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Collected Item: “The Hobbies We Have Used to Get Through Covid-19”

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The Hobbies We Have Used to Get Through Covid-19

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This item is a picture of a paint by numbers painting that I bought off of MyPaintByNumbers.com.

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I chose this painting, because it is symbolic of one of the many hobbies I developed in order to get through this pandemic and social distancing through the past few months. Many people have picked up new hobbies in order to distract themselves or learn something that they have always wanted to do. I chose paint-by-numbers, because I have always loved painting, but I have never been very good at it. So, I chose the next best thing: paint-by-numbers. Everyone has different tastes and coping mechanisms. I thought it would be interesting to catalog the different hobbies that people have picked up in order to cope or distract themselves with from the pandemic

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#coveryourfangs, HS3990, new hobbies, covid hobbies, quarantine, paint-by-numbers, painting

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Grace Frey

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2020-09-27
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