What Are Your Hobbies ?

I do a little bit of a lot of things. I really enjoy cross stitching and stained glass, not that great at stained glass yet though. I also love making blankets and quilts. And I've really been wanting to play around more with some photography.

[Janet]

This thread is a good idea!!!

I have a few hobbies I like to do, but tire of them after a while then move on to something else. I like playing the organ. I play by ear and some notes, but the organ was my FIL's and it has the rythem section.

I've camped ever since my younger brother and I were both able to sleep on the same cot....long time!!! I love reading, working with the plastic canvas, working in the yard, taking pictures..notice I didn't say photography..LOL Not that good so I just take pictures. I also like to sew. I've been making harness dresses and vests for my furbabies.

Originally Posted by Courtney

I do a little bit of a lot of things. I really enjoy cross stitching and stained glass, not that great at stained glass yet though. I also love making blankets and quilts. And I've really been wanting to play around more with some photography.

I like stained glass too courtney.Not real good at it either but trying(iam talking about the kind you do with glass paint.But what i would really like to do ,is the real thing.I knoe of one website that specializes in stained glass supplys and also some vidios you can learn from.Do you know any websites like that?

[Sherry Lynn]

I used to do a lot of stained glass. I did the Tiffany method with the copper tape.

I had an accident a couple of years ago, so I'm limited in physical activities these days, but I used to really enjoy gardening and taking the furkids to parks to walk. I could walk forever!!

Now-a-days I'm doing a lot of reading, playing on the computer (games and forums) and messing around with itunes.

I worked in catering for years, so I enjoy cooking... the savory kind... I can't bake worth a crap!

Originally Posted by Sherry Lynn

I used to do a lot of stained glass. I did the Tiffany method with the copper tape.

I had an accident a couple of years ago, so I'm limited in physical activities these days, but I used to really enjoy gardening and taking the furkids to parks to walk. I could walk forever!!

Now-a-days I'm doing a lot of reading, playing on the computer (games and forums) and messing around with itunes.

I worked in catering for years, so I enjoy cooking... the savory kind... I can't bake worth a crap!

sherry lynn ,i would love to know how to do the tiffany method ,i love tiffany lamps,have several,I am so sorry that you had an accident ,but thank god you are alive.I was in the catering bussines too for years ,i owend and operated a german restaurant,It was hard work but i really loved it.I catered many events with german or with american food,I too loved to cook and i still do some times.Not like i did when my children where still at home

[Sherry Lynn]

The Tiffany method is when you cut and grind the glass and then wrap the edges with a tape that is sticky on one side and has copper on the other. Then you put the pieces down on your pattern, pin them in place and solder the pieces together. The solder will only stick to the copper, no the glass.

You only need to use lead came around the edges to hold the piece in place.

Tiffany came up with the method (probably not as advanced/easy as it is today) and that is how he was able to make the intricate details in his works. If you want to make a lamp, you buy styrofoam molds to put your pattern on and solder your pieces together that way.

I did a quick Google and here is a site I found that will give you more info. I didn't read it carefully, but it looks like it's a good start to learn the method.

http://www.warner-criv.com/techtips/copper.aspx

Edited to add: My father's family is German, so I love the food and learned a few things from my Grandmother.... any favorite recipes you want to share?

My hobbies include:

Photography
Cooking
Shopping
Internetting
Writing
Teaching Keeley tricks

And I used to collect elephants when I was growing up. I have too many to know what to do with, so now I only get the elephants I HAVE to have.

thank you so much for the info about the tiffany glass and website ,i will check them out.That's amazing that your dad's family is german .In our family it is me that is german.When anyone asks my children ,they will tell them their mom (me) is german.It is just the other way around.I have many german recepies,what do you know about german food and what is it you like?How long has your dad been overhere and can you speak any german?I have been in this country a long time,since 1966 to be exact.America has become my second homeand i love it but i still love my home country also and everything about it.Exspecially the food.There are a few german items overhere you can find in the grocery store,but not many.Have you ever been to germany?

Originally Posted by hanau

thank you so much for the info about the tiffany glass and website ,i will check them out.That's amazing that your dad's family is german .In our family it is me that is german.When anyone asks my children ,they will tell them their mom (me) is german.It is just the other way around.I have many german recepies,what do you know about german food and what is it you like?How long has your dad been overhere and can you speak any german?I have been in this country a long time,since 1966 to be exact.America has become my second homeand i love it but i still love my home country also and everything about it.Exspecially the food.There are a few german items overhere you can find in the grocery store,but not many.Have you ever been to germany?

my great-grandmother was german-her last name was worland. there are not any worlands in this state so we have kept her last name and added our husbands last name for the last three generations as a tribute.

Originally Posted by hanau

I like stained glass too courtney.Not real good at it either but trying(iam talking about the kind you do with glass paint.But what i would really like to do ,is the real thing.I knoe of one website that specializes in stained glass supplys and also some vidios you can learn from.Do you know any websites like that?

I do the stained glass using the copper foil like sherry does. Altough I'm sure she's much better than me, most people are. I'm not so hot yet, I haven't even convinced myself to try curves yet. Yeah I know, what's stained glass without curves? I do some quilting too so a lot of my stained glass has a quilt feel to it. I actually have done a few common quilt squares in stained glass. I'd really like to get pretty good one day then if we ever built a house I would love to incoperate some stuff through out it. Like I would like to have a piece above the door going from a master bedroom into the master bath, don't ask why I just think it would look really neat.

Honestly its not that hard. Ok its not the easiest thing, but it doesn't take much to get a finished product, it may just not look as good as some people can do. If you have any small community colleges around there check with them because a lot of times they do stained glass classes in the summer. I haven't taken a class yet, I grabbed a book then found out what the bare minimum was to get me started and off I went. If you have a Hobby Lobby around you they have some basic supplies. I haven't ordered anything off the internet yet though, I know www.delphiglass.com has stuff for it, and I believe you can even sign up for their mail catalog on the site too.

I'd love to try the glass fusing, I believe that's what its called. Where you use a kiln to melt the glass and you can use different forms to get different shapes. I'd also really really love to try glass blowing but highly doubt that will ever happen. I love all things glass if you can't tell.

[Jlynn]

Originally Posted by Courtney

I do the stained glass using the copper foil like sherry does. Altough I'm sure she's much better than me, most people are. I'm not so hot yet, I haven't even convinced myself to try curves yet. Yeah I know, what's stained glass without curves? I do some quilting too so a lot of my stained glass has a quilt feel to it. I actually have done a few common quilt squares in stained glass. I'd really like to get pretty good one day then if we ever built a house I would love to incoperate some stuff through out it. Like I would like to have a piece above the door going from a master bedroom into the master bath, don't ask why I just think it would look really neat.

Honestly its not that hard. Ok its not the easiest thing, but it doesn't take much to get a finished product, it may just not look as good as some people can do. If you have any small community colleges around there check with them because a lot of times they do stained glass classes in the summer. I haven't taken a class yet, I grabbed a book then found out what the bare minimum was to get me started and off I went. If you have a Hobby Lobby around you they have some basic supplies. I haven't ordered anything off the internet yet though, I know www.delphiglass.com has stuff for it, and I believe you can even sign up for their mail catalog on the site too.

I'd love to try the glass fusing, I believe that's what its called. Where you use a kiln to melt the glass and you can use different forms to get different shapes. I'd also really really love to try glass blowing but highly doubt that will ever happen. I love all things glass if you can't tell.

What a great hobby!

Originally Posted by Courtney

I do the stained glass using the copper foil like sherry does. Altough I'm sure she's much better than me, most people are. I'm not so hot yet, I haven't even convinced myself to try curves yet. Yeah I know, what's stained glass without curves? I do some quilting too so a lot of my stained glass has a quilt feel to it. I actually have done a few common quilt squares in stained glass. I'd really like to get pretty good one day then if we ever built a house I would love to incoperate some stuff through out it. Like I would like to have a piece above the door going from a master bedroom into the master bath, don't ask why I just think it would look really neat.

Honestly its not that hard. Ok its not the easiest thing, but it doesn't take much to get a finished product, it may just not look as good as some people can do. If you have any small community colleges around there check with them because a lot of times they do stained glass classes in the summer. I haven't taken a class yet, I grabbed a book then found out what the bare minimum was to get me started and off I went. If you have a Hobby Lobby around you they have some basic supplies. I haven't ordered anything off the internet yet though, I know www.delphiglass.com has stuff for it, and I believe you can even sign up for their mail catalog on the site too.

I'd love to try the glass fusing, I believe that's what its called. Where you use a kiln to melt the glass and you can use different forms to get different shapes. I'd also really really love to try glass blowing but highly doubt that will ever happen. I love all things glass if you can't tell.

i really like the idea of making stain glass .My daughter in law's mother is into stained glass.She makes some of the most beautiful things.But she has no desire to share some info with me.I got started about 2 or 3 years ago to really like to get into working with glass,but didn't even find a book on the subject.Off all the craft books on the market ,i never found on.I wen't by Hobby Lobby a while back and they had several panels of diffrent colors of glass for sale and a glass cutter but they didn't even sale an instructional booklet much less a real book.I think the idea of you incorperating some stain glass panels in your new house ,whenever you are ready to buid, will look really great .I would love that too,exept i am not getting to build a new house like you.I would have to put them in the house i am living in . Boy,would i have to learn a lot to see this happening.But why not ,everyone has to start some time.I would also love to have a kiln to melt glass,but i guess they are very expensive,if you want a good size one.Yea,i like a lot of diffrent kinds of crafts,but working with glass i really want to learn and get in too .I don't know about blowing glass,that requiers a lot of space and equipment from what i seen on craft showe's .Many years ago i was living in okinawa ,japan.We were stationed there with the army.While there i got to go to a place where they blew glass.Boy was it hot ,but facinating.I bought a lot of stoff from them ,encluding diffrent colored glass grapes.I still have those, all the other stoff is gone.don't remember what happend to it all.But it was very nice stoff and it was facinating to watch them blowe it.They were very good at it