4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Redwing]

My OH just came to give me a kiss and saw the Omlet site and said "more chickens? your phases don't normally last this long"

 

I'm promise this isn't a phase honest!

 

My phases have included:

 

Interior design

Glass painting

Rescuing manky pigeons and trying to nurse them back to health

Finches

A strange obsession with stockpiling fabric

Tie Dying

Printing photos at home

Turning the spare room in to a dressing room at vast expense

Turning the same spare room in to an office three months later!

 

Gardening is one that has always endured but its moving from tropical plants to veggies now

 

Have you ever gone through phases of being really in to something?

[Rhapsody]

*looks at own avatar* No. Never.

[Plum]

Good to know I'm not alone. Yes I am always totally obsessed with something. Sometimes it goes on to endure at a lower pitch while I become obsessed with other things.

 

Sometimes its projects at work, sometimes its handicraft, painting, making boxes, doing puzzles, sometimes its studying or recently its trashing the garden ready for chickens, or chickens and this forum obsession is frightening. All I have to do is get things in proportion and worry it can't be healthy being compulsive about things. So any tips on finding a balance would be good.

I know I'm not obsessive about the chickens, they are just therapy and totally calming - when I am not worrying about them.

 

No hope for us.

[Snowy]

Funnily enough my OH suggested that chickens might be just another of my phases! I'll take great delight in telling him that it is not just me!

[Chook n Boo Mum]

I think my DH has decided that my chooks are more than one of my normal phases...he's just offered to buy me a cube .

 

I'll have to sell my blue Eglu to finance some of it, but that'll be ok. Wonder if I can get one by next Saturday....

 

Sha x

 

p.s. I would go for the previously loved option if anyone knows of one which needs a new home, but I'm not buying it so I think I am still ok with my big purple message below... ?

[Egluntyne]

I must admit that I do go through 'phases' and then move on.

 

Can't see me moving on from chickens though. Or the forum for that matter!

[Olly]

I think it's a sign of a lively and enquiring mind to have lots of interests!

Who says you've got to choose one thing and stick to it for ever, that would be boring.

 

In the past I've done classes in calligraphy, dinghy sailing, horse-riding, archery, tap-dancing, bricklaying and I'm sure there are some others. You meet new people and learn some useful skills, and I'm not daft enough to rush out and buy a load of kit every time I start something new.

 

I've still got the calligraphy pens, and if I ever have the time I'll take it up again; I could lay a brick wall if I needed to; I decided riding wasn't for me, but if I was on holiday and wanted to go on a hack at least I know which end of the horse is which, and some of the other things I've done, like joining a choir, have lasted for years and led to some firm friendships and experiences I'd never have found otherwise.

 

Beats sitting and watching TV every night! Right, I must get on with the upholstery, I won't have time when the bee-keeping class starts in February.

[Guest]

I have a terrible butterfly mind and flit from one interest to another constantly! I'll get totally passionate about something then after a few months or so, lose all interest but that's only because something else comes along that takes my fancy Ian says my piano is the most expensive sideboard we've ever had

 

I love this poem by Dorothy Parker which sums it up for me

 

Travel, trouble, music, art

A kiss, a frock, a rhyme

I never said they feed my heart

But still, they pass my time!

[Hen Watch]

Oh Redwing I'm so glad it's not just me then. My hubbie accuses me of throwing myself into things with 200% gusto to the exclusion of everything else then jumping on another bandwagon. I've been doing it ever since I left school 23yrs ago mostly evening adult ed.

 

Amateur dramatics pantos.

Car maintenance - (aged 19 to meet men but it was a class full of women)

Tap dancing

Touch typing (very handy)

A Level Law

DIY for girls

Dressmaking (1 yr at £180 + sewing machine made 1 dress never worn)

French conversation (I'm still rubbish).

Womens barbershop choir (didn't last unfortunately only just given birth and wrong time to start).

GCSE geography (since I failed it at school, quite chuffed I got A*)

Sold hand made greetings cards in a local craft shop for 3 years

Piano lessons 2 years ago - still going strong but daughters have overtaken me.

Those are just the ones I can remember.......

 

Don't even mention chickens..........hubbie just rolls his eyes when he can't find me in the house and I'm hiding in the study on this forum...which is my latest addiction

[Redwing]

Car maintenance - (aged 19 to meet men but it was a class full of women)

 

All with the same idea I expect

[Cate in NZ]

I'm not sure that I'd describe them as phases , but I have developed interests in new things, some of them I've enjoyed and those interests have endured, chickens, gardening, cooking, reading, others I've tried, given it a go but then ultimately decided that they weren't really for me, such as needlecrafts, knitting, pilates, bricklaying and plumbing

 

It's good to try and spread the interests about and to keep challenging yourself I think

[Cooks]

hmm let me see...

 

I have a crossstitch somewhere about half finished that was supposed to go on my OS nursery wall. (He's 13 now!)

I have started knitting a lovely fluffy scarf but never get the time *cough* to knit it

other than that I cant think of much else, I am pretty good most of the time and only have what I think I will need/really want.

(Beacause I am a indecisive person by the time I have dithered about, if it is trully something not worth having, I have worked it out and not bought it )

Edited January 16, 2009 by Guest

[Phonix]

Well the chickens that I don't own yet it such an obsession that if it doesn't happen soon I might explode!

 

Other than that I usually get into things and stick with them - gymnastics for 12 years, Thani Boxing for 4 (had to quit because of knee problems) and recently photography (which everyone thought was a phase but have now got used to my constant digital companion and even started buying me mags and bits and pieces!)

 

xXx

[missuscluck]

Mrcluck has regular 'phases' My nick name for him is 'Toad of Toad Hall'

[craftyhunnypie]

Hmmm well -

 

Sewing trousers - they were in at the time

Making people from pipe cleaners & embroidery thread

Friendship bracelet making

Keyboard playing

Hair wraps

Nail Art - course done

Sponging & Rag rolling

Stencilling

Pergamano

Oil painting, watercolours

Decoupage - covered a jewellery box in s"Ooops, word censored!"s & PVA glue

Encaustic Art

Melting Pot & Ultra Thick embossing powder messing with

Card making

Jewellery making

Friendly Plastic

Dollshouses

Xyron machine

Sizzix machine

Drawing

Glass painting

Needle felting

Embroidery & cross stitch

PMC silver clay

Aromatherapy

Bodyshop lady

Virgin Vie lady

Partylite lady

 

Most of my phases are craft related.

I still do a lot of the above crafts & music related stuff.

Emma.x

[missuscluck]

Cripes!

 

Was your virgin vie boss Clare Emerton by any chance?

 

I love virgin vie but have given up my habit of late as its costing too much.

Cant do without the 'one step face' base though

[fluffyfeet]

Craftyhunnypie - I think we might be related.............!!!!!

I'm a craft 'hopper' too.

Currently have about £200 worth (that's what i tell OH - probably nearer £400)of craft stuff in my loft because i see things and think 'oh I'd like to have a go at that, and I might not be able to get it anywhere else', the purse comes and before I know it Ooops - I did it again!

[BeckyBoo]

I have lots of things I'd like to do but haven't had many phases, I don't know where most of you get your time from (mind you, if I wasn't on here so much..... )

I had a pickling, jam making phase in the summer, if anything stood still in my kitchen for long it ended up in a jar! That stopped mainly because most of the stuff I was making was glut stuff, there's not much around to make into jam or pickle without having to go out and buy it.

 

I still draw when I get a chance (or paint pictures on the walls of my house!!) but that's not often.

 

I'm desperate to learn how to crochet, my Mum even got e a starter kit but I can't work it out from the diagrams, need someone to show me really

 

Chickens have become an obsession not a phase, want MORE animals, again, not really a phase,

 

I think I need to be more organised with my time, then I can have more phases! I WANT TO HAVE PHASES!!

 

Mrs B

[craftyhunnypie]

My virgin vie manager was Maria Xavier Jackson, not Clare.

I still love their stuff.

Craft stuff, I reckon if I added up all the contents in my craft house it would be close to £4000, not £400! But I do still use it.

I have a great stash of wool too from my late mother in law.

I'm trying to learn to crochet. I don't like being beaten by a craft I can't do & I don't want traditional crafts to ever die out.

Mrs B, I have time because I have no children! You are a dedicated great mum remember!

When they are grown up, then you'll have time!

Crafting is my relaxation technique & gives me my 'breathing space' if I'm ever upset or low. I lose myself in my knitting etc as it requires so much concentration & soon I forget about the things I was upset about.

I have phases, but I go back to them, they don't really fade away.

 

Emma.x

[Redwing]

Hmmm well -

 

Sewing trousers - they were in at the time

Making people from pipe cleaners & embroidery thread

Friendship bracelet making

Keyboard playing

Hair wraps

Nail Art - course done

Sponging & Rag rolling

Stencilling

Pergamano

Oil painting, watercolours

Decoupage - covered a jewellery box in s"Ooops, word censored!"s & PVA glue

Encaustic Art

Melting Pot & Ultra Thick embossing powder messing with

Card making

Jewellery making

Friendly Plastic

Dollshouses

Xyron machine

Sizzix machine

Drawing

Glass painting

Needle felting

Embroidery & cross stitch

PMC silver clay

Aromatherapy

Bodyshop lady

Virgin Vie lady

Partylite lady

 

Most of my phases are craft related.

I still do a lot of the above crafts & music related stuff.

Emma.x

 

I bow to you humble mistress - I am but an amateur!

[MedusA]

Good to know I'm not alone. Yes I am always totally obsessed with something. Sometimes it goes on to endure at a lower pitch while I become obsessed with other things.

 

I'm the same as Plum. I have "fads" which never go away but diminish, whilst other things come to the fore. My stained glass is on the back burner at the moment, but I know I will get inspired again. Things are cyclical with me, dependant on the season, to some extent. For example, in the Spring I will be obsessive about the Allotments again.

 

My one enduring "fad" is the chooks (of course).