Happily Ever After Cafe discussion

Do you have a hobby or activity other than reading that you enjoy? Want to share? Maybe someone else here likes to do the same thing...

I like to scrapbook (when I have the time) and I also love movies. :) I would love to travel more if we could afford it. I also like to bake.

I too love to scrapbook but I haven't done any for a while. I do mine on regular sized color paper and put it in paper protectors and use regular notebooks for them. I hate doing them on those huge pages and then can't fit them in my bookshelf.

I also love movies. Mostly just watch family movies nowadays with a 9 yr old. Though we will do a few PG and PG-13 with her depending on content.

I did my traveling in the Navy. But I'd love to be able to do some more.

My other hobbies include playing games and art. I mainly color with my daughter nowadays but I love to draw.

I love to paint. Used to do a lot with oils, but not so much recently. Our coolest recent project was our dining room floor. We had pulled out the carpet, planning to replace it with hardwoods to match the living room. The project kept getting delayed and my daughter and I got tired of looking at the bare concrete. We sanded, primed, painted and sealed the floor. We used a favorite Kandinski print as inspiration and now have a totally modern and VERY unique dining room floor. It took a couple of weekends and cost almost nothing (we used sale paint from the mis-mixed table at the paint store!). We had such a good time with the floor that our next project was an accent wall in her bedroom.

Melanie wrote: "I love to paint. Used to do a lot with oils, but not so much recently. Our coolest recent project was our dining room floor. We had pulled out the carpet, planning to replace it with hardwoods t..."

sounds wonderful. I wanted to be an artist when I was a child. found out as an adult I was born on Da Vinci birthday. I've only painted one oil painting and I loved it but just haven't pursued it. I normally stick to pencil drawing now.

You should try charcoal or those wonderful watercolor pencils. Fast and very enjoyable, especially if you like to sketch.

Melanie wrote: "I love to paint. Used to do a lot with oils, but not so much recently. Our coolest recent project was our dining room floor. We had pulled out the carpet, planning to replace it with hardwoods t..."

That sounds very cool!