Hobbies and Crafts

Planxty said:
My current hobby is photographing wildlife, mainly birds, butterflys, orchids, and the odd landscape, very rarely i will do a pencil sketch.When youngeer i was more active, archery, Kendo, Judo, and Jodo. sadly i had to work away often so could not keep up practicing these and they gradually slipped away.

I love music, and have tried to learn instruments.
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Hi Planxty,
My favourite hobby/interest is also photography...mostly wildlife/birds in flight, etc, but just about anything else that takes my fancy at the time.
 

I did all types of welding,Oxygen/acetylene,arc,MIG, and TIG, as part of my job as a Tool & Die Maker. Soldering, silver soldering and brazing also.
I don't have a welder of any kind at home. The few occasions I could use one aren't enough to justify the cost.

These days I mostly do projects around the house such as the dam and garden shed in my albums. Gardening is something I have always done and I like practicing my cooking skills by trying or inventing new recipes.

Hunting and fishing were lifelong hobbies that I don't do much of these days.
 

I've had numerous hobbies in my lifetime. Papier-mâché, sketching, painting, making lampshades, colorizing black & white photos, making pin cushions from high heeled shoes, sewing, embroidery, crocheting, working with polymer clay, hand sewing mini bean bags, painting mailboxes, whittling wood, making stained glass, making handbags from old books, quilting. I can't seem to stick with one hobby for more than one project, then I'm off to another new craft. I rotate my interests and never get burned out doing just one thing repetitively. I have photos of lots of things I've done, but I'll just post one. View attachment 4696
 
Lois, it looks like you have been having a lot of fun with your different crafts ! I especially like the fringed lampshade, and have wanted to try doing that for a long time, but haven't ever actually done it.
I used to enjoy beadwork, and made hatbands for my cowboy hat, then learned knitting, embroidery, and crocheting. I tried sewing, but just am not good at it, so sewing up a rip or putting on a button is as far as I go with that.
I used to have an Omnichord (electric autoharp), and loved playing that, and hope to someday get a Q-Chord, which is Suzuki's new version of the Omnichord.
I have also tried a variety of hobbies, and thought about trying other ones, so I guess i have the attention span thing going on, too....
 
Wonderful things you have made Lois! I especially love the shoe pin cusions. Beautiful standed glass work, I know how much work is involved there!

I do/did stained glass work too, but not for decades however. I took a few years off between jobs ages ago and sold lampshades at a little antique store, but I never made enough $ to make it worth all the time involved.

I don't really have any hobbies making things anymore. I love to cook, that's making something!

In my free time I like to work in my yard and read and when we have enough time to go someplace we love camping.
And going to ghost towns it's a good time too.

One weird hobby I do have is going to really old cemeteries, it's been something I've love to do since I was a kid, my dad loved it too.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
Lois, it looks like you have been having a lot of fun with your different crafts ! I especially like the fringed lampshade, and have wanted to try doing that for a long time, but haven't ever actually done it.

Happyflowerlady, thanks for the compliment. The lampshades made from scratch starting with just the wire frame have taken me the longest to make. To cut corners & save time I now buy lampshades at second-hand shops which have a wire frame. I essentially skip all the hard work and just enjoy all the creative fun of embellishing a lamp with ribbon, fringe, beads, etc. Elmer's glue is the 'tool' you use, except for the fringe & beading which need to be hand sewn on. Give it a try.

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Yes I have a wander in there now and then, I try not to get too interested in anything, haven't time to get addicted to any new 'toys' at the moment.
Fascinating things people are doing though.
 
Lois.. your lampshades are gorgeous! I always wanted to learn to do stained glass, need to get busy on that. I love to paint and sketch, but haven't done it in a while..the old hands don't want to participate much anymore.

OH..I thought I was the only one that had a macabre interest in old cemeteries..there's a bunch around here, everything from old Civil war to small, mostly forgotten family plots.
 
Ozarkgal said:
Lois.. your lampshades are gorgeous! I always wanted to learn to do stained glass, need to get busy on that. I love to paint and sketch, but haven't done it in a while..the old hands don't want to participate much anymore.

OH..I thought I was the only one that had a macabre interest in old cemeteries..there's a bunch around here, everything from old Civil war to small, mostly forgotten family plots.
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Well how about that! Luckily my mister humors me and stops when I want to.
My Aunt who is just a few years older than me and is a combo Aunt/best friend/sister. She likes it too. She says I'm looking for something or somebody, maybe she is right.

I lke looking at the carvings and reading the dates and wondering about the people and the lives they lead.

One day we'd like to visit some of the Civil War sites.

We did make it to the Little Big Horn a few years ago and it was a very erie place. You could almost feel the spirits in the wind.
 
My hobbies give me great pleasure. My digital art is something I find particularly gratifying, especially as people are kind enough to say they like it. :) Whilst it is nice to sell a picture, it gives me much more pleasure to create a picture, for free, just to make someone happy.
 
Lois, that is lovely! I used to do a lot of different crafts back in the day. I need a new hobby, but am not interested in doing the ones I used to do. I love to learn how to do new things. I just ordered a loom. I am going to learn to make afghans and other kinds of blankets. I know nothing at all how to do this at present.:p
 
Along with my three other more usual hobbies I also create glitter stones, which people are kind enough to say they like.:) I choose a reasonable sized rugged stone from my garden, cover it in clear varnish and sprinkle it with glitter, it is quite effective.:)
 

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