On Hobbies

I think it’s good for people to have hobbies. Hobbies are things you love, that don’t make any demands of you, and that you can participate in even if you’re not very good.

What are my hobbies?

From time to time I dabble on the Ukulele but you can watch someone way more talented than me doing that. Occasionally I get arts-n-craftsy, like when I bought the book Socks Appeal and spent the weekend sewing cute and fuzzies. Other times I take my color media on holiday (shout out to Copic for their unparalleled sketch markers):

    

But it has been a painfully long time since I’ve had a decent, time-consuming hobby. Maybe that’s because I work too much. Or maybe I spend too much time on the computer. Perhaps it’s because we live in a one bedroom apartment in which my husband does not enjoy having my arts and crafts strewn about the living room floor for days on end. In any case, the last substantial hobby I had was around the time I started grad school: fashion doll photography.

Fashion doll photography?

Yep. I took pictures of Barbies fashion dolls. Oh, don’t knock it ’til you try it. Fashion dolls as subjects are an excellent blend of human figure and still life. And I’m not the only weirdo out there. Parents, hide your children. Everyone else, check out the Flickr group, Fashion Doll! I hardly ever post there anymore, but I still hold the title of absent admin.

There’s also a Flickr set that shows some of my good, and not-so-good, work from several photo shoots:

A little creeped out? Well take heart! I seem to have found a new hobby 85% less disturbing and 43% more delicious: cooking! Everybody loves a good cook. Everybody loves a good cook as long as she doesn’t upload photos of the delicious food she’s not sharing.