I really need to stop picking up expensive hobbies. I mean seriously, I need to just stop. I think I've finally settled on the three things I'll be doing forever, because I really like doing them, but I have managed to pick three things that cost five arms and two legs.
First there was scrapbooking, which makes a few of my friends (*ahem* JenFu) hang their heads in shame for me. But fuck it, my scrapbooks are really just fancy photo albums and I love shocking the Mormon ladies with my scrapbooks full of pictures of Pagan weddings and drunken group gropings. But dude, scrapbooking is not cheap. I think I spent well over $1000 the first year I was doing it, just buying equipment and such. Now I only buy paper and albums but still! I think I spent a few hundred dollars doing our wedding albums (people, we have three wedding albums: a coffe table book style one, our "formal" album, and the engagement through wedding snapshot album) (oh, plus I made albums for our parents too), but hey, it would have cost me at least $1000 for one album from the photographers so really, that was a bargain. I am really, really behind on my scrapbooking too, so I need to get on that. I still need to get all my 3 Day pictures into that album, plus there's Wisconsin and now a Disneyland trip, and pictures from various things I've done with T. Oy.
But the scrapbooking goes along well with the whole photography obesession I have going on. And photography is not a cheap hobby either! At least it's not once you decide that hey, your point and shoot is not doing what you need it to do so you need a digital SLR. But then you realize the kit lens does not do what you want it to do, so you need more lenses. And then you need a bag to haul around your lenses and your camera and also, you need to develop some of those dang pictures. Really though, aside from the equipment costs (and yes, there is already another lens that I want, despite having received my lovely, lovely 55-200 VR zoom lens for Christmas), it's been a relatively low cost thing for me to play around with. And now I have art! Made by me! Which will soon fill my office, and all the offices of people I know because that is what everyone will get for gifts forever.
Well, some of them will get things from the third hobby, of course. Because I have been assimilated into the world of knitting. Seriously, it's becoming a problem. Do you know how easy it is to spend the entire afternoon perusing the patterns on Ravelry? And you know, I have finally ventured into DPNs and cables and look out now! I am actually formulating a plan to design a pair of fingerless gloves all on my own because I want something between Knitty.com's Fetching and Dashing (both of which i've made in the past month) with a few more cables. And Knitty has a sock pattern I am dying to try as soon as I can afford to go buy more Crystal Palace bamboo DPNs (because I love them, that's why) and some sock yarn. Oh, and I have two blankets, a baby cardigan, a baby hat and a raglan sweater for myself that I want to make. I have issues. But at least I'm also having a damn good time with it. And oh man, if I didn't have knitting to keep me busy the last two days while I was sick at home, I may have gone more crazy than I already am.
Laura told me this weekend that if I ever stuck to one thing long enough I could probably make money at it. Who knows. It'd certainly be nice to make some of it back, but in the meantime, at least I'm having a good time.
First there was scrapbooking, which makes a few of my friends (*ahem* JenFu) hang their heads in shame for me. But fuck it, my scrapbooks are really just fancy photo albums and I love shocking the Mormon ladies with my scrapbooks full of pictures of Pagan weddings and drunken group gropings. But dude, scrapbooking is not cheap. I think I spent well over $1000 the first year I was doing it, just buying equipment and such. Now I only buy paper and albums but still! I think I spent a few hundred dollars doing our wedding albums (people, we have three wedding albums: a coffe table book style one, our "formal" album, and the engagement through wedding snapshot album) (oh, plus I made albums for our parents too), but hey, it would have cost me at least $1000 for one album from the photographers so really, that was a bargain. I am really, really behind on my scrapbooking too, so I need to get on that. I still need to get all my 3 Day pictures into that album, plus there's Wisconsin and now a Disneyland trip, and pictures from various things I've done with T. Oy.
But the scrapbooking goes along well with the whole photography obesession I have going on. And photography is not a cheap hobby either! At least it's not once you decide that hey, your point and shoot is not doing what you need it to do so you need a digital SLR. But then you realize the kit lens does not do what you want it to do, so you need more lenses. And then you need a bag to haul around your lenses and your camera and also, you need to develop some of those dang pictures. Really though, aside from the equipment costs (and yes, there is already another lens that I want, despite having received my lovely, lovely 55-200 VR zoom lens for Christmas), it's been a relatively low cost thing for me to play around with. And now I have art! Made by me! Which will soon fill my office, and all the offices of people I know because that is what everyone will get for gifts forever.
Well, some of them will get things from the third hobby, of course. Because I have been assimilated into the world of knitting. Seriously, it's becoming a problem. Do you know how easy it is to spend the entire afternoon perusing the patterns on Ravelry? And you know, I have finally ventured into DPNs and cables and look out now! I am actually formulating a plan to design a pair of fingerless gloves all on my own because I want something between Knitty.com's Fetching and Dashing (both of which i've made in the past month) with a few more cables. And Knitty has a sock pattern I am dying to try as soon as I can afford to go buy more Crystal Palace bamboo DPNs (because I love them, that's why) and some sock yarn. Oh, and I have two blankets, a baby cardigan, a baby hat and a raglan sweater for myself that I want to make. I have issues. But at least I'm also having a damn good time with it. And oh man, if I didn't have knitting to keep me busy the last two days while I was sick at home, I may have gone more crazy than I already am.
Laura told me this weekend that if I ever stuck to one thing long enough I could probably make money at it. Who knows. It'd certainly be nice to make some of it back, but in the meantime, at least I'm having a good time.
1 Comments:
Well, I'm totally with you in the scrapbooking cult. I really like my albums too! So we will lock arms and stare defiantly at those who scoff.
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