what are some of your hobbies
well it's interesting to talk about hobbies hobbies when you're so close to Christmas and don't have time to do any of them
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but um
well i love to sew
oh great
i like to
clothing for yourself or your family or
well i really don't do as much of that um i enjoy that but i work full time so i just don't have time to do too much of that but um
or craft
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i really spend spend more time doing crafty kind of sewing yeah you know doing
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you know appliques on T-shirts and you know that kind of fun stuff and and i make a lot of Christmas gifts too
oh cute
fun you
oh do you like for instance what
oh well let's see um
one year i made a lot of um jewelry bags kind of a little round thing that you draw up with a string you know and has compartments compartments in it and they're you know they go pretty quickly and
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uh-huh well how fun
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um make a real nice gift you know
that sounds fun oh
yeah so what kinds of things do you do
well i enjoy right now i'm kind of into uh tole painting on wood wood type projects
oh neat
did you take a class
no i just i have a sister-in-law that kind of has taught me and
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and then the projects i do are not real complicated i know some people
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just do elaborate and beautiful i i don't think i have a real talent for painting so i haven't done anything like that yet but we've done a few like little carousel horses and
yes yeah
ooh neat yeah
um little for Christmas i made some tulip recipe card holders
oh yeah
and and different things like that i also
well that's neat
have you painted on T-shirts or sweat shirts at all
i've painted um just with that oh it's called scribbles you know the little paint in a bottle
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i've just done things like that but i haven't i've seen some T-shirts painted on them and they're really cute but they look hard to me are they have you done those
yeah
no i really haven't i i just haven't done anything with with paint i think i could do some i could do some i'm not an artistic like you know artist kind of person but
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um but a lot of the stuff they do really you know evidently is pretty easy but i've just never
never attempted it
you know never gotten to it i just you know don't have time
uh-huh well that's yeah that's what they say i've heard them say that's it's just kind of like coloring or paint by number
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but i don't know it it sure looks complicated
yeah it comes out looking really nice we just had a there's a gal in the um i'm a school librarian and there's a a mom at our school that
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is really quite an artist and she does these adorable um little
kids that are just funny i mean i just look at them they just make me laugh they have you know hair that sticks straight out and stuff like that
well how cute
oh how fun
and she also she also makes dolls but she also paints so
wow
i've had her paint on like a denim jumper these children around the bottom and it's so cute
oh how darling
and recently i had her to do um a couple of T-shirts for me and my my aide that um have the children on them and it has um a little stack of books and one of the kids is reading and
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oh how cute
one's wearing a T-shirt that says I Love to read and then it has the name of our school on you know on the kid's um shirt
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oh that sounds really cute
so they really are cute and uh she does them so quickly and she only charges ten dollars
oh does she
uh you're kidding
to paint i mean there must be five children on the just you know on the front of the T-shirt plus all this other little stuff
wow
boy that is something
and it was ten dollars to to do that
my word boy does she have a lot of people asking her to do it
yes yes um this particular one i told her i said if you do this real cute i said you'll probably have about fifty more orders from all the teachers in my school
i bet a line probably
right i bet and she probably did
so
yeah well she just did them i just got them couple days ago so i think as soon as we wear them to school and everybody sees them it'll be it'll be good
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oh have you ever sewn the stuffed animal type things
um
any stuffed animals or
just a few i made two bears this Christmas uh not out of furry but you know out of the Christmas kind of fabric um
oh how fun
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oh how fun
they were they turned out real cute and they were easy they were um
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you know from the fabric store buy the already stamped on it and all so
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oh well how fun
but they're real cute they're real cute you know Christmas looking patterns so i gave one away and
and kept one
well how fun
but i also love to do things that have to do with like either dried flowers dried flowers and silk flowers and
oh do you arr ange
you know make not so much arrangements like to sit on a table but you know to go on a wall or
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you know some pretty stuff on top of a basket or around a basket you know the dried stuff around the top edge of the basket
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oh yes yeah uh-huh
with the Spanish moss and all the flowers and stuff and um
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and i do fabric in baskets a lot with all the ruffles and all that stuff you know um
oh do you
oh
well you sound like you're talented
well
it it's called talent with a hot glue gun you know
