Since We Are Artsy People…

If I could have unlimited free time, I'd crochet, sew, and bead. But since I don't, I mostly just scrapbook and occasionally use my digi supplies for paper planning. I sometimes crochet new baby gifts but not much else right now.

 

when I have time, I like to make christmas ornaments, or decorate christmas boxes for family and my latest is a seasonal "o" for my DD HOME sign. I want to do a wreath O for each season, so I am working on a Christmas O and fall O and spring O...hmm if I stop hanging around TLP! lol

 

I have a crochet project on the go - it has been a work in progress since the weather started cooling down. Now that its heating up again I should probably just give it up til next year. 2021 has been the year of chilling watching soppy romance movies and not being creative outside of the scrapbooking. But there is always next year.

 

I love too many creative activities... photography, drawing and painting, crochet and knitting, sewing and patchwork, and this year I tried wood carving too but I don't have time to all these things all the time, so I have periods of this and periods of that...

 

I'd like to have time for more crafty, creative things, but that will have to wait until retirement I suppose lol. I've made a few wooden door signs lately, and a Halloween decoration, but finding the time to work on them has been a challenge.

 

I used to do a lot of counted cross stitch but as I've gotten older and with my eyes getting worse, it is harder for me to do. The fingers don't always want to cooperate either.

I did basic knitting for awhile, got really good at scarves but could never get the hang of the what I consider more complex stitches. Tried crochet too. That didn't go too well.

So for now scrapping, both digital and sometimes traditional are my creative outlet.

 

Watercolor, Fiber & Textile arts. I actually spend more time on those than digital. Just finishing off a HUGE weaving full of symbolism today!

 

I used to do counted cross stitch, but that seems so long ago now,I find it hard to concentrate, and for my eyes to adjust between pattern and linen. I knitted then too, but my tension is now not even , so that's it....
But I do dabble a bit with patchwork, and plain sewing. And I crochet now and again. But my great love is for painting and drawing ,and all sorts of paper crafts , including card making, and digital Scrapbooking.

 

I've done many things over the years...knitting/crocheting, hook rugs, sewing (easy projects), decoupage/mixed media canvases, card making, quilting, cross stitch...but these days, between family, dogs, binge watching shows/movies, reading and scrapping...no time for any of the other stuff.

 

I'm joining the "used to do" line of thought. I don't do much else these days beside scrapping and reading. I watch TV with my hubby for a couple of hours in the evening and we enjoy that time together. I have done a lot of things over the years, though. Decoupage - before Mod Podge - rewarding but extremely time consuming. I used to crochet a lot and have made several afghans and still use one of them. I would love to try to crochet again; I could do that while watching TV in the evening. I've made lots of ATCs, tons of cards, altered almost anything I could get my hands on.

 

patchwork quilting

 

I take photos for work ..
I also sew some.. made cloth diqpers.. baby blankets..and such when my kids were wee little
And I design logos and web pages for friends...

 

Yes, we are!!

 

I used to make jewelry that was all or mostly beads (sometimes seed beads, sometimes larger focal beads), but for the last few years when I've done any beading it's smaller projects like bookmarks and bracelets that are enhanced with a few beads rather than fully beaded.