you're NOT going to put that in the tumbler NOW are you?" or "you AREN'T going to put liver of sulfur on it NOW are you?"...my friend was like "well yeah, sure, why not" and her piece turned out just fine...why can't instructors say things like "lets see how it turns out and if there's a problem we'll just fix it later"...be positive, not negative...I mean, there are a ton of different ways to do things, if there's one thing I know, its that there is rarely only one right way to do something...I dapped some disks (made them curved) before I punched holes in them...ideally I shoulda punched the holes first...but did I let that stop me? did the instructor tell me I'd ruined my piece? no! cause it wasn't ruined, it was fine...I make mistakes, we all do...some of my coolest projects come about from mistakes...why not go into it with a positive attitude? I don't freak out, I just keep going and let things fall where they may...I'm, glad my friend did the same thing - her piece looked great and there wasn't any problem with it at all...I told her she shoulda said "what do i care, I'm never wearing this piece of crap"...maybe the instructor woulda shut up...but then, probably not...
I'm headin out for pics...lots to do...back after 'while...
Posted by Donner at June 12, 2008 02:21 PM