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RE: Hobbies - 9/23/2011 9:05:55 PM   
peppermint


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Status: offline 		I'm excited about this winter.  Gary is going to teach me to colorize black and white photographs.  It's becoming a lost art and I think it will be fun to learn something that so few know how to do. 

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RE: Hobbies - 9/23/2011 9:41:03 PM   
DonGiovani


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Status: offline 		-Kettlebells; any desire for a masochistic lifestyle is well met by them

-photography; I have a penis... that entitles me to a rediculously expensive hobby. It's in the Rules. Really.

-golf; a rediculously frustrating hobby. Similar to photography.

-Smallbore Rifle; See photography. And Golf.

-Hypnosis / hypnotherapy.

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RE: Hobbies - 9/23/2011 9:55:21 PM   
CynthiaWVirginia


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Status: offline 		My hobbies at this time in my life...

1) Playing Pokemon and competing with my son, the neighbors, and people from all over the world.

2) Knitting fancy hats to donate to a good cause. I use the Knifty Knitter I bought over at Walmart, knitting with 3 to 4 strands at a time, and using fluffy or "eyelash" yarn.

3) Sewing. The bug is starting to bite me and I have been sorting through my numerous tubs of fabric and going "Hm..." Especially Pokemon fabric. And fabric I will be using on certain quilts I have been planning for a long time. Hoarding just the right mix of fabrics isn't easy... One quilt I have planned is silhouettes of kitties in window panes, in different poses, watching different scenes. Butterflies, birds, bats, whatever.

4) It has been a long time since I dabbled in jewelry making, but I have had this metal black spider I bought as Halloween time earrings half a dozen years ago...and I hung it from the wrong necklace. Recently I walked past some blackened necklace chains and aaaaah! they were perfect. Now I have to get the right two pairs of tweezers to turn those two long black chains...into black spider webbing so that my spider can dangle down from it, swinging on a small bit of black chain.

5) Not sure if this goes under a hobby, but when my sub visits my house again after his next payday (for a multitude of reasons, we are broke), I have a new exercize machine in a box and Bo will assemble it for me, as well as look over the several other used exercize machines I have put together in my basement and will get them all in working order. When I thought I would die from cancer, I spoiled myself terribly. After five years in remission, it is time to start taking responsibility to fix the damage my sitting on my arse has done. Yep, I bought CDs of music to play to help me pace myself and make the time go by more easily. (I am too darned fat and out of shape and my vanity is killing me.)

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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 6:06:39 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

"Reading "

You mean books like in the old days or the internet ?

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Not the REAL old days. I am not reading cuneiform off of stone tablets anymore. But yes, I do read those book things. I had an e-reader but it died. I am hoping for a new one soon. The last month or so has been strictly fiction as my brain is too tired for non-fiction. That should change in a couple months. When I was having difficulty with Dr. Hanson's analysis of the Battle of Salamis with regards to the Western tradition of warfare, I recognized that I needed to go back to something much fluffier. Like David Weber and some good space opera battles.

I do also read a lot on the internet. I have electronic books, but I tend to stay with articles and blogs. For example, Dr. Hanson's articles are short enough for me that I do not have the some brain-drain issues/feelings.

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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 6:29:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		I dabble in photography, and am trying to hone my limited skills in photo editing.

I enjoy some tabletop games (particularly, Scrabble, backgammon, pass the pigs)

occasionally, I get the urge to put pencil to paper and attempt to do smething artistic.. (usually, a FAIL, but hey, it's fun until I get frustrated).

I'm trying to develop a wee bit of a green thumb (flowering plants, mainly, containers so that I can bring them in when the weather calls for it).. thats not going so well, either..LOL

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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 7:06:55 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

"Belly dancing, chain maille making,"

I have never seen anyone belly dance wearing chainmaille, do you have a webcam ? You could make it BIG BIG BIG !

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It's out there already if you look, and I am making a maille dance shirt at the mo, based on an ottoman Janissary shirt in shiny aluminum rings, so far about 6000 rings into a calculated 56, 459. Calculated weight about twelve pounds, so it's do able, well certainly better than my last dance shirt made out of galvanised steel, that weighed thirty pounds.

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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 7:08:53 AM   
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Belly dancing


<<<<would love to see Termy belly dance


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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 7:15:10 AM   
barelynangel


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Status: offline 		Thanks for all the posts on this.   Photography is always something i "wanted" to try but never have.  I love plants but gardening lol i don't have the room and everytime i have tried herbs they have died.  But i love photography and changing pics so that they fit when i have words i want to play to them. I also love black and white photos with just a little color in them.

Ironically, people tell me that work is my hobby lol.

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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 7:36:07 AM   
Aneirin


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Status: offline 		Photography has moved on in leaps and bounds with this digital age, no longer does one have to spend hours messing with stinking chemicals in dark rooms and stink for days afterwards, all one has to do now is upload to a computer and play with that digital wonder Photoshop. But the odd thing is with digital photography, is so few digital images are actually printed onto paper now, our memories are stored and viewed in digital, so okay if we have electricity.

My kind of digital photography has evolved back into what I used to do with film photography, that being tripod work and long exposures on such subjects as abstracts and worm's eye views using a derivative of The Ansel Adams zone system, the desire being to get the best exposed image to start with, with RAW files then play away with photoshop.

A very useful website I use, I used when converting from film to digital and I still use now for the sheer inspiration, mostly US imagery you live in a very beautiful country ;

The Luminous Landscape

Photography is such a medium that it makes one truly appreciate what is there beyond all the humdrum we experience in our daily lives, looking with the photographic eye has its benefits.



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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 11:50:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		I love to read (books that I can turn the pages), painting blank ceramic pieces and doing counted cross-stitch.  Photography is a very amateur hobby, I like to sew, and wish my dad had shown me woodwork.  He's never worked with a pattern, and made beautiful pieces of furniture from what he thought of.  

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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 12:11:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		I love to read and that love has intensified since I bought an E-reader which is so easy to tote around with me.

Crocheting.  Been crocheting since I'm a teenager when my Grandma taught me.  We're talking decades ago.
Not just afghans.  I have designed and made purses out of nylon yarn to give as gifts.  Love to crochet baby things:  sweaters, little, teeny-tiny hats, booties, stuffed toys, etc.


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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 1:39:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		I used to knit when I was a kid, but my mom always had to start my stitches and I could only do scarves.    Used to be able to crochet too, would love to take up both again and learn properly.   

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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 1:56:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have many hobbies, I'm the kind of person who just loves to get creative. Lately I've been into jewelry design and have found conditioning clay (to make clay beads) is great for the developing arthritis is my hands and fingers (Who knew?)

I'm into aromatherapy, and I'm a budding perfume maker.

I love to cook, that is a life long passion.

I'm a closet bird watcher (you heard it here first, folks) and never go out into nature w/o my binoculars. I love the predatory birds. A few weeks ago on the way to meet Oldhen, we saw a hawk so huge it could have taken down a small horse.

I'm a short story writer who is convinced I have at least one good novel in me.

I'm a dedicated nature lover, so I love to hike, camp, get into the woods and get jiggy before the fire Gods.

Other pastimes are reading, computer games, and solving the worlds' problems via the discussion side of CM.












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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 2:20:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		I haven't had time for much since I went back to school but back in the good old days I was a constant reader. I also made jewelry and sold it, and some things have lingered from my art student days like dabbling in watercolors. I have quite a few framed pieces around the house. I don't know if this qualifies as a hobby but I love to go to museums....love it, love it.

I'm actually more constant with the active type hobbies because staying active is extremely important to me, so I'll do that when I have time over the other sedentary things. As far as active things, I work out a lot, not the 6 times a week I do when school is out, but I manage at least 3 -5 these days. My Dom and I bicycle and kayak as well- we'll actually plan regular trips and outings around these things in the summer as well.

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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 6:37:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		I take it that anything one enjoys in their time which does not provide a means of living is a hobby .

But the origin of words interests me, so according to etymonline.com ;

...late 13c., hobyn, "small horse, pony," later "mock horse used in the morris dance," and c.1550 "child's toy riding horse," which led to hobby-horse in a transferred sense of "favorite pastime or avocation," first recorded 1670s, shortened to hobby by 1816. The connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere." Probably originally a proper name for a horse (cf. dobbin), a dim. of Robert or Robin. The original hobbyhorse was a "Tourney Horse," a wooden or basketwork frame worn around the waist and held on with shoulder straps, with a fake tail and horse head attached, so the wearer appears to be riding a horse. These were part of church and civic celebrations at Midsummer and New Year's throughout England.

But often it is hobbies that do go somewhere.

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RE: Hobbies - 9/24/2011 7:12:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		My hobby of photography has started to actually pay something.  I "fell" into floral close-ups and have sold a few "hand-made" cards and a few "wall-sized" prints.  Some of the latter have used "standard" manipulations (fades, crops, mirroring, etc.) as opposed to getting into Photoshop.  That's next.

I have collected glass for a long time (some 25 or 30 years.)  We're talking "depression glass" plates and cups and serving peices.  As the calendar has flipped its pages, my interest has move to the collectible glass of the 40s, 50s, and 60s.  I specialize in snack sets which are plates with a cup indent right on the plate... Ladies used them for showers, bridge, afternoon teas and light lunches.  So far, I have found 250 different glass snack sets.  All told, about 6,000 pieces of glass in my rented house.  (Yes, six thousand.) NO SOFA!  Just boxes and boxes..... and a few pathways... Please do NOT send "Hoarders" program.  eBay is slow right now, but next month, eBay will be a BIG hobby.  For about the last 6 years, I've had a booth in an antique Mall.  Left in February when owner raised the rent, making it impossible to even break-even.

Does job searching count as a hobby? LOL!  Seriously, just found a Federal job after ..... maybe two years of searching for something, anything that matches my odd combo of high skills and low ones due to my disability.  And this one looks perfect.  Have to file more paper-work on Monday.  Lordy, you think they are going to give me the keys to Ft.Knox.  <If I DO get those, pahunkboy, I'll be sure to let you know whether there's as much as they tell us.>

As many said, cooking!  AHhhh.... to have the slave to prep and clean..... but NOT lobodtomy or whateverTF his name is. LOL! <P.S. No garden, so that's off his "I can bring to the table" list.> Speaking of which, my stomac is growling at the thought of dinner: Fresh tomato Marinara - maybe as part of a lasgna - if I can wait that long.  Oh, yeah, fresh goat cheese as well as ricotta..... BFN ('bye for now.)

// Lance's tum-tum growls loudly, overpowering the noise of him starting sauce. // 




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RE: Hobbies - 9/25/2011 2:41:06 PM   
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RE: Hobbies - 9/27/2011 9:16:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Learning and fucking. It's a toss up which I prefer. 

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RE: Hobbies - 9/27/2011 9:52:29 PM   
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Writing

And two new ones:
Working out at the gym (for someone who used to hate exercise and hated to sweat, this is an awesome surprise to me)
Shopping! (which is become dangerous to my wallet)


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RE: Hobbies - 9/28/2011 9:25:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		I make jewelry, particularly the gemstone bead variety, like jasper, agate, lapis, carnelian, etc.

And I'm about to try making boutique bows from fancy ribbon.

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