a new hobby

I just had another epiphany!

You know how women collect shoes? I collect hobbies :) okay fine, i collect shoes and hobbies :)))

My latest is making cards. I know every three year old does that but... well, i am having fun, and i guess i am glad to be married to someone who does not get mad at my million new ventures. I am especially grateful for the things that he does not say.

Like he has never reminded me of the box full of junk - paint stuff - that we have lugged around from house to house, from back when i was painting, because ofcourse I could not just paint acrylics I had to do oil and watercolor too. He did not ask my when in hell would i need to make my own laces when i took those bobbin lace making classes, and he especially did not utter a word the winter I would trudge through a mountain of snow to go to a bow making class. He never once asked me how much that bow was costing him or told me that people buy bows at the dollar store. He even patiently smiled, when i told him that the particularly large bow I had just spent an hour to tie was way too expensive to be put on a gift (you know how expensive wired ribbon is, besides nobody even looks at the bows anymore, which comes back to the original question of why bother making bows, which he did not ask me) and actually let me put three of my favourite specimens on a wall!! big sigh, yes, even I am wondering how I can ever fight with such a patient man, but... well he has flaws, flaws that may not be visible to the naked eye, but flaws that exist all the same. And, I do pay attention to the details :)

but, I digress... so yes, these are all expensive hobbies, I am sure there was a time when it was the frugal smart thing to do to make your own greeting cards or lace or bows, but once china flooded the market with cheap, cheap and I mean cheap stuff none of these make sense anymore. They are just fancies, stuff to do when you have nothing better to do.

This time around I am going to do something else that only the most "vellas" of all people do - keep a record of my progress in card making by chronically posting it on my blog - yes - stuff that you do when you have nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing better to do :)