Have any winter hobbies?

[Charley]

It's a lot like spring outside today. I've already been walking and just enjoying the beauty.

But this weather is not going to last. What hobbies have you been working on lately when the weather has been frightful?

I've been tumbling rocks and planning what to do with all my shiny stones. We had the tumbler in the house when it got cold but since it has warmed up it is back out on the covered porch...keeping my squirrels out in the yard and away from the house. I'm working on a necklace....a white stone with black wire and a black string necklace. I've also been crocheting, mostly things for the kitchen....and weaving some kitchen towels....and quilting a baby quilt.

 

[Leeana]

Does playing on the computer count? I've been working on my photography skills with the horses a bit if that would count as a winter hobby, its also a summer hobby.

Photo by me, edited just a bit by Sandy

I have also been spending allot of time browsing websites and looking at a few breeding programs. I love looking at what other farms have put together and bloodlines. Also, a little mare shopping

.

Oh yes, and how could i forget ....mare stare cams

Just wanted to add, it was 66 degrees yesteray, today its 60 degrees and windy

. Almost feels like summer ..

 

[Charley]

That photo is gorgeous! You guys did great with a beautiful subject!

 

[Sonya]

I terribly miss the summer...in the summer we go to our camp up north on a lake on our weekends..winter is such a bore...

We do bowl on a league every teus night through the winter months...we have also planned a ski trip and a Vegas trip coming up soon. We've already spent 4 weekends away since Oct. 15 - visiting parents, new years eve trip, up north trip. I work alittle more on my paino playing than in the summer and do alot of shopping on ebay for breyers in the winter months.

We are also starting some painting and trim work in our house after we come back from Vegas in a couple weeks...I'm not looking forward to that at all!

Winter use to be the time I would spend most of my time with the minis (when I had them) because of our summer place, I sometimes miss that.

It's awful warm today (and yesterday) and it sure makes me miss summer...

 

[wantminimore]

Ditto, playing on the computer. Checking out ebay and the LB sales board (might be shopping for a mare early next summer). I got a learn to crochet kit for Christmas so i'm going to give it a try a long with making soap.

Charley will you post pics of the necklace when you get it done? I have a ton of sea glass that i'd like to do something with sometime. I've made a few necklaces with it and have a few more orders to fill, but would like to make something different.

Leslie

 

[Buckskin gal]

I am not fond of cold winters at all but they go by very fast for me because I do have hobbies. There are always craft projects, sewing projects and this past month we have been redoing a room that we had just used for storage. We are painting it white and yellow and adding green accesorries for a nice cheerful summer effect. I needed a place to lay my quilts out on to bond the pieces together so this will be wonderful. I also enjoy working on my photos and doing collages. Never bored here..just not enough time to do all I want to do. Unfortunately age slows a person down so time seems to go by so much faster. AND so far our winter has been fairly mild so no complaints.

Mary

 

[Sterling]

I'm working on a new project.....gel candles. This is only my first attempt...and I have to say it's pretty neat. You do have to be more careful than with melt and pour soap tho. I need to perfect the lesser bubbles and dimensional scapes. Aside from that I'm playing around with photo programs and these last few days have been springy with temps in the 70's so have been busy "playing" with the horses and pups outside!

Charley...I'd also love to see the finished product of your necklace.

 

[Sonya]

I really like that candle Sterling...very pretty and unique!

 

[Sterling]

Thanks Sonya!

I was kind of embarassed of it...lol.....so many bubbles and the scape was not dimensional...but I really like how the coloring turned out...and when you look at it you CAN see the shells. Tonight I will light it. That's suppose to give more of an aquarium "feel" to it. Gel is supposedly longer burning than parafin. This may be another incorporated craft for my craft fair next year.

 

[chandab]

I spend way too much time here on the computer, but when I'm not here, then my winter hobby is quilting. I finished up a quilt just before christmas and have been slowly working on the next one.

 

[txminipinto]

Winter Hobbies? Hmm, let's see: repairing torn blankets and sheets for next season, registry paperwork, taxes, checking breeding dates and calculating mare stare dates, stareing at the mail box waiting on the National issue of the Journal, building new fence, another barn, landscaping for the house, ....... oh yeah, starting next season's show string!

Notice a theme?

 

[Jill]

I don't have any talents in the department of arts or crafts

My favorite winter hobby is to curl up with a good book, or even better, with an unabridged recording of the book. But, I have so much studying right now, I don't really get to read for fun this season.

 

[Relic]

OMG the years just speed by at my age so my hobby for winter has become when l do all my housework...you know vac dust repair etc. Summer spring and fall l never see the inside of my house..but l know every crack uneven spot or what needs fixing on the barn where the weeds show up who chewed on what post..summers are to short winters now to l just had to listen about who to take where this weekend come June..so much to do so little time..

 

[Shari]

My Hobbies are pretty much year round.. draw, paint, handspinning yarn (in which one of these days I will find someone local to make me a sweater out of some of it), take care of my plants,,,basically do what ever I feel up to doing.

Also read a lot and been playing with the new kittens.

 

[Basketmiss]

I scrapbook mostly and am on LB...

Spend time with my boys Giddy (mini) and Suman ( thorougbred) and Bryson ( chow chow dog) Take lots of pictures of them

I used to crochet but hurt my elbow so cant do it anymore.

I love to read and do sometimes but sometimes I feel too high strung to sit still with a book!!

Sterling, cool candle, show us when you make more...

 

[mini1]

I have 2 children ages 4 yrs and 5 months so I have no free time for hobbies but that's o.k. When I do have any time I am cleaning the house doing chores or on the computer, sometimes it's 11:00 at night before I can do anything "for myself"

Way back when, I loved photography and still do. I toyed with the idea of trying to go "proffesional" and do horse and animal pictures as I don't think there is anyone close to me that has any experience doing horses with the exception of horse owners that is.

I also collect depression glass, American Sweetheart pattern in pink. I don't have alot of pieces yet but that is the fun of it. Finding pieces at flea markets, craft shows etc...

 

[wade3504]

Trail rides in my short sleeved shirt, beach rides, horse shows, horse clinics in a covered arena (in case it snows

).

Sorry, I just had to do that. Anyone want to come clip my horses?

Temps are high 70's low 80's.

Amanda

 

[Charley]

Here is a picture of the stones I'm working with. I am not happy with the little dark purple stone. I'm planning on getting some gold wire and doing it over. I am happy with the other three.

 

[Kathy2m]

Ditto Amanda, I guess us southerners have it reversed, we work all winter and not so much in the summer its too hot to work them until about 7 or 8 at night, not too many shows here in the summer either, this is prime show season, right on through the spring. But when it does dip below the 50s I stay by the fire, doing needlepoint chairseats, crocheting blankets and the computer of course! Kathy

 

[Sterling]

Charley...those stone necklaces are nice! What do you do actually polish them yourself and do the holes in them to do up the necklaces? Is there a certain method to the way they are strung as I see the two on the right are like in a little knotted type of lacing?

Basketmiss...thank you!

I'll post a pic on another thread of this candle lit. They're turning out really cool!