Ended Official BYC Mini Contest - "WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY?"

[LlamaGirl4]

These are some of my favs! I have lots more!!

 

[LlamaGirl4]

I have to slap my hands whenever I walk by their little chicken figurines in a store. Too expensive, too expensive, too expensive—but very cute.

The chickens ones were one of the first ones I got!! Lol I was so excited!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My number one hobby is caring for my flock but that hobby has moved me to learn to sew which I absolutely love doing! A few years ago, my mom gave me her old sewing machine when she got a new one. This was the old one that she had I was a kid and I remembered her making Halloween costumes for my brother and I. It sat in the closet collecting dust for a while until after I started keeping chickens. Then I learned about chicken saddles and was very intrigued by them. I ordered a few but then decided that I wanted to try to make them on my own so I dug out that dusty old machine and learned how to use it. I now make and sell LF, bantam and even turkey sized saddles. They took a lot of trial and error to perfect but it's now something I love doing.

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Learning to sew these saddles opened the door to sewing other things too. Last fall, my mom and I got our machines together and worked for a few months to make a quilt for my dad for Christmas. He had numerous old T-shirts from events that he had participated in or that pertained to his hobbies that he told my mom to toss. She hid them instead until we could do this. We even made 2 pillows to go with it. And this year, I modified a giant old Teddy Bear into a Halloween costume for my son lol

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awesome! they are so helpful when the roos have them bare and raw! plus they look cute on them too! win win

I love the tshirt quilt, great idea to put those to use!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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wow they are cool! I dont get out much so I have to ask what they are made of! you werent kidding were you! love the dalmatian!

 

[LlamaGirl4]

wow they are cool! I dont get out much so I have to ask what they are made of! you werent kidding were you! love the dalmatian!

They are made of plastic and clay and well pvc piping! Yes it may sound weird and when you hold them it doesn’t really feel like any of them but it’s true. I did a research paper on them since we had to do our hobbies

 

[Chick-N-Daddy]

Im sorry

Nothing to be sorry about, but thanks, it's just a fact of growing up/older. On the bright side, I was able to retire this year (at 51), so don't have to actually write code anymore (well, none that matters to anyone but me, and no deadlines). Sure, I can make fonts bigger for typing messages, but that doesn't work for scrolling through thousands of lines of code. I've tried the magnifier lenses for when I do some soldering work, but one eye has ok distance vision, and the other has ok near-ish vision - hard to focus both eyes on anything closer/farther than about 3' from my face. Magnifiers just seem to magnify the effect.

At about 40yrs when I built my last telescope (8" Dob), I got so frustrated because I thought I messed it up (couldn't get a decent sharp image) so I gave up on it. As it turns out the scope was perfect, but my eyes were going. My solution for that will be to rig a camera to the focuser / eyepieces - someday.

 

[R2elk]

If I get rich, you can have as many prints as you want, lol! I looked into getting some made... but it's unreal how expensive even a small one is.

mpix does excellent work. I have this one printed as a canvas gallery wrap at 16" x 20".

El-Co Color Labs does good work and always has a special on poster size prints. The last I looked they were $7.50 for poster size (20"x30").

 

[BantyChooks]

mpix does excellent work. I have this one printed as a canvas gallery wrap at 16" x 20".

El-Co Color Labs does good work and always has a special on poster size prints. The last I looked they were $7.50 for poster size (20"x30").

Hmm, we're probably not thinking of the same thing, then. My bad.

 

[BantyChooks]

Second hobby—Art
Same deal as photography. I'm no professional, but I have fun. I should start doing some stuff again.
I've already uploaded most of it on here, so I'll just give you the link.
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The first one has my better work. The second has more B-grade pieces I only showed because I got my arm twisted. Don't laugh, please.
And here's some things I've done since then...

The middle one was for an art prompt of a doorknob. The last one might be more photograph-y, but it was digitally edited and planned out as more artistic than a photograph.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Benny is @Akrnaf2

I am here, what now?