Analyzing handwriting sounds really interesting to me and it's something I may look into someday as a hobby. I find it very interesting how much (intended or not) a person's handwriting can say about them. I've heard it takes quite a while to get the hang of it though.

Personally, I don't really have any really different hobbies, just basic things. I tend to write quite a bit. I've tried my hand at poetry, short stories and some longer works and it's something I enjoy and would love to make a career out of someday.
Other then that, when the weather permits and I have company I like to go kayaking. I enjoy the exercise and it's a great way to see some wildlife and relax with friends.

I read, I sew, paint ceramics and probably the most ambitious thing I do is build miniature dollhouses. I also do furniture refinishing, I just love working with wood and that kind of thing. 

Let's see: Hobbies.....

Beachcombing:
I have collected ocean-tumbled sea-glass most of my life.  I love the opaquely beautiful colors - and have antique mason jars of them all over my house (grouped by color hues and sizes.

Quilting:
Once an avid quilter, early aches and pains of arthritis have slowed my fingers - and I seldom have the patience to do it an more - Have dozens of my own quilts and many bought from other ladies.  Even am fortunate to own a genuine Amish quilt - purchased when on the historic tour of Washington DC 2 years ago with my son's 8th grade class.

Clocks:
My grandfather, my father, and myself collect/repair/enjoy antique key-wind clocks.  Our homes at noon and midnight are quite challenging for company - the chiming from the many of my 27 clocks (in our upstairs part of the house)and my father's 43 (in their downstairs part of the house) can be quite 'loud'

Insulators:
My love of colored sea-glass was instrumental to my 'collection' of glass insulators - (you know, those things that sit on telephone poles)... not a window in my home is without a row of bright, colorful glass.

Painting:
When ill one month 3 years ago, re-kindled my love of painting.  Started by painting antique game boards on my 6x3 foot oak coffee table (we use them often), then painting with 10 bristle brushes tiny scenes of serene farm life, amish buggies, and covered bridges on small wooden boxes.  My latest painting project is realistic flowering plants on ocean-tumbled, palm-sized sea-stones.

Rocks,Minerals, Fossils:
Our (my son and my) greatest hobby -
Collecting (me) rough mineral specimens, fossils, etc and (my son) polished, faceted gemstones.  Each summer we go to South Dakota to visit family and become bonified 'rock-hounds' coming home with hundreds of pounds of "finds".  Also go excavating with a paleontologish friend - finding ancient teeth, bones, and opalized sea-shells.  Our collection is staggeringly large.  my son will pursue the gemology as a side line to his future geological engineering major in college (2 years off)

Lately, work has been too overwhelming to participate in most of my pastimes - but that will hopefully resolve soon, and I'll be back to my artistic side!

What a fun subject, Bikerbraid!
nightowl

Anais, those are BEAUTIFUL! WOW! 

Did you using acrylics or oils to do those paintings?

Fabulous! You gotta put up more pictures of your work. Love to see them!

Hello again everyone, I bet you all thought that I fell off the face of the earth- no such luck!  My work gets very demanding around the holidays being a florist, this is definetly the start of our busy season and I just haven't made time to check in on the boards lately, but I'm still here!  I have also been dealing with the death of a dear loved one in our family, it has been very difficult accepting, and does not make me too eager for the upcoming holiday season, but I continue to plug away as life does go on.  Anyhow...painting and sketching is a dear love of mine as well, my paint style is somewhat abstract and it usually helps me to deal with feelings of sadness or anger, actually I find that is really the only time that I pick up the brush, when I feel that I need to "release" and let loose, it is really therapeutic.  I love sketching eyes and women's faces just with pencil, nothing fancy.  I think that all women are so very beautiful and delicate in their own individual ways, and sometimes it's the features that she may hate the most that make her so beautiful and special, and I just love to try to capture that.  Crocheting is a newfound hobby for me, I began learning on my own a few years ago, but don't have much time to spend practicing since I opened up my shop, I should really stay at it, it's so relaxing and rewarding when you follow a project through!  I love reading Stephen King books, I used to love playing the piano, but that's another love lost to lack of personal time (oh yeah, and lack of a PIANO, that might help!), any type of creating or crafting with my hands - I was on a 'dreamcatcher' kick a while ago, I made so many of those things it was rediculous!  No house needs that many dreamcatchers!  And of course.....Flowers!  How could I forget the hobby that makes a living for me!  Whew!  Ok, with that I think I've said about enough, the above mentioned activities pretty well sum up what maggie's all about!

Heeey Thanks everybody! post your work too!!!!
and yup, that's acrylic.

MAGGIE! Good to see you back.. I hope you've been well and I'm sorry to hear about your loss.... And you're a florist Flower arrangement is fine art and the Tao combined. Do you tend to have a "personal style" when it comes to arranging flowers? And you MUST tell me more about your dreamcatcher run. I went through the same run a couple Christmases ago. I'm still obsessed with dreamcatchers. Here's mine from beside the bed:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/AnaisSatin/anaissatin_dreamcatcher.jpg and golly I play the piano and do the occasional crochet too. We must have been separated at birth

awwwwww ... isee someone in here is into painting horsies as well ... here's a very old aquarel i did in my teens:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/stygxx/detail?.dir=8167&.dnm=87f9.jpg&.src=ph
i am willing to ignore my mistakes in that one lol.
i started recently another one but since i am too busy painting a huge stuff these days i can't finish it. i have a good underpainting of it though, but no photo yet.