How do you react when people ask you to teach them how to make kandi?

sadmaachine 9/9/2012 03:40 pm 3908

I wear kandi up to my elbows at school. I've gotten compliments on them, I've been called a freak too many times to remember, and I've also had people asking me to teach them how to make kandi. I taught one of my closest friends because I thought she understood what kandi stood for, what it means to me, to the kandi community. I thought she knew that each piece of kandi should have meaning. But instead she started making and selling the kandi two days after I taught her (Like Hot Topic! lol) It just irked me a little, but I never told her she couldn't. I guess I just thought she would know. Now another friend of mine asked if I could teach her. It's not that I don't like her, but it's just that I don't know her well enough to know that she won't sell it or start giving them away willy-nilly. Then again, I don't know this girl well enough to say that she WILL end up selling the kandi. So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. So how do YOU react when people ask you to teach them how to make kandi, whether it be your best friend, or a complete stranger?

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CellularMango
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Aug 16, 2013 11:05 am

I just direct people to my tutorials, friends and strangers- I tell them to Google search my name or something and they'll be able to find stuff [from myself and other kandi makers]. People all too often forget that the internet is a thing and you can look up things and 10 times out of 10, it will give you answers/results xD The only difference is with friends I could actually have a session with them in person and teach even more thoroughly and in depth than my videos. My friends don't really care for making big stuff so there isn't really anything to teach them since they know how to make what they want to [singles and doubles- small things-] It's not really something worth getting angry over in my opinion-

TheMorticiansDaughter
Member

Aug 16, 2013 8:49 am

I used to don't care, now i'm like "YOU ARE GOING TO WASTE MY BEADS!!! I HAVE A LITTLE!!" and they had made some stars when I teach them and they want to make another. It gets on my nerves ALOT!!!!! If I get alot more beads, I would not care

Nveryioth
Member

Aug 15, 2013 8:07 pm

Well for me it honestly depends on what their asking about. Like if it's a single (I've been asked about singles a lot....) I just say I put beads on a string. If It's a cuff I sum it up by saying first you make a regular single bracelet, and then you just kind of weave the beads, you put on on, skip a bead, and put the string through, put the bead on, skip a bead, and string it through, and so on. Anything else I usually just tell them it would take forever to explain in words, and that they should just go on google or youtube. Then I write out what they should search, and sometimes I bring them here. I actually brought my teacher to this website because she was asking. ;D

MonsterBawls
Long Time Member

Sep 25, 2012 12:38 pm

meh..i get that all the time. i usually just tell them to look it up on google or something. if they really want to make it that bad then they will. it sounds a bit mean but i dont want to be the reason why little kids are wearing kandi who are oblivious to its meaning. --i did teach my older sister the basics of more complex kandi. but she and i rave together so she was well aware of the meaning behind it all.

prettykandigirl
Guest

Sep 25, 2012 12:01 am

sometimes i can get mad cause it seems like they just wanna make it for fun but i calm down and teach them what kandi really means

Radio
Member

Sep 24, 2012 10:04 pm

Depends. If it's a stranger or some teenager trying to be cool, I'll ignore them or laugh. If it's a friend/someone I like, I'll teach them~

cinderblock
Guest

Sep 24, 2012 6:10 pm

People at school almost everyday point at something and ask if I can make that for them. I usually just smile because all my kandi means something to me and I'm not gonna make another one and give it to someone I don't really know. I'm alwaaaays making kandi for my friends and I taught my best friend how to make a cuff but she doesn't sell. Almost everywhere I go people ask me how I make it and I'm just smile because I'm socially awkward and don't like talking to strangers... Only a few other people in my school make it but I'm pretty sure they dont sell. I don't like it when people ask me because I don't like saying no and being rude but one day like 5 people came up to me and pointed at my zubat peyote necklace and asked me if I could make them 1... And sometimes people just expect me to make them something like this 1 girl im apparently making a mask for her or this guy I'm making a necklace for... So yeah lol

sadmaachine
Member

Sep 21, 2012 10:12 am

v. My reward for making kandi is the happiness I get after making another cuff, or a cool peyote stitch, or the first time I finish a ladder stitch. And to me, what's even more rewarding is making a piece of kandi and giving it to a friend and just being like, "Here, I made this for you because I love you!" And seeing the smile on their face, the way their eyes light up because you simply thought of them. I respect what you're doing for yourself, I just don't personally believe in it. Nonetheless, my question wasn't reguarding to selling kandi, it was about how people react when people ask you to teach them to make kandi. I never ask about selling kandi because it's somebody else's choice, and not my own. If I don't like selling kandi, then I don't, and if I don't like buying, then I won't.

Dragonstring
Member

Sep 21, 2012 5:39 am

Wait, what's wrong with selling your kandi creations? Is it really that wrong to want to make some sort of living doing something you love? To share your creations with people and maybe get some money in the process so you can have more supplies? It's also a great way for someone younger to make some extra money when they're not old enough to work yet. Or someone like me with a disability who can't work, and selling kandi and other things is my only means of income.

ZOEMONSTAR
Guest

Sep 20, 2012 7:59 pm

Im not one to judge who can make them or not, what they do in their own time is their decision. BUT when people ask me, this is how i usually react. "OMG THAS CUTE HOW U DO DAT?!-pointing at single-" me: "o.o ....grow a brain." (and yes. many times ive gotten that question towards a single. MANY times.) them: "OMG THAS CUTE HOW YOU DO THAT?! -pointing at peyote charm-" me: (if i have supplies and time) "come learn my ways child v.v" haha! ^-^

How do you react when people ask you to teach them how to make kandi?

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