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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: wombatie on June 03, 2013, 02:47:28 am
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I am in a scrolling slump. At least I think thats what you could call it. I have not been out to the garage in almost 2 months now and the awful thing is I don't want to go. Yes I have a project that I want to do, its a Sue Mey pattern but I just can't be bothered. Yet I'm feeling guilty because the project is for my husband. No I'm not depressed, no its not the weather because I have a pretty good heater out there, I just don't know what the problem is. Originally it was because I was so busy with life, doctors, running around for my husband, running around for my daughters and running around for myself but not now everything as calmed down and I am stuck in the house reading a book, not even a really good book. LOL Do you ever get like this and does it go away?
Marg
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Hi Marg
Yea I get that was sometimes and yea it does go away sometimes RL gets in the way of the hobby. Just ride out the storm and the passion will return.
Rob
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Marg, been there,done that--I think we all have--I cut most of my items for gifts. When I see my wives eye light up when I show her something-that gets me back going-another thing is I don't really care to do more than one of a kind--when I have to do several cuttings of the same thing, I start to feel as though it is a job instead of a hobby--I hope you get back to felling like cutting soon--Best regards, Richard--we need a asmiley face for group hugs
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Hey Marge, I have been in your place also. I do scrolling as the mood strikes me. Sometime I scroll item after item, usually during holidays when I need to get stuff done and then I quit and go onto something else. Since I have may hobbies, stained glass, scrolling, woodburning etc I just pick another hobby till the scrolling bug bites me again. We all go thru this, I just our brain just says *enough* time to do something else or nothing at all.
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I was sick with a sinus infection the whole month of March and did not do any wood working. It has been really hard for me to get back into the mood to. I am right there with ya. ;)
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It is like exercising, sometimes it is hard to get into the mood. The intention is good and it is something you want to do but ya have to get motivated. Good luck ;D
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I really enjoy scrolling, but it is only part of my woodworking. If I am just woodworking for the sake of it, I have difficulty getting enthused, but if a project excites me, then I can't get enough. Funny thing is I almost never make something for my own use. Everything is for gifts, mostly for my wife. For the past few months I have been building her a tall shaker clock and everything else has gone by the wayside. I will have to re-set my goals and projects once I finally finish the clock.
Maybe it is time to tackle another aspect of woodworking, or at least to browse around until you see a project you can get excited over. Once the enthusiasm returns, you will find yourself right at home in front of the saw again.
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Sounds like you need to buy a new tool.
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I also have "Marg's syndrome". ;) (Do we have a new medical problem, with a name?)
Am trying to get motivated to start scrolling but it's hard to get started. Can't afford a new tool but do want to get a belt sander, one day.
Good luck, Marg,
Jim
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I was in a scrolling slump before too. Don't know why but just didn't feel like scrolling or turning. I did go to the garage and clean all the benches. That led to cleaning the saw. Then when I realized how clean everything was I couldn't handle it and started making dust again. Just saying...
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Thanks guys I needed that. Its no good me doing another hobby, scrolling is the only one that I am good at. No good cleaning up the garage we are renovating/decorating the bathroom, toilet and laundry areas and my husband as stuff EVERYWHERE in the garage. And no we don't need any new tools. I've been looking through my books and magazines and come up with a few new things to put on my to do list. So I guess I just sit around until I am thoroughly bored with myself and get my butt out into the garage. I really hope that time comes soon.
Marg
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Hey Marg, I'm with you. I haven't turned on the saw for weeks. Have all kinds of projects that need doing but can't seem to care. Part of my problem is health I know. Am going in tomorrow for an angiogram as my nuclear stress test shows that I may have some blockage and if so, they will put in stints. Hopefully, I will start feeling better and want to do something.
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Hi Keppy good luck with the Angiogram. Already had two of them, Bunged up arteries. Hope all goes well.
Rob Roy.
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i gets like that from time to time.got a couple project on the go now just can't seem to get at them.
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Hey Marge....I am glad you started this post. I have not stopped scrolling or doing
some other wood working, but back yonder I was always excited every day to get
another project started and finished. Now a days things have slowed down some.
Got tired of cutting portraits. (I must have 2 full paper boxes full of them) Think
my hang up now is I look n look for patterns, but hardly any bring that excitement
to mind. Anyway I think we all get into some type of slump here n there. Danny :+}
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Kepy good luck with the angiogram, I've had 2 too. One because I had a major blockage in the main artery going to my right leg, stents were not good enough to fix it so I had to have a major operation. And the second one for a blockage to my heart that was the easy one thank goodness.
Danny the project that is waiting for me I really wanted to do, it the Workshop blade for my husband. It will take me some time to do because I don't use spiral blades. I have the pattern ready, the wood is ready, the saw is ready but I'm not. Oh well I guess it will all come back to me soon I hope.
Marg
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Marge...I think it is human nature....
I used to LOVE to cook! Then I got bitten by the "Scrolling Bug" and went from the kitchen to the shop and didn't return for several years.
Now I am in a constant state of indecision whether I want to scroll or cook so I try to do both but NOT at the same time. I'm finding that when I am seated at my saw I am thinking about what is in the freezer, pantry and fridge and what I am can to do with whatever is there. When I get busy in the kitchen I am thinking about what interesting thing I can make next in the shop.
An old friend and Radio personality here in St. Louis used to say...."I never can trust a guy who doesn't have at least TWO hobbies!"
~~~GB~~~
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Hi Marg, sorry to hear you are in a slump, maybe another holiday(in Cornwall) will help. I am going through one myself too, but I just getting depressed. After 8 months of fighting through an appeal and then a tribunal to win my case for sick benefits, I just recieved a letter telling me the benefit all stops on 13th of next month and I'll get no more payments, I now have te re-apply all over again including more medicals just to get sickness benefir again at a lower rate if I get it. sometimes I just wonder what is the point in going on, is it worth it.
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I wondered why we had not seen much of you Keith. I'm so sorry for what you are going through, I know the UK make you jump through a lot of different shaped hoops and then some more. I hope that one day it will all come good for you.
GB my second hobby is collecting recipes and then putting them in a cupboard and never looking at them again. LOL My daughter jokes that that is what I should serve for dinner, just the printed recipe, a bit of paper on each plate, because that is the only way it would ever get used. LOL
If I received an order tomorrow I would be in that garage like a flash, never mind I am confidant that I will be back at it in the near future.
Marg
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MARG I understand how you feel. I have been in my shop for just a few hours at a time to making few things.
It has been great weather for my shop but just not been in the mood to make to many things. this will pass and I hope to get busy this fall or in your case this coming spring. ;D
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Glad to hear there are a lot more people like this. I was starting to feel guilty that I have neglected my saw :D I have a project to get done for my brother-in-law for a gift and I am having a hard time getting motivated to get at it. Oh ya and its for a fathers day gift so I'm also running out of time. LOL