Would/do you spend money on a hobby?

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  • ShirleyW
    ShirleyW Online Community Member Posts: 353 Empowering
    edited August 2022
    My husband and I have a small monthly budget each for our hobbies.  All other money is joint for bills and savings etc.

    My hobby is dolls' house miniatures.  Collectors' pieces, not the sort that children would play with.  I make a lot of my miniatures and do miniature stitching but some things I can't make and they can be expensive if made by a well known miniature crafts person.

    I use my monthly budget and save up for the items I want and I think this way I appreciate them much better because I've had to save and be patient.

    The picture shows my almost completed Victorian House.  It was just an mdf shell when my husband bought it for me 16 years ago.  I have slowly completed it, inside and out.  I did all the painting, brick work and roof tiles, electrics, indoor woodwork, decorating & curtains and made stained glass windows.  I bought the front door, the guttering & drainpipes and the railings.  The lace curtains are from some vintage French lace I had.




  • Alex_Alumni
    Alex_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,538 Championing
    That's amazing @ShirleyW what a labour of love :)
  • bg844
    bg844 Online Community Member Posts: 3,883 Championing
    @ShirleyW when I went to Windsor Castle last month to look around the Queen has a dolls house very similar to yours. Hers has electricity and running water too! Both look great!
  • ShirleyW
    ShirleyW Online Community Member Posts: 353 Empowering
    bg844 said:
    @ShirleyW when I went to Windsor Castle last month to look around the Queen has a dolls house very similar to yours. Hers has electricity and running water too! Both look great!
    Thank you.  Yes Queen Mary's dolls' house at Windsor is fabulous.  Much bigger than mine too.  I spent ages peering through the glass at it.

    Alex_Scope said:
    That's amazing @ShirleyW what a labour of love :)
    Thank you Alex.  It's a wonderful hobby to me, I become lost in my miniature world.
    This is the study - probably my favourite room in the house.  The black & white photos on top of the bookcases are my 2 sets of grandparents.


  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    Wow @ShirleyW i love your dolls house! such a talent, truly amazing. My daughter thought the outside of the house was a real house, until i told her what it was.
  • ShirleyW
    ShirleyW Online Community Member Posts: 353 Empowering
    poppy123456 said:
    Wow @ShirleyW i love your dolls house! such a talent, truly amazing. My daughter thought the outside of the house was a real house, until i told her what it was.
    Thank you so much Poppy.  That's what all miniaturists aspire too, to have their miniatures mistaken for full size items in a photograph.  
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 62,972 Championing
    @ShirleyW wow the house looks amazing, lots of time spent on that.
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Amazing @ShirleyW my mum and dad used to do dolls houses so brought back memories for me 

    They converted a bedroom 8nto a mini dolls house village 
  • ShirleyW
    ShirleyW Online Community Member Posts: 353 Empowering
    edited August 2022
    janer1967 said:
    Amazing @ShirleyW my mum and dad used to do dolls houses so brought back memories for me 

    They converted a bedroom 8nto a mini dolls house village 
    That sounds great Janer.

    I don't think my hubby would be very impressed if I wanted to do that.  🤣
  • bg844
    bg844 Online Community Member Posts: 3,883 Championing
    I don't think my hubby would be very impressed if I wanted to do that.  🤣
    Nor would I if that was in my house too haha!
  • foxuk
    foxuk Online Community Member Posts: 103 Empowering
    Buy it! I recently did exactly the same - bought a computer to run the game I use to occupy my mind which was the only thing I use that will not play on linux.
    BUT I am a very lucky man with a wife who controls finances. After a few 'doggie wants a biccie' tricks I was told to buy a 'B***** good one or herself would get one for me and that would cost a fortune.
    I still get buyers remorse but Civilization V keeps my mind working AND it's a lot better than going down the pub to visit contemporaries who constantly moan about their usually ex-wives.
    As my totally 'frugal' mum a devout Methodist fan of the Protestant work ethic used to say - You have to have something and it's a LOT better than some of the alternatives.
  • ShirleyW
    ShirleyW Online Community Member Posts: 353 Empowering
    Thank you @Teddybear12

  • life
    life Online Community Member Posts: 526 Empowering
    I'd like to do painting artwork as a hobby. Learn how to make canvas paintings.
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,922 Championing
    That sounds great @life. Do you have any particular favourite types of canvas paintings you would want to do as a hobby?  :)
  • life
    life Online Community Member Posts: 526 Empowering
    rivers, buildings, cars, people all the timeless classics. I like van Gogh's paintings
  • Grinchy
    Grinchy Online Community Member Posts: 1,953 Championing
    wow, @ShirleyW, brilliant dolls house, very impressed

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