I love cookbooks and collecting them, love gardening, and collecting my pattern of antique sterling silver flatware. Since I retired and no longer have even a part time job , I just dream about the sterling pieces that I don't have. I should devote more time to clear out my sewing room, but I am happy with it cluttered. I know where most things are, not all things. When I have guest over, I close the sewing room door. What are your other passions or addictions?? Let's share!!!
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Katy there's not enough space 4 all the things I have loved to do n my 70 yrs.Knitting, crocheting, almost any form of needlework I have done, ceramics, fishing especially deep sea, yard work/flowers. I collect angels & recipes & old music(Ihave some over 100 yrs. old) Play piano & organ & music has always bn a passion anything but hard rock especially like broadway show music. Dancing aah one of my gr8 passions but don't get to any more, ball rm, folk, square, & line dancing. Remember dancing holes n my slippers one night back n the 50s. Camping no! I love the outdoors, traveling seeing beautiful views but when I go to sleep had rather b n Hotel with all amenities.Have lived n 7 states as far n. as N.Y. , west Ca., South Fl. & a few n other places. Have had 4 daughters, 6 G. children 1 Great G. child. sewing, embroidering, quilting I now do, a lot of crafting through the yrs. Had a lot of different jobs, tuned pianos , casino, waitress, factory jobs, furniture sales, u name it I've just about done it. Last job held R.N. & director of Nurses for 188 bed facility, retired from there 2xs the last time Jan of this yr. Bn to Bahamas, & virgin Islands. First & foremost now is serving my God, I give him the glory 4 keeping me & mine out of harm's way all those yrs. we were all over the country, I am church organist & have been either pianist or organist just about every place we have lived. Never had any problems with my children. All but 1 bn married to same man fr many yrs. 1 divorced once but remarried to a wonderful person 4 many yrs. I believe n all the education u can get, hence college grads all but 1 & all 6 Grands r college grds. I've rattled enough & now U know more than U should about me, but I've led a very interesting life. * 4 U Katy
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by katydid
15 Sep 2008
My, you certainly have had a interesting life. I may be wrong, but I'll bet your husband was a traveling man.Some of your hobbies indicate home alone. I too, like to dance. Met my sweetie at the Hilton ballroom where they had Fri, night singles dances. Took me 5yrs to get the courage to go.
145791I have to agree with the camping and photography part as my hobbys besides sewing, embroidery, and other crafty things we took 4 month trip across country in our motor home but hubby would not allow machine so photography was my obsession on the trip LOL couldn't keep that home LOL
got wonderful pics of the country heres one for you guys
took this in the Seqouia Forest in CA
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by katydid
15 Sep 2008
This photo should be enlarged and digitized. Look at that pose!!! He is saying "Don't mess with me".
17461well lets see where to start my favorite things to do is wake up get on cute even before i have coffee in me lol and see what is going on then i like to digitize and with Rickys help i am learning so much i love spending time with my family i love unicorns and angels always have since i was like 2 or 3
1226I'm sorry if I offend anyone but I HATE CAMPING..had to do it as a teenager with 7 bro & sis in a pull behind 26ft. and EVERYBODY slept inside. had no privacy or room :( I love to knit...I take it everywhere..my kids say that if they ever make it to the pro's the camera will show me knitting when they make a home run or touchdown. My hubby said I can't take it on the motorcycle. BUT if we ever get a 3 wheeler I will sit in the back and knit (saw it in Sturgis in 2000. XX's and ***'s for all.
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31942I like to crochet. It is usually for Project Linus blankets. I always have one in the making for when we travel more than an hour from home but in familiar places. If I've never been there before I like to watch the area around me and see what's it like.
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62461I love to spend time with my family. We enjoy the outdoors all year long. With four wheelers, horses, hunting, camping, fishing, hiking . . . we enjoy getting away from it all.
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11795I love to sew my own clothes, used to make the boys shirts, and husbands suits. Now I sew for me and the grandkids. :) Love to garden. I also make ceramic dolls. Thats why my DH bought me an embroidery machine. I was always wanting the dresses to be fancier. Never found lace I really liked and didn't like having to stitch on embroidered designs you can purchase. I also love to read.
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by katydid
14 Sep 2008
A real tailor. I made my husband a Leisure Suit{1970's} for you children,and he said it looked like that character that Jackie Gleason played on T.V. It did look bad, all of them looked bad then. Polyester!!!
46153Other than embroidery I love doing road trips with my family and the photography.
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by katydid
14 Sep 2008
Oh! you should share your photos. There are many of us that haven't been every where, me included.
34304pafhen, Love your Tear drop! Oh, my goodness, just tooo cute! DH and I share your camping hobby but with back problems and allergies we needed a few more amenities so here is our camper.
I also love to sew, and make greeting cards!
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by katydid
14 Sep 2008
I guess there are lots of wonderful places to camp around Va. Have you ever made it over the mountains into the Great Smokey Mt.National park. My home town is there, near where Dolly Parton comes from.
by sllakin
14 Sep 2008
katydid, Yes we have! Just got back from Pigeon Forge a couple weeks ago! Been going there yearly past 6 years! It is beautiful there!!!!!! This photo was taken at Foothills RV park, Pigeon Forge!
by dkjack
14 Sep 2008
My husband is a very small man. He had to go the the boys dept for clothes. Didn't like the pockets, let alone the style. So I took a men's tailoring class and started to make them.
7384My newest addiction is this website and the links provided for other sites with free desgns. I probably have more than I'll ever use. I've been sewing since I could hold my first needle. I also love crocheting, gardening, and taking pictures of my grandchildren flowers and nature. I outgrew my sewing room so I moved downstairs and took over part of my husband's workshop.
7293My goodness Kay, thank you first of all - I love to go tandem bike riding with my dear husband - we occasionally will get the family to come along as well. We ride a trial that runs along one river and that flows into a second river - it is about 15 miles one way and then we travel back along the same trial to go home. One day soon - that trial will be extended and we can get on it about 1/2 mile from our home and it will be a 25 mile ride one way - we sure hope that they get that finished while we live in this apartment to take full advantage of it - can you believe a 50 mile ride? This is a view with the tandem in the foreground along the trial about midway - that mountain in the distance is at the other end of the trail and that is where we start and then return to. It was rather dry in Utah at this time of year, too. We first started riding when I got Osteoarthritis as a means to keep my knees working. You wouldn't want to view me from the backside of this bike - Hehehe! When we ride with the family - my DH and I set the pace and the younger ones do have some trouble keeping up with us - until we hit the huge long hill - we take our time but they stop at the top and we don't and that ride down the hill is so well deserved that we don't hit the brakes very often - until we are about 1/2 mile on the other side. Hehehe. Shirlene
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by katydid
14 Sep 2008
This is wonderful exercise and relief for stress. I've never been on a bike built for two. With a trip like you subscribed, do you take lunch? You know me, always thinking about food!!!
by shirlener88
14 Sep 2008
We have a location that is almost at the end of the trail - that we like to stop and get a salad at and watch people walk along the trail - we do take drinks and our cell phone and the camera - Hehehe! We do have places that we are always stop to rest and relax.
211079I love to crocheting,sewing ( making clothes), gardening ( veggies and flowers), photography,RVing when we can,fishing and now Cute Embroidery. I spend a lot of time here. I use to go hunting but now our bodies don't like it as well. Other than my grand kids thats about it for me.
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by debleerl
14 Sep 2008
You sound a lot like me, and I know that's plenty to keep us busy. We're not into RVing yet but hope to be. I don't hunt other than with a camera, but still go tent camping once in a while.
27608Well other than embroidering, quilting and crafting, mine is camping. This is our lil tabadaisy, well that is what I named "her" hehe She goes anywhere and we love it!
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by clawton
14 Sep 2008
I agree. This is the cutest little thing. Just big enough to sleep and get out of the weather if necessary.
by pafhen
14 Sep 2008
ok cutee's we HAD a 25ft fifth-wheel with one long slidout. We thought our daughter would take it up and go with us but she does not like to camp. Soooo we decided to get what WE wanted. I saw one of these at a campground and said that will be my next camper. Well here we are and love it more than what we had. A huge queen bed, that the center turns into a table with sofa cusions around in a U shape, 2 bunner stove top, sink, fresh water tank and cabinets to store all your goodies and ref. No bathroom or shower, but you know we never used the one in the 5th wheel, always used the bath house. So we don't miss that, does have a porta potty for emg. times. We stay outdoors all the time camping, cooking over the fire in black pots and a campfire going all the time. fun fun fun!!! It is a called a Tab, that is where tabadaisy came from. This photo is taken on the Natchez Trace. Oh yea, cool cat air and heat and then a furnace.
by marjialexa
14 Sep 2008
This looks like the little Serro Scotty we had when I was a kid, and into the 70's. Fun tiny trailer, loved it. We slept 4 in that li'l pup, cooked outside, and it had an icebox, not a fridge. You made me remember some very good times. Marji
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