Hi. I’m Issy, and this is This Month’s Hobby!
This is the site where I indulge my ADHD and try and coax my mental health to a point deemed “no longer self destructive”. I love trying new hobbies and crafts, but I’m never able to get them to stick. So as a result, I have created a catalogue of each hobby, to help and inspire others on their own hobby journey. Below you’ll find the latest articles I’ve written, or check out the full catalogue above, and have fun!
LATEST POSTS
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Is Dungeons and Dragons LGBTQ+ friendly?
Dungeons and Dragons. You’ve probably heard of this game before, but what is it? How do you play it? And how inclusive can it be? What is Dungeons and Dragons? Dungeons and Dragons, or DnD for short, is a “Tabletop role playing game”. This means it’s a game originally designed to be played around a
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Can Watercolour Painting help mental health?
You’ve almost certainly heard of watercolour painting before now. It’s a popular medium of painting found everywhere from prestigious galleries to primary school art displays. But what is it? Where does it come from? And how easy is it to learn? How easy is it to learn watercolour painting? In this article, I’ll explain a
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Is it easy to Cross Stitch?
Cross stitch. You might have heard the term before, but what is it exactly? Well it’s quite simple. Its a type of embroidery where you make little crosses out of thread, to form a picture. I like to think of it like embroidery meets pixel art. What is Cross Stitch? Cross stitch’s history goes back
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Does Crochet help Mental Health or ADHD?
Crochet, its a popular hobby, but can it help with your mental health? what about ADHD? Depression? In this article, Issy will explain the journey they took, from discovering crochet, to making gifts for friends and family.
What you’ll find on This Month’s Hobby:
On This Month’s Hobby, you’ll find a range of articles about all different hobbies.
To make it easier to navigate, I’ve split the website up into different categories: Arts and Crafts, Food, Outdoor, Digital, and Other.
In each article I’ll guide you through a brief history. Then I’ll tell you how I personally got started. After that I’ll explain step by step what I did during my time trying out the hobby.
Then I’ll offer you some tips and tricks to each hobby that I found as I went along, as well as links to anything I used or anything that I think you could find useful.
Then at the bottom of each article you’ll find my overall summary and score. I’ve broken down each hobby into four categories; budget, accessibility, satisfaction, and growth and development. Each category is scored out of 5, and the whole hobby is scored out of 20.
You will also find pictures of my finished projects in the gallery.
Please remember this is just my personal judgement about a hobby I’ve done in my spare time.
And that’s it! I hope you’ll enjoy and find some inspiration to start some of these wonderful hobbies yourself!
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