Enjoy!
- Card making: I bought the supplies, read card making blogs, thought up many ideas for designs, made a total of 9 cards and quit. The pretty paper I bought is still mostly untouched.
Although I don’t have a stock of these to show off, and those card making blogs put my little greetings to shame, I have continued to make my greeting cards instead of purchasing them. It’s fun to add a personal touch to a gift, and I even came up with a little logo for the
back. That’s right, go check your wedding cards recent brides … I made all of those by hand! They’re no hallmark beauties, but they send love and cheer all the same.
- Cooking my way through a cookbook (Julie and Julia style): I have the books, couldn't pick the right one, tried a recipe for a curry that turned out a bit too spicy for my tastes, and quit.
Well, I’m not so sure I have any update here. I did however find a better way to use my “Foodnetwork” magazines. Check it out …
I love the recipes in each issue but find it hard to remember to use them, and let’s be honest, at 5:30 after a long day in the office the last thing you want to do is page through a 200 page issue to find that one recipe you think you remember seeing. Plus, the page covers make a perfec
t defense against those roaming ingredients and sauce covered spoons. What? Am I the ONLY one who gets pizza dough stuck in between the pages of her nice Betty Crocker Cookbook EVERY time I try my hand at the Italian delicacy?
- Scrapbooking: Now here is one that, through the years, has left me the owner of 3 or 4 unfinished scrapbooks. Well, none of them are really started either. Since I had the paper and supplies from the card making binge I decided I was finally going to accomplish putting together an entire, completed book of our honeymoon pictures. 1st step: order pictures from snapfish or shutterfly. hmmm.... I'm still on the 1st step :)
Ah Ha! I prevail! (at least one of these things has true tangible progress!) Okay, not quite. I’m 3 pages short of completing (yes, you read that right) our honeymoon scrapbook. I ordered the pictures from Snapfish during one of their “get 50 free prints” deals. Saweet! Then of course our postal system had a bit of a hard time getting them into our mailbox (yes, I know a side porch entrance is hard to find Mr.
Mailman, but really…). In the end, I landed myself with 2, count ‘em, 2 sets of the pictures. Ironically the original order came 2 weeks after the nice Snapfish customer service people sent me reprint order. Anyways, I’m almost there… so close I can taste it.
- Photography: a good camera (that I of course absolutely need to start this hobby) is a bit out of my price range. It would cost me a good year's worth of fun money... and do i really want to give up all that fun so that a year from now I can take a few pictures and move on the the next hobby idea?
A few months back Nate and I welcomed a new member into our family.
Welcome to the world Nikon D3000!
I should probably come up with a cute name for it ... like people do with their cars. Any suggestions?
I LOVE my new camera. I even had my first “parenting” lesson. ALWAYS put the strap around your neck! My poor Nikon has a bit of a broken lens due to my careless handling. What is funny is that I got this first lesson about 3 minutes after my own Mother warn
ed me that my arms looked a bit full to try to carry the new camera too. Guess we know who isn’t ready for her very own baby. But, all is well with a few rotations of a screwdriver every so often.
- Gardening: This one started back in the spring, but as my garden wilts and dies (from a fungus in the soil that is apparently impossible to kill) I have of course given up and moved on.
Eh, skip.
The only gardening I do these days is nurturing my ever growing family of spider plants. Mama spider plant, who I adopted way back in 6th grade during a class activity, is still making those babies (I don’t think menopause is in her future)!
- Blogging: This one makes me laugh a bit. I started this blog with the intentions of using it as an outpost for my thoughts on being a newlywed. It soon turned into ramblings about hobbies I wanted to pursue as my life before the ring was full of them, and now being a Mrs I seem to have lost them or left them on the way. As you can see... I didn't post for a whole month.
Well, I guess my blog is now a space for me to share my little DIY projects. It gives me some form of accomplishment to publish my craft creations … it’s even more rewarding when someone mentions “Hey, I saw that on your blog …”
Enjoy the Holidays and
P.E.A.C.E. … La Paz
I've never understood people who seem to have one main hobby. There are too many interesting hobbies to pick just one! Diversification is good! :) And don't think of it as quitting -- just think of it as doing something else fun for a while. More than likely, you'll come back to it again.
ReplyDeleteAlso, one solution to your pizza-dough-on-the-cookbook problem is to memorize the recipe. I make homemade pizza pretty much every weekend, so I could practically make it in my sleep...