Time Out, Time Off
Some off the wall thought that ran through my mind this morning. Yes, I have those many times, too many times in my opinion, haha.
I was thinking about another hobby. I used to read, make cards, sew everyone's clothes and tried to be creative with clay, yarn and anything else usable to be creative with.
Well, the reading has gone out of the window for I can not concentrate on it for long anymore. I got bored with making greeting-cards and since I am without sewing machine that one is gone as well. I still am creative every now and then with the other stuff, but ran out of inspiration. What I do for a hobby right now is drawing and I love it, but it's is not something I would like to do all day, every day. Soooo.... I am open for suggestions:-)
What are your hobbies? And if you like, maybe share a pic or two of the creations on your or my blog? I may get some inspiration for a new hobby. Thanks, I would appreciate it. And Kc as well, haha!
Ecclesiastes 10:18
Because of laziness the building decays, And through idleness of hands the house leaks.
I was thinking about another hobby. I used to read, make cards, sew everyone's clothes and tried to be creative with clay, yarn and anything else usable to be creative with.
Well, the reading has gone out of the window for I can not concentrate on it for long anymore. I got bored with making greeting-cards and since I am without sewing machine that one is gone as well. I still am creative every now and then with the other stuff, but ran out of inspiration. What I do for a hobby right now is drawing and I love it, but it's is not something I would like to do all day, every day. Soooo.... I am open for suggestions:-)
What are your hobbies? And if you like, maybe share a pic or two of the creations on your or my blog? I may get some inspiration for a new hobby. Thanks, I would appreciate it. And Kc as well, haha!
Ecclesiastes 10:18
Because of laziness the building decays, And through idleness of hands the house leaks.
6 Comments:
Jayne:
I think being a blogger-buddy is a great hobby and yes, you did help me out!
Thanks girl, and I hope you will find enough time to spend on your hobby because you are an inspiration to me:-)
God's Grace.
Jayne:
And I am glad you decided to blog for you have much wisdom to share. What would be your first blog then?
I started blogging to share my RA experiences with others.(I wrote all about that in my very first entry.)But I also try to reach people in the hope it may lead them to the Lord.
Have a great day.
God's Grace.
I have tried several different kinds of hobbies, but always go back to crocheting.
I have done the basket weaving, tried to learn how to knit, never was able to accomplish it, painted
ceramics and then the lady that ran the place would fire them, painted wooden things like ducks (small) and etc. Tried quilling, drove me nuts, I don't like to embrodery (spelling)or any kind of needle point, you have to have really good eyes.
Our daughters all like to scrapbook, but to me, it doesn't even look like fun, I enjoy looking at the finished item, but I don't want to put it together.
If you go to my blog spot at EFX2 you will see a few things I have done. Problem is, I never took photos of items I have done in the past. Abe did take a couple a long time ago, like the Paddington Bear we sent to the Granddaughter when she was small, now shes 23.
Crocheting is my main hobby, plus I like to make greeting cards on my computer, play computer games and I have three different blog sites with friends and I try to check out their blogs each morning. Plus I have two logs of my own.
It's been a long day and I am tired, so I am signing off. Have a good evening.
Pat:
I tried needle point and knitting and both were not a hobby but torture to me, haha. Scrapbooking looks like fun but I think I might be like you, enjoying the end-product more. I like crochet but my hands are getting a little crooked for that. Now woodpainting or painting...that sounds like fun. Thanks Pat, you gave me some ideas:-)
I like blogging and I go by my blogger-buddies almost daily. I enjoy the sharing, encouragement and fellowship.
I saw some of your creations and they were lovely.
Thanks for sharing and have a good night. Don't dream about flying slicers;-)
God's Grace.
Corry -
First, thanks for all your encouraging comments all the time! I really appreciate them a LOT!
As for hobbies - I don't know how new your computer is, how fast, how much hardware it's got on it and/or software, but I have found absolutely tons of creative stuff to do on mine.
"My" computer (we now have two) is about 3 years old, but a good HP model with a CD and DVD read/write setup on it, lots of great software, including Adobe Photoshop, some word processing programs, my Hallmark card maker, and a software program you can use to make CD or DVD presentations that include a series of still "photos" with all different kinds of fades in and out between each one, music you can add to it running in the background and with all kinds of fonts where you can put words on top of the photos like across the bottom or down in one corner, etc.
I have had a blast, I'm telling you, doing creative stuff on this computer, as had Tom. We have not only copied some music and movies on CDs and DVDs, but have put together our own CDs with music we've gathered from all different sources, to make our own "album."
Then, we buy the little "jewel" cases for them, make and put labels on them (that look professionally done) and make "covers" for them with artwork or whatever on the fronts and listing of all the songs and artists on the inside cover.
The past three Christmases (is that a word?) Tom (with me helping him) has made the DVD presentations I was talking about with old scanned "paper" pictures and digital pictures of all of our past Christmas Eves we've spent (every one for the past 14 years) with our best friends and whoever else happened to be around each year (whatever children, grandkids, friends, etc).
He put the years down in the corner on each of the photos starting that year's pictures, put fade ins and fade outs and added music - Mannheim Steamroller's "Silent Night". He made covers for each of the 3 past years he's done them and we put labels on them.
We have made them and taken them over to our friends' house the past three seasons and showed them to everyone toward the end of the evening and then given each of four couples their own DVD to keep. I'm telling you, watching all those pictures through the years of us all changing and getting older and adding different new friends and our changing kids and adding grandkids with that version of "Silent Night" playing in the background brings strong emotions and lots of tears. It's incredibly moving.
I mean, you go back with these friends over every Christmas Eve for the past 14 years of your lives together and with family and it does something to you.
What's so sad this year is that our friends' house was in the path of the hurricane and had five feet of storm surge blowing through it. All they have now will be the new copies of those DVDs we've made, but it will be a blessing. Tom closes each one (all 3 years) with a incredible snowy scene on a farm in blue tones with the words "God Bless us every one" written across the scene.
He's put together similar DVDs of the New Orleans' Jazz Festival the past 3 years with music and captions and graphics and we've done some family ones, too.
I've not yet done one of those by myself, although I've helped him and done a lot of other creative computer "stuff," but I've got a CD here on my desk right now with pictures from the last several years of Tom's office Christmas dinner that he wants me to start on (hopefully, later today) to make a DVD to show all the employees and their families next Friday night at our annual Christmas dinner.
I'm telling you - the creative things you can do on the computer is endless, in whatever way you feel drawn to express yourself and share with your family and friends and others.
I'm always making color photo prints here on our printer on photo paper of different family members and events that we give to people. That's a lot of fun and inexpensive, compared to having lots of not so good pictures printed up at the store.
I write, of course, too, and have put together "book" before of poetry I've written and several by other members of our family. Those turned out just great and it was a wonderful blessing that Tom and I enjoyed working on together (he did the graphics for the cover and inside front page) and presented to my mom and dad, with copies for everyone else.
Think about it and see what you are drawn to.
That's my take on hobbies for the day!
Cheers! Dee
Wow, Dee. That is a lot! Thanks for taking the time to share. I will definitely consider it and see what appeals most. Maybe all, haha.
God's Grace.
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