Ended Official BYC Mini-Contest - What’s Your Hobby

[Madhouse Pullet]

View attachment 2422931View attachment 2422932View attachment 2422933my next hobby, number 2, is art. I've done all sorts of things, from doodles, pencil, pen, that dog one is a lithograph.
View attachment 2422935here is a bronze I designed during my time working in a bronze foundry, the original form crafted by sticking globs of spru wax together into the shape of a dragon, then going through all the stuff one must do to bronze anything.
Even shaped a bit of clayView attachment 2422942the dog knocked off her hands.
Have not done much art lately, however...

Wow! That's some impressive sculpting

 

[CrazyCochin]

Hobby #1 - Collecting Stickers from everywhere and anyone.
I have always loved collecting stickers since I was little. My dad would let me get 1 from the quarter machine any time we were out and about together.
Fast forward, I let my kids put stickers on their stuff; eventually they started putting them inside back window of my car but that became a blind spot so I had to put my foot down! Then one day, my oldest son got a sticker from school and immediately pasted it on the outside of my car, without hesitation he was too excited to tell me why he got the sticker
Considering my car is already salvaged (and paid off), I decided to allow it and it escalated from there. Over time, random people from anywhere I was (gas station down the street or even out of town) started giving me free stickers.
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This is just one side of my car... there's plenty more on the other side. Can you spot my BYC stickers?

I see a lego, a stormtrooper, a Jurassic world, a panda, another stormtrooper, on the gas tank, love the stormies!

 

[CrazyCochin]

View attachment 2422931View attachment 2422932View attachment 2422933my next hobby, number 2, is art. I've done all sorts of things, from doodles, pencil, pen, that dog one is a lithograph.
View attachment 2422935here is a bronze I designed during my time working in a bronze foundry, the original form crafted by sticking globs of spru wax together into the shape of a dragon, then going through all the stuff one must do to bronze anything.
Even shaped a bit of clayView attachment 2422942the dog knocked off her hands.
Have not done much art lately, however...

SUCH Talent! Another artist, yay!

 

[CrazyCochin]

Breyer photography sounds awesome!

oh, it is! I love being able to catch the realism of the Breyer horses!

 

[ShannonsChimkens]

What kind of fossils do you have? It was already in my hobby picture, but here's a close up of my ammonite cleoniceras! One of my favorites!

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Obsession and actually bringing home good specimens are two different things lol and that is a gorgeous ammonite

We don’t get to go fossil hunting much. But we’re trying to get back to it. Only have a couple poorly preserved Gastropods found on the coast here in Washington. We’ve been talking about the areas around Moab and in Moab. I found a small piece of red petrified wood there while out riding the dirt bikes one day. Need to go back and find the rest of the tree!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Obsession and actually bringing home good specimens are two different things lol and that is a gorgeous ammonite

We don’t get to go fossil hunting much. But we’re trying to get back to it. Only have a couple poorly preserved Gastropods found on the coast here in Washington. We’ve been talking about the areas around Moab and in Moab. I found a small piece of red petrified wood there while out riding the dirt bikes one day. Need to go back and find the rest of the tree!

This year has definitely limited...well it has limited most of our activities but I'm hoping the mine that is close-ish to us will open again soon. It's an outdoor activity where people aren't right on top of each other so you would think they would keep it open to the public but I guess they're having trouble finding people to run the machines and flip the soil up there.

I probably have some little fossils your daughter would enjoy! It's not quite the same experience as finding them yourself but I could send her a little mystery bag of fossils!

I love petrified wood too! I only have one small piece.

 

[ShannonsChimkens]

She would be in fossil heaven

That petrified wood is so stinkin pretty. All the colors... it’s crazy how they mineralize into different colors from millions of years ago. The piece I found is small, but it’s from a section similar to the dark red outer ring. If I remember I’ll grab a picture of it at work tomorrow.

People make quite a killing off owning property with fossil beds in it. There’s one in Republic Washington, almost Canadian border. It was $50 per person for a few hours of digging in the sedimentary rock. The place was packed! But correct, not this year.

 

[jolenesdad]

I’m sorry, I just can’t read something by @ShannonsChimkens without visualizing a total bad a*s flying through the sky on a dirt bike in my head.

My mind goes like this: the figure spins around in a massive cloud of dust, heads back to me revving engines, pops off her helmet, and THEN I read the post.

 

[DobieLover]

We want to know what you love! Whether you're lucky enough to have a hobby that pays the bills, or it's something you enjoy doing in your free time, tell us all about it! What are your creative and artistic pursuits? Do you collect something special? Did you need to buy an external hard drive to store all of the pictures you take? Share with us what hobbies you enjoy most!

Believe it or not, my hobby is flipping houses... or was. I did one this year for my mother. I'm finishing up my dad's house so it can be sold. I'm living in a reno...
It started as a means of survival but I became completely addicted during the first one.
I love everything about it. The hunt to find the right house, the designing phase, finding the right finishes within budget, the demo, rebuild and finishing, marketing, and most of all the great sense of satisfaction I feel in seeing the expressions on the new owners faces at how much they love their new home, where they will either retire or raise their family. It's so much more rewarding that working for big industry!
I calculated that I earned about $2.20/hr on the first flip! Which tells you just how much time it takes to get the work done but its worth it...
I flipped 5 houses in 5 years that were for profit. Mom's house (and dad's house) were for closure.
I always find myself slowing down to look more closely at that dilapidated house with the notice on the door, taped there with the "blue tape of death".
Here are some before, during and after pictures:

Just before and afters... note the blue tape of death still stuck to the door.

Standing from inside the kitchen area. The wall was removed between the rooms

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Believe it or not, my hobby is flipping houses... or was. I did one this year for my mother. I'm finishing up my dad's house so it can be sold. I'm living in a reno...
It started as a means of survival but I became completely addicted during the first one.
I love everything about it. The hunt to find the right house, the designing phase, finding the right finishes within budget, the demo, rebuild and finishing, marketing, and most of all the great sense of satisfaction I feel in seeing the expressions on the new owners faces at how much they love their new home, where they will either retire or raise their family. It's so much more rewarding that working for big industry!
I calculated that I earned about $2.20/hr on the first flip! Which tells you just how much time it takes to get the work done but its worth it...
I flipped 5 houses in 5 years that were for profit. Mom's house (and dad's house) were for closure.
I always find myself slowing down to look more closely at that dilapidated house with the notice on the door, taped there with the "blue tape of death".
Here are some before, during and after pictures:
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Just before and afters... note the blue tape of death still stuck to the door.
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Standing from inside the kitchen area. The wall was removed between the rooms
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Wow!!! The difference in your flips in like night and day!!! Love it!
Want to come flip my house while I'm still in it?