What are your interests or crafts?
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First, let me say that I do not have a creative or crafty bone in my body. I can play music though (flute and piano) but I would never be able to write my own music. I'm a very logical person.
I read a lot. Right now I'm rereading stuff because I'm out of new books. Any recommendations? My kids take up a good bit of my time. I have a six year old and a four year old.
I read a lot. Right now I'm rereading stuff because I'm out of new books. Any recommendations? My kids take up a good bit of my time. I have a six year old and a four year old.
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I love baking, but then I end up gaining weight.
Sewing
Candle Making
Crochet
Cross Stitch
Knitting (started last week)
I also cut and dye hair, but mostly my own.
And I do acrylic nails.
Wrath I do all of those except nails and knitting. Mike made me give up knitting when he sat on a knitting needle. I took some beauty school and then ended up doing my hair, hubby's mom and anyone else that gets in my path.
Cori, Pink pistons? That sounds like a girls sports team!
Danalea, I have a tin ear and couldn't play music if my life depended on it!
But you should hear me sing! I recomend earmuffs....lol
Dana start a thread about books! I love reading and a few on here do too.
I have a few authors to share.
I love baking, but then I end up gaining weight.
Sewing
Candle Making
Crochet
Cross Stitch
Knitting (started last week)
I also cut and dye hair, but mostly my own.
And I do acrylic nails.
Wrath I do all of those except nails and knitting. Mike made me give up knitting when he sat on a knitting needle. I took some beauty school and then ended up doing my hair, hubby's mom and anyone else that gets in my path.
Cori, Pink pistons? That sounds like a girls sports team!
Danalea, I have a tin ear and couldn't play music if my life depended on it!
But you should hear me sing! I recomend earmuffs....lol
Dana start a thread about books! I love reading and a few on here do too.
I have a few authors to share.
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Lets see I cross stitch onces in a great while, do plastic canvas even less, sew sometimes (after all have to do this one because my degree is in apparale design), Make lye soap, bath salts, bath bombs, lip balms, lotion, mineral makeup, and other such cosmetics, learning to cook better, love baking, starting to paint on the kids walls, and I am sure there is some stuff I missed...LOL
Hey Kelly, I bet you can find tons of dripper bottles and stuff for DIY in the lip balm, soap and candle places! I found one site that had the red pump for refilling carts that J.C. sells on one of those sites..of course I forgot to book mark it!
I wanted to go to beauty school since I was 13, but now that I am actually able to go back to school I changed my mind.
I know enough to do my own hair and friends, that's good enough for me.
But I can go to school for the same amount of time for nursing and make 100k+ more a year in the hospital on base.
No brainer
I know enough to do my own hair and friends, that's good enough for me.
But I can go to school for the same amount of time for nursing and make 100k+ more a year in the hospital on base.
No brainer
I'm a nurse, hairstylist as well as an artist... And actually if you have a natural talent for hair( more then half could take cosmetology 3 x's over and still just do not have the knack for it) you can make just as much money at it as you can in nursing .. It really depends on what's important to you...
I found nursing to be highly stressful ( thank goodness there are those that seem to thrive on that!)....The differences are mainly in the benefits...You can work for a company and get benefits as a stylist but, I am not willing to work my .... off and them take half my money lol...I am lucky in the fact that my husbands benefits cover me...So in nursing you get good health benefits and a "steady" pay check...There are ways as a stylist to fix the "steady" paycheck thing.. I rent space in a high end assisted living facility = built in overwhelming clientele.. Then I do friends and family to keep up the more creative side of hair... I make my own hrs/days that I want to work ( which allows me to take on art jobs)..And trust me, you're not going to be constantly calling in when you have to call x number of clients to get the day off lol..However, the option is there...And when you need spare cash you can always call your cousin> Hey, you need a perm right?..Cause I need a mod! (laugh)... I highly believe in continuing education..Having more then one career to fall back on is nice...
Even though I disliked nursing.. I still know it's there for me If I strongly needed it..Stressing "strongly"! lol
:: Insomnia, I gots it too:: ugh lol
I found nursing to be highly stressful ( thank goodness there are those that seem to thrive on that!)....The differences are mainly in the benefits...You can work for a company and get benefits as a stylist but, I am not willing to work my .... off and them take half my money lol...I am lucky in the fact that my husbands benefits cover me...So in nursing you get good health benefits and a "steady" pay check...There are ways as a stylist to fix the "steady" paycheck thing.. I rent space in a high end assisted living facility = built in overwhelming clientele.. Then I do friends and family to keep up the more creative side of hair... I make my own hrs/days that I want to work ( which allows me to take on art jobs)..And trust me, you're not going to be constantly calling in when you have to call x number of clients to get the day off lol..However, the option is there...And when you need spare cash you can always call your cousin> Hey, you need a perm right?..Cause I need a mod! (laugh)... I highly believe in continuing education..Having more then one career to fall back on is nice...
Even though I disliked nursing.. I still know it's there for me If I strongly needed it..Stressing "strongly"! lol
:: Insomnia, I gots it too:: ugh lol
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I used to work in health care, hated it.
I know some people who spent lots of money going to nursing school only to find out they hated the field.I think it takes a special kind of person to do that kind of work and not get beaten down by it. You have to be able to focus on the pluses and not dwell on the bad, and the bad side of it was just to depressing for me.
It's a shame, because that's one place where there will always be jobs. They're begging for people here in Hawaii and I just can't bring myself to go back into it.
I used to work in health care, hated it.
I think it takes a special kind of person to do that kind of work and not get beaten down by it. You have to be able to focus on the pluses and not dwell on the bad, and the bad side of it was just to depressing for me.
It's a shame, because that's one place where there will always be jobs. They're begging for people here in Hawaii and I just can't bring myself to go back into it.
I work in healthcare as a medical assistant. I miss being creative. I do things like my daughter's prom dress that I posted pics of, and the other things I listed in another post.
I also have my cosmetology license on inactive and think about going back to it from time to time. I just can't get past the no set income thing that goes along with it. I need to be able to depend on a set amount of money.
I can't even IMAGINE how stressful nursing is these days. I know how stressful being a CNA was and how stressful being a MA is. We had 65 patients last Wednesday and were working short staffed. Both docs wanted blood draws, EKG's, PFT's...it was a day from you-know-where. Then the office manager leaves to pick up her son from school, meanwhile it's after 3 and there's no way to take lunches when we're short, and she's gone over an HOUR. She comes back for 10 minutes and runs back out for another errand. So...we got no lunch that day....
I'd HIGHLY suggest that anyone going for nursing get at least a job as a CNA to test the waters before jumping in. Nursing is bad these days, not enough staff, always working short....ALWAYS an accident waiting to happen...
I guess though that if my creative stuff were my "job", it wouldn't be an outlet for me...it's be another stressor, something else that I HAD to do and I'd lose the enjoyment from it.
Lorraine, You just discribed so many "typical" days... So many times I was the only nurse on the floor..Exhausted from a 16 hr shift.Only to be told my replacement didn't show and if I walked off the floor I'd loose my license..Not enough time to do all that was to be done and threatened to be fired if you stayed over to finish ( I had found meds in the trash = nurses tossing them cause they didnt have time to pass them all..because their job was on the line)
But the day I walked off was the day I almost lost a patient because I couldnt find any proper equipment..She was blue and choking ( having been laid flat with a G-tube by a negligent cna - whom I later found asleep under a bed)..There was no oxygen or suction tubing in the whole facility..The Dr wasnt returning my call and I had to leave this choking woman just to call 911..I've never felt such terror in my life...Later, upon telling my Director of nursing what happend she shrugged and said " you handled it"..I cried all the way home and never went back...
And they wonder why they are in desperate need of nurses...I do realize my story is not typical..And in no way would want to scare someone from doing this..My situation was just really bad...And horrified me too badly to try any other nursing postions.
So yea, give me hairspray and paint anyday! lol
wheew, sorry..I truly did not mean to high jack this thread...I thought I was over all that truama..Guess not.............Back to fun stuff > Im going to paint bullet holes surrounding a lit cig on the front of my 510 PCC, I think lol
But the day I walked off was the day I almost lost a patient because I couldnt find any proper equipment..She was blue and choking ( having been laid flat with a G-tube by a negligent cna - whom I later found asleep under a bed)..There was no oxygen or suction tubing in the whole facility..The Dr wasnt returning my call and I had to leave this choking woman just to call 911..I've never felt such terror in my life...Later, upon telling my Director of nursing what happend she shrugged and said " you handled it"..I cried all the way home and never went back...
And they wonder why they are in desperate need of nurses...I do realize my story is not typical..And in no way would want to scare someone from doing this..My situation was just really bad...And horrified me too badly to try any other nursing postions.
So yea, give me hairspray and paint anyday! lol
wheew, sorry..I truly did not mean to high jack this thread...I thought I was over all that truama..Guess not.............Back to fun stuff > Im going to paint bullet holes surrounding a lit cig on the front of my 510 PCC, I think lol
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I repeat..this is not the main floor of the ECF, don't worry about hijacking, spelling or anything else. We are here in the Women's Room to share, play, inform and most of all to support each other! It's nice to stay on topic, it's better to rise above it.
Just try to keep to the topic in the main forum. That's where the serious business is.
The only rule down here is to play nice, any sniping or flaming will get you a fast ride out on the back of your broom. (no offense to Lucky and her wicked witches broom).
Just try to keep to the topic in the main forum. That's where the serious business is.
The only rule down here is to play nice, any sniping or flaming will get you a fast ride out on the back of your broom. (no offense to Lucky and her wicked witches broom).
Wow. I'm glad I am not in the medical field. I am in another field that scares most folks it seems---TEACHING. Just graduated with my teaching degree and am desperately trying to find a job. Who would have thought THAT?
Crafts? Hobbies? Oh dear! I enjoy the following when the urge comes:
Music (guitar, piano)
Art (drawing, digital art, decoupage)
Craft (knitting...have too much yarn!)
I want to learn glass fusing and slumping at some point. It would an expensive hobby, but it looks like a blast! I love dichroic glass. So fun!
Oh and I love to vape.
Crafts? Hobbies? Oh dear! I enjoy the following when the urge comes:
Music (guitar, piano)
Art (drawing, digital art, decoupage)
Craft (knitting...have too much yarn!)
I want to learn glass fusing and slumping at some point. It would an expensive hobby, but it looks like a blast! I love dichroic glass. So fun!
Oh and I love to vape.
My 25 yr. old teaches high school special ed in DC. She just got her masters last year. I think some of her kids are almost as old as she is....hehe.
What is fusing and slumping?
ooohhhh.....pretty! Is it just for art's sake or can it be used for tiles and such?dichroic glass:
Just the little bit I looked up on-line, It's used for jewelry, tiles and art pieces. I am sure there are lots of uses.
Slumping and fusing is just a fancy term for forming hot glass and sticking it together to make things.
And yes, that is dichroic glass! So fun and colorful! I see no reason it couldn't be used for tiles, mosaics, and such.
Have you guys ever been to Etsy :: Your place to buy and sell all things handmade
It is a place where you can buy and sell handmade things. I like to get ideas from other artists.
Lorraine: Your daughter is in a great place with her masters and teaching special education. Special ed. teachers are hard to come by it seems.
And yes, that is dichroic glass! So fun and colorful! I see no reason it couldn't be used for tiles, mosaics, and such.
Have you guys ever been to Etsy :: Your place to buy and sell all things handmade
It is a place where you can buy and sell handmade things. I like to get ideas from other artists.
Lorraine: Your daughter is in a great place with her masters and teaching special education. Special ed. teachers are hard to come by it seems.
Thanks thatgirl, Nice site... I found an artist on there that I really like...beautiful reference pics.
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