[speaker002:] hello hi yes hi I'm fine
[speaker001:] hello how are you did you uh did you get the topic
[speaker002:] I think they said hobbies didn't they yeah
[speaker001:] yes uh-huh where are you from calling from oh okay I'm in Dallas yeah oh really
[speaker002:] Plano are you that's about as far away as I've gotten so far I had a lady two blocks away last time
[speaker001:] oh I talked to a guy in Virginia Beach last night
[speaker002:] oh see that would be fun yeah
[speaker001:] yeah that was interesting okay let's talk about our hobbies you ready okay
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] um I don't have too many hobbies right now I do do sew a lot
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and um I used to sew more than what I do now it's it's takes a lot of patience and I'm running out of that the older I get
[speaker002:] yeah it does
[speaker001:] and I used to do a lot of stitchery and uh but that takes a long time too it's just it's very time consuming to do sewing and stitchery and things like that what do you do
[speaker002:] well I used to sew a lot when my girls were really little and I made a lot of their things but like yourself I find I run out of patience with it too and I like to do craft things
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know I was uh make those fabric covered photo albums and I teach a class
[speaker001:] oh those are nice those are really pretty
[speaker002:] uh-huh and I teach that for the Parks and Rec Department a couple times a year
[speaker001:] teach what
[speaker002:] how to do it um-hum and I do that and I do a lot of interior decorating and I can upholster the walls and things like that so that's about my hobby and I don't have time for a whole lot
[speaker001:] oh I see uh-huh that's right
[speaker002:] but um it used to be you did those things to relax but now I don't think there's time to relax so so there is not very much time for that but um
[speaker001:] that's right because the women work now most most of them do and what I did things like that when I wasn't working when uh my kids were little babies and I stayed home with them that's when I did it
[speaker002:] uh-huh I do uh-huh right yes see I did too right that's right
[speaker001:] but when you work full time then it's very hard
[speaker002:] yeah it is hard but it does save money to do things that way and um I found that I got pretty good at decorating so that kind of is real helpful but you do have to find the time
[speaker001:] uh-huh well you probably did it more when your girls were little you did it with them
[speaker002:] so not really I've just really started to do that I just redecorated my bedroom this past year and then I went on to my daughter's room and they turned out really nice I just bought sheets
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and I made the curtains and I upholstered the walls and in her room I even upholstered her furniture the drawers
[speaker001:] oh that's nice
[speaker002:] so it really turned out nice yeah so you can do a lot for a pretty little amount of money that way
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's true
[speaker002:] so my latest thing is those stiffy bow baskets
[speaker001:] those what
[speaker002:] the baskets with the stiffy bows have you seen those
[speaker001:] I don't know if I have or not
[speaker002:] um they're they just have uh like pieces of fabric and they put it in uh fabric stiffener and let it dry and then bend it and put it on baskets it's real attractive and I I haven't done one but I bought the things I need and uh my daughter's mom
[speaker001:] oh is that for a table center piece the basket
[speaker002:] uh just to sit around the house like for sewing and magazines and things whatever you want potpourri depends on the size you buy
[speaker001:] oh I see to put things in uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh friend of mine does them and they're just really pretty and she's supposed to show me exactly how to do it one day when I show her how to do an album so I don't know what day that will be but that's our next project probably after Christmas
[speaker001:] you know when my parents had their fiftieth wedding anniversary I was working in a little Cloth World shop
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and some old ladies came in and they said they did that they said they covered uh photo albums like that
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I said well uh why don't you make one for me and put gold on it because my parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary is coming up and they said okay
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] they said how pretty it was the ones were that they made so they brought one in for me and uh I just I hated it I thought it was awful
[speaker002:] uh-oh
[speaker001:] and here I had told them to make it they were from out in the country you know and they'd made an extra trip to town
[speaker002:] hm you've got to be careful yeah
[speaker001:] to bring me my photo album and I I I didn't like it at all and I told them I said you know I just don't care for this I don't like the way this is put together and uh I don't like what you used and then and then I felt real bad and I said well I'll take it because I ordered it you know and I it was my fault because I didn't specify what I wanted on it or anything I just kind of left it up to them
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and it it was they were old ladies