Bonnie's Other Hobbies

I have a few other hobbies besides reading, making dolls, and making jewelry:

• Collecting kaleidoscopes
  I started the collection in 1985 when my friend Debra sent me a kaleidoscope for Hanukkah. I had wanted to collect something interesting and that was just the right thing for me. I aim for a variety of mechanisms in my collection, as well as scopes that are pretty on both the inside and the outside. I think the most interesting mechanism I have has an object case filled with brightly colored feathers and you move them around by squeezing a pump which sends in a burst of air. The pump is just like the ones you see on perfume atomizers.
  
  
• Crochetting other than dolls
  I've made many afghans and a couple of sweaters and a poncho, a shawl, a scarf and a bag.
  
  
• Knitting
  Mostly I've knitted sweaters. I'm not a very good knitter and I find that my progress is pretty slow. I've gotten away from knitting in recent years, but I do enjoy it, and I especially like doing cables and other twisty stitches. I'm sure I'll get back to it some day.
  
  
• Fulling
  So far I've been making bags from wool sweaters.

I guess there is a theme here: crafting and things with interesting colors. I really like playing around with colors and textures, and I think that's what draws me to crafting with beads, fabric, and yarn. I am like a kid in a candy shop in any type of store that sells craft supplies. I kind of get tired of things quickly and like trying new things, so that's why there's a lot of variety here. I'm not very good at fine arts, as I discovered in a watercolor class I took somewhere around 1989 (can't draw worth a darn), so I've pretty much stayed away from that.