Hobby Hopping

In my last post, I mentioned that you need to try new things in order to find hobbies that you enjoy.  This week has been that sort of week :)  I've begun my adventure into 3 new hobbies that all have the potential to become my next big obsession! 

TtV Photography

I did mentioned TtV (through-the-viewfinder) photography in my last post - I finally got the TLR (Twin Lens Reflex) camera.  Introducing my new baby: the Argus Argoflex Seventy-Five.

*loves* I can't wait to give TtV a go!

Crocheting

My crocheting adventure began on Wednesday night, when I attempted to learn how to crochet via YouTube vids and how-to websites.  It might have been the yarn was I was using, or my lack of understanding of the instructions but it did not go well at all!  That's when I threw up my arms and said "I give up", tossed the needles aside and vegged on the couch. 

On Thursday night I had a wicked case of insomnia.  I went to bed around 12am, woke up at 3am and couldn't go back to sleep.  After tossing and turning for 2 hours (my poor hubby!  I'm sure I woke him up a few times) I finally got out of bed and headed downstairs and decided to give crocheting another shot.  This time I was successful :)  I got the basics stitch I think - I've been just making small squares with my left-over yarn from my wrist warmers.  I figure I can stitch the squares together later and make a blanket or something!

Cake Decorating

My friends Steph and Jenn approached me last week about taking a cake decorating class with them.  I've taken a cupcake decorating class before at a local grocery store, and I was horrible at it!  But I thought what the heck - the class was 50% off and it would be a great to do something fun with my friends :)  Here's the thing though - although the class is 50%, all the materials that are needed for the class are crazy expensive!  Luckily Ed took the class before and has a crapload of cake decorating stuff, so she's letting me borrow her tools :)  I figure if I end up liking it I'll buy my own stuff. 

So the first class we were told to bring 6 cookies to decorate for our first class.  Saturday night Jenn and Steph both came over to have a mini baking party.  We made a simple Empire cookie (it's a cross between a shortbread and sugar cookie).  We decided to make big cookies because we thought the more decorating surface area, the better (makes sense right?).  I'm guessing the lack of sleep from Thursday night was still lingering because I ended up throwing enough butter into the mixing bowl for 2 batches of cookies instead of 1.  *slaps forehead* so we ended up making like 30 big cookies! LoL! 

We get to our class today and most of the time was us just watching the instructor.  It was only the last 15 minutes where we were decorating - so in reality we only really needed to make 3 cookies each because that's all we had time to decorate!  And on top of that, our instructor took one look at our cookies and said "omg those are huge!" - meaning we didn't need to make huge-ass cookies.  LoL oh too funny!

So here's one of my decorated cookies.  meh... it's not very good... we'll see how it goes next week! haha