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    Posted: 13 May 2007 at 8:19pm
What are your hobbies? How do you make time for them as well as being a mum and everything else you have to do?
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Is being a forum geek a hobby? It has to be, it's all I've got!

I'm trying to make knitting my hobby, but it isn't working out so great at the moment... I feel guilt about not doing "stuff" whenever I sit down to knit.
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Sewing, scrapbooking, sewing some more, making cakes, making stuff for the kids, shopping, and i used to like reading too:

however....

Sewing i only do for dress-up days and for sleeping bags these days, lol, scrap booking iuhave bought all the pages, pictures, stickers albums, and have not yet put them together, cakes i ony make for birthdays now, shopping i do for the kids, and the only reading i do these days is either medical stuff of hairy maclary etc. lol

so in short, i don't make time for them, i like to think i have hobbies but they are really just more things that i start and don't finish. lol. I think a hobbie is something you do on a more regular basis.

although.. i am starting up my sleeping bag making for the year.. sparkle and jax.. gimme a couple of weeks and i'll be sending yours to ya!   
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Blogging and column writing, reading, baking ...and I have time because my kids are furry, so not quite so time consuming as the ones you lot have
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Try to start up this business is the big project at the moment. Have a couple of new products in mind..... One is an adaptation on a sleep sack (the one I called for product testers...) and the other one I can't elaborate on yet..
Other things that I do are cross stitch (still woking on one I started b4 ethan was born ) , reading, gardening, and house renovating...my ongoing nightmare!!
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Sewing (usually for someone other than myself though!!!), baking, waaaay too much time on here , reading (but as Janine said - usually kids books - or magazines about kids lol). I used to make a lot of cards for birthdays and do other artsy things, but there isn't so much time for that anymore!

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aside from wedding planning, which takes up all my non children non internet time (I just love surfing the net), my hobbies are scrapbooking, reading, photography and music. I am utterly obsessed with music.
Also, my brother showed me how to use moviemaker on my puter today, so I will probably throw over scrapbookng and make cds of mini montage movies all thie time, lol!
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Hi fattartsrock - have you tried digital scrapbooking?? I personally have been thinking of doing this... Some of the effects that I have seen on some sites are really cool.. beats glue anyday!
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Bee, do you know of any digital scrapbooking sites? Sounds interesting!

I love scrapbooking and card making. I can only do it if I have some inspiration though, and usually it doesn't come at the times I have time for the hobbies! I also knit. I tend to do these things after Ashlee has gone to bed -- the dishes and washing can wait until the morning

I would sew if I wasn't so scared of the sewing machine as well!
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Hobbies, waht is that post baby?
I used to love playing sport and would never get home before 10 pm...back in the day.
Now I work and come home to my boy.....pretty sad in some aspects as I would love some me time! But feel so bad for even thinking that way!
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What exactly is scrapbooking? I know I must be stupid not to know but I dont really
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i like scrapbooking too, and baking, but between housework, study and the boys - hobbies? I'm lucky to stay awake to read a book these days....god, i sound like a loser.
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I love my forums. (is that a hobby?) Easy just come on whenever I can.

then crosstitching and embroidery. Dont get much time for it at the moment but whenever little one is napping. (havent done it since being here but there is a project I want to do)

And reading. (which I also found I dont get time for now that I am a mom.


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scrapbooking is where you do funky pages all decorated with a theme and place photos in them - on acid free paper and stuff

OR if you are me - scrapbooking is something people have given you for wedding and baby and you have put in a closet to do - ONE DAY!!! Yeah right!!!

Hobbies - well i used to do dog training twice a week, SPCA work with fur babies, used to swim a lot, go movies, travel etc...and now....i barely get to read the herald each day....OMG newborns are timewasters!
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I still find time to garden & dig around in the dirt, finding old bottles, which i collect & junk lol.
Now i have a child i don't have the much time or energy to play sport & outdoor adventures like i used to, but still make an effort to get out & do things that can include Brae.
Scrapbooking, beading & creative junk sculptures are more kiddie oriented these days & are friendly for little hands.
Does it count when you modify your interests to include kids & do it as much as you like or can be bothered?

I do get out with the girlfriends every fortnight or so for dinner, coffee, shopping or chats etc, kiddie less. Which is my highlight b/c its when I'm me & not a mum. & sometimes, i can get to wrapped up in being. IYKWIM
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Yeah I am a closet scrapbooker, try to keep it a secret, but I guess its not so geeky any more.

I also climb and kayak, and am trying to get my butt into gear for a multisport race later in the year...


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Most of mine have taken a major back seat since Ella's arrival.  I've not sat at my drum kit in 7 months!  (and I miss it - but when on earth can you practice something that loud, when you're home with baby?!?).  This website is a hobby for me.  I've fitted in the occasional artsy thing - usually making something for Ella.  Would like to devote a bit more time to painting again.  I'm avoiding the scrapbooking urges, because it'd be so easy to get into but we can't really afford all the stuff, and I know I'd want to buy so much of it!  I'd get rather carried away. 

So come on, Teresa.... what are yours and how on earth do you fit any in?! 

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I love photography which works well with a baby cos I always have something to photograph

I used to be a real gym bunny and did body building for a while and would love to get back in to some form of high intensity training once finished BFing.
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I play in a brass band (getting back there one day) so music is a big one for me.
I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Photography, scrapbooking and my all time favorite reading. I'l read anything and everything I can get my hands on lol. More often than not now tho, I read in bed and fall alsleep before I have even finished the page lol. No wonder i have been on the same page for a few nights now

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