CLASSIC HOBBIES FOR YOU TO TRY ｜｜ Knitting, gardening, and more!
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about how to take your hobby game from "okay" to "classic" and talk about some of the things you can incorporate into your life to make it a little more fun. I think that everyone should have some sort of hobby that they really enjoy, and it doesn't necessarily have to be creative, but I think there are a lot of different things that can be incorporated into their life that will just kind of give you a little extra burst of happiness when things are a little bit slow or boring.
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Hello beautiful ladies and welcome to today's video where we're going to be
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talking about how to take your hobby game from okay to classic.
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I love hobbies. I love making things, I love creating things, I love writing, I
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love all of the above and so for me hobbies are a really good way for me to
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express myself and I think that everybody should have some sort of hobby
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that they really enjoy. It doesn't necessarily have to be creative, the ones
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that I like to do are but I think there are a lot of different things that you
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can incorporate into your life that will just kind of give you a little extra
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burst of happiness when things are a little bit slow or boring or whatever it
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is. So the first hobby I want to talk about is knitting. When I was growing up my
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grandmother stayed with us for a few days after she had gotten surgery and while
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she was at our house she decided to teach us all, me and my sisters, how to knit. I
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have used that ever since. Now I will say I am NOT very good at knitting so I
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stick with like two different stitches, the knit and the purl, and I pretty much
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only make scarves. But I find knitting so relaxing and it really kind of helps me
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focus as well when I'm watching TV or if I'm talking to my husband. It's something
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for me to do with my hands and I just love it because at the end of, I don't know,
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three, four weeks I have a beautiful scarf to show for my fidgety hands. Now if
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you're somebody who actually could take knitting to a whole other level where
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you're making more than just scarves, you're making sweaters, you're making
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ponchos, that is even better. But of course I'm just somebody who likes to knit
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scarves because I love having something to do and if you're somebody who likes
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having something to do and having something to show for it while you're
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just watching TV or in a conversation with someone then you should definitely
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consider taking up knitting. You end up with so many pretty scarves around the
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house or whatever it is that you make and it's all handmade with love by you. And that is a
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really classic thing. Next up is cooking. Now you guys know how I feel about cooking.
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I think it's a really important skill to have for anyone, male or female, but I
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think it's also something you can make into a hobby. If you turn it into something
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where you're kind of trying to discover new recipes, then you'll end up really
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enjoying the whole process of cooking. Now there are some weeks where you're just
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trying to get food on the table, so on those weeks cooking might not be a hobby. But
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the times where you have a little bit of extra time or you decide you want to do a
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little bit of research and maybe buy the right ingredients, that can make cooking
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so much more fun and it's just such a classic way to keep your house ship shape
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and really delicious. Now my next hobby is actually my job, but it's also my hobby,
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which is singing. I think that singing is a lovely hobby to have and maybe taking a
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few singing lessons or learning some new songs and just singing around the house or
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taking time to really sing for yourself is just a really nice thing to do and
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it's a really feminine classic thing to do. I love singing, as you guys know, but I
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sing not operatically all the time around the house. Sometimes I'm just kind of
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humming or whatever it is and singing is such a nice hobby. It's just a way for you
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to express yourself and it's not something you have to put down on paper.
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It's sometimes just something that you get to do and it's ephemeral and it just
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makes people happy to hear. If you have a partner, I think that if you're not singing
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all the time and being really loud, they might really enjoy having a little
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songbird around the house and if you're alone, it's something that kind of can
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break up the quiet. So I love singing and I think it's a really nice hobby to have.
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My next recommendation is gardening. Now I haven't gardened in a really long time, but
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I'm hoping to garden a little bit once the weather gets nicer because actually a
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good friend of mine and my husband's for our wedding, he gave us some seeds to
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plant for flowers and I just love the idea of that, but I think I've never felt
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rooted down enough to kind of start a garden. So taking the time to plant
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yourself a garden, whether that be fruits or vegetables or just flowers, I think is
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so nice and it really puts you in touch with nature and I would really like to
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kind of reinvest my time in that and I think it's also just a very classic
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beautiful hobby. The next hobby that I have is jewelry making. Now when I was
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living at home a while ago, I did learn how to make jewelry. If you use wire and
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you use certain tools, it's actually not that difficult and you can make jewelry
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that you really enjoy. I don't do it so much anymore, but I think it's a really
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nice thing to do for yourself if it's an easy way for you to express yourself
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creatively and maybe you end up making things for your friends as gifts and
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that's super nice too. So having the skill to make your own jewelry ends up
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being really handy. Actually for my wedding I used those tools and I used
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that experience that I had picked up when I was younger and living at home and I
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actually made the belt that I wore for my wedding and it was made of pearls and
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Swarovski crystals and I put on a little clasp at the end because I had that
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experience. So just knowing how to work with jewelry and make jewelry is a really
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nice hobby to have. My last classic hobby is creative writing. Now you guys know
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that I write for my blog. I also write for Evie magazine and you can write
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whatever you like. It can be a blog post, it can be a story, it can be your thoughts,
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it can be in a journal, but any kind of writing I think is just a really nice
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hobby to have. Sitting down with a physical pen and paper is so important I
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think. I hate keeping my calendar on my phone. I actually don't do it so all of my
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stuff is in a handwritten calendar for example and that translates over to just
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writing in a journal or writing in a notebook and having that expressive
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creative writing part of yourself. I think exploring that and figuring out
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exactly what you love writing about will add to you and who you are and really
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contribute to you in a very classic way. Do you guys do any of these hobbies?
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What other hobbies would you consider classic? Let me know in the comments down
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