We’re sharing hobbies this week:
#1. What are you passionate about besides reading and blogging?
Tell us why you’re passionate about it. Post photos of what you’ve made or of yourself doing whatever it is you love doing.
#2. Get us involved. Link to tutorials, recipes, Youtube videos, websites, fan sites, etc, anything that will help us learn more about your interest or how to do your hobby. Maybe you’d like to link to another hobbyist whose work you admire or tell us about a book or magazine related to your interest.
#3. Visit other Weekly Geeks. Link in your post to other Geeks who’ve peaked your interest in their passion. Or maybe you might find a fellow aficionado among us, link to them.
So, what do I do when I’m not reading, blogging, driving the kids somewhere, chasing the kids, playing with the kids, or sleeping?
Hmmm.
I wish I could say I was truly passionate about something, but I’m not. I’ve dabbled in crafty stuff in the past — sewing, cross-stitch, decoupage, and the like — and decided that it’s all just a way for me to spend money at Hobby Lobby. (Even though I do like my knick-knacks…) I don’t really *do* anything with it. And since I’m the anti-pack rat (I throw things out regularly), I can’t stand things just collecting for collecting’s sake.
I do enjoy cooking… I’m no gourmet, or even very good. But I do enjoy cooking meals. I call it my “unwinding time” (I try to let the girls help, because I know that they need to learn, but honestly, I like getting into a groove and going with it.) and actually enjoy the process of cooking. Especially the smells. I love my house to smell like something I’ve just recently made. Especially bread. I love the smell of fresh-baked bread… I also really like decorating cakes (not too good at baking them, though…) for my girls birthdays. I’m going to post some here, and cross my fingers that they don’t end up on Cake Wrecks…
As for question #2… if you’re even remotely interested, find a good Wilton class and take that. It’s really the best starting place. I’d love to be able to do this kind of stuff, though (from Charm City Cakes):
I just lack time, resources and artistic talent.
The other thing I like taking pictures. I’m not very good at it, either, but it’s also something I enjoy doing to relieve stress. (I really like looking at other people’s photos, too. Lisa at Bluestocking has some beautiful ones, as do my Nook friends Corinne, Cami and Kelly.) Anyway. A couple that I’ve taken that I really liked:
As for question 3, I found that there are quite a few cooks out there — Michelle, Jackie (she posted recipes!), and Gautami Tripathy — are among the ones I found. As for (aspiring) photographers, I enjoyed looking at everyone’s photos. 🙂 Lou and softdrink have the one passion I’d love to have: that of travel. Sigh. There’s always living vicariously…
Staci
The Book Nut 
I started decorating cakes and cookies out of necessity. I have to make my son’s baked good because he is allergic to eggs and dairy. I made a Lightning McQueen cake this year that turned out better than I thought it would, but I definitely don’t have any talent for it!
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Those are really good cakes! Mine don’t even make it to the icing stage, they always fall flat or are undercooked, or my specialty….burnt lol
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I have a personal challenge to try baking bread this year – love your heart cake! and that b&w umbrella photo is really cool. 🙂
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Your cakes are just lovely!
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I love looking at Charm City Cakes. I’m with you there, I wish I could be that talented. Cakes are so much fun to make. I’ve been playing with filled cakes and it’s not too terribly hard. Just bake a cake, slice it in half and stick some pudding in between. Although I have been getting a little more creative than that, but not by much. 🙂
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What a delicious hobby 🙂
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Mmm…yummy! They look good.
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Beautiful cakes, beautiful photos!
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Decorating cakes is hard, I think. I worked at two different franchises where we decorated cakes and I never got it right. If one can get the mechanics and techniques down it is such a fun way to be creative! Your train cake is my favorite.
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I love the post, especially the photos. I haven’t found anything I could be passionate about as much as i am about reading though. I think it’s great that you did!
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Your cakes are awesome! Every cake I’ve ever made has been lopsided or baked unevenly haha.
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sweetness!
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Beautiful cakes and photography! I linked you up in my Weekly Geeks post. I love your cakes!
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Great cakes! I won the Confetti Cakes for Kids book recently and it just makes me laugh. I’ve done some fun cakes for my kids but they mostly involve plastic figurines on a sheet cake. I did make an awesome treasure chest cake one time, though. That was the apex of my cake-decorating career–all downhill from there.
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