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Mine is kinda simple. I make my own candles. Usually glass filled, bit also molded candles as well. I am thinking of branching into sticks but that will require some more equipment.
I really like the peaceful ambiance that candles provide especially in colder weather. I even have a square glass lantern that I can carry a candle in around the house at night. Reminds me of those old films with someone walking around the house with a candlestick holder. Call me old fasion!
I probably have 30 or so candles around the house at any one time, even some oil lamps and tea light holders. (Even a set of tea light holders accross the mantle in each color of the rainbow .... it's just so gay!)
Twisted, yea I know. But I like it and it's a cheaper way to have them than buying them in the store, plus I recycle old candles and melt them into new ones. Small satistaction for a tree hugging enviromentalist like me!
Tell me about yours .....
Kevin
:-*
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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Never heard this question on the MB before...might be interesting.
I do have one hobby...not very exciting, but I like it. Collecting Thai postage stamps. Man gave me a cool one for Christmas last year...one of the early Siam Airmail stamps.
I also like to collect old paper money from Thailand and other South-East Asian countries.
They both dove-tail nicely with my interest in history of the region, and knowing about what was going on here when the stamps and the money were in circulation.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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Besides tormenting my straight-friends, my hobbies include listening to music,
using up the batteries on my mobile, and collecting coins. But then, shopping is another great love of mine. I'm also into exchanging letters.
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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Registered: January 1970
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I draw and paint. I did a mural on the wall of my computer room of Comicality's junkyard from 'Gone From Daylight'. I put all the characters in and it turned out great.
I write a little.
I collect Christmas ornaments made from natural materials, like pinecones and driftwood and seashells. I have one made from the ash of Mt.Saint Helens Volcano. I hang them from the slanted ceiling right here over my head.
I've made candles too, Kevvy, with margarita glasses in all different colors.
I guess another hobby could be my animals. People bring me hurt ones and I try to fix them.
smith
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Registered: March 2012
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... totally off the wall, I will actually enjoy responding to it!
I collect miniature Fragance "Replica" Glass. You all know what I mean, and have often seen them - those little replica bottles of Men's and Women's Colognes, Eaux de Toilette, Parfums and After-shaves (all maunfactured according to requirements under French Law which governs the Fragrance Industry), and originally intended to be "samples" and freely distrubuted (which they still are in France, and one or tw other countries - Canada notably amongst them; although in most places (the United States being a prime example) Duty and Taxes are usually levied against them, and one therefore usually has to pay for them.
I have been doing so for the better part of almost 40-years; with my first forays being designed to aid and abet, and thereby enhance the collection started by my mother whilst she was a young teen in the 1930's (abandoned after her marriage and resumed with a vengence after her child-rearing years were over), and have continued to further the collection since her death in the early 1990's, although I now do so only as trustee for the collection which upon her death was donated to a local Museum.
The collection now numbers just over 10,000 virtually identifyably different replicas spanning some 110-years of Fragrance glass. The first "official" replica bottles were produced for the then House of Worth, by Rene Lalique, for the introduction of their fragrance "Dans la Nuit" in 1921; alhthough early examples do exist for others - Guerlain's "Jicky" (1881), "Mitsuko" (1887) and "Shalimar" (1889) to name a few. Other Couturiers of the day bought into the premise, and followed suit with a vengance.
This period (the late 18th, and early 19th Century was dominated by "Parfumieurs", not Costmetic combines as we know them today. The replica came into being solely as a means of identification, not specifically a sales tool; for you see back then when a new fragrance was created, any Parfumieur (Roger et Gallet, Houbigant, Francois Coty, and Piver et Cie being examples) could blend and bottle it, but inorder to know what fragrance to create they needed to be able to identify it, this being achieved by the unique miniature "replica" bottle created by the Couturier taken from the larger bottle used for his creation. Back then no names were ever imprinted on the bottles; thusly a new hobby was born.
With the formation of La Cie Revlon Julier, S.A. in 1933 (the first of the combines), the face of the Fragrance Industry was forever altered, and it remains much as it became then as we know it today.
My mother's collection is bested by only one other, originally assembled by an Air France Hostess, she herself beginning also in the 1930's, with this collection now resting in the hands of the French Government. It numbers just a little over 12,000 examples; but, like my mother's collection it too is missing many pieces. One of these her collection does not have, but my mothers does is Jean Patou's "Normandie", which was given to each and every female passenger on the Ships's maiden voyage in 1935, my mother as ayound teen bein gone of them. Only some 1500 replica's were made, and apparently only my mother's has survived. It was loaned to the House of Patou in the mid 1970's for their exibit at the "L'Art et Mode" exhibit in Paris, and has not been exibited publicly since. Several other piece were also shown at that time.
Eventually I hope to have the entire collection available for viewing on one of my Domains.
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Exchanging letters, eh? Lkie tihs?
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This is a easy question to answer for me. The pictures can pretty much explain what i like the most in the whole world. I love to fly. Currently i'm working on getting my private's license and fly by the age of 17. I can do it now , you can get a lincense at age 16 but i started a little late, i will still make it anyways.
Sorry about the second pic , is king of big. I'm the one to the right. It was taken by a friend just before landing at a local airport near my school. I love to do this.
The first picture shows the type of aircraft i was flying in. Does it look like fun????
For me it is.
You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I had hobbies.
When I was a kid I made balsa wood airplanes and gliders. I had two minature diesel motors that were almost impossible to start. The power driven ones never flew, however carefully I made them. The gliders always crashed and broke.
When I was 13 I learnt to sail. I adore sailing. Not the low wind stuff, but the terrifyimg stuff, the stuff where you're scared to go on the water. I even tried out for the British Olympic team and was 19 away from selection. I have hardly sailed since I got married. My wife hates it, but also wants me around at weekends.
I used to paddled kayaks down white water rivers and on the sea in the surf. Only I dislocated my shoulder in a kayak, and lost my nerve about rolling back up.
So we bred and showed dogs. That was a mandatory hobby. I'd never had a pet of any description, unless you count two kittens for ten minutes each before I had to take them back when I was a kid. So, what did we do? We showed, bred and judged. It isn't even a hobby. It's politics! It sucked.
My cats were a great consolation, especially Ginnie, who sat on my lap. The two we have left after Ginnie was killed do not sit on me.
The hobby I have left is the internet. Writing is hard nowadays because the atmosphere at home limits it.
Lord I feel sad now.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Registered: March 2012
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I realy enjoy writing. I have been working on a new story for two years and will be ready soon.
I also love movies. Especially from the "golden years of hollywood" I collect them. Also I collect theater plaquards and I also collect movie stills (photographs taken during the filming of a movie)I have several hundred of those. I enjoy the pics because there often are notes on the back reguarding some aspect of the films production.
I also collect cookbooks. Lots of them. Right now the collection numbers almost 2600 volumes.
And I collect useful kitchen gadgets.
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No... Snail-mail.
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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i write (der!), and it's becoming 'hobby' again, now that there's less push on it career-wise. i also play the violin--i have since i was eight. however, i need a new bow, so i haven't been playing lately.
i also daydream a lot. can that be a hobby? 
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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I paint in water-colours (English spelling) mainly landscapes - not very good but I enjoy it.
I collect stamps New Zealand and G B. I have a complete collection of N Z from 1920 with quite a few earlier ones and G B from 1935 with many earlier including 1d Black and 2d. Blue - the first stamps ever issued.
I do canvas work, both cross stitch and petit point. These are turned into church kneelers, cushions and wall hangings. I also make pile rugs on canvas using a knotting system looped over a small stick. When the loops are cut, they create a pile I also weave rugs on a small floor loom. These a just weft faced with stripes of varying widths and colours.
We also collect old bottles. These are pop bottles, medicine bottles, ink wells and bottles used in the grocery trade. We have one bottle found on a local beach which must have come across the Atlantic. It has written on it "D I Hood & Co. - Apothecaries - Lowell Mass - Hood’s Sarsaparilla"
As we live in what was an old Pub (Public House or Inn) we find a lot of bits of clay pipes in the garden and have a number of complete bowls.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words
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Naturally; I was being literal. Get it? Exchanging LETTERS? Like "A" or "Q" or "L?" Lkie tihs? Ha ha? *shakes head*
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LOOL
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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You may not like this, but as far as a hobby, it may sound wrong, but i like to help people. I'm a volunteer firefighter, seen most anything, but just helping someone gives me great pleasure. I use to try to help anyone, at least lend an ear, but not anymore. It's just gotten to be to much. Now I just stick to the ones I've known a long time. I let them dump on me, and occasionally I get to dump on them. I know where friends, they worry about me as much as I worry abou them. They trust me, and I've found trust in them. It's a rarity, but I do care.
Brian
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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I like to dance. Also I like to paint. So I guess those are my hobbies. Then theres always backpacking my one true love Peace all
Andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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YOu like to dance? Me too!
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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