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Do People Have Hobbies Here?
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I have and had many hobbies. In the past I did cake decorating, painting with oils and acrylics, and competing in baking contests Right now my focus is on breeding and showing my cats, learning photography, gardening, reading, and remodeling our house. I usually try a new hobby with every milestone birthday - treying to keep myself young!
Apparently, I need to take up typing lessons to avoid typos like this!
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Fondling all the kitties as they sit on or near me.
And gardening especially palms.
Fondling all the kitties as they sit on or near me.
And gardening especially palms.
Love to read, almost always non fiction, history, science, biography,. Like to ride my bike on the rails to trails near my house, Love to work i the yard and also have close to 50 orchids that i enjoy, plus two cats and two dogs,(Japanese Chin)
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I read a lot of books and consider it my main hobby and (aside from my wife and other living things), the true love in my life.
The hobby that's not tied to anything else is dog agility, it's very fun and we're very bad at it
A lot of the things we love to do are tied into a profit or work, so we don't really consider them hobbies.
The hobby that's not tied to anything else is dog agility, it's very fun and we're very bad at it
A lot of the things we love to do are tied into a profit or work, so we don't really consider them hobbies.
I do all kinds of different crafts - jewellery making (and other bead related crafts), cross stitch, needle felting, simple sewing, making suncatchers and dreamcatchers, mala making, decoupage, and I'm learning to crochet and knit. I like colouring too. I guess maybe working with and occasionally riding Collie (my exmoor pony) is a hobby of a sort too.
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Reading- Michele says that I've always got my nose in a book- gardening, woodworking, photography, and building HO scale models.That may be coming to an end, however. As the arthritis in my hands progresses, it is increasingly difficult to handle the small parts, and I have neither the space nor- especially- the money for the larger scales.
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I try to learn a new hobby every year so I have many past hobbies. Making fine chocolates, glass etching, candlewicking. Wood burning. Crochet, scuba diving and more but I still maintain others. I love to read everything, write, build miniatures buildings (with electricity and running water), beadwork including beading pictures on fabric, needlepoint, sculpt hike, rock and fossil hunting, coin collecting, sailing, gardening, photography, painting and orchid growing was once a hobby but it turned into orchid breeding, collecting species, teaching and finally orchid hunting to preserve rare species and other living things in the rain Forrest. I spend much of my time growing kitties now! Lol I consider that a lifelong love. I have moved into working towards cat advocacy locally but that’s something I’m driven to do more than a hobby. I love anything to do with nature.
Researching about cats....learning as much as I can...also anytime I dont understand something I research it..So I guess One of my hobbies is Researching different things to learn more...
Wow! We have some really talented people on here. 
Me, I am an avid reader and I also write (just not as avidly).
Me, I am an avid reader and I also write (just not as avidly).
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This is an example of a locomotive I built around 20 years ago.
I don't know a lot about the history or significance of the tassel beyond knowing its traditional.Columbine - I did a bit of reading on the Mala making. I also do bead work/jewelry but did not know about Mala. They explain the significance of the Guru bead and the 108 beads, but why the tassel?
mani
may know more, as she makes malas too.
Wow! That is quite impressive! The details are amazing. One of the things that I love about building anything in miniature is putting in all the realistic details. Beautiful work.
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Yes, it took me right around 6 months to build, but I wouldn't even attempt anything like that now. It really, really sucks to get old.
Yes it does in many ways! I can’t do many of the things I once did but the flip side is that I have had time to learn a lot! When I was young there were things I couldn’t do because I didn’t have the skill set. Ironic huh? It’s that old thing of ,” if I knew then what I know now!”
It’s been quite a ride though! I had fun learning. I still look for new things that I can do. I just have to make them fit into my current capabilities. You built that in 6 months? Considering what it is and the details, that’s pretty fast actually. It’s nice that you have it and can say,” I made that!” Most people would never have the skill or patience to complete it.
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I used to like doing that because I could focus on the task at hand to the exclusion of everything else- sort of a decompression. Besides, when I was done, I had a neat model that I could operate on my still-to-be-built layout.Yes it does in many ways! I can’t do many of the things I once did but the flip side is that I have had time to learn a lot! When I was young there were things I couldn’t do because I didn’t have the skill set. Ironic huh? It’s that old thing of ,” if I knew then what I know now!”
You built that in 6 months? Considering what it is and the details, that’s pretty fast actually. It’s nice that you have it and can say,” I made that!” Most people would never have the skill or patience to complete it.
I don't know a lot about the history or significance of the tassel beyond knowing its traditional.
Columbine
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I've looked into tassles (malas in general) in great depth and I think the tassle was always just a decorative way to make a mala, and a way to finish it off.
I started making them about thirty years ago in the very traditional manner. The knotting threads were placed together and twisted. My friend and I would be out in the cow paddock twisting them.. lots of space required. A part of the making is to chant an appropriate mantra while you made malas from start to finish.
Once you had threaded the beads and knotted the mala, putting the sumeru (which people seem to call Guru Beads now) on, you would then use all of the left-over threads to make the tassel, folding it over and over and then binding it. In that way it was all one, long, integral piece.
The tassles were shorter than they are today; the malas were for japa meditation and the tassel would get in the way. People also wore them for their properties, under their clothes, and also as they are worn now. I shouldn't really be talking in the past tense, as this is still the way of it amongst traditional yogis.
I received a tulsi mala for japa, (traditionally it's kept in a bag and only the owner touches is) and then when I came to a certain stage, a rudrakasha one for wearing - it has 27 large rudrakasha beads and is worn outside.
The ones I make now are fancy, more for fun, but I still do sandalwood ones that people do like to wear, but many use for their meditation practice. And I always add a description of how they're used for japa, so people 'get' their history.
