I used to sew but my eyes really aren’t good enough these
days and I do sometimes get out the knitting needles but I have arthritis in my
thumbs and I can’t keep it up for long. I know – I’m falling to bits.
I do read. A lot. Sometimes obsessively when I’m glomming a
new author, but it’s a bit antisocial.
It’s all the dh’s fault. We went to the Tank Museum at
Bovingdon back in the summer – it’s huge, they even loaned tanks to the makers
of the film Fury — and now he’s having the best fun imaginable building model
tanks and then turning them into rusty wrecks for his battle dioramas. Or maybe
it’s the browsing on the internet for a gazillion shades of paint, 1:35 scale
barbed wire, flora and the thousand and one bits of essential stuff that I
envy.
If I had a hobby I could do that…
So I’m looking for ideas, inspiration. How do you fill the
long winter evenings when the television is rubbish? I want a hobby that I can
seriously shop for!
Meanwhile, here’s what I can do for you. If you’re looking
for something free to download to your ebook, Old Desires is free at Smashwords
– where you can download for any device, including the Kindle — iBooks, Barnes
and Noble and Amazon will catch up in a few days.
And this basket of goodies including three books of the
winners choice, a must-have Rosie tote bag, a pair of snowflake socks to keep
your toes warm while you’re reading, a Lindt chocolate Santa sleigh, an ice
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5 comments:
I've been watching older stuff on DVD--Wind at My Back mostly right now. and reading of course (at least it's calorie free.
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I love old movies - except the ones on Movies for Men that the dh has found recently. I didn't know they'd made so many truly terrible cowboy and war movies! My Kindle has been a very close friend. :) Just read Sarah Morgan's Christmas Ever After - wonderful.
I've been scrapbooking all my old photos/memorabilia from magnetic photo albums, throwing out thousands of photos as a result. You should see my scrapbooking cupboard/shelves: 12x12 albums, 12x12 coloured sheets of paper, glue sticks, double-sided adhesive, stickers, specialty scissors, and the list goes on. It's fun buying these necessities (especially at dollar stores and out-of-the-way places where you'd never expect to find them), but it's even better when I can use them all to also decorate presents (use plain-coloured tissue and plop stickers, ribbons, etc. everywhere) and matching envelopes. Every single time I have wrapped presents in this way, the recipients have always been more than pleased, plus they can keep the embellishments/stickers to put in their own albums with pictures later to commemorate the event. (Sometimes I have even taken an older duplicate photo or two I was going to trash and used it on the present so that the recipient is reminded of something that happened long ago.)
I don't have the patience for crafts, knitting and such. I used to do a lot of sewing when I was younger and my kids were little. Being a single mom, knowing how to sew clothes for the kidlets was a big money saver. I mostly read a lot now (no news there) and watch TV dramas. I really love the procedural police dramas best.
I do various forms of paper crafting: scrapbooking, card making, etc...
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