What Are Your Hobbies?

[wildhawk]

The quilting threads got me to wondering what hobbies you all enjoy besides cycling? As an artist, I have too many. I love nature, photography, hiking, calligraphy, art, and I play guitar and didgeridoo (Australian aborigine instrument). I love collecting insects and rocks/sticks from all over. Every time one of my friends go on vacation I ask them to bring me a rock and my collection now has stones from Africa, Brazil, Canada, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and BC. Recently one of my friends brought me two lovely rocks from Marthas Vineyard. Here are some samples of my art - I love to draw pets/animals and wildlife but shy away from people portraits. (The chow is pastel, the horse is colored pencil and the raccoon is white pencil on black paper.)

[rubysoho]

Drawing, working in 3d (sculptures ... I'll post a pic of one that was in progress at the time, it is finished now, a very cool looking glass piece that I gave to my mom... well, she stole it actually) and horse back riding. I actually spent a year as an apprentice to a German trainer and teach lessons to a select few outside of my real job because I really enjoy helping people solve their riding problems. This summer I took two horses in training, one who was bolting away and bucking its rider off and the second who had started rearing with its owner and she was afraid it. Both are solid citizens now.


and the pics:






PS - I loooove your drawings - and am very jealous of how good you are. I always get so frustrated drawing and painting because I become so much of a perfectionist. With clay, glass and other 3d mediums I am able to let go so it is much more satisfying.

[Blueberry]

Besides biking, photography (mostly macro, though I don't technically have the equipment), knitting and crocheting Also cooking (too much for my own good)

CA

[JaneE]

Also cooking (too much for my own good)

CA

I also love to cook and bake and lately I've gotten into making homemade ice cream...and I have the thighs to prove it!

[Crankin]

Cooking
reading
theatre
going out to eat
wine
But, most of my life revolves around outdoor activities
no artistic talents at all

[Aggie_Ama]

I don't feel like I have many: baking (not a big fan of cooking itself just baking), hiking, if it is cold/rainy or football season I like to do jigsaw puzzles, reading (wish I did it more).

I am very interested in kayaking but no boat yet. And I like mountain and road biking which feels like two hobbies to me.

As for collections I collect Cookie Jars and those little smashed pennies you make in the little crank machines. My husband is amused by the penny thing, I will seek those things out if we are in a touristy place. This is a recent thing I started, I think it comes from my Pawpaw, he liked to find strange coins. It was never pricey collector ones he just found them.

[bmccasland]

Quilting
making Bobbin Lace
Renaissance costuming
Birding
Gold thread embroidery (with REAL gold!)

Things to collect - rocks from work project sites (impossible in swamp country), Zuni fetishes, handmade Christmas ornaments - if made overseas, must be in a local art style (i.e. No "German" ornaments made in China).

[JaneE]

Very beautiful pieces! Wildhawk and Rubysoho, you are both very talented!

Obviously, there are lots of very talented people here at TE.

[Southernmomma4]

I just thought I would jump in and say what beautiful work ya'll do.
My hobbies are:
woodburning/pyrography
reading
cross-stitch
gardening
and whatever else catches my attention.
Here's some of my woodburning pieces...I'm not real good but I keep trying.

[shootingstar]

Oil and mixed media painting, snowshoeing, reading (for past few years travelogue books, food history/foodie literary books, social issues).

And hobbies I dropped but used to practice much more heavily..Western calligraphy (this is painting the steel nib before executing the letters, not just fountain pen use), sewing..over 80% of my wardrobe..

I never say never, to good-bye hobbies...life can change over time. if there's time outside of cycling. But recently I discovered that I might need reading glasses soon, to do sewing..

I'm not sure if photography counts anymore with the ease of digital. I used to include it when I used my Nikon SLR heavily with zoom lense, bounce flash, etc. for many years before digital.

[TsPoet]

All of you wonderfully talented people!
I used to try beading and drawing and kayaking... I wasn't any good at any of them and just can't stick to anything long enough to get good at.
So, I started living through my dogs. I do dog agility.
Since I only have rescue mutts, I can only compete in some trials, not the major ones, and I have dogs that don't have agility personalities (e.g. shelties, border collies, papillions...). I get a kick out of getting my fear aggressive little pug/corgi/chihuahua/etc (purebred mutt pictured in my avatar) to jump over an obstacle rather than attack the judge or getting my shiba/beagle cross to pay enough attention to me to do the right obstacle.
We aren't any good, but we have a blast.

[surgtech1956]

No artistic talents.

Biking - mountain/road
Reading
Photography
Camping
Hiking
Riding my new motorcycle
Gardening
Cross Country Skiing
Snowshoeing
Woodworking

[kjay]

So many wonderfully talented people here! I have hobbies that besides biking include spinning (lol), photography, dabbling in PhotoShop, and travel. BUT, I have a passion, which is camels.

I'm the groom for 14 camels, both Bactrian and Dromedary, and care for them once to twice weekly. They are a huge part of my life and are the subjects of most of my photography. One of my goals is to travel wherever I can to ride them in different countries (Egypt so far and working on others). My avatar needs to be updated, but it's one of my Christmas cards showing my favorite Bactrian.

[vinbek]

My hobbies have gone by the wayside that last few years. I love to garden and to read and to bake, but don't get much time for it anymore. I am into volunteering right now - I do alot with the PTA, teach Sunday School, lead bike rides, mentor younger moms, work with the American Lung Association, I serve on the Board of the local girls softball league, and I do various other projects for organizations. I am an organization nut - I can organize and streamline anything. I'm moving my mother- in- law from Atlanta to California in early October. That all keeps me busy!
My life seems to be full of "used to's"... I use to sew, I use to garden, I use to run marathons, I use to scuba dive, I use to macrame, I use to fox hunt........

[Flur]

I used to scuba dive, ice climb and ski. I'll probably pick up the last two again when we move someplace where winter is fun...