Finding an interest

[RainbowAura]

I want to find a hobby which doesn’t cost the earth and suits me
Any ideas? These are my characteristics if it helps and what I’m not good at

Bad or not good at:
*Maths
*Sport of any sort
* science
* Making good craft projects
* organising
* keeping my focus
* uncoordinated
* impatient
*knitting or any sewing or embroidery type stuff
* advanced board games
* reading
* being creative

Interested
* flowers
* trees
* Japanese “things” (love their stationery,stamps, drawings and stickers and some food products..not into anime or manga)
* craft stuff ..despite being bad at it
* sensory type stuff like lava lamps..slime..liquid timers
* pusheen
* pastel shades..colours in general.
* collage
* old fashioned clothing, houses and the like..pre 1950
* 1950’s clothing
* old children’s books and illustrations (like pre 1960 animals and drawings like that)
* genealogy
* English countryside and England pretty much

 

[CDOCONNOR]

You can collect pictures of all those wonderful interests, or plant a garden

 

[Sherlock77]

This may not be what you want to hear, but my personal interests mostly found me, not the other way around...

I pretty much stumbled into my strong interest in photography (long story), I didn't really search for it... My interest in classic cars goes back to when I was young, and has never really left me, now 35 years later, I just don't own a classic car yet!

Perhaps... I would take a look at your personal interests, and just explore some different things... I'm looking at your list right now and the first thing is flowers... I assume you live in England, it's just about to become the season for flowers outside, what are ways you can engage in that, you could possibly get involved with a horticultural society, if you have room at your house learn how to plant flowers there, etc...

 

[Suzanne]

I used to have this catch phrase: I am useless at everything. Then one day and it is so sad really, because there was no reason for it happening, but a thought popped into my head, as I was uttering those all too familar words: I am useless at everything; well if that was the case, wouldn't it make you better than God, even if you failed, you tried EVERYTHING. I laughed at the absudity of the sentance I had uttered for so long and it was not long afterwards that I discovered cross stitching. I can sew, but find it terribly boring and terrible with all arts and crafts; too clumsy. But for some reason, I took to cross stitching as a "duck to water" and have been doing it for year's now.

What is interesting too, is that with anything I have done, I often have found these things and would redo things, because I was not happy with it; but never with cross stitch!

Anyway, you have tons you do enjoy, so incorporate as many as you can. Collections etc etc.

 

[LucyPurrs]

Have you considered a class in Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) and or Bonsai? Those might combine two interests of yours. Encourage you to try stuff you've never done before- you never know when passion will hit you

 

[Progster]

I agree with @Sherlock77 : My interests chose me, I didn't choose them.

What do you feel like doing? What is your emotional response to the question, "Today I'm going to [insert hobby]. Do you think, "Yay, great idea!" or "Meh. Don't feel like doing that." Test your emotional respose.

For a hobby, your first criterium should be to choose something that you are interested in, whether you are good at it or not is incidental.

If you wish to make a career out of your hobby, then you need to choose something that you are both good at and interested in.

 

[Bella Pines]

You could try:

• Scrap booking altered scrapbook
• Chinese ink How to Start Chinese Brush Painting
• Dressmaking McCalls 9783 Vintage 1950's Sewing Pattern Ladies Sleeveless Dress Rockabilly Swing
• Polyvore competitions! Vintage Sewing Patterns
• Make sushi How to Roll Sushi

 

[RainbowAura]

You could try:

• Scrap booking altered scrapbook
• Chinese ink How to Start Chinese Brush Painting
• Dressmaking McCalls 9783 Vintage 1950's Sewing Pattern Ladies Sleeveless Dress Rockabilly Swing
• Polyvore competitions! Vintage Sewing Patterns
• Make sushi How to Roll Sushi

I used to enter polyvore competitions. It was part of my “former life”. I got sick of being unpopular there and just “not good enough”. Some of my old creations lurk the internet..thanks to Pinterest...someone actually pinned my art which is shocking really

 

[Otenba]

If you've got some paper to use (if not, consider using free newspaper perhaps), could do an internet search for origami things to try making. Like those Japanese cranes you see in media.

 

[scrp14]

I've always had it in my mind that I dreamed of inventing a new computer or interface that would change the world and that the engineers were doing it all wrong and its not all based on mathematics but some alien language we haven't yet discovered/interpreted. If anything were my special interest it would have been in that, except I don't have the tools, money, knowledge, connections, or even a workshop to test it all in. Or maybe i'm just going mad.