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DC in Ch 3 – Wait, What?

// January 18th, 2010 // 3 Comments » // Personal

A couple of months ago I picked up the craft of crocheting. This from the daughter of someone who literally couldn’t sew on a button. I’ve never been very crafty but I had to go to A.C. Moore to get some felt for a project for my son and wandered through the knitting and crocheting section. I thought to myself, how quaint, and picked up a few skeins of yarn, a set of 5 crochet hooks and a magazine entitled, “I can’t believe I’m crocheting”. I wonder if they used the same people to market as “I can’t believe it’s not butter”?

After throwing the magazine aside (I hate reading directions!) I hopped on Youtube and found some tutorials that made it so easy for me to pick up the craft. Teresa, who goes by the user name tjw1963, has hundreds of videos even utilizing slow motion, which is a wonderful tool in learning how exactly to make a certain stitch. Also very helpful and fun to watch is Michael, who’s user name is mikeyssmail. I’ve picked up a lot of great tips from his videos and he describes each step in a very well thought out manner.

I’ve tried looking at crochet patterns, and like algebra, they make my eyes cross. I just wanted something mindless to do when watching a movie with the kids. I’ve made several scarves for family members (whether they like it or not and I just finished a double crocheted green blanket with popcorn stitches on either end and two rows of treble crochet borders. Its too short width wise, and I intend to go back and make it wider. Practice makes perfect. I just started a super soft, creamy yellow & white throw for my grandmother.  I guess I’m just proud of myself that I was able to make something, anything!

What kind of hobbies are you into? Are you crafty in any way?

Passion

// January 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Personal

Passion. Its what I wish I had about any one particular thing in my life, other than my family, of course. For years I’ve had a passion for all things social + internet, mainly Youtube, but even that hasn’t been tickling my fancy as of late. In the last two months I’ve logged in perhaps only a few times and only for a few minutes. I’m still involved in the community, don’t get me wrong, I just haven’t had anything hit me that was ‘make a video’ worthy and I’m somewhat against the ‘make a video about anything even if there’s nothing to say’ school of thought.

Photography. I love staring and mulling over beautiful and intriguing photography. Why not get into photography? I’ll tell you why, cameras are expensive and I’m not so sure I’d even have the patience nor the time to do anything that requires me to leave the house for lengths of time. I tend to be a home body. For now, I resolve to be an avid fan of beautiful photos. Stumbleupon has lead me to some fascinating photography sites.

Crocheting. Wait, how old are you? Yes, I’ve picked up the art of crocheting and have been at it for the last 2 months or so. Everyone in my family has a scarf wrapped tightly around their necks whether they want to or not – likely not. And crocheting has been loads of fun. I’m so happy to have picked up some craft, ANY craft that gives me an end product to embarrass my children with. Oh, kids, the sweaters are on their way as soon as I learn the proper stitches, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

I guess in the end there seems to be a lot of hobbies that I’m into, but my true desire is to find something that not only makes me happy, but also pays the bills. But then, isn’t that everyone’s dream?

Off topic, here’s an interesting video. This one was sent to me via David Milligan. Scary stuff!