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They say that there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I'd love to know who They are; I'd correct their ass. There's a WHOLE lot of overlap.

So I like to make use of my intelligence, both academic and creative. My big thing is art, in many forms, the present one being carving and making bushcraft gear. People love my hiking sticks and pipes and it's not hard to make a sale, or more often a trade, or more often still, a gift.

Tourist season is a couple months away, so to satiate my restless hands and concentrate my focus I'm right now working on some pipes for a store that I deal with.

So what kind of things do you do when you go to your Happy Place? The laws of probability tell me that I'm not the only one here who has hobbies. They also tell me that I'm not the only showoff on the internet, so if you want to show your stuff to everyone, I'd like to see it.

Here's a pipe that's almost finished. It just needs a coat of linseed oil.

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I love singing and dancing around the house. 🤣 I’m a paper crafter. I make cards, books, and other things to bless people. I’m a brand new butterfly momma! 🐛🦋 I will attract butterflies through the plants to leave their eggs, collect and protect the tiny caterpillars, feed them, and then release them after they come out of their chrysalises. I have hope. The butterfly symbolizes my hope.

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That's pretty cool, I like that. A few of us did that with tadpoles back in the 70s.

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I make handmade cards of all types, but in bulk. They’re strictly to give some love to others who are hurting.

Cards to lift up people hurting.
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Love this! I’m a card maker too and for the same reason and to show my love and caring for them❤️ Want to do more with it though..

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Awesome! A kindred spirit. I’ve been making things for a long time. We should talk. I know a LOT of techniques that I can share for you to enjoy and have fun!

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I ditto your comment..I do all those things except for what you do with butterflies..I Love butterflies though..especially white ones🦋🤍 Even though my name here is Brodyboy, I’m female and that’s my dog’s name🐶😊

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I love dogs. I used to have a 95 lb Yellow Lab. I have a cat, 13 years old, the queen of the house!

This is my furry baby, Minkie.
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This is Brody..our 96 pound chocolate lab🐶

Brown lab
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Snoot kisses Brodyboy!

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He says thank you🐶 And kitty kisses to Minkie🐱

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I’d love to see more pictures of Brodyboy! He makes me appreciate the memories of our Lab! You’re so nice!

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I loved mixed media art. Always something new to design and make. Sound familiar?

Pumpkin draped with succulents
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Sounds way too familiar.

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That’s beautiful! I’m so glad that you shared!

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Beautiful!

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I forgot ask you if this was a ceramic pumpkin or a real one. It’s just so beautiful, I wondered how long it could be kept in a real pumpkin. You arranged the succulents so nicely.

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Mixed media art, I love to create new from old!

Window with a view of Le Tour Eiffel
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Very good job. I'd use the middle divider for a shelf personally. Junk always accumulates to fill available shelf and pocket space, and I accumulate a lot of junk to shelf and pocket.

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Love your response, so us isn’t it!

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I think it's a primal urge; part of being human. At least it is for me. This is my hobby bench, Mount Junkmore...

Junk Accumulatess to Fill Available Shelf Space
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Here’s to Mount Junk 🙌🏻

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Would you like to share more of your amazing wood projects. You can do a wide variety of things. I love looking at the creative side in others. It’s a good, positive for us to share!

I used to do drama when I was younger. Since the lockdowns began I have started painting

Whale underwater touchin the bottom of a boat.
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OM goodness! I love your whale. Thank you for sharing this!

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Wow..love this!

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More artwork please! I can’t draw stick figures well. I can quill, and do tons of other paper crafting arts. You can actually create beautiful art! Way to go!

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🥰 thank you! I've just painted this today. I'm happy with the way it turned out despite having to cut an old wall painting brush to do the blue leaves... I need new brushes when I can afford them!

Snow scene with tree with blue leave in forefront.
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I appreciate your artistic view. Thank you for allowing me to see this.

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That's gorgeous! I love your use of the colours and the way the sun is framed by the trees. I could go on but...

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That's beautiful. I'd love to be able to do it a bit better.

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Been playing with some dollar store bamboo lately. This is what I came up with over the past couple days.

I lined it up with the holes in my Irish whistle and looked up some techniques online and went with it.

Bamboo Irish whistle.
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That’s just awesome! Creativity is part of who we are as human beings. Sharing and appreciating what is in each of us is important!

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And that's the whole premise of the thread! Thanks for visiting me.

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Well then. I get engrossed with drawing, crocheting (difficult pieces), playing the piano, creating resin art pieces for walls, let me see if i can Attach some pics!!!!

Portrait charcoal
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Very good!

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More artwork please! I love it.

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Crochet work I’ve done

Crochet shawl
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Dang! I crochet as well. No one ever made anything like this in my circle. You have a gift. It’s the hyper focus power isn’t it? This is fabulous. It looks hand weaved.

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Extremely hyper focused. As in can’t put it down to do anything. Else. Can’t hear people around me. But i also Have tons of projects that i cant Complete. Also i can Only focus on crocheting during the winter for some reason. Ha. Anyway. This is call mosaic crochet and I fell in love with it the moment i saw it!!!!

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It’s freaking amazing work! You rock!

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You are the crochet master 🙌🏻! I’d have that one displayed! Share more if you’d like to please.

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I had to encourage you to check out Bella Coco on YouTube from the UK! Amazing crochet stitch tutorials! Love this! ❤️

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Thank you. I follow This lady from iceland that has amazing work that i take And recreate! I will def look her up! Thanks so much!!!!

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Another one

Another crochet blanket i made For my mother for Christmas.
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Portrait photography I’ve done.

Portrait photography
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She's breathtaking!

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Finally a resin art piece

Resin artwork
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That's beautiful! I like the randomness of it. I look for the random patterns in wood grain that resembles things.

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Thank you. It’s so fun to make. There for sure is some intention with it but mostly controlled random!

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I love resin art. How beautiful 🤩

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Thank you 😊

I really appreciate the beauty in wood working. My dad had his friend make these for me before he died.

Intertwined giraffes
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That's cool.

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So beautiful

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Thank you for being so sweet!

A memento

A cross my dad’s friend made for me.
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Here's a few flies I tied a few years ago. Found them the other day.

Trout flies.
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Now that’s pretty cool! I’ve never had anyone teach me that skill! Does it take a long time to do each of them?

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Not bad, 10-15minutes for something like these, maybe a little longer.

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Really? That’s awesome! They look great!

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Thanks. It's one of a dozen things I like to do to keep my hands moving in a productive direction. If I don't I get edgy and find unproductive things. I like this way better.

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When doing that do you have to use a magnifier to work with to be able to see? This has always interested me.

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I just use a high-mag pair of reading glasses, #3.0. I had a clamp-on one for the desk, but it was a nuisance.

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This is what a laptop workspace used to mean...

Hobby table.
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Having a rough time with the adhd today. Making wrong turns everywhere in town, forgetting things I wanted to bring with me, not noticing flashing lights at crosswalks, all in the plural sense.

But anyway, I made $55 on a hiking stick and made it home alive so all turned out well.

Off to Newfoundland and it's new owner.
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Beautiful! You have many areas of talent. That’s so wonderful to me!

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Thank you very much. I do like to play.

We should do a sharing group for the creative ADHDers!

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You mean trading our work?

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No. Lifting one another up, maybe teaching little things to be therapeutic, or just appreciating the gifts we each have.

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Oh absolutely, that'd be a cool thing to do. It's basically the reason for this thread... I like to see what others do to cope and show what I do.

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A friend is going to be at a farmers' market in a couple weeks and she asked me if I had anything ready to go.

Hmm... lemme see. Yup. A whole line of pipes. I'll leave some unfinished as hillbilly pipes, put a finish on others and do carvings on some of the bowls.

Spring Lineup
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I just finished my latest project with a coat of paint, so now as it dries I'll show it off.

A crossbow has been on my Things To Make bucket list for a while now and I took two weeks to design and make one. It's just for target practice, flinging darts about 60ft with a good shot.

It's made from household junk like old blinds, a broken rake handle, wire coat hanger, a clothespin, stuff like that. There were even two pulleys on the blinds so I made it a compound.

When we get some good weather I'll start concentrating on a good dart design for accuracy and distance.

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