Hobby Swap

[cjsmith]

Here's a swap meet I'd love to go to. Hobby swap! Bring your old hobbies and go home with secondhand hobbies you get from someone else!

I'll probably never make candles again, so I'd bring my books and molds and paraffin and colors. I'll bring my rollerblades with elbow and knee pads. I'll bring my cake decorating books and my collection of fancy icing tips. I might go home with pliers & dowel & a bunch of thick wire to turn into chain mail, or perhaps a power sander, or a beginner's archery bow and arm guard.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh cool! This is good to know! Do people travel internationally for the really splufty conventions, or are they mostly lots of local people?

If I developed some weird specialty, like making my own beads out of recycled cell phones, then there's some chance I could *give* a class at such a thing some day, right? (I'm hoping that would help offset travel expenses. I wouldn't travel half so much if square dance calling didn't pay a little.)

[firecat]

There are international classes and major conventions that people travel to. A couple of examples randomly lifted off of Google:

http://sisudesigns.theshoppe.com/retreats.html

http://www.beadsonthevine.com/

And yes, lots of people give classes on their special and not even all that special techniques.