Hobbies? Post them here.

[andthen]

I've recently gotten into sort of rehabbing old furniture. Since covid. Now I'm not a expert in repair, or replacing pieces, but sanding and refinishing pieces yes. Most of the pieces I've gotten from my local freecycle group. Most recently I stripped a small cabinet that was painted in fire engine red, with white paint underneath. It was a bit of a task even though the cabinet was small. Once all the paint was gone a good sanding back to actual wood and I re-stained it, put new hardware on it, and it actually turned out pretty good. Mind you the cabinet has drawers which were painted white, I just didn't have the patience to strip down the inside of the drawers since some were deep and narrow. I sanded those a bit and put some paint on it. Its been rather relaxing and fun to do those small project pieces. Don't ask me to saw anything or use heavy equipment, I'm still got bad memories of burning wood during shop class in middle school.

[cheerfulgreek]

I love astronomy and building Victorian dollhouses. Most of my dollhouses that I built in high school and college are still over my mom’s, but I do have a completed one here. With a 4 and 6 year old, I don’t have as much time as I would like with my dollhouse interest, but I have 3 telescopes — oh wait… I should say I’m down to 3 telescopes. I had too many so I sold some of them.

I took up scrapbooking about 7 years ago which I also really enjoy.

eta: Oh, I forgot to mention my fascination with prehistoric animals too.

[carnation]

Reading, international adoption, and gardening and the most recent one--genealogy. Boy, have I gotten some shocks there.