1. Making Movies
I love making movies, I think its so much fun to come up with an idea in your head and seeing it play out on TV. I currently have 3 movies up: Rock you like a hurricane, Little Napoleon vs. the Iguanas, and chrishmash scheer. (I’ll see if I can link to them on the site)

2. Writing
I’ve been writing some small short stories and speculative things that will be going up on this site, I’m hoping to actually use this to keep me honest. Eventually I’m hoping to write a book and begin podcasting it. Some of it will be fact, some will be fiction, some will be good some will be crap. Once I start I hope you guys enjoy my mindless brain vomit.

3. Sculpting
I actually have a disembodied, faceless clay head laying on the floor in the kitchen. I’m worried its drying out and I wont be able to work with it. However once I get some time I’m going to fill it out, cast it in plaster and then hopefully display it. I had really great success with one at my moms house.

4. Photography
I love shootin in black and white, especially shots of kind of lonely places. I also love shots that allow you to pattern your own thoughts onto them, such as mist up in the hills or water thrown from a container. I also like kind of chilling solo pictures. Right now I would KILL for an SLR camera.

Hope anyone is moderately intereseted in this.

in the past i’ve tried knitting myself a vest but it turned out to be horrible (i only wore it for one winter and then threw it away); i knitted a bag for my mom for her hot-water bag to keep her warm in the winter… oh yeah one year Mike’s mom taught me how to crochet, i ended up with making a hat for the santa claus and she is putting that out every year now with that santa claus, :p although i’ve tried, i am really bad at any craft i mentioned above. Anyway, i can always do some knitting, i have quite some yarns at home – they been there for more than a year – well, all i need is more free time after all! though, i actually exercise more than just doing crafting (but lately i am injured from exercise and have to take a break)…

In fact i also wonder if you guys have interest in doing gardening or not, we have a garden now!

However, if someone else was interested in doing that, I could probably be convinced to try it over the Summer or Fall.

Over the years I’ve done lots of different things. I have cross-stitched, but didn’t stick with it long enough to become very good (ie, fast). I have a million “in-progress” knitting and crocheting projects. I’ve taken a felting class, a kumihimo (Japanese braiding on a disk) class, and a spinning class, but didn’t really connect with those things.

There are two I really still love, though. I love going to a paint your own pottery studio. It’s probably not as rewarding as throwing your own pottery, but you still get to create the design. And it’s really satisfying to get a mug or cereal bowl that you can use each day.

My other love, which I’ve been away from for too long, is weaving. I own a gorgeous 8-shaft Baby Wolf loom from Schacht Spindle. I’ve made baby blankets, mug rugs, scarves, bookmarks, and runners. It is SO wonderful to see the finished product. And weaving is very soothing and meditative. Throwing the shuttle and raising/lowering the shafts is very rhythmic. The other thing that’s nice about weaving is that it sort of forces me to gift things. I tend to want to hold onto all of my creations, but how many scarves can I really justify owning?

But right now, I’m trying to go a step further– Ted mentioned he was taking the university’s Machine Shop training, and I jumped on that opportunity to tag along. Now I’m enrolled and taking the course, and I’m very happy to be doing so: I’ve always had a great respect for people who can actual make things, and learning to use drill presses, mills, and lathes will push me a little more in that direction.
When I was an undergrad, I had always planned on taking a Machining class (and my roommate did), but I never got around to it. I’m glad I’m getting to remedy that!

What’s my main craft-work, though? Putzing on the computer. I write patches for a faulty Linux kernel, arrange needlessly complex home networking, write script to automate tasks, and design websites (like this one) and continually revise them. The product isn’t as physical, but it is something I can point to with pride.

What craft project would I most enjoy having time to do? I’d love to have more time to put into gardening– well, I guess I’d need a garden first. But growing exotic plants in a home-made greenhouse is a strong attraction to me.