OT New Poll - other things we do?

I love to cook (most of the time anyway) and to bake. I knit (lots, currently), tat, bobbinlace, I know how to crochet but prefer not to, I can sew a littlebit. I know how to do basic crossstich but I'm just too impatient for "Needlepainting" (In german it's Nadelmalerei, I translated word-by-word because my dictionary doesn't have a translation.)

I like gardening although in my case it should be called balcony-ing ;-) My tomatos are finally turning red and my SO already called the balcony a tomato-plantation, I'm afraid I overdid it this year there's not much space left to sit, but plenty to stand, you just have to watch where you put your feet *blush*. Other than tomatos I have a fig-tree (one fig this year, YAY), a gooseberry bush (lots and lots, all gone already though), some lillies, basil and other herbs and some small flowerpots with "childrens flowers" like forget me not and snapdragon.

cu nicole

Cub Scout den leader (second year Webelos - woohoo!)

Collect hedgehogs (and UFOs)

Knit, crochet, needlepoint, Hardanger, scrapbook.

Volunteer at DS's elementary school helping in the library.

Argue with people I've never met in newsgroups. Hey, it's a hobby...

Karen E.

Did the Cub/Boy Scout thing - DS asked me to not be involved, now wishes I was.

Oh - that's one I forgot - I organize some of the speakers that come to DD's school - been doing that one since DS was there - I think it is 6 years now.

There are only one or two I argue with - some times it is in earnest, sometimes it is just a sport.

Cheryl

I hear you there - needle painting looks to concentration intensive for me right now.

I love gooseberries!

C

I read fantasy fiction, play computer games (now eagerly awaiting Civ IV), and enjoy being a geek (currently watching Katrina coverage). My main avocation, however, is my two-year-old DD.

I'm a GS leader too - Juniors, where Cheryl does Brownies right now, I believe. Like her, I hope to be a leader for a long time - it's loads of fun.

Read, mostly mindless mysteries before bed :)

I try very hard to exercise on a regular basis, been hard this summer as it has been too hot here, but now that DS is going to middle school and I have to get up at the crack of dawn, I'm doing a little better at getting otu and running three times a week.

I love to play Scrabble!

Read computer groups and stir up trouble!

Linda

I knit, crochet, tat, quilt, cross stitch, and design for all those. Beyond the "crafty" stuff, I arrange music for children's choirs, adult choirs, and English handbell choirs, take care of my two dogs (a 4 year old 55 pound mix with a bad leg from birth and a 14 year old Yorkie with cataracts, heart murmer, and arthritis I inherited when my neighbor died), do a lot of gardening, cook, and nurse an addiction to the Weather Channel and Golf Channel.

Same here :-) My son loves them, too. He was going out onto the balcony every chance he got to pick some *lol* I have "green" ones but I really prefer the darker "red" ones, but I couldn't find any when I bought my bush.. Maybe next year.

Ok, have to run again nicole

I am a fountain pen enthusiast (small collection, do some repair work, etc.) and wannabe writer.

Hubby and I love to go fishing off the jetties of Galveston Island as well as other areas around there.

Also addicted to music, trying to learn some Dutch (long story) and if I ever get to a place that has decent dark skies, will go back to my amateur astronomy.

Crafts: knit, crochet, tat, rubber stamp

Enjoy: cooking/baking, reading, music, law/politics/current events

watch: CNN, PBS, baseball, figure skating

collect: carnival glass, GWTW memorabilia, anything with lily of the valley

I like to read (mysteries and novels), sew (clothing, etc.), quilt (novice level), and LOVE to bake. Not so interested in cooking - just baking!

Collections are limited to stash - cross stitch, hardanger, and fabric. But also like to collect "artsy" stuff - original art and good craftwork like my treasured Pitz wooden wizard, a blacksmith-crafted dragon, and the terracotta mermaid wall sculpture (which I just discovered at the RennFest this weekend. She'll look glorious on the purple bathroom wall!)

Also a CD collection, due to work/hobby publishing a folk music magazine. (hard to know where one ends and the other begins)

Do layout/design/editing of monthly church newsletter.

School support for DD - work intermittently on PTA projects, attend performances/shows, etc (she goes to the arts high school so there's always something!) I'm just now learning to fully appreciate opera!

Sue

My interests are: counted thread embroidery knitting crochet sewing oil painting reading (mostly mysteries, but I enjoy historical fiction and general suspense) golf collecting old Gregg shorthand books

I would love to have beautiful gardens, especially herb gardens, but the only thing I seem to be able to grow is aloe vera.

BonnieBlue

Huh - full of someone's notes?

Try succulents!

Cheryl

I like to cross stitch, shop for my cross stitch stash, crafty sewing, machine embroidery (started this year), love to read novels (mystery, suspense, romance), watch movies, and RVing.

Havent learned yet, but want to learn crochet and knitting.

Sue in Maryland

Reading romances gardening - flowers and weeds, mostly Reading Fantasy Needlwork - xstitch, canvas embroidery Reading ScFi play with my cats reading mags collect art glass Did I mention reading? collecting unusual gemstones And of course, reading.

besides cross stitch (stamped and counted!), I crochet, and just learned how to knit (just knit - no purl!). I collect seashells, sea glass and lighthouses. I also like to try some artsy things - like paint ornaments - if it's not to difficult!

Lisa

This is a fun post and I have enjoyed reading them. I knit, do crewel in silks, enjoy tiny count fabrics to petitpoint on (over 50 to the inch) , needlepoint, sew quilts, and really enjoying needle painting right now. My projects going are a French whole cloth quilt, detailed Leon Conrad blackwork (needlepoint) , Jacobean needle painting with silks, linen flax shawl. I also enjoy books as a book a holic and read a lot. Barbie

*gg* Try knitting in "combined method" style, you'll love it (I do) look here: a good site: cu nicole

HI all,

don't post here much, but I read everyday (while kids and DH are at school and work! - only time I have for the computer.

I knit, crochet, sew, quilt, needlepoint, do model-stitching, read (last outing to library carried like 25 books home - fiction, non-fiction, knitting, beading books)...let my 2 dogs in and out all day! Love watching the History Channel and CourtTV (at night - all those forensic shows..

Like to bake, cooking okay - but rather have some one else do it!

Donna in S. Indiana