Being an individual is important and having things that set you apart from the next person is in many ways important even if that is being able to draw.
I feel like I may be a bit more out there then some other people are. I'm not here to brag about that at all. I love going to renaissance fairs and making my own costumes for it. It's just who I am and it brings me joy in life. I am worried that one aspect may drive some guys off, though. I like some other things that women my age might not I feel like I am more worried about this than perhaps is good to be.
Hi Osina,
Maybe it's just me, but you sound pretty "in-line" with what's popular these days. Making your own costumes (thanks to cosplay and shows like "Project Runway") have made creativity and sewing "cool", although I know it can be hard to find people locally (especially of the same age) who are into the same things. But I'm sure the fairs you go to are a great resource for meeting people and making friends?
When I was about 28, I offered to take my friend's little girl for the day because she had an interest in sewing, and we were going to make her a sundress. When my friend proposed the idea to her daughter, her daughter said, "But Mama! She can't know how to sew! She's old!"
"Well, Sweetie," my friend helpfully told her, "those are the kinds of people who sew--old people." Ahem.
I really like what some of the other posters here have said about being a positive, Godly influence no matter what you do, and keeping an open mind to meeting people (and maybe a special someone) wherever those interests should take you.
I understand about being "out there." I've been hovering somewhere around Mars or Jupiter all my life. One of my biggest interests is talking to prison inmates (I used to volunteer in the children's rooms at church, and I told God a hundred times I'd rather go back to the prisons!) and I'd still be doing that if I hadn't felt God convicting me of personal safety issues.
There are often been times when I've felt like I had to be "a little more normal" and talk about the things "normal people" want to talk about, but I've found that just makes me anxious and causes me to withdraw from people. I'd rather put more energy into just being me instead of trying to pour myself into a mold I know I'll never fit into anyway.
It sounds like you have an awesome set of skills, and you are definitely not the only one. Who knows where it will lead you (maybe a career? Maybe passing it on to the next generation?), but never stop being who God made you to be, and may you always be blessed in following where He leads.
