I love crochet...and I tried learning how to do scarves, but I failed. I do smaller things, I'm still trying..lol
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I love crochet...and I tried learning how to do scarves, but I failed. I do smaller things, I'm still trying..lol
I know how to crochet, know all the stitches and how to read the patterns, but I can not keep the tension right. I start off with a right, but if a square is supposed to be 6 inches, it ends up 2!! I've tried everything but I hold my yarn too tight or something. I gave up several years ago on crochet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nossa
It is a bit hard, I first learned it at school, then I stopped practising when I entered university, but now I'm trying to remember what I learned before, it's quite hard, that I'm thinking about trying to find one of those teach-yourself websites, or maybe try and find someone who can teach me.
My hobby is also my job. I'm a writer, I write everywhere but I haven't actually finished or published anything yet.
I also like reading and am learning how to sew. Art is my hobby too.
If you really ask me what I like most is reading poems and theologies. The reason, one and only is life is a mystery, in fact a riddle and no books go deeper and deeper into some unknown realms than books of poems and theologies. When n I read Dante, or any other Sufi poems or Gibran or the Mahabharata or the Veda I find something that changes me, and of course they widened the horizon of thinking indeed.
If I have time to spare it is indeed to do some other things of creativeness. That is gardening. I have a great passion for traveling, and indeed it costs so much and not easily affordable I have deferred it at the moment.
In my spare time I usually engage in some sort of physical activity, whether it be a simple bike ride or a more elaborate event such as soccer or ice hockey. I also spend a good deal of time on the internet. However, I contribute most of my efforts towards my education, at least at this point.
I always try to begin that but I never have much luck. It is like my family never existed. I have such a hard time finding the necessary records and information. How do you go about your research?Quote:
Originally Posted by Granny5
Anyway, I have just too many hobbies for a sane person to have (at least semi-sane person :) ). Other than reading, I am really into films (I am a serious buff - I am talking all genres and all decades!). I am just as much into theater. I watch so much television that I guess you could practically consider it a hobby. :) I like to participate in Civil War reenacting. I just joined a dance troupe for 18th century dancing. I am a dancer (ballet, jazz, tap, bellydance and a little ballroom), but I guess I take that a little too seriously to consider it just a hobby. I collect a lot of stuff. My collections vary too much to list here. It varies from Coca-Cola memorabilia to Civil War stuff to Milwaukee Brewers memorabilia to Walt Disney Classics figurines ("Beauty and the Beast", to be specific), and so on. I love to color. Some people seem to find that silly. I guess become I am not a kid, but I absolutely love it!! I have an absolutely crazy hobby of making clothing from different time periods. I honestly don't know why I do this, but I do. For some reason I consider this enjoyable! I also like to do needlepoint, crosstitch and crochet. I think that is about it! :)
I've taken on a new hobby. It's called a degree in English Literature at University.
I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself. :D
writing, definitely. And reading as well. I'm quite an excellent speed-reader ;) i play guitar, piano, and the bamboo flute, and I really loooove to sing (in fact I've already recorded a few songs for a singer-friend's album, and for a movie as well): I surf the net a lot (litnet is my main addiction) and have plans of making a better blog.:cool: My friends say that I have this strange determination in me that makes me capable of doing almost everything, save perhaps dancing.
you mean colouring like those colouring books for kids? heehee, I've thought about buying myself some of those, but so far I haven't been able to sum up the courage :)Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
This will sound like typical Mediterranean/Balcans young person's answer, but I love spending time in caffés and pubs with my friends.
There is probably little in this world [aside reading :lol:] which I thoroughly enjoy to that extent - coming to caffé, always meeting somebody there, sitting with them whilst staring at their faces through the clouds of smoke around us, ordering a cup of tea (tea drinker amongst coffee addicts :)), chatting, waiting for somebody to pull out cards, then playing cards; waiting for somebody to come with guitar, often the waitor himself if there are not many people in the pub, reading there, discussing just about everything - from world politics to literature - and meeting many new interesting people. It has become nearly a routine, before or after (or during :lol:) school going to caffé or pub, and hanging there. Sometimes even doing nothing, each lost in their drink and cigarette, contemplating life. I love it.
I usually combine it with going to library.
Another of my hobbies is walking. Instead of using public transport, I often walk wherever I need to go and let my thoughts settle down whilst I walk.
I also enjoy yoga (which is, since I stopped dancing when I was 14, about the only physical activity I have got in my life).
And there is, of course, reading, needless to mention. :) Reading, spending time in library and second-hand bookshops, everything of the kind.
Yes, I am talking about that kind. :) I like different kinds, though. Occasionally I like the ones that are pretty little kid-like (characters from cartoons and such). For those I like to use crayons. Otherwise I prefer ones like fashions from the Colonial period or scenes from Dickens' novels and other stuff that are not "traditional" coloring books. For these I use colored pencils. The paper is sturdier and pencils work good on that. Also, I like pencils because you can do more with shading and blending. This is a place where I like to get a lot of those types of coloring books:Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
http://store.doverpublications.com/b...ing-books.html
Go ahead, be brave and get some. I am telling you it is fun!!! Kind of therapeutic in a way, too! :D
It's pretty easy now with the internet. Before, it was leg work and took forever to find something. Anything I find on the net, I try to confirm with records from courthouses, the State, census records, and family Bibles. But it makes it so much easier to get a start. I started with me, my parents, their parents, their parents, etc. I've go a massive file of all branches of my family tree. It's fun and I find all kinds of neat information. No horse thiefs so far. (Everyone seems to love finding a horse thief in their family tree.:lol: ) But I have a Revolutionary War Veteran as a great X 5 grandfather. There's a hugh marker at an old cemetary that I had seem since I was a kid, but I didn't know he was related until about 10 years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
I love reading and writing (especcially poems)
and random art and piano
but the thing about me is i try and make a new hobby, but i quit after one day, but not because i cant do it, but because i get bored easily
You know, there is only ONE website that I have found with information. This is my mother's mother's side of the family. There is NO doubt that it is my family. It is a tree that someone else has created. I have been thinking of asking this guy for all the information that he could possibly give me. In return, I would correct the info that he has down there about my family. After all, I am directly related. So, I am able to give him correct names (he has a couple of names mixed up) and dates. So, I will give him my info if he gives me his! Kind of sounds like an odd sort of blackmail, doesn't it? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Granny5
I can't find any info on my mother's father's family, but I, at least, have the mother's side.
As for my father's family, they never existed! It is crazy. I can't even find out any information on them coming over to America! There has to be SOME record somewhere! I figure that will help me start on his relatives in Europe.
That is SO neat!!! I would absolutely LOVE to discover something like that!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Granny5