Guest MormonGator Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Does anyone else have hobbies that people wouldn't assume you to have? IE-play the harmonica? Magic tricks? Raising death's head hawk moths? I'll start. I make my own soap. I'm totally self taught with the help of only a few internet videos. I've been making soap for about four years-but let me rephrase it. I've been making good soap for about six months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 (edited) Why don't you start using some of it. Kidding!! My favorite hobby is coming to LDS.net and harassing people with my overbearing verbiage. No, actually, I don't do anything that could be considered a hobby. I'm too busy. Edited March 25, 2016 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MormonGator Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 (edited) On March 25, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Carborendum said: Why don't you start using some of it. Kidding!! Lol. I shower twice a day and wash my hands even more. LadyGator calls it "OCD" but I call it "Obsessive cleanliness" Edited March 27, 2016 by MormonGator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bytebear Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 I tried doing home made candles. Did one batch, and it was a huge pain, way more expensive than buying candles, and they looked awful. I still have a giant slab of wax in a lower cabinet in the kitchen. I tried scrapbooking, and have a bag in the closet full of scrapbooking crap I intended to document a recent family vacation. I tried sewing and broke three needles. I love gardening, and have done pretty good there. Used the California rebate to turn my front lawn into a native landscape. And this past weekend I built (from a kit) a rustic picnic table. I have to be careful leaving the house, because I will pull one weed, and another, and a half hour later, I am still going. Oh, and I do love photography. I have a couple DSLR cameras and several lenses, and although camera phones are nice, I can never get the quality I want. My big cameras are great but can be bulky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MormonGator Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 17 minutes ago, bytebear said: I tried doing home made candles. Did one batch, and it was a huge pain, way more expensive than buying candles, and they looked awful. I still have a giant slab of wax in a lower cabinet in the kitchen. I have this abnormal fear about burning my house down. I don't even have candles in the house! Carb you were right. I do have an OCD! Yikes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bytebear Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 I have candles all over. Either scented for obvious reasons, and lots of tealights. I have tons of different kinds of tea light holders, and they can easily set the mood of a room. And they are cheap, thanks to Ikea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSG Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 3 hours ago, MormonGator said: Does anyone else have hobbies that people wouldn't assume you to have? I crochet occasionally, do a fair bit of my own tailoring, and enjoy certain types of cooking. Most unexpected fiber arts I've seen was a huge biker that looked like Mr Clean's mean brother wheeled up and pulled a knitting bag out of his saddlebag. Proceeded to crochet a nice shawl in between sparring matches. Turns out his wife got him into it as rehab when he dumped his previous bike and screwed up a couple of fingers pretty badly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirkwood Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 D&D and tabletop wargaming. I like to shoot guns a little bit too. Blackmarch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday21 Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Rollerblading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vort Posted March 27, 2016 Report Share Posted March 27, 2016 How about hobbies or talents we would like to develop? I have always hated gardening. Hated it. Passionately. Yet last year, I found myself getting very interested in growing things (specifically Jerusalem artichokes). I ended up growing several of those things, and am all set to grow a bunch more this year. Sister Vort is a knitter. I think knitting is incredibly cool. As a child, I remember thinking up a way to make a loop in string and then make a chain of loops with that loop. I thought the idea was pretty cool, so I told my mom, who told me that it had already been invented and was called "crocheting". Darn. Anyway, I still don't know how to knit (or crochet anything other than the aforementioned chain stitch), but I would love to learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeedleinA Posted March 27, 2016 Report Share Posted March 27, 2016 Was heavy into breeding ball python mutations. Love display gardening, plants and flowers, not the eating kind. Collecting bootleg and foreign star wars figures from the 70-90s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 27, 2016 Report Share Posted March 27, 2016 I have loads of grape vines from pruning heavily this year, and would love to learn basket weaving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MormonGator Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 All of these are so cool to see! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday21 Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 20 hours ago, NeedleinA said: Was heavy into breeding ball python mutations. Love display gardening, plants and flowers, not the eating kind. Collecting bootleg and foreign star wars figures from the 70-90s. What on earth is a ball python mutation? Is this a snake? Have you seen the Disney movie, Lola and stitch? Are you creating little monsters? NeedleinA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MormonGator Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 13 minutes ago, Sunday21 said: What on earth is a ball python mutation? Is this a snake? Have you seen the Disney movie, Lola and stitch? Are you creating little monsters? It means he is a mad scientist bent on world domination. Your secret is out Needle. Better go back to your super fortress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeedleinA Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 47 minutes ago, Sunday21 said: What on earth is a ball python mutation? Sorry. It was for creating color and pattern mutations on ball python's scales using recessive, co-dominant, dominant genes. Felt like mad scientist type stuff. Hatching eggs was like Christmas, fun times. Blackmarch and Sunday21 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordorbund Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 On 3/27/2016 at 1:05 AM, Vort said: it had already been invented and was called "crocheting". Darn. Nope. Darning is something else. LeSellers and Blackmarch 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 Darn it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSG Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 14 hours ago, NeedleinA said: Sorry. It was for creating color and pattern mutations on ball python's scales using recessive, co-dominant, dominant genes. Bummer. I was hoping you were making cube pythons, icosahedron pythons, maybe even nonahedron pythons. NeedleinA, Blackmarch, Vort and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zil Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 1 hour ago, NightSG said: Bummer. I was hoping you were making cube pythons, icosahedron pythons, maybe even nonahedron pythons. I have a dodecadoodledron, on the shelf right above my monitor, right now.... theSQUIDSTER 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSQUIDSTER Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 2 hours ago, zil said: I have a dodecadoodledron, on the shelf right above my monitor, right now.... You have a twelve-sided etchosketch living one shelf above your Komodo dragon? zil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zil Posted March 28, 2016 Report Share Posted March 28, 2016 50 minutes ago, theSQUIDSTER said: You have a twelve-sided etchosketch living one shelf above your Komodo dragon? I have a piece of card stock folded into a dodecahedron* (I will NEVER do that again) on which I have doodled 12 Zentangle-style patterns (I will NEVER do that again). (And for the record, I should be shot for having folded it before doodling it! What was I thinking!) *Shame on Firefox for not including such a simple word in its dictionary. Sunday21 and theSQUIDSTER 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday21 Posted March 30, 2016 Report Share Posted March 30, 2016 Covert acts of kindness. I gave away Tim Hortons cards to harassed administrators for a while. I carried an extra umbrella during rainy season and gave one to the first person I saw who needed one. I am now considering a smiling campaign foe every veiled Muslim woman that I see. NeedleinA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdowis Posted March 30, 2016 Report Share Posted March 30, 2016 (edited) I have always loved music, and learned some piano but could not afford to take lessons for such a long time. Recently my wife found a very nice Casio electronic keyboard. I also discovered that I could continue my lessons online on udemy.com really really inexpensive. They are changing their price structure so that all of the courses are in the $20-$50 price range. I combined the courses with true-piano-lessons.com and youtube. My wife got some courses in drawing with colour pencils. Edited March 30, 2016 by cdowis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anatess2 Posted March 31, 2016 Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 I finally finished this Queen-sized crocheted bedcover for my son a couple weeks ago. I was supposed to give it to him on his bday in 2014... I can't believe how relieved I am now that I'm done with that hobby. The bedcover matches his bedroom wall, so hopefully, he wouldn't want to repaint that wall for a long time to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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