What In The Heck Do I Do All Day?!

The penultimate blog challenge prompt is to share my hobbies with photos.

Y’all, I spend my days driving people to appointments and sitting in a chair scrolling on my phone and petting cats. My activity level is whatever is below sedentary and above comatose.

But on the off chance that I get a wild hair up my rear to do something else with my time, here are hobbies I dabble in:

Walking: Can’t do much of that right now with over a foot of snow on the ground. Hard to do in our town anyway, since I don’t have good balance and our streets are gravel.

Crafting: If my kids need a prop built or something created, I’m on it. For my daughter’s term as the leader of a youth group, we got to create props for her theme that was music-based. I crafted sheet music of some of her favorite songs for archway decor.

I also used fake flowers and a (poorly) pressed rose to create a display of her majority from the youth group.

Crocheting: My latest project was headscarves for my daughter.

Being creative with solutions to problems: My daughter’s car headliner was removed and we tired of looking at the metal and left-behind glue, so I spent a few days modge-podging fabric swatches to create a new headliner. It is quirky but really cool.

Drawing: I prefer pencil, but I will use pen and markers also.

Little graphic I whipped up to express my grief over losing Jon–he was hell on drumsticks, never met one he couldn’t break.

Doodle from way back in the day–not sure my crappy eyes would let me do this anymore.

Painting: I prefer acrylic, but I have attempted watercolor.

Woodburning: A Rune box I made for my son.

Crappy resolution, but it’s the Cowboy 10 Commandments for my husband.

Jewelry making: I like to play with beads.

Reading: Right now I am into Elisabeth Wheatley’s books. I have finished her Daindreth’s Assassin series and am eagerly awaiting her Tears of A Wolf series.

Visiting museums: I like art, historical, and quirky museums. There are a few I really want to see some day if my health allows it.

Watching documentaries: Don’t you just love it when you know exactly when you got hooked on documentaries? I saw Helter Skelter in the 1970s and was hooked.

Researching: I am constantly on my phone or the computer or in a book looking up more info about anything and everything.

Collecting and making pins: I have collected pins since I was a small child, and now I have a button maker so I can create my own. I want to get another die so I can do smaller buttons.

Me circa 1987 wearing my favorite pins on my denim jacket.

My mom made this super cool pin holder for me from drum heads and purple velvet curtains.

Collecting earrings: This is probably a third of my collection. Unfortunately, while my kids were babies and toddlers, I didn’t wear earrings because I saw from my prisoner students what happens when your earring gets yanked out of your earlobe, and my holes have closed. I need to get my ears repierced.