Sad but satisfying hobbies

[carsonshepherd]

I collect old books. I prefer an interesting read, but at heart, I just love the way an old book feels and smells, the way the pages are brittle and the bindings crackle when you open them. Ilove looking for old notes in them, or dedications and wondering what the people were like.

I can't do books that are too old because they make me sneeze.

I found this written on a scrap of paper stuck in a book I bought at an old bookshop. What do you make of it?

"Jackie lives in the dictionary of imagination"

I've always remembered it and imagined what it might mean and who put it there. Think it would make an awesome title for a novella one day.

 

[U4ea]

I cross stitch, crochet and embroider and I'm about to start sewing with my new sewing machine. I'll be quilting soon, too. Aside from that, I scrapbook, so anything my packrat brain thinks will fit in a scrap book finds its way into one.

Since I do most of my writing at work, I don't consider it a hobby, though I guess you can consider it one. I'm an avid reader, too, so anything I can get my hands on is good with me. I've recently become addicted to a Manga series, so the books come out once a month or so. That's what it takes to keep me going, though once a week would be better (if not for my budget. LOL).

 

[yui]

What an interesting and creative group of people you are!

I make handmade paper and dry flowers (or weeds or leaves or whatever suits the moment). I put the dried flowers (or weeds or leaves or whatever) in my paper. I also collect vintage purses (the more frivolous, the better, but I am very selective as they can take up a bit of space).

I sometimes write, too. But there is no recent proof of that.

Luck,

Yui

 

[yui]

I found this written on a scrap of paper stuck in a book I bought at an old bookshop. What do you make of it?

"Jackie lives in the dictionary of imagination"

I've always remembered it and imagined what it might mean and who put it there. Think it would make an awesome title for a novella one day.

You're right...there is a story in there.

 

[domjoe]

I do origami. It's a sad hobby becuase I'm terrible at it. Big fingers.

 

[oggbashan]

I have to confess that I don't really understand how collecting things qualifies as a hobby. I mean, I can see feeling pride in collecting, and the thrill of the hunt, and the sitting around and admiring the collection, but I always think of a hobby as something you do, like burning plastic soldiers or making model railroad trains crash while you imitate the screams of the victims, or making your own BDSM equipment in your basement.

You know, something that relaxes you.

---dr.M.

The thing about collecting IS the hunt and the search for rare items. If you were given a collection, a complete collection of anything, what could you do with it? The point about collecting is to try to find everything. Once that is achieved that collection is no longer a hobby. Then you start again collecting something different.

For some things, like my sewing machines, you can improve the objects in the collection by maintenance and repair or just assembling the scattered pieces from the box of bits bought 'as is'.

My collections are illustrations of history. My Viewmaster reels show places as they were 40 or 50 years ago with cars and fashions of the time. I like trying to match the scenes with a modern view and look for what has changed.

My cameras could not be used because the film sizes are not available but you could see how they worked and operate the levers, slides, bellows etc. to demonstrate how cameras used to be. To a ten-year-old an ancient Kodak Brownie shows more about the principles of photography than any digital camera will do.

The point of my collections is that they are NOT in museums (OK some are now). They can be handled and operated even by children (under careful supervision) and even if they do get damaged the loss is not disastrous. They were mass produced items and dozens survive in museums lifeless behind glass.

Og

 

[Elsie Grey]

I do bead weaving and I am currently making a dolls house scene as well as periodically rearranging the huge handmade dolls house I got from my Gran. I also doll like mad as a displacement activity normally! I used to collect stamps but I just lost interest (still not sure why) and I gave my collection to a friend. I also make ragdolls occasionally, but these days I'm far more like to be found on a rowing machine!

Elsie

xxx

 

[carsonshepherd]

I do origami. It's a sad hobby becuase I'm terrible at it. Big fingers.

I brought home a book and tried to learn it because I love those little paper cranes. It frustrated me, which kind of ruins the purpose of a peaceful activity...

 

[woodnymph_O]

don't laugh

I love my dear sewing machine. the whir of the motor while I get new curtains soothes me.
The Not too progressive female
Nymphy

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

sewing, knitting, collecting postcards and cutting out stuff from magazines to make funky collages.

there. I knew there were more.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

origami

 

[Octavian]

I'm not sure if it qualifies as a hobby, but something I do is to squeeze the cells of bubblewrap until they pop.
I just have to do it. If I am pressed for time I will 'wring' the wrap but that is not as satisfying as to individually pop the cells.
I know it drives my wife mad and if it became a regular hobby, there is a fair chance that she would leave me. So I just indulge myself now and again.

Octavian

Thread killer extraordinaire.

My Stories

 

[BigAndTall]

I collect beers (not empty bootles), hot sauces and old books.

Not very exciting hobbies.

 

[domjoe]

I collect beers (not empty bootles), hot sauces and old books.

Not very exciting hobbies.

I collect hot sauce too. Do you have "Da Bomb Ground Zero?" It's something like 1,000,000 Solvilles. I also have something called "Ring Of Fire", which I bought because of the name.

 

[BigAndTall]

I collect hot sauce too. Do you have "Da Bomb Ground Zero?" It's something like 1,000,000 Solvilles. I also have something called "Ring Of Fire", which I bought because of the name.

No, but i have one called "Pain and Suffering" another called "Submission and Domination" and I think the thrid in the set is "Pain and Pleasure" that I bought because of the name.

(Seeing if I can find their web site.)

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I've stopped collecting shrunken heads.....since the kids came along.

 

[BigAndTall]

Here it is


the link i mean.


http://www.hotsaucezone.com/sauces11.html

 

[domjoe]

Here it is


the link i mean.


http://www.hotsaucezone.com/sauces11.html

Cool. I mean Hot.

Here's where I buy mine, every time I visit my bro in Los Angeles:

http://www.hotsaucetogo.com/

It's a little stall in Farmer's Market.

 

[hotchkiss]

I write (alledgedly!) I draw and paint (Not enough or as much as I should!) I never grew up mentally and stopped at the age of 12 or so my wife says.

I spend hours building kits, I build anything that takes my fancy!
thats one of my err favourites on the left.

My biggest hobby is the jeep, Its french almost the same as the original WW2 Willys MB. I attend rallies and the likes in it and trundle about getting in all the boy racers way.

Its sad I know but thats me



HK

 

[carsonshepherd]

I collect beers (not empty bootles), hot sauces and old books.

Not very exciting hobbies.

I drink beer

 

[goro goro]

I collect records. Real vinyl records. You know, the big black plastic ones (or the small black plastic ones). And not even only one special genre, like "Country & Western before Johnny Cash", but just various stuff I like (preferences being Reggae, Hip Hop and Electropop). Then, I make mixtapes (on magnetic cassettes) and force my friends and family to listen to them. After listening to the tapes five times in a row, even the most ignorant listeners will like them (or pretend to do so). So, I am the analog audio fetishist / audio terrorist. And I like it.

 

[SensualCealy]

My big thing is reading, then quilting, then sewing almost anything that I can get my hands on. I love to paint and sketch and do tole work.

I Have started a collection of Mark Twain books (Samuel Clemens) for my hubby, but its mine! lol

My favourite non constructive hobby is collecting frogs of all kinds for my garden.

Question for Yui~ do you know where you can get the instructions to make 3-d stars used in origami type work, they look like tiny pillows?

Thanks, C

 

[sack]

Do I have hobbies?

Well, as a matter of fact:

1. I collect classical CDs, mostly solo piano music. Have about 1,200 or so.
2. My whole yard is a garden....no grass. Have a greenhouse full of 2,000 kinds of cacti and orchids and another 1,000 types of plants outside in the ground.
3. I collect seashells. In 1996, I sold my collection to a man in Japan. At that time it had 12,000 different kinds, 18,000 specimens. Now, I have about 200, and that will be it for the future.
4. I collect piano sheet music, have about 500 different titles.
5. I'm an amateur photographer, have nearly 2,000 images in several albums.


and there is more, but I'm sure I'm boring people...
NOTE: THIS IS ONLY POSSIBLE IF YOU ARE SINGLE!!


Sack

 

[oggbashan]

Married men do it too.

Apart from the collections mentioned above I have about 500 shellac 78rpm records mainly pre World War ONE of opera singers and solo pianists. Some are single sided. Richard Strauss conducting his own work is great. Paderewski playing varies from enthralling to excruciating. The Dutch Concertgebouw 1930s versions of Beethoven symphonies sound incredibly weird to modern ears. They were valid in their time yet no one would dare take such liberties with Beethoven today.

I used to have the gramophones to play them on but now I use a 1970s system that has scratch filters.

I usually put the record under a cold tap, shake the excess water off, and then play them with a rubber mat on the turntable. The water cushions the clicks and scratches. Melba and Chaliapin sound wonderful. The CDs made from the 78s do not have the same sense of immediacy.

I have several skiffle 78s - Nancy Whiskey, The Vipers, etc.

Then there is the collection of vinyl 33s and 45s that I own jointly with my wife. Toscanini's recordings are mind-blowing. She has the original Beatles LPs and singles. I have the Rolling Stones, Elvis and Chuck Berry.

Og

 

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