What Are Your Other Hobbies - Besides Pampered Chef?

[chefheather]

For all of you who like to scrapbook...have you heard about digital scrapbooking? I recently discovered it and am ADDICTED!! Now, I don't have to unpack all my scrapbooking gear whenever I want to work on a page...I just pull out the lap top! If you are interested, do a google search for "digital scrapbooking"...there is a big world outthere on this subject. I'd bee happy to answer any questions.

 

[BethCooks4U]

Sew, cross stitch, scrapbook, crochet, quilt, cook, etc. etc. Wish I had the time!

The thing I do make time for is a lighted christmas tree for the wall. I have been making them for the family for years. They are very expensive to make and time consuming - finding the jewelry - because I use old costume jewelry as ornaments but I just figured a way to make them a bit smaller. I will be making the first one with the new design soon to see if it works. I will also make one to look like a basket of flowers.

This is not the best picture but gives you the idea. It lights up too.

 

[strasfamily]

I like to do decorative painting, but I haven't had time to do so in a while. I used to take old items that I got from thrift stores, and turn them into "shabby chic" items with painted roses, then sell them on E-Bay.

 

[janetupnorth]

Hmm...I play instruments, softball, swim, do whatever my 3 and 5 year old are interested in, firefighting (volunteer), EMT (volunteer), made a few baskets... ...education...that has been my "hobby" for the last decade...now that I'm done (for awhile), PC is taking its place!

Things I do on occasion, but don't have time: stamp, plastic canvas, play the instruments mentioned above...

PChefRamsey - have you ever made hats for little girls for their Barbie Dolls with plastic canvas? My daughter loves them!

 

[poohritz]

Woodworking and intarsiaMy other hobby would be woodworking and intarsia projects. Here is a piece that I made for a coworker. She is always talking about chipmunks at lunch, so I made her one. http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/ibodave/chipmink/100_0319.jpg

 

[janetupnorth]

Cute! ...looks just like the buggers that dig tunnels all over my yard all summer!

 

[BethCooks4U]

My other hobby would be woodworking and intarsia projects. Here is a piece that I made for a coworker. She is always talking about chipmunks at lunch, so I made her one. http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/ibodave/chipmink/100_0319.jpg

How do you post a picture right on the screen instead of making it an attachment?

 

[ChefBeckyD]

WOw - I am not crafty at all! I have all the stuff to scrapbook, but always find just about anything else to take up my time! I end up feeling guilty because I see all these beautiful scrapbooks - and I've never even finished one - just can't make myself enjoy it!
My biggest passion is cooking - that is how I relax, how I am creative, how I vent......I'm happiest in the kitchen!
We own a '70 440-6pac Dodge Challenger - Plum Crazy Purple....so Car Shows are a big thing for us in warm weather....I also love camping and hiking....and I love to read - I read anything and everything, but love Culinary Mysteries the most (Joanne Fluke, Diane Mott Davidson), followed by Historical Biographies, Mitford Series, and Karen Kingsbury.....I like happy endings!
I spend the most time though with my DH & DS - just hanging out, playing games, watching Deal or No Deal.....going for rides in the Challenger.....we like to be together...
Oh - and in the summer, I LOVE my garden!

 

[etteluap70PC]

My biggest Passion (besides PC) used to be sewing and making quilts (I was always in front of my sewing machine). Now its scrapbooking. I was introduced to it when my oldest was 18months old. I never thought it would interest me but now I am a scrappin fool!

 

[pamperedlinda]

Let's see, I like to:

Cook - Love trying new recipes
Cake Decorating - sort of fell into that one, but it's fun.
Crochet - afghans, baby blankets and scarves
Right now I'm sewing curtains (really they are drapes.....lining, inner lining and swags to go with them - oh so tedious!) I don't like to sew, but after getting the quote from the design dept at the fabric store to make them $1200 I decided I could do it myself.....afterall - how hard can it be? Right?! isn't it just sewing straight lines?.....yeah, right ha ha!... Well, after staring at the bolts of material for 6 months and DH asking when are they going to be done....I now have a friend helping me and they are going to be absolutley gorgeous! I'll post a pic when they are done. Best part is I can tell everyone that I did it!
and number one: SHOPPING!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Ann- I also LOVE sudoku puzzles and actual called my santoku knife a sudoku knife at a show! I said it multiple times before someone chimed in and corrected me. I felt like an itiot! I thought those things were supposed to keep you sharp!

Your brain or the knife edge?

 

[Grandmarita]

I'm a Quilter, Watercolor artist, photographer and scrapbooker. Since joining Pampered Chef, all of those have taken a back seat, except the photography.
I take pictures of every new recipe, and sometimes, progress pictures as I am making something. The scrapbooking is new, since PC, for the purpose of putting together a Show and Tell of my business and the recipes I offer. My intention is to put a photo of the recipe on the same page, just as we do in our cookbooks. I've always dreamed of doing a Cookbook similar to the Chicken Soup for Soul Cookbook, with the stories behind the recipes.

i.e. I had one recipe published in a Habitat for Humanity's HOME SWEET HABITAT Cookbook, in 1995 on page 146; I had another recipe published in
our Gannett newspaper in Feb. 2005, with the story about it's origin.

Traveling with my DH, in our new RV,now that he is retired has become my main hobby during the good weather seasons in the NE. which is May thru October. We are hooked on Bluegrass Festivals. In fact, we will be attending
one indoors in a two weeks.

 

[PamperedK]

I crochet. Right now I'm working on a blanket for my living room, since it's -50 the one blanket doesn't work for both my boyfriend and I.

 

[chef131doreen]

I love crafts of all kinds but I knit,crochet, and sew . My backgound is wedding gowns and head pices . I worked in a Bridal shop for years and the woman that own the shop taught me everything how to make veils, gowns ect .
Alot of work and Brides can be a bit taught so I'm glad that I found Pampered Chef .I still sew alittle mostly tailor stuff for friends ect ..

 

[tlmcunning]

I love to scrapbook. I scrapbook at least twice a week sometimes more. At church there is a group of us that meet on the 3rd Monday of each month to scrapbook without interupptions and I also have my regular crop club that meets once a month as well. I am looking forward to Feb. 24th. I am going to scrapbooking event and get to scrapbook for 12 hours. I am also signed up for a massage during the day to work out any knots I will get. I am very lucky that my Creative Memories consultant lives right next door, so I can get any supplies I need day or night.

Tracy

 

[tlmcunning]

For all of you who like to scrapbook...have you heard about digital scrapbooking? I recently discovered it and am ADDICTED!! Now, I don't have to unpack all my scrapbooking gear whenever I want to work on a page...I just pull out the lap top! If you are interested, do a google search for "digital scrapbooking"...there is a big world outthere on this subject. I'd bee happy to answer any questions.

I have seen the digital scrapbooking, but it is not for me. I like to relieve stress by cropping pictures and playing with layout ideas, papers, stickers and anything else I can get my hands on. Several of my firends prefer to scrapbook this way and their stuff looks wonderful.

Tracy

 

[rennea]

My true passion is Travel, love it nothing makes me more happy then jetting off somewhere. Love to read, and decorate I have a degree in design. And of course PC.

 

[priscilla]

I dabblein scrapbooking, Artist Trading Cards, and LOVE to sail!

Robin

 

[Tara1021]

One word..... BINGO!!!

 

[whiteyteresa]

Sew, cross stitch, scrapbook, crochet, quilt, cook, etc. etc. Wish I had the time!

The thing I do make time for is a lighted christmas tree for the wall. I have been making them for the family for years. They are very expensive to make and time consuming - finding the jewelry - because I use old costume jewelry as ornaments but I just figured a way to make them a bit smaller. I will be making the first one with the new design soon to see if it works. I will also make one to look like a basket of flowers.

This is not the best picture but gives you the idea. It lights up too.

My sister had one of these trees made the first Christmas after my mom died in 2003.

She separator my mom's jewerly for us 3 kids and took it to a lady that put the jewerly into tree shape wall hangings. I put mine in a shadow box and it looks great. I can remember almost all of the jewerly that my mom worn. I have put it away after Christmas or I would post a picture. The are beautiful and every time someone see it, they love it and it is nice to share the stories behind each piece of jewerly and to talk about my mom

 

[MissChef]

my favorite thing is cooking which make this business a no brainer for me and will be the drive behind what really turns this into a career as I move farther along! Everything about cooking and baking is fun to me! I love blessing my friends with food and my family! My kids are my biggest fans! My son has told me from about 4 that when he marries his wife better know how to cook cause if she doesn't he's sending her to me because I'm the best "cooker" ever! LOL! (Oh great, that's not a way to start out with my future daughter in law! But I don't have to worry about that for a while, he's only 10 now!!)
My other hobbies include reading, love it!
I want to learn how to scrap book, as a matter of fact I have a lady really trying to get me to start, but I just am seriously busy right now, with my business and the fact that my husband has been out of town Mon - Fri for the last 2 months and will be through February. I don't have much time to devote to it! But I have OODLES of pictures that I need to do something with! 10 years of my sons pictures and 6 for my daughter! And 17 years for my hubby and I!!!
I also would love to learn to sew, I can do the cross stich and the rug kits but am scared of a sewing machine!!! And knitting, it baffles me!!! HaHa!
(Sewing machines scare me because when I was little I got the needle stuck in my finger and it broke through the nail and really freaked me out! My Mom should have made me sew again really soon, you know get on the bike after you've fallen idea, but she didn't and now I'm all thumbs and am scared of the dumn thing!!!! I know I'm silly!)

 

[ChefJesssica]

Lately, my hobby has been writing about my horrendous mother in law. It makes living with her a little less horrible and gives my friends something to laugh about.

 

[rennea]

Lately, my hobby has been writing about my horrendous mother in law. It makes living with her a little less horrible and gives my friends something to laugh about.

Oh hun I could write books and books about my MIL.

 

[jrstephens]

I like to spend time with my husband and son; read books; play on the internet. And try new foods.

 

[kearstin]

Shamefully, my husband and I are additcted to TV!! I'm also the wife of a high school football coach, so I get roped into fundraising year-round and our house is the official meeting place (mostly because I make them my PC guinea pigs ). We are also active with our high school robotics team, so I also do the fundraising and promotional "stuff" for them. I'm involved with our local Junior Woman's Civic Club and a book club. Reading is what I do when I'm doing something JUST for me!!!!

 

[ChefJesssica]

Oh hun I could write books and books about my MIL.

I am seriously seriously considering writing a book. The woman is nuts and I will be here for at least 5 more months. My husband, 2 kids and I are living in a teeny tiny room above her garage.

I don't think she would ever talk to me again after she read the book though. Like I care!

 

[Teresa Lynn]

SHOPPING
decorating
SHOPPING
reading
SHOPPING
camping
SHOPPING
spending time with our family
travel
SHOPPING

oh, did I mention shopping??

 

[pampermeplease]

I collect Breyers and stones...and my newest hobby is Chef Success. I practically live here!

 

[Jilleysue]

Oh I forgot surfing the internet. For all you scrapbookers...god bless you. I certainly do NOT have patience for that. Lord I think I would kill someone. Cut, tape, write, stick, glue...OH NO.............just flip thru my damn photo album please...HAHAHAHA!!!

 

[pixel-_]

My hobbies include Singing, reading, and my family. And of course cooking/baking. My Grandma taught me all I know about baking so it makes it special to teach my boys.