um what kind of hobbies do you have um i do a lot of cross-stitching and painting when i do have spare time oh i love it really i like cross-stitch too i just have a hard time finding any spare time lately i'm that's my case also i've got a new born and and there's just no time uh-huh have have you been cross-stitching long oh several years my husband is even interested in it now he likes to help me design um you know projects that are a little more customized oh really mine sort of he looks at the pattern and he says how do you get that from there to the to the material not that hard i really i really enjoy it but oh its not and once uh once you get started on it it's just oh i just i love it i do a lot of my own patterns also um-hum yeah in fact i did one uh Bill the Cat you know from Glenn County oh yeah that uh was a real good one to do it was it was tough but uh yeah do you have any others or is it just mainly cross-stitch um i do mostly that um not very artistic really for like painting and stuff oh uh-huh um but now i don't know yeah uh but i well i'm still trying to get all the DMC colors oh really yeah i've got the kits to to put them all in i don't have them all yet uh right yeah uh got to counting the other day and uh i think i have what was it two hundred and i got to thinking the money that i've got invested in this certainly is uh it uh yeah it can add up quick oh yeah i just i just keep an inventory of what i currently have and then when i start a a new project i go through and see if i if i you know just buy the colors that i need of what i'm low on um-hum right i see well now can i improvise with adding using another color color instead you know what comes close um-hum because a lot of them are are similar yeah a lot of times you can do that think the i think the pinks there's like forty two different shades of pink good grief yeah there's there's lots of pinks and greens pinks and greens yeah there's lots of shades of greens um-hum but the colors are i just love all the different colors yeah they had they had quite a few new ones come out last year that they added to but but you don't have much spare time either well not lately i even started a new job and trying to get acclimated there oh yes and that does take sometime yes we're trying to get acclimated with the uh with having a baby and there's just he's seven months old yeah how old oh yeah and just into everything so there's not a spare moment oh but i wouldn't trade it for the world i've been trying to do some bibs for him oh yeah and uh and and work on his Christmas stocking yeah we missed it the the last year so hopefully this year he'll have one yeah well last year he was a little bit young for having one uh right right probably wouldn't have enjoyed it anyway he oh he liked right if it tasted good yeah uh you would have but uh yeah all he liked was the lights this year so oh yeah oh well that's neat that uh you like cross-stitch also yeah that's that's kind of strange that we got the same call yeah uh uh it to which oh oh i'm sorry go ahead no that's okay okay uh but yeah i've been doing it for probably about ten years or so oh wow no i just started about well five years ago i think but but it is peaceful i mean it is relaxing to do once you find the time to do it um-hum there's bit off a couple of large projects baby afghans and got one done and i think the other one's gonna the child is gonna be in high school before i get finished oh on that uh is it one of those uh afghans that i've seen in the packages or the the squares large squares embarrassing well yeah i just i bought the cloth and the the pattern for it i didn't um i didn't buy the uh i didn't buy a kit oh uh-huh well i've seen the afghans in the in the stores that uh are designed for cross-stitch uh-huh it's it's that cloth it's called Anne Cloth i think and it has the borders and everything already oh okay um-hum yeah those are pretty number one turned out just great and the lady said she couldn't believe that they know that i had done it in the colors that they had decorated the uh the nursery and i didn't even know it oh that's a coincidence she i gave it to her and she said how did you know those are the colors we used i said didn't that was a good coincidence just worked out that way that's great um that uh now i've got some material to do an afghan but i just never did get around to finishing it um-hum i like those those are pretty yeah Lilly yeah Lilly she she said i said it's for it's for your daughter to use oh no she said i know she doesn't get to touch it she hung it on the wall yes my uh grandmother uh made us a couple of quilts for the baby and i was like oh i don't want to mess those up um-hum yeah oh there just too nice i mean you don't get many hand made quilts anymore yeah oh yeah um true well i've enjoyed this okay uh but uh wel l keep up the good um well keep up the cross-stitching you too all righty bye bye all right thanks bye bye