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Just curious, how much time do you spend crafting?
Do you work on one project at a time or have several going at the same time? Right now, I'm working on crocheting my 3rd throw. I just finished my first lap quilt today. I need to do a couple of bday cards and also want to get started on Christmas cards. I work 40 hrs a week so it's hard to find time for everything.
I'd say I spend a good hour or two a day at least in my scrappy room most days. Sometimes more, sometimes less. For instance, this week, I had the flu, so I wasn't in there hardly at all, but last week, some days I was in there for 5 or 6 hours some days.
I usually work on one card or layout at a time with one other bigger project or two in the mix. For instance, right now, on the side, I am working on a mini album as a gift and a 12X12 album as a gift. So I will work on a page for those in between other cards and layouts when I feel like it.
I work full time and have a very busy schedule between church, family, friends, volunteer work, and so on. I probably only spend 2 hours a week crafting. This amount increases greatly during the summer.
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However, I want to spend more time doing my crafting -- I knit and cook as well as stamp. However, I spend more time doing those things than I should--my house can tell you!
Not as much as I'd like. Since school has started again, along with homework, packing lunches, and all the fall activities like Girl Scouts, soccer, swimming, piano, tae kwon do, and ice skating, I'm working and then running with kids from about 5 am to 8 pm M-F and most of Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Then fit it grocery shopping, dinner, laundry, yard work, household cleaning, etc and there is VERY little time for me. And when I do have "me" time, I'm so tired that sitting here in my recliner wins out over time in my studio.
I find that the only time I really get to spend any amount of time crafting is when I go out to crop and leave the kids' activites to DH. That's about twice a month. :(
For me it varies. Stamping is my main craft but I dabble in penny rugs and sewing. I usually have something I'm working on for that. Sometimes I stamp several hours in a week, other times not at all. We've been doing stuff around the house and yard so that's cut into my craft time. I'm on vacation next week so I hope to spend a chunk of time in my craft room.
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I work full-time and sometimes don't craft for weeks at a time or get about an hour a week. On the slip side, I will get several hours in a week once in a great while. I usually craft in short bursts. Got a tot an DH. Works that way. ;)
Not nearly enough! I'm lucky to have a room to myself, which I adore, so I can leave projects out in progress. I find myself going in there whenever I have a little time. If I'm lucky, I'll have a bit of time every day, but some days pass without any paper fun. my kids are older and that helps tremendously!
Are you counting the time spent on SCS and swapping images?! If so, ummm, several hours a day :oops: Actually making cards? ummm, maybe a couple hours a week
I've started taking stamped images and my box of Copics with me and at least coloring some of them...hoping that will encourage me to turn them into cards! I usually don't like to do it that way (because then it seems harder to find paper that matches what you colored), but at least it's good practice.
I have some other hobbies (scrapping, knitting, doing Sudoku, reading) but those take a back seat to stamping, usually.
__________________ Lynn
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right�--Lincoln
I finished up some cards this morning so I could clear off the table and bring out the sewing machine. I made a case for knitting needles. That took most of the afternoon. Tonight I will knit for an hour or two. Yes, I'm pretty obsessed, but this isn't typical. I'd say a couple hours most days.
Good, I'm not the only one who doesn't get to spend as much time as I'd like actually using the stuff I have! lol Sometimes I find myself spending so much time looking here on SCS or other places for ideas and don't actually do much stamping myself. I did get 2 bday cards done yesterday and want to get started on Christmas cards very soon.
WEllllllll.....honestly??? I work full time and as soon as I get home I am in my stamp room. I usually grab a sandwich if someone else (son who is 28 is home again) or Hubby (who travels Mon-Fri) isnt there to cook. I dont cook anymore unless it is a holdiay. And on weekends I spend some time with hubby but all the rest of the time is spent in my stamp room. So every night after work til I go to bed and as much time as possible on weekends. I usually stay up a bit later on Saturday and I go to chuch on Sunday mornings and evenings. So I really get A LOT of time in my room but I need every minute to meet the needs of my many projects. Blessings. Oh PS...I have a maid so I dont clean...lol
As for me: I spend too much time on here looking at ideas and techniques; and not enough time following through with things. I go to my craft room; and cant seem to make anything come out the way I want it to or just have a hard time "getting started" I only work part time so really do have alot of free time to devote to stamping; if I can get the mojo! lol. Maybe I need to do some of the sketch challenges or color challenges to inspire me...hmmm...
I am quite streaky with my craft time. I'm a teacher so during the school year I don't have time to do any crafting (other than the occasional stolen hour on a weekend)....but summers? I make up for the school year, and often spend 8 -10 hours a day in my studio when I don't have to work. I quilt and stamp, so I have plenty of UFO's (UnFinished Projects) floating around my studio. Quilting projects I look at as long term (it often takes me a year or two to finish a large, complex quilt), so my stamping projects give me an artistic "quick fix".
This is hysterical!!! I swear, I read some of these responses, and instead of stamping, some of you should be doing stand up comedy!!! I joke about being a collector of stamping, and it makes me feel so good when I read these comments. I used to say, "when I retire I'll have more time....." and now that I am, where is that time?????
I don't spend as much as I would like during the week - full-time work gets in the way - but I do spend a couple of hours at the craft table most weekends.
I try to spend an hour an evening working on cards (I work full time) but some nights I'm just not feeling creative. On the weekend I might spend 2 hours each day "creating". If I'm not in the mood I avoid the room. After all, it's a hobby and it's supposed to be fun!!!
Not Near Enough!!!!, I work full time, I would love to go into my craft room after work and stay for a couple hours, BUT... have to cook and do dishes and laundry, you know what, I have it figured out, we all need maids, hehe, wouldn't that be great! I have ordered a cricut and it will be here next Monday, and it will probably be the following Friday night before it gets taken out of box. Any way to answer the question probably a couple hours a week and yes have several projects going at the same time.
__________________ Betty Proverbs 3:5 You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough! Chemo Angel
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I work full time but I have no children, other than my DH, so I try to get in my craft room for about 2 hours a night. I'd be in there longer but my DH fired the maid and now I have to cook dinner! LMAO! I am now starting to color images while watching TV so that counts too. On the weekends, I try to do more but it depends on what is going on. I love those days where DH takes off to do guy things and I then have a whole day to myself!
Can I leave work now to go home and play? I have some new toys that were shipped yesterday that are dying to come out and play (an order from Ucutathome and PTI!).
With a full time job, cooking/baking from scratch (I have food intolerances that prohibit me from eating out much or hardly any ready made/processed foods), and general housework, I never seem to be in my "Happy Room" as much as I want to. Even when I do find some time, I'm usually to worn out from all the other stuff to feel creative. I try to get in there a couple hours a week but it doesn't always pan out. I am in there more around birthdays or the holidays when I tend to make gifts.
__________________ ~*~ Clara ~*~ If you can think it, you can ink it!
I work full time but I have no children, other than my DH, so I try to get in my craft room for about 2 hours a night. I'd be in there longer but my DH fired the maid and now I have to cook dinner! LMAO! I am now starting to color images while watching TV so that counts too. On the weekends, I try to do more but it depends on what is going on. I love those days where DH takes off to do guy things and I then have a whole day to myself!
Can I leave work now to go home and play? I have some new toys that were shipped yesterday that are dying to come out and play (an order from Ucutathome and PTI!).
I work 40 hours a week too.
I think there is not enough hours in the day.
I try to do at least a hour a night on cards or at least stamping.
But working wears you out., hoping to get more projects done.
With donating to two charties for cards and christmas coming up.
Its a challenge.
Tanya
With a full time job, cooking/baking from scratch (I have food intolerances that prohibit me from eating out much or hardly any ready made/processed foods), and general housework, I never seem to be in my "Happy Room" as much as I want to. Even when I do find some time, I'm usually to worn out from all the other stuff to feel creative. I try to get in there a couple hours a week but it doesn't always pan out. I am in there more around birthdays or the holidays when I tend to make gifts.
Hey that's me too! I have a part time, work-out-of-the-house job, so sometimes I'm going crazy and I'm not doing any papercrafting (like lately!) and other times when I'm inbetween projects I can get ot the craft table more often.
I also have to cook absolutely everything from scratch, although some nights if I've been going nuts with work I'll get a pizza for the family and just have a sald, that doesn't happen too often though!
And someone else mentioned the kids and their activities. That's when IN indulge in one of my other hobbies, knitting. I started knitting socks years ago as a self defense mechanism and a way to keep warm sitting on cold bleachers in the springtime at practices and games. When you get to a certain point, you can put your hands inside them. Kind of hard to color images on the bleachers.
Just curious, how much time do you spend crafting?
