Starting New Hobby Gifts

The Multi-Prop Juggler In Training

Bitchbark Canoe

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

The Hobby Store

"He built his own airplane from a kit."

"River well stocked this year."

"Is this the first time you've been fishing?"

'I don't know what he gets up to in there, but it keeps him busy.' (Noises are recorded, man reads paper, has beer.)

"Trail mix?"

"Our Rupert has swopped his gaming console for bagpipes...it gets us out of the house more often."

'Tommy is in the other room playing with the triangle we bought him in Bermuda.'

'First of all, relax.'

"Oh we're fine, my husbands just learning to cook during the quarantine."

'My first camera'

'Dude, you can go for that new diving gear if you want, but if you ask me, I think it's a trap.'

Patey's in a band! He's so cool!

"We cancelled Netfix for this?"

"You do have your own way of enjoying the garden, don't you?"

"We should get out to the country more often."

Model Building

'Would you like some of our house wine? I just made it.'

"What do you mean, it's not an educational toy? I'd have to learn to ride it!"

"Ooh, another unsuspecting victim."

I bake my own bread.

'I don't actually want to learn so much that I become a wine buff - just a wine snob!'

"You may not know this, but I've become quite the wine expert."

Pam collected ceramic pigs. Just one so far, but even that seemed like too many.

She found baking helped enormously.

"Frankly, I don't really want him to improve: he scares the predators away..."

'Hello, please take care of my ship in a bottle.'

'Women cook to feed the soul...men cook to feed the ego.'

'First time spear fishing, Son?'

"O.K., go long, and then go about a hundred feet to your left or your right - who knows?"

"My husband makes this wine."

'Aside from your plastic canvas projects, what else have you been doing since you retired?'