Speaking of hobbies, does anyone have any good suggestions for a fairly stationary person in her 50s?
My mom, who is normally a marathon running, dog training, long distance cycling sort of person, has developed numerous surgery requiring muscle tears in one of her legs
So she's not gonna be very mobile for a while next year, and I fully expect her to go completely insane during this time
And I was thinking of trying to get her into a hobby of some sort for Christmas, but I have very few actually good ideas for that
Speaking of hobbies, does anyone have any good suggestions for a fairly stationary person in her 50s?
My mom, who is normally a marathon running, dog training, long distance cycling sort of person, has developed numerous surgery requiring muscle tears in one of her legs
So she's not gonna be very mobile for a while next year, and I fully expect her to go completely insane during this time
And I was thinking of trying to get her into a hobby of some sort for Christmas, but I have very few actually good ideas for that
knitting or cross-stitch!
They're fun and keep you busy and you can make cool stuff!
Speaking of hobbies, does anyone have any good suggestions for a fairly stationary person in her 50s?
My mom, who is normally a marathon running, dog training, long distance cycling sort of person, has developed numerous surgery requiring muscle tears in one of her legs
So she's not gonna be very mobile for a while next year, and I fully expect her to go completely insane during this time
And I was thinking of trying to get her into a hobby of some sort for Christmas, but I have very few actually good ideas for that
Speaking of hobbies, does anyone have any good suggestions for a fairly stationary person in her 50s?
My mom, who is normally a marathon running, dog training, long distance cycling sort of person, has developed numerous surgery requiring muscle tears in one of her legs
So she's not gonna be very mobile for a while next year, and I fully expect her to go completely insane during this time
And I was thinking of trying to get her into a hobby of some sort for Christmas, but I have very few actually good ideas for that
Aqua Aerobics? Kayaking?
She already kayaks (she used to be pretty high up on the US professional marathon canoeing circuit, actually)
But this is gonna be in the dead of winter, so that's kind of a no-go
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
Speaking of hobbies, does anyone have any good suggestions for a fairly stationary person in her 50s?
My mom, who is normally a marathon running, dog training, long distance cycling sort of person, has developed numerous surgery requiring muscle tears in one of her legs
So she's not gonna be very mobile for a while next year, and I fully expect her to go completely insane during this time
And I was thinking of trying to get her into a hobby of some sort for Christmas, but I have very few actually good ideas for that
Aqua Aerobics? Kayaking?
She already kayaks (she used to be pretty high up on the US professional marathon canoeing circuit, actually)
But this is gonna be in the dead of winter, so that's kind of a no-go
The GeekOh-Two Crew, OmeganautRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Accordion lessons?
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
I've dove headfirst into brewing this year. Over twenty batches across about a dozen different styles, including a couple ciders. It has been such a blast crafting recipes, actually brewing it up, bottling and then serving. A few recipes I've refined after trying them the first time. So much fun.
I'm now setting up a kegerator because I'm sick of bottling, and the new year is going to see me going to all grain brewing, and moving away from the extracts.
Also I've recently gotten into bread making. I've got a great sour dough starter from a friend that I've used to make Bacon Sour Dough which is amazing, and a couple biscuit recipes I've busted out for special occasions.
Next is going to try to make my own hamburger buns and french bread.
I've dove headfirst into brewing this year. Over twenty batches across about a dozen different styles, including a couple ciders. It has been such a blast crafting recipes, actually brewing it up, bottling and then serving. A few recipes I've refined after trying them the first time. So much fun.
I'm now setting up a kegerator because I'm sick of bottling, and the new year is going to see me going to all grain brewing, and moving away from the extracts.
Also I've recently gotten into bread making. I've got a great sour dough starter from a friend that I've used to make Bacon Sour Dough which is amazing, and a couple biscuit recipes I've busted out for special occasions.
Next is going to try to make my own hamburger buns and french bread.
You're a handful of cows and a small potato garden away from being an entire DIY pub.
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The GeekOh-Two Crew, OmeganautRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Every couple years or so, I get a mild itch to get a bonsai tree. It usually fades before I ever get around to doing anything about it.
BLM - ACAB
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
I've dove headfirst into brewing this year. Over twenty batches across about a dozen different styles, including a couple ciders. It has been such a blast crafting recipes, actually brewing it up, bottling and then serving. A few recipes I've refined after trying them the first time. So much fun.
I'm now setting up a kegerator because I'm sick of bottling, and the new year is going to see me going to all grain brewing, and moving away from the extracts.
Also I've recently gotten into bread making. I've got a great sour dough starter from a friend that I've used to make Bacon Sour Dough which is amazing, and a couple biscuit recipes I've busted out for special occasions.
Next is going to try to make my own hamburger buns and french bread.
you should try building a kegerator! They're crazy over priced when you buy them new.
I've dove headfirst into brewing this year. Over twenty batches across about a dozen different styles, including a couple ciders. It has been such a blast crafting recipes, actually brewing it up, bottling and then serving. A few recipes I've refined after trying them the first time. So much fun.
I'm now setting up a kegerator because I'm sick of bottling, and the new year is going to see me going to all grain brewing, and moving away from the extracts.
Also I've recently gotten into bread making. I've got a great sour dough starter from a friend that I've used to make Bacon Sour Dough which is amazing, and a couple biscuit recipes I've busted out for special occasions.
Next is going to try to make my own hamburger buns and french bread.
you should try building a kegerator! They're crazy over priced when you buy them new.
I turned my regular mini fridge into one, it wasn't that tough!
Every couple years or so, I get a mild itch to get a bonsai tree. It usually fades before I ever get around to doing anything about it.
I always look at these and then decide that if I did get started, I would have to do something insanely ambitious as this, and that's not going to happen because I have no practise or skill with this stuff at all.
Hobby thread, any suggestions on a bandsaw? Looking for something not terribly expensive, that can be mounted to a table. I'd probably mostly use it for curve cutting, and maybe occasional cross cutting and ripping.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
I'm kidding, she's pretty rad. Both of my parents are (ex-)super-athletes, I was pretty much genetically engineered to be some sort of hypermarathoner.
Hobby thread, any suggestions on a bandsaw? Looking for something not terribly expensive, that can be mounted to a table. I'd probably mostly use it for curve cutting, and maybe occasional cross cutting and ripping.
If it's only for wood you don't need much. Looks on craigslist.
I was hoping for a brand recommendation from someone who has purchased one actually... Craigslist searches in my area are only turning up $1000+ industrial models.
My hobby is building model miniatures. Right now I'm working on a Tyranid army!
I've got Hormagaunts, little nasties with bladed arms that want to slice you up:
I've got Termagants, little nasties with guns that shoot living bullets that want to burrow into you:
I've got Gargoyles, which are Termagants with wings that can spit blinding acid:
Then I've got warriors, mid size tyranids that keep the small ones in order:
Now comes the big ones, a Carnifex, who can rip tanks apart with his claws:
A Tervigon, a giant queen of a beast that can spawn more Termagants as the fighting goes on:
At the bad mamba jamba itself, a winged Hive Tyrant:
And here is all I've got built so far, about 20 little guys shy of a 1,000 point army:
I've also got swept up in a new thing games workshop is doing, the Horus Heresy, which lets you play as armies from 30k, 10,000 years before 40k, before the dark age of man.
So here is a Chaplain, the first model of my 30k Word Bearers army, the first space marines that begin to worship chaos and basically kick start the beginning of the end for mankind:
I also like to build giant robots, mostly gunpla kits from the series gundam:
Once I get my 1,000 points of Tyranids build it's going to be time to start painting them. And for Christmas I am expecting to get an airbrush and am excited to learn how to paint with that, I plan to use it for my gundams and for the armor on my Word Bearers.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
I've dove headfirst into brewing this year. Over twenty batches across about a dozen different styles, including a couple ciders. It has been such a blast crafting recipes, actually brewing it up, bottling and then serving. A few recipes I've refined after trying them the first time. So much fun.
I'm now setting up a kegerator because I'm sick of bottling, and the new year is going to see me going to all grain brewing, and moving away from the extracts.
Also I've recently gotten into bread making. I've got a great sour dough starter from a friend that I've used to make Bacon Sour Dough which is amazing, and a couple biscuit recipes I've busted out for special occasions.
Next is going to try to make my own hamburger buns and french bread.
you should try building a kegerator! They're crazy over priced when you buy them new.
I turned my regular mini fridge into one, it wasn't that tough!
Oh that's what I'm totally doing with my spare fridge! I have all the hardware, just waiting for the cider to finish lagering before I do my installation.
My hobby is building model miniatures. Right now I'm working on a Tyranid army!
I've got Hormagaunts, little nasties with bladed arms that want to slice you up:
I've got Termagants, little nasties with guns that shoot living bullets that want to burrow into you:
I've got Gargoyles, which are Termagants with wings that can spit blinding acid:
Then I've got warriors, mid size tyranids that keep the small ones in order:
Now comes the big ones, a Carnifex, who can rip tanks apart with his claws:
A Tervigon, a giant queen of a beast that can spawn more Termagants as the fighting goes on:
At the bad mamba jamba itself, a winged Hive Tyrant:
And here is all I've got built so far, about 20 little guys shy of a 1,000 point army:
I've also got swept up in a new thing games workshop is doing, the Horus Heresy, which lets you play as armies from 30k, 10,000 years before 40k, before the dark age of man.
So here is a Chaplain, the first model of my 30k Word Bearers army, the first space marines that begin to worship chaos and basically kick start the beginning of the end for mankind:
I also like to build giant robots, mostly gunpla kits from the series gundam:
Once I get my 1,000 points of Tyranids build it's going to be time to start painting them. And for Christmas I am expecting to get an airbrush and am excited to learn how to paint with that, I plan to use it for my gundams and for the armor on my Word Bearers.
I have neither the patience nor the fine motor skills for model building, but I got a ton of respect for people who do it and love seeing their work.
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KakodaimonosCode fondlerHelping the 1% get richerRegistered Userregular
I was hoping for a brand recommendation from someone who has purchased one actually... Craigslist searches in my area are only turning up $1000+ industrial models.
What are you planning on cutting? The Skil 3386 isn't a bad benchtop saw, but if you're planning on working with a lot of hardwoods or laminates you may need something with more power.
I don't know if I could ever properly build models. I can barely paint!
Like anything else it's just practice and looking up techniques. A lot of it is using the model itself to make painting it easier, using the edges that are already there, etc. It's fun and a lot easier than it seems
I was hoping for a brand recommendation from someone who has purchased one actually... Craigslist searches in my area are only turning up $1000+ industrial models.
What are you planning on cutting? The Skil 3386 isn't a bad benchtop saw, but if you're planning on working with a lot of hardwoods or laminates you may need something with more power.
I was hoping for a brand recommendation from someone who has purchased one actually... Craigslist searches in my area are only turning up $1000+ industrial models.
What are you planning on cutting? The Skil 3386 isn't a bad benchtop saw, but if you're planning on working with a lot of hardwoods or laminates you may need something with more power.
Some hardwoods (Occasionally oak or maybe cherry for furniture projects), but mostly softwoods. No laminate. I'll look into that model, thanks!
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Yeah, model painting is a lot easier than it looks
I will say that it can get very repetitive, which is actually what stopped me from ever fully assembling my Tyranid army back in the day
(an army that, amusingly, is pretty much the exact opposite of Inquisitor's)
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facetiousa wit so dryit shits sandRegistered Userregular
edited December 2015
I also really want to learn tailoring skills, so that in the future I can just make all my own (period) clothing.
Basically I want to learn every period skill.
... he types, having taken a break from his first-ever sewing project. (I'm trying to make a haversack for a reenacting pursuit I'll be doing this weekend - a first for me, despite having had a job the last four years working in period clothing.)
I just started it, I have the shape cut out and it seems (no pun intended) like it should work when I sew everything? Maybe???
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"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
I also really want to learn tailoring skills, so that in the future I can just make all my own (period) clothing.
Basically I want to learn every period skill.
... he types, having taken a break from his first-ever sewing project. (I'm trying to make a haversack for a reenacting pursuit I'll be doing this weekend - a first for me, despite having had a job the last four years working in period clothing.)
I just started it, I have the shape cut out and it seems (no pun intended) like it should work when I sew everything? Maybe???
Take levels in Rogue or Bard.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Speaking of hobbies, does anyone have any good suggestions for a fairly stationary person in her 50s?
My mom, who is normally a marathon running, dog training, long distance cycling sort of person, has developed numerous surgery requiring muscle tears in one of her legs
So she's not gonna be very mobile for a while next year, and I fully expect her to go completely insane during this time
And I was thinking of trying to get her into a hobby of some sort for Christmas, but I have very few actually good ideas for that
Does she play an instrument? Guitar, keyboard, violin, harp, banjo, trumpet, clarinet, theremin? Does she do much work with her hands, woodcarving, crochet, jewellery making, painting, pottery, sculpture?
Hell, would she be interested in building a Warhammer 40K army?
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facetiousa wit so dryit shits sandRegistered Userregular
I finished the haversack. It's not great, but considering I expected it to be an utter failure I'm actually pleasantly surprised.
Mostly annoyed by the hemlines - I wish I'd hidden them better, that I'd chosen a different stitch entirely, or even that I hadn't had to hem at all - I think I could have just included that in the stitch that holds the back and front together, and apart from everything else save me a bunch of time.
My life is kind of weird incidentally.
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
Hey crafties, I'm reviving this lamp here, I was going to paint the stand of it black but now that I'd wire wheeled it I kinda like it as is. Opinions?
Should the pieces of a work be coated before or after assembly? That table on the previous page is partially unattached (the tabletop hasn't been screwed in yet) so I have the option of coating that separately if needed. What do ya think?
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Aqua Aerobics? Kayaking?
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
knitting or cross-stitch!
They're fun and keep you busy and you can make cool stuff!
Hamboning?
She already kayaks (she used to be pretty high up on the US professional marathon canoeing circuit, actually)
But this is gonna be in the dead of winter, so that's kind of a no-go
Rowing machine?
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I'm now setting up a kegerator because I'm sick of bottling, and the new year is going to see me going to all grain brewing, and moving away from the extracts.
Also I've recently gotten into bread making. I've got a great sour dough starter from a friend that I've used to make Bacon Sour Dough which is amazing, and a couple biscuit recipes I've busted out for special occasions.
Next is going to try to make my own hamburger buns and french bread.
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You're a handful of cows and a small potato garden away from being an entire DIY pub.
you should try building a kegerator! They're crazy over priced when you buy them new.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I turned my regular mini fridge into one, it wasn't that tough!
I always look at these and then decide that if I did get started, I would have to do something insanely ambitious as this, and that's not going to happen because I have no practise or skill with this stuff at all.
Eh, she's alright.
I'm kidding, she's pretty rad. Both of my parents are (ex-)super-athletes, I was pretty much genetically engineered to be some sort of hypermarathoner.
gonna make so much bread on the weekends
If it's only for wood you don't need much. Looks on craigslist.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I've got Hormagaunts, little nasties with bladed arms that want to slice you up:
I've got Termagants, little nasties with guns that shoot living bullets that want to burrow into you:
I've got Gargoyles, which are Termagants with wings that can spit blinding acid:
Then I've got warriors, mid size tyranids that keep the small ones in order:
Now comes the big ones, a Carnifex, who can rip tanks apart with his claws:
A Tervigon, a giant queen of a beast that can spawn more Termagants as the fighting goes on:
At the bad mamba jamba itself, a winged Hive Tyrant:
And here is all I've got built so far, about 20 little guys shy of a 1,000 point army:
I've also got swept up in a new thing games workshop is doing, the Horus Heresy, which lets you play as armies from 30k, 10,000 years before 40k, before the dark age of man.
So here is a Chaplain, the first model of my 30k Word Bearers army, the first space marines that begin to worship chaos and basically kick start the beginning of the end for mankind:
I also like to build giant robots, mostly gunpla kits from the series gundam:
Once I get my 1,000 points of Tyranids build it's going to be time to start painting them. And for Christmas I am expecting to get an airbrush and am excited to learn how to paint with that, I plan to use it for my gundams and for the armor on my Word Bearers.
Oh that's what I'm totally doing with my spare fridge! I have all the hardware, just waiting for the cider to finish lagering before I do my installation.
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
I have neither the patience nor the fine motor skills for model building, but I got a ton of respect for people who do it and love seeing their work.
What are you planning on cutting? The Skil 3386 isn't a bad benchtop saw, but if you're planning on working with a lot of hardwoods or laminates you may need something with more power.
Like anything else it's just practice and looking up techniques. A lot of it is using the model itself to make painting it easier, using the edges that are already there, etc. It's fun and a lot easier than it seems
Some hardwoods (Occasionally oak or maybe cherry for furniture projects), but mostly softwoods. No laminate. I'll look into that model, thanks!
I will say that it can get very repetitive, which is actually what stopped me from ever fully assembling my Tyranid army back in the day
(an army that, amusingly, is pretty much the exact opposite of Inquisitor's)
Basically I want to learn every period skill.
... he types, having taken a break from his first-ever sewing project. (I'm trying to make a haversack for a reenacting pursuit I'll be doing this weekend - a first for me, despite having had a job the last four years working in period clothing.)
I just started it, I have the shape cut out and it seems (no pun intended) like it should work when I sew everything? Maybe???
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Take levels in Rogue or Bard.
Does she play an instrument? Guitar, keyboard, violin, harp, banjo, trumpet, clarinet, theremin? Does she do much work with her hands, woodcarving, crochet, jewellery making, painting, pottery, sculpture?
Hell, would she be interested in building a Warhammer 40K army?
Mostly annoyed by the hemlines - I wish I'd hidden them better, that I'd chosen a different stitch entirely, or even that I hadn't had to hem at all - I think I could have just included that in the stitch that holds the back and front together, and apart from everything else save me a bunch of time.
My life is kind of weird incidentally.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Satans..... hints.....
Also I picked up colin today.
I have since given him a shave and he is in the fridge brining in some spices.
Satans..... hints.....
http://www.colorcord.com/collections/metallic-cloth-covered-wire
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Orright Col'.
Thems a good idea, I wonder if anyone local has them...
Should the pieces of a work be coated before or after assembly? That table on the previous page is partially unattached (the tabletop hasn't been screwed in yet) so I have the option of coating that separately if needed. What do ya think?