General Chat

I used to sing in a choir until last December, took up a lot of my time, but had to give up as I could no longer leave OH on his own. I have a piano but havent played it for ages.
I enjoy doing jigsaws sometimes. It is something I can do while keeping an eye on OH. I also take a lot of photos now I have a digital camera. I have been taking a lot of closeup photos of our native flowers, most of which are very small. I also zoom in on birds. Somebody suggested a book or postcards with the native flowers to sell.
But at present when I am not taking OH to go walking with his 'girlfriends' on a Sunday I am trying to sort through my accumulation of 'junk' (interspersed with treasures) so I can get rid of a lot of it in case we have to sell up and move to town. And sewing the heaps of material I have bought over the years because I liked it. Some of it I had started sewing but not finished. Plenty to keep me occupied if I only had the time.
I also spend a lot of time reading these boards and looking at other websites. Dont do any genealogy these days, cant get to the LDS rooms with OH, he would not want to sit still for 2 hours.

Huia.

Sounds as if it will be lovely Joan.

S'alright now though the thread has been taken over!!

This is true Ann, if I am bored I only have myself to blame.

As for Chat board - no ta very much. Looks like WWIII again.
Tina x

Do it for other people. I have done this, and got a lot of pleasure out of helping people.
Of course Thanks for what I have done would be appreciated in some cases.

Mo

Tina but you will never be bored. (unless you choose to spend an afternoon reading the rubbish on chat Lol!!)

Joan do you stretch it over a frame before you frame it? Must be harder with a larger one, i think my daughter paid to have hers framed professionally.

ann
glos

I should get back to learning and practising the harp! Or my watercolour painting or my cross stitching or...................................................................

Too many! LOL
Tina xx

do you frame them Joan? My daughter used to do a lot of cross stitch and has several lovely ones framed. I have done a couple of smaller ones which are hanging in the lounge but don't really have time with everything else i do.

ann
Glos

Love to look at horses but you wouldn't get me up on one. I can imagine on a fine sunny day iit would be lovely if you were used to them though. Beware if you start scrap booking it is addictive Lesley. There are lots of web sites devoted to it. There is a scrap bookers thread on here too.

that sound's really interesting Ann, I'll have to look into it. Maybe a little safer than me on a horse. pam will probably think I'm a wimp now (probably right :-) )

Do You ride horses Pam? They're lovely creatures.

O.k got the message Regard s Pam

the scrap book has photos, with pages starting with Gt grandparents, then Grandparents right up to Grandchildren. Each page contains journalling (which is common to modern scrap books), this details the part of the tree that the photos refer to, their parents, children. so as you follow the book through the pages link. with myself, i have me as a child, me and OH meeting and then getting married, having children etc.

Wouldn't mind feeding carrots to some horses but they're too scary to ride..

What about Horse riding? Lovely on a fine sunny day
Regards Pam

You've done a family tree scrap book, with just photographs or have you done your tree as well?

I buy the scrap book then everything else I buy separately such as backing papers embellishments etc. I mainly work with 12x12 scrap books and have done a family tree one in this format, but the current one I am doing is for my grandsons 21st in July and is 8x8 format.

Ann
Glos

what does the scrap booking involve? do you buy a kit or do you do everything from scratch?

These days I use the floral ones on cards and I use a lot of them in my scrap books.

Do they still make ships in bottles?