I need a project!

[TheChosenTwo]

I need something to do.
I’m at home with 3dc, dh is at work during the week.
Besides the obvious housework/daily walk/bit of schoolwork/endless games sort of stuff, I’m spending more and more time on my phone or reading a book or watching crap on the tv.
The 2 older dc have creative projects on the go alongside their school work to keep them occupied. The youngest is fine bumbling about when he wants to.
I want to find something to actually DO to fill my time. What projects have you all got on the go?
We have done some diamond painting but it was a bit rubbish, just sticking gems on to a sticker - not sure what I was expecting but it didn’t live up to my vague expectations 😂
We have a garden but it’s all grass, no plants/flowers etc, I’m not green fingered and have no desire to become so.
Dh does all the cooking but I do bake.
Our house is pretty much complete minus a bit of diy dh is working on.
I can’t sew, I’m not musical and I don’t want to learn a language as I’m currently doing similar for work.
I just want to find something to fill an hour or two a day and to feel a bit productive.
What are you up to?

www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue

Fimo modeling
Jewellery making
Quilling
Calligraphy
Making a scrap book
Sorting photos and making a photo book
Creative writing- lots of competitions online
Improve your cake decorating - challenge yourself to some more difficult baking
Online/ telephone volunteering
A massive jigsaw

A couple more I thought of...
Bullet journal
Lockdown video diary
Make a Coronavirus/ lockdown time capsule or memory book for the kids

Home brew

I could have written this.

I'm knitting a throw for our spare room bed, and once that's finished I'll be doing a blanket for a family member's new baby.

Creative writing could take up quite a bit of time if it floats your boat.

I'm writing the book I've been meaning to write for years

Hand embroidery? Loads of good beginners kits on Etsy.

Check out something like Ohsewbootiful on Etsy. Her kits are beginner friendly and you get everything included (including instructions), I have seen lots without the hoop, which is rubbish. I don't know her btw, I just taught myself with her kits and found them more helpful than others I tried.

It's like diamond painting but actually satisfying! Hard enough to keep your concentration, but not so hard as to be demoralising. And you see progress almost straight away.

Or actually, the barmy fox runs Instagram / YouTube stitch-a-longs to teach you, but you'd have to source materials yourself, which might be hard right now.

Photo scanning and deleting. Keywording the ones we're keeping. Preparing for photo books etc.

Organising computer files (though that's like painting the Forth bridge).

Marie Kondo'ing the kitchen cupboards.

Clearing the shed.

Having a good clearout of papers no longer needed. Scanning ones we do need to keep.

Writing a journal (though I do that anyway).

Contemplating learning how to play the recorder and/or do some voice training, singing and/or speaking. Though you've said you're not musical.

Watching box sets.

Catching up on reading/audio books (it should be free to join your local library and they usually have lots of both).

Learn about bitcoin.

Thank you for sharing your current projects and ideas.
We are being encouraged to do some of the OU courses by work, I have done a couple but there are hundreds more on there I could do so thanks for sharing that link to remind me.
I spent the first week sorting photos and making a couple of collage frames which are now up. I’d love to do more but having trouble sourcing frames and albums for storage. I’m torn really, not wanting to be ordering stuff unnecessarily but wanting things so I can get on and spend at least some of this time productively- we will (hopefully) never get this opportunity again to spend so much time at home.
I don’t go in the shed - spiders - this is the domain of dh anyway!!
I have been making a sort of Lockdown scrapbook with my youngest, some of the bits of school work and some other topical things, I think it will be interesting to him and his children etc in years to come.
We’ve done a few large and tricky jigsaws, me and the older 2. That’s been quite fun but we’ve done the ones we had and again, don’t really want to be ordering things online.
I’ve cleaned all the kitchen cupboards and drawers out not that long ago and the same for our bedroom wardrobes and drawers so there’s nothing to do there.
Chuckling at the home brew @iklboo
Sounds like you’re all keeping yourselves busy which is great 👍🏽

Forgot to say I have just been offered a job by dh which will take up quite a lot of my time - it’s preparing and painting the stair bannisters! We have 3 floors in the house so 2 sets of winding stairs, lots of newel (sp?! No idea what they’re actually called) posts to mask off and then the woodwork to prepare, prime and paint. So I think this will be my main source of entertainment for the next week or two.
He was going to do it himself but I was just saying I had nothing to do so he has kindly stepped down and delegated

@TheChosenTwo - we've got 40 pints of cider on the go. It should be ready for bottling next weekend. I've ordered some crafty stuff to design / make the labels.

Another kit is on its way after this one for toffee apple cider.

I've just been furloughed. Minimum 3 weeks, and it might be that I then get swapped with another person doing a similar role, so that they then are furloughed, so thanks for the link to the OU free courses, I've passed this on to some friends and colleagues already.

So, OP, enjoy your bannister painting

Actually, as well as the openlearn stuff, I'm decluttering to free up space for a drum kit, so I can teach myself to play.