Hobbies

[SFishy]

:bluefishy What hobbies mean the most to you and why? Why do they make you who you are?

Take care of YOU

an ED isn't an hobby -- no answers having anything to do with trying to get sicker please!

[Millificent]

:bounce Cross-stitch - very relaxing and a way to add to my :dragon collection!
:bounce Sewing/costuming - I love making my own funky dresses and also historical costumes. Another method of relaxation, and I admit that I love hearing people say, "Wow, you made that?"

Both of those are ways of expressing myself. Even though I don't design my own cross-stitch, I'm saying something though which pictures I choose.

:bounce Irish dance - good for stress release, plus it's a social activity.

:dragon Millie

[GabbyKat]

~My hobbies~

:love Horse back riding - I :love being around animals, especially horses. I'm thinking about getting a job where I would clean their stalls, just so I can be around them and make a little money :cute

:love Reading - Reading relaxes me and lets my mind have a break from the stresses of daily life.

:love Travel - I adore travelling...I've been to ten different countries so far! Hope to have much more than that before I die!!

[Sylphlover]

Right now Planning a Halloween Party which includes my new hobbies of

Scrapbooking

Designing Cards/ Invitations

Using the Net for Craft Ideas, bulletin boards with other craft nuts..:winky

Also into playing games with my fiance' this helps us spend quality time together. Important for both of us.

Collecting stamps, postcards, Craft Materials..Once again I see what kind of crafts, materials that I am good and not so good at but have fun doing.
I guess these hobbies are showing me that I have creativity that has been hidden behind all my sickness.. They help build my self esteem.

[Lucinda]

:sun Crafts,,,,painting murals...pictures..wooden crafts

:sun Scrapbooking

:sun My collections...

Seashells...collected since I was a little girl and an older couple gave me their prized collection...it all started their and blossomed..

Snowmen...I love them. I collect them like crazy..anything with a snowman...I buy it...I especially like the ones that I can leave up all year long that don't have Holiday colors attatched to them...

Penguins...Need I say more?:penguin I have a bathroom totally devoted to my collection...thanks especially to a cute :fishy named Bri..:cute That collection is growing more slowly than the snowman one..penguins are harder to find...

Collecting makes me feel special..like it is something all mine. I love it when someone will call me or come into work and say..."Oh you should have seen the snowman I saw..I thought of you instantly!!"

Dragonflys...I love them. I have a personal sentiment towards them..I just saw my first one last summer..when I was sititng on my deck..feeling really really down..and one dragonfly flew up in front of me..and it was beautiful..and it filled me with so much hope...So my little girls :angel room is decorated in dragonflies...

[Isabel_Knight]

:drawpink Writing novels;

:drawgreen Reading;

:drawblue Drawing;

:drawpink Making friendship bracelets :happy

Isabel :pinkfishy

[pageling]

My hobbies include . . .

:bounce Singing. I sing in my church choir now. I've been singing for so long, I can't imagine not doing it.

:bounce Acting. Another thing I've been doing forever. My hubby and I met doing a show at our local theatre! :love

:bounce Reading. A wonderful thing for me. Depending on the book, I get an education, or an escape, or a great laugh, even a good cry. It really opens up my heart.

:bounce Tai Chi. Haven't been doing this long, but I'm crazy about it! It's relaxing and energizing, and great for stress relief and relaxation! :yay

much :love,
paige

[Sasha]

Dancing - when i have floor space and time i combine all styles and just dance to music its the only way i can truly express who i am

[Anonymous_Member002]

My favorite things to do are:

:stars - write prose and poetry.

:stars - play my flute or my keyboard (I'll get that piano yet damnit :sarcasm)

:stars - read... especially science-fiction and non-fiction autobiographies

:stars - walk. in the countryside with my husband. we have seen such amazing things

:stars - draw or paint. More for me, than my artistic ability.

[pippen]

:bug Karate
:bug scrapbooking
:bug photography
:bug singing
:bug plays

[chloda]

:sun Reading is my favorite hobby and my favorite books are science fiction and fantasy. Reading to me is a celebration of someone's imagination. Putting myself in another universe gives me a sense of freedom and helps me stay open-minded. It's a great escape and stress-reducer.
:sun Baking desserts is another hobby because it allows me to be creative; I'm always changing recipes and trying new ingredients. I like to share my creations with family and friends, so I can express love by giving away what I've made and feel good about myself, too.

[rowgirl]

:butterfly rowing
:butterfly sprinting
:butterfly making cards
:butterfly Irish Step dancing
:butterfly making friendship bracelets
:butterfly writing letters
:butterfly shopping :ohboy

[Anonymous_Member004]

:lovereading
:lovecollecting movies
:lovecollecting frogs - stuffed, ceramic,candles,
:lovecollect teddy bears ( rescue from thrift shops)
:lovecollect books
:lovewriting

[tryhard]

I think identifying what we like or don't like, recognizing what we enjoy to do or maybe don't enjoy doing and acknowledging these things makes you "YOU".

I love my husbands quirks. I love that he does the same routine every morning, and I just love it 'cause it's HIM.

My sister is niave- funny niave- she thinks that DJ booths in our little local dance clubs would be a great place for a puppet show. Heehee! For me it's harder.

For some reason my identity feels weak and I fell disappointed. I am so overprotective of being hurt or rejected that I hide my quirks, which leaves me as a boring secret.

I'm loving, I'm a poet, I'm strong (phsyically), I play the piano and I'm learning to play guitar. I'd like to learn how to do a cute set up on this website, but I can't figure that out yet. I know I like flowers and can name most of them.

Thank-you for this challenge SFishy![COLOR=crimson]

[L@UK]

:stars Art is my passion in life...

Ceramics particularly... theres nothing more soothing for me, than making a pot/sculpture.

I love abstract art too... its the one thing im able to express myself with...

Although my college lecturers always wonder why my pieces are all dark, blue and fragmented :sarcasm

:stars Music is another major hobby of mine...

I play the piano, and i sing :happy

[amysanangel]

My cello playing is my best hobby--there is always a song to express how I feel...
"music expresses what cannot be said, and what cannot be supressed" (can't remember whosaid that...)
:bluefishy Amy K

[StartingtoSmile]

I love...

:rainbow Dancing! My favorites are ballet and lyrical :happy. I love expressing myself through the music and movement.

:rainbow Figure skating. I've only been skating for a little under a year, but I really like it, and I'm starting to learn jumps now :surprise :scared.

:rainbow Collecting stuffies, as my husband calls them :winky. Teddy bears mostly, but really any type! My husband just got me a cute leopard from Build-a-Bear for my birthday. I love to snuggle with them, and I still sleep with my favorite stuffed dog (and the leopard, of course).

:rainbow Collecting any type of :butterfly butterfly :butterfly stuff. They strike me as so hopeful; I just love them :love.

:rainbow Writing! And reading as well--I used to read allll the time, but I haven't had as much time to do so now. I think writing is also a good way to express yourself and get stuff out.

:rainbow Restoring My Child dolls. If anyone knows them, they were made in the low-to-mid eighties by Mattel :happy. I have always loved dolls...I think it is just a passion that sort of continued into adulthood :winky!

Thank you for the topic, :hugon Amy :hugoff! And it was good to read other :fishy's hobbies, too :yay.

:love,
:usa Heather :butterfly

[Kaspa]

:hugon :bowl :sfishy :hugoff

I like to.......

:gumby :stars Read, i'm a real book :slimy, its my way of escaping the real world and getting lost in someone else's, just for a while :happy

:fishjump Swimming, I like to switch off when i'm in the pool, and its my 'me' time because no one can disturb me there!

:gumby :happy Spending time with my :love and my :kitty I feel valued and loved and very :happy when we are all togther.

:love

Kaspa

:bandwagon

[beautifuldreamer]

My hobbies include "urban exploration" and ghost hunting!

[angelgirl]

My hobbies:

I'm a total book :slimy.
I absolutely :love books. And then, I :love to dance, :robot. I also enjoy scrapbooking.

:love
angelgirl

[kathy_jellybean]

My Favourite Hobbies are:

:stars Girl Guides I have been doing guides since I was Six. I have learnt so much from doing it, camping, cooking, crafts, leadership, first aid and there is never any pressure to be like anyone else.

:stars Dancing, Singing and Acting I have always loved the performing arts, And would Love to turn my Hobby into a Career one day, Even If i'm not on the stage, I would love to work behind the scenes.

[BallerinaBabe]

[pink] my favorite hobby is dance and music. when i think of what makes me happiest nothing else comes to mind like being in a dance studio. i started dancing when i was two and it has always been something i turn to. taking class lets me take the focus off of my mind and find the strength in my body that allows me to get through the class. dance allows me to use my body as a form of strength to allow me to do amazing things, not something negative that i can obsess about. choreography is my way of selfexpression. i can find a song that touches me and let my emotions out through the movement. i think of creating a piece like poetry in motion. i guess that's who i am. [pink]

[LilThought]

I love to go to
plays
musicals
and operas alike.

I have a passion for
writing poetry

I have a passion for
choreography

I love dance
(my favorite is ballet, but I am becoming more in tune to dancing and choregraphing whatever movement comes out)
I hope to make movements the way I make words.

gymnastics: I absolutely love gymnastics though I am unable to do it right now, but I am still dancing bless the stars for that.

reading: I love to read as much as I can and whenever I can.

Collaging: my best form of pictures.

Thanks for this topic.
Jamie

[freddi]

here are my hobbies

:notes singing....though because i started uni late this year havent been able to get into the choir but i will do again soon

:notes reading, i could just spent my live sitting in my bed and reading every single book there is......at the moment am rediscovering the german ones :grin

:notes my computer, i usually :love playing on it, designing programs and websites......though at times those machines can get a bit unnerving

:notes aerobics and yoga.....the two are very strong opposites, but i :love having my two classes a week, one is for powering myself out and the other for getting a bit of peace and quiet into my life


:love

freddi

[fefa]

:bounce astrology I like to study astrology because it is way to know myself
:bounce ioga and strech class because it is a time I can be with me and just relaxing
:bounce reading books
:bounce writting
:bounce recentely I started panting
:bounce playing the piano. It is a way to relax

[Camellia]

:bounce B&W Photography
:bounce Gardening
:bounce Decorating
:bounce SHOPPING!!!!! :cheesy
:bounce Camping
:bounce Reading mysteries
:bounce Dancing (Ballet & Tap)
:bounce Going to Big Aquariums
:bounce Going to Art Museums
:bounce Going to the Symphony
:bounce Watching Foreign Films
:bounce Antiquing & Antique SHOPPING!!!!! :cheesy
:bounce (hopefully soon) Playing the violin and painting

(That's all I can think of for now :happy)

:love
:greenfish C--

[rubygrrl]

:bounce photography - I have found photography to be so therapeutic for me. It also makes you appreciate the lesser things of life - the wonder of nature etc.

[beccabear]

Writing.....Short stories, poems, thoughts, ideas, songs, etc. etc.

Writing helps me to discover more and more about me...for a while I stopped writing and it seems that is when things got bad again....

Writing clears some things from my mind and gives me a perspective of myself I otherwise may not see.

Writing shows me who I really and truly am inside and sometimes in writing I make discoveries about myself and my life that I may otherwise have over looked.

Writing is also a venting tool when things build up inside and I feel like I am going to explode. It helps me find a form of relief.

Writing is also beneficial in my creativity. I write short stories for Heather and read them to her drawing pictures to go with them.

Writing down things also gives me some "memoirs" for later years or for my child after I am gone from this world.

From the day she was born I have kept a "baby/child" journal for Heather....every birthday she has I make a special entry about the year before and all I learned with her that year and things we did and such...sometimes during the year something will inspire me to make a special entry on a certain day....something she has said or done, etc.

Writing is my favorite thing to do now. Other than reading, it is the only hobby I really have.

Becca

[SUDawggirl]

Here are my hobbies! I like to do a LOT of stuff!

I :love to sail. I've done regattas before, and I still sail with my dad when I'm home.

I swim like a :fishy. I've been a lifeguard for four years, and it's an important part of my life. I also loooove working camps.

I :love working with kids. I want to make it more than a job, but a career. I want to be a children's minister.

I :love to sing. I sing in a praise and worship ensemble at church every week. I also love to play french horn, but I can't afford an eight thousand dollar instrument, so I'll just have to take it up when I can afford it again.

I :love to dance. I've been doing it since I was in third grade. I have taken jazz, ballet, and acrobatics, and I also was on Spanish Dance team in High School. I can do the flamenco (I swear I shoulda been born latina!)! I'm learning swing right now...

Reading and shopping are my other two addictions. Can't get enough!

I also :love going to coffee bars. I try to find the ones with the most "authentic" atmospheres. That and search for the perfect chai. Yum!

[seekinghelp]

I love animals - playing with them, helping them, taking care of them, watching them. Anything that has to do with animals. My fav wild animal is an elephant. I wish we had an elephant icon. Oh well, the :penguin :kitkat :kitty :dog :parrot :monkey :bunny :rat :bear will have to do for now.
I like art- drawing, painting, collages, crafts - I like to sew and make things creatively.
Believe it or not, I guess school is a hobby.(sometimes anyways) I like reading and learning new things.
I like working, although I don't have a job right now.
Listening to music, running, etc. I'm sure there are more, just can't think of em right now :happy

[urbanfaerie]

I :love my hobbies...I have lots.

I am owned by :peepOberon:peepTinkerbelle, :peepChiqui:peepLink(by proxy:winky) and soon two cute siblings! Just met them today! One is albino, one is lutino and they are ADORABLE...they cuddle each other and LOVE to be held. It is a hobby/occupation/obsession to SPOIL the babies.

I paint and decoupage wood stuff...turn icky furniture that I dislike the finish into pretty :wandfaerie like stuff.

I love to explore my local area. LA is AMAZING.

I like to "loiter"...as in go somewhere and windowshop/spend no money 'cept food costs.

I play the flute and read VORACIOUSLY.

I am ONE with my bedazzler and grommeter. :cheesy I am making my too small tshirts into works of art. I get LOTS of positive comments on them.

That's it...for now.
:love
Heather

[sunray]

:bug Pottery
:bug Cross-stitch
:bug Drawing/sketching
:bug Violin / music ... playing, performing, listening, composing.
:bug Writing & poetry
:bug Yoga
:bug Going to the gym ... nope, not in a 'compulsive over-exercising' way :ohboy
:bug Going out driving
:bug Smoking .... does that count?? :ohboy
:bug Website
:bug SHOPPING :bounce

[gpatkd]

i have a few hobbies but the one that is most important to me is tae kwon do.

it definitely increased my confidence and mental strength. i would not have accomplished many of the things that i did without it.

i also met a lot of great people. there are people at my tae kwon do school who are like my family. it's a really cool atmosphere because it's like i have a bunch of older brothers and sisters as well as younger ones. and it's nice to have people to go to other than your biological family when you're in trouble.

i wish i could put in to words everything that tae kwon do has done for me.

gpatkd