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do you dedicate to paper crafting each day/week/month, whatever? Just curious. I haven't had much time over the summer to get too much done but am looking forward to the fall and having more time indoors to get some crafting done.
I don't have kids, so once I'm done with my 8 hr day at work, I typically come home and am in front of the computer crafting every night until about 10pm. During the weekend the majority of it is doing the same thing, lol. I do meet up with friends periodically throughout the month but I craft most nights/weekends.
It varies wildly. I work 40 hr/week and have 4 kids at home. 21, 9, 6, and 3 yo. Most evenings are consumed with dinner, homework, showers, and then some mixture of soccer, piano, girl scouts, ballet, swimming and tae kwon do. If my DH takes the kids to activities, I may get an hour or so with the younger ones "helping" me in my studio. I can also potentially get in an hour or so after they are all in bed, but I'm usually too tired. LOL~
Weekends are slightly less busy, but include soccer, church (and I teach Sunday school), laundry, etc. I do crop at my LSS with friends every other Friday from 6 pm to midnight. This is where most of my creating gets done.
I also make a concerted effort to spend a good bit of time in my studio from August to December as I make all our Christmas cards, and sets of 8 notecards for all the females in the family as gifts. I'm currently a little more than 1/2 done with our Christmas cards and have 3 sets of notecards done. I think I need about 10 more sets though. Better get movin' on those.
When I am not working (I am a contractor), I can spend a couple hours EVERY DAY. When I have to work, I find that I will spend 20-60 minutes. Oddly I am more consistent with crafting when I am WORKING as I find it a good way to relax and settle down. When I am not working, it's like, well, I can just do that anytime tomorrow....
It can vary but I probably average 10 hours or more per week. I'm currently on the design team for my LSS and teach two classes a month, so I have to be coming up with ideas and projects and store samples all the time. Plus I have my own personal stamping and creating to do. I have a lot of free time for my hobby because I don't have any children (although my parents are here 7 months out of the year; they are retired and spend the winters in Arizona). Another advantage I have is that I work from home so I don't have to spend any time stuck in traffic, getting all prettied up every morning, making trips to the dry cleaner, etc. :p
Depending on my work schedule I may not to get too much on Mon-Fri but I try to do a few hours each day on Sat and Sun. Right now DH is in Europe on business for 5 weeks so I am averaging A LOT more time in the stamp room.
I'm an empty nester so I'm able to put in around 30 hours a week. I'm hard at work trying to use up all the supplies I have. So far this year, 3,000 cards. I am taking a break from October through the end of the year to catch up on my scrapbooking.
Seriously, I get the kids off to school and start working in my craft room until they get home. Taking breaks for lunch and my gallery moderator shift here on SCS.
Except for last week (took a few days off to re-read Harry Potter books), I spend about 5-6 hrs a day in my craft room. I'm a SAHW with no kiddos at home and my DH works outside the home and plays golf ALL THE TIME, so my time is mine once the household chores are done. And with just me and my DH at home, that's minimal. If I'm not in my craft room, I'm hanging out at the LSS preparing for classes, rearranging the shop or just playing with the new stuff they get in. My DD keeps wondering when I'm going to "leave kindergarten"!
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I work full time, play sports, and have quite a few other hobbies. So I can squeeze in maybe an hour or so 4-5 days a week. So maybe 4-5 hours a week, depending on the weather!
Are we including the time spent reading the forums here? Then I'm not going to admit to my total hours per week. [IMG]//www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/images/icons/icon11.gif[/IMG]
I'm a college student who also works 19 hours a week, so my time is little. :(
This summer I've averaged about 1 full day (well, ok, 10 hours or so) a week. I hope to still stamp a lot this fall, but I'll have to see what my busy schedule looks like! I'm aiming for 4-5 hours a week.
In general, I usually stamp for a few hours each week, mostly for blog postings and preparing samples for workshops and stamping classes. I spend signficantly more time stamping if I have swaps to make for an upcoming SU event and also at Chrsitmas time.
well, I have another year to wait for the kiddo to start kindergarten...but one day I'm going to have more than a hour or two a week. this gives me time to get my crafty space in order and be ready to really work when I have the time.
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Oh my, I hardly do any in comparison to everyone else!!!! I make one or two cards a month. So I guess that's about 2 hours per month. I just made about 55 shower invites for my daughter. That took some time. I have to finish up a desk calendar for myself and my boss. I'm going to my stamp workshop Thursday night. I guess I do very, very little and it seems like a fair amount to me!!!
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