I enjoy reading finding it hard to hold the newspaper so I have to lay it on a table, and books it is hard to turn pages but I make do, I'm learning to use my other hand and arm retraining LOL my youngest child writes better than I. I think I will try to paint again,watercolors and draw. My kids tell me I dont play X-Box with them anymore like frogga said need my hands for it..

Lil
 

Yes Mamm! It certainly it. They are a blast to build. The end result, if and whenever ya ever get there is awesome. My first one was what I call my trial and error.:D My second still works perfect to this day. It has been 5 years now. Perfect time believe it or not. It's all cardboard and the weight is a paperclip. Fun!!

Mark :)

paper folding
 

I have not done this in a while, but I thought it was pretty cool....

Japanese paper folding... Origami

Watercolors are fun. But, acrylic might be easier because you could put the painting on an easel ... watercolors usually are done flat to keep the paint from running. Bob Ross taught a style that people with almost no talent can do. I am sure libraries would have books on it. Oil is easier than acrylic, but more fumes, more cleanup.

Crocheting is not very "masculine" but it is fairly easy to learn, and you can make great shawls, afgans etc. without to much training.

Calligraphy! Italic writing.... you can make some good money doing wedding invitation envelopes too! I used to before I got my hand slammed in a car door and lost my dexterity! Used to get $1 per envelope... The book I used was "the italic way to beautiful handwriting" and I just got paper called onion skin and paper clipped it over the text book to practice instead of using the book itself.. that way I could practice more times.

I'll try to think up a few more....
Jules

Those darn hands
 

I just stopped to say hi and stayed too long.

Hope

read wrong
 

Mark,
I am sorry, I read your post wrong.... I thought you had good hands, just wanted to keep them occupied. Since I now read that you have trouble with them, the calligraphy would be out. My Mom used to crochet, but now that she is 82, and her hands are stiff with arthritis, she can not do it any longer, so I don't think that would be a good thing to try to learn.

I do think you could try origami - maybe not the most difficult ones, but quite a bit of it.

Sorry I didn't understand your post correctly.

Jules

personally i reckon the playstation... i am looking into getting a chin one (eg a sip and puff one) - hate the fact I can't join in when everyone else is on them.

why can't you use dragon? I'd imagine winter was the perfect time to train it( i use dragon -but don't like it very much, I also have switch texts. )

Or how about enrolling on a college course in something you're intersted in? you could go for one which is only an hour or 2 a week with abit of work between lectures? also would mean that you'd be out of the house once a week or so?

hope things are ok

frogga xxxx who is now GOING to do the darn essay....

(are humans naturally violent? YES... my flat mates had to be murdered for all coming in drunk about 10 minutes after I had fallen asleep for the first time in days instead of dozing vaguely).

let me tell you a good crafty thing for the hands.
my 2 girls, 11 and 12, both were doing needlework after school. a teacher started this to teach the kids to learn to sew.
but what she did was do beadwork. this was end of last year so it was all chrismassy. when i first went to pick the kids up from school, the teacher called me in and said............"here's your beadwork, start." LOL she didn't charge me for it or anything. but let me tell you these beads weren't big they were small LOL. it helped tremedously just keeping hands working. you don't have to do it 24/7 just do an hour or 2, put it down for a bit then do it again. you'll be amazed at how it keeps the hands excercising. ;)