[speaker001:] what are some of your hobbies
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] but um well I love to sew
[speaker001:] oh great
[speaker002:] I like to
[speaker001:] clothing for yourself or your family or
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] or craft uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] I really spend spend more time doing crafty kind of sewing yeah you know doing
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] you know appliques on T-shirts and you know that kind of fun stuff and and I make a lot of Christmas gifts too
[speaker001:] oh cute fun you oh do you like for instance what
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh well how fun oh
[speaker002:] um make a real nice gift you know
[speaker001:] that sounds fun oh
[speaker002:] yeah so what kinds of things do you do
[speaker001:] well I enjoy right now I'm kind of into uh tole painting on wood wood type projects
[speaker002:] oh neat did you take a class
[speaker001:] no I just I have a sister-in-law that kind of has taught me and
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then the projects I do are not real complicated I know some people
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] yes yeah  ooh neat yeah
[speaker001:] um little for Christmas I made some tulip recipe card holders
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] and and different things like that I also
[speaker002:] well that's neat have you painted on T-shirts or sweat shirts at all
[speaker001:] I've painted um just with that oh it's called scribbles you know the little paint in a bottle
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh right uh-huh
[speaker002:] um but a lot of the stuff they do really you know evidently is pretty easy but I've just never
[speaker001:] never attempted it
[speaker002:] you know never gotten to it I just you know don't have time
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] but I don't know it it sure looks complicated
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] right oh um-hum
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] well how cute oh how fun
[speaker002:] and she also she also makes dolls but she also paints so
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] I've had her paint on like a denim jumper these children around the bottom and it's so cute
[speaker001:] oh how darling
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh how cute
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh oh that sounds really cute
[speaker002:] so they really are cute and uh she does them so quickly and she only charges ten dollars
[speaker001:] oh does she uh you're kidding
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] wow boy that is something
[speaker002:] and it was ten dollars to to do that
[speaker001:] my word boy does she have a lot of people asking her to do it
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] I bet a line probably right I bet and she probably did
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh oh uh-huh oh have you ever sewn the stuffed animal type things
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] any stuffed animals or
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] oh how fun uh-huh oh how fun
[speaker002:] they were they turned out real cute and they were easy they were um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know from the fabric store buy the already stamped on it and all so
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh well how fun
[speaker002:] but they're real cute they're real cute you know Christmas looking patterns so I gave one away and and kept one
[speaker001:] well how fun
[speaker002:] but I also love to do things that have to do with like either dried flowers dried flowers and silk flowers and
[speaker001:] oh do you arr ange
[speaker002:] you know make not so much arrangements like to sit on a table but you know to go on a wall or
[speaker001:] um-hum oh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] uh oh yes yeah uh-huh
[speaker002:] with the Spanish moss and all the flowers and stuff and um
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh
[speaker002:] and I do fabric in baskets a lot with all the ruffles and all that stuff you know um
[speaker001:] oh do you oh well you sound like you're talented
[speaker002:] well it it's called talent with a hot glue gun you know