PenMan
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My dad used to make wood toys for the Shriner's Childrens Hospitals when he was camping a lot with a large group (Shriners Nomads). He would always have several boxes of parts that had been cut but needed to be sanded. During happy hour he would pass out parts and sandpaper and turn the job of sanding into a sanding party. I work with wood as well but I mostly turn projects on a lathe so I just enjoy camping when I go camping.
Chris and Jane and two boys (and a DDIL) who prefer tents
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Not me, but my eldest daughter does. She has made five scrapbooks of our different camping trips. Four on our trips around the US (North, South, East, and West) and one for our out of the country road trips.
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LuvMyMallard
Iowa
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I will be scrapbooking our trips as well. What fun to have lots of pics and journaling of various special trips to look back on.
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webslave
Clearville, PA
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DW is a spinner and weaver (actually she does almost any "craft" from scrapbooking to Temari Balls) and wanted to be able to some weaving "on the road". Out went the dining room table and chairs and in went a weaving loom. The traveling spinning wheel is in the closet in the bedroom and the basement is half full of wool from the Brown Sheep Wool Company facility that we visited four days ago...
My 2 cents, your mileage may vary...
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Kit Carson
Northwest Louisiana
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My DW and one of our traveling companions do SWEDISH WEAVING while on the road and while camping. Us husbands call it "stitching and b....ing" but they enjoy it.
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tracyb-oh
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We do. In fact this coming weekend we will be at the Christmas in July Craft Show at Cowen Lake State Park in Ohio. I sew tote bags and DH makes paracord bracelets. We enjoy combining crafting and camping our two favorite things.
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hocker
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We converted a closet slide in our 5ver to a papercraft workspace...beats leaving it all out in the dining or living area!
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LuvMyMallard
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I use the (over the breakfast nook) bunkbed space to store my cricut and paperkrafting supplies. We would not use that bed as a bed area so it is being utilized greatly for my craft storage. All right above the table when I am working on it and all put away out of sight when I am not. Hubby and I now use a 13' Mallard goldeneye just perfect for the two of us and I utilize every inch of space. It has lots of storage space. We traveled to Min.. last weekend for a huge family reunion. It rained 1/2 of a day some tenst got wet and leaked and we were snug as a bug in our Mallard with air.........as it was hot this past weekend and still IS.
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Chock Full o' Nuts
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Kittykath wrote:Sewing is so theraputic to me, especially while camping. It's like a double-dose of relaxation. I usually set my sewing maching up outside under the awning, on a table. I pour myself a glass of wine (just one so I don't sew my fingers together) and turn on some soft music. Heaven!
I usually sew fleece slippers to sell on Etsy during the winter months, but I've mended a sleeping bag and a patched a couple of pairs of jeans for my camping neighbors.
My teenage son loves to use a wood burning tool to burn intricate designs in whatever stick he picks up. He'll also make pop can tab bracelets to sell. He'll donate the money to a cause.
I feel the same way. Sewing just relaxes me,especially when I'm sewing something just to be creative rather than practical. I have considered buying a portable machine so I could take it on the road with me. Do you use any special kind of table or just a card table?
I make little girls dresses for a group called Little Dresses for Africa. It's a Christian org that supplies dresses for girls who live in distressed circumstances all over the world(not just Africa.) Most of these girls live in places where girls and women are not highly valued, so receiving a dress that is all their own is a magical thing. They also distribute shorts for the boys, but shorts aggravate me a lot more than dresses, so I create one-of-a-kind dresses for the little girls of the world.
I also like to quilt. I machine-piece my quilts, but I hand quilt the finished product. It's quite a Zen experience to thread my needle up, down, up, down. I have on occasion taken my quilts with me when we camp. I just spread out a large tablecloth on the ground to protect the quilt from dirt and leaves.
"Those who dwell...among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."--Rachel Carson, environmentalist, 1956
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