"I need a hobby" or "Colors, Icons, and Chaplets"

[Rowan]

Judging by the name of this thread, I am obviously good at decision-making. :cool:

So I've been thinking about resurrecting the hobby I had in high school: making prayer beads, or chaplets (it's weird to call them just "jewelry" haha). I wanted to make some to drape around the icons or something; my own little version of decoration the icon wall with flowers :)

So I was wondering do the rules about iconography pertain to color for "categories" of saints? For example, since the Theotokos seems to always be depicted wearing red robes, is her color red? Or do her blue slippers that symbolize her queenship make blue her color? Etc.

Speaking of hobbies, what are your hobbies?

[Hoankan]

Afraid I don't know anything about those.

I'm trying to restart a hobby to give me something to do. I am horrible at painting 2D, but I'm good at 3D, so I am going to start collecting an army for Warhammer again. I enjoy the challenge of collecting a whole army, painting it and playing the game is good as well.

[-Kyriaki-]

I've got a hobby to keep me out of trouble, and that's my embroidery.

I wish I knew something about the colours, but I don't. They sound pretty though.

[Rowan]

I'm trying to restart a hobby to give me something to do. I am horrible at painting 2D, but I'm good at 3D, so I am going to start collecting an army for Warhammer again. I enjoy the challenge of collecting a whole army, painting it and playing the game is good as well.

I used to paint clay models of Power Rangers (these really cheesy kids action heroes, if you don't know) and play with them. Painting is fun :)

[Rowan]

I've got a hobby to keep me out of trouble, and that's my embroidery.


My babysitter used to have me do that.

That is where you knit into a "net-thing" to make a pattern, right? If that's not embroidery...my bad. I don't even know the difference between knitting and crocheting!

[Rowan]

Just to be clear, the color question is about the color of the beads.

[Hoankan]

I used to paint clay models of Power Rangers (these really cheesy kids action heroes, if you don't know) and play with them. Painting is fun :)
Yeah, I know them. I'm in the land of cheese super heroes, for boys at least. The girl heroes are actually pretty cool (oh the flak I'd get if my students knew).

http://store.us.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.us?do=List_Models&code=301575&orignav=301051&ParentID=250064&GameNav=13

this is one of the models I'd like to paint

[-Kyriaki-]

*grins* Rowan, embroidery is stitching pretty pictures onto things. Usually fabric.

Like, cross stitch etc.

[ThePosterFormerlyKnownAs]

I used to enjoy canvas stitching but I haven't done it in years. I might pick it up again.

[ClementofRome]

My wife says I am an OCD hobbyist....I have tried it all....spent the money to get started....do it for a while...and then move on... :)

However, the things that have stuck are:
-playing bluegrass mandolin (I am not very good, but I enjoy it)
-fishing/hunting/camping outdoorsy stuff

Now, my wife is really the OCD hobbyist....her latest endeavor is Shrinky-dink jewelry!!!! :)

[Chocolatesa]

My hobby is photography. I've never taken any courses and my camera isn't worth much but I love taking pictures :D My account on deviantart is www.chocolatesa.deviantart.com/gallery/

[Knowledge3]

Mine is writing journals and notebooks.
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[Dewi Sant]

My hobby is photography. I've never taken any courses and my camera isn't worth much but I love taking pictures :D My account on deviantart is www.chocolatesa.deviantart.com/gallery/

Beautiful pictures (though maybe with the exception of the gory execution one).

Your cat looks identical to mine, she's called Nina though was known to the R.S.P.C.A. as "Fluffy". Do you know what breed yours is...or could it just be coincidence?



In reply to opening post.
I believer that traditionally Blue is the colour associated with the Theotokos.
Blue is certainly the colour associated with her in the R.C. tradition, as well as the Anglican.




ps. I was talking about the black fluffy cat. Mine is named Nina after N. Simone. Our other cat is named Felix, though I think my sister named him that due to lack of originality...Felix is a brand of cat food. Still, I like to think that Felix is short for Felix Mendelssohn.