I have been spending money like crazy on my fish tank. I like it and its a good hobby but does anyone know a wholesaler or somewhere i can get a really good discount? I mean online is cheaper but shipping is insane. I would prefer a wholesaler, a local one would be awesome i live in bradenton-sarasota florida.
Your opinions on ‘reborns’?
I am currently watching an ABC 20/20 special on women who can’t have babies and cope by taking care of dolls called ‘reborns’. They wash it, take it out with them, put it in strollers, etc., etc. I was wondering what others thought of this…hobby.
where can i register an art product (paper model/hobby model) and sell it online?
my artwork is a paper model, packaged in a book.
How do you deal with relatives who love to compare children?
I think I am going to go nuts. My once very close 1st cousin enjoys calling me only to compare her child to mine and vice verse. They live in a very metropolitan area, so her baby (same age as mine) goes to zoos and aquariums more than my country baby. My baby can look outside and see a variety of wildlife and we take her fishing, so at age two, she can tell you the difference from a bass and a rainbow trout.
I’ve been working with my little girl to teach her colors, counting to 10, shapes, ABC’s and even a little bit of my hobby…astronomy. She knows Jupiter, Earth, and Saturn when she sees them in a book or on the internet. She knows we are in “space” living on Earth. She knows the moon and the sun and points them out. We aren’t super rich or pretentious or trying to push out 2 year old baby to speak Mandarin and six Cantonese dialects, so by a lot of standards, we are slacker parents. We’re big on common knowledge, sharing what we as parents know with our kids and age appropriate basics. My cousin pays like $250 a week to put her child in some high speed little kids academy remniscient of the rival preschool on Daddy day Care. I never call her bragging about my baby, because I feel there’s no reason to brag. All kids are different and special in their own ways. Her baby talks to people on command on the phone, but mine doesn’t, even though she speaks well. She’s more fascinated with how this device has a familiar voice inside of it. Now if mine saw you in person, she would talk your ear off. Bottom line is, my cousin thinks that her kid is like the guru of babies, and if your kid is not following her pattern, they are handicapped or deprived.
I want to tell her in a nice way that I’m tired of this comparing crap. I don’t return this behavior to her, I try and change the subject but she always wanders back to, “So, how big is you baby now? I remember she was such a fat baby. Are you still feeding her pureed porkchops?” Or, “My baby went to the zoo yesterday and she could name so many of the animals. What is your baby doing these days?”
And to think, back in the day…she and I used to be like twin sisters!!
Why is it the hobby of Western man to demonize people?
I get as irritated as anyone else about propaganda overseas – portraying us as the “great satan.” My intention is not to tell you there’s no evil in the world. I know there is.
Let’s be fair on both ends, here. How many parinoid stories have we fallen for in our own culture? We’ve been through at least three big red scares, the terrorists, Y2K, inquititions and witch trials. Roswell even. There’s been stories coming out of our churches for over a hundred years about “who really murdered Christ.” The Jews of course.
Look at the entertainment of even little children in our culture. What’s the recurring theme in cartoons over and over. Some diabolical charactor. Some dark figure. Oh, save us, Batman!!
We teach our children that those who don’t pick up our box of personal opinion will be thrown in fire by God. That anyone who feels differently than we do, votes for someone we don’t, or looks differant than us is bad and will be damned.
IT’S OUR DOWNRIGHT HOBBY.
What would be the best camera to start my new hobby of photography?
I trying something new to be a all around guy, and I want to try photography, what would be the best camera for a beginner?
how come walmart doesn’t have models anymore?
I was looking for model cars to make at walmart,and they don’t have them anymore!What’s up with that?There are no hobby shops around here cause I’m in this stupid hick town in NH that doesn’t have anything!I have to go to Manchester NH to find hobby shops now.I know,it’s probably all these stupid video games that killed the hobby.Kids don’t make models anymore,and walmart carried them mainly for kids.Kids have no imagination anymore.When I was a kid we didn’t have video games.We had stuff like models and model trains we had to build ourselves.
I want to buy or take on consignment hobby and craft yarns. Any liquidators or distributors out there?
We’re opening a studio based on making yarn kits for sale. We need more yarn!
We don’t need a foreign country to buy yarns from! Any domestic suppliers out there?
What is the price of a 3 pack model rocket B6-4, at hobby lobby?
I would like to use my 40% any item coupon on model rocket engines (B6-4 and sometimes C6-5) at hobby lobby. Before I drive all the way to hobby lobby I would like to know what their prices are. Please help me. Thanks!!
Did You See Illegal Alien Kills COP In HOUSTON?
Of course pro illegal will say he is innoncent -
By BRIAN ROGERS and MIKE GLENN
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal said today that he will lead the prosecution of the man accused of killing Houston police Officer Rodney Johnson.
Referring to it as “coming out of retirement,” Rosenthal said he could not recall the last time he took part in prosecuting a case, but guessed that it has been two or three years.
A judge, meanwhile, ordered this morning that Juan Leonardo Quintero remain in the County Jail without bail.
Quintero, 32, is charged with capital murder in connection with the shooting of Johnson near Hobby Airport on Thursday afternoon.
Johnson had stopped Quintero, a Mexican national, for a traffic violation and arrested him because he had no identification. Police said Johnson failed to detect that Quintero had a pistol hidden in his clothing.
Quintero, although handcuffed, managed to get his hands in front of him, pull the gun and kill Johnson while locked in the backseat cage of the officer’s patrol car, investigators said.
Rosenthal said this is a “bizarre” case because Quintero is accused of killing Johnson even though Quintero was locked in the back of the car and could not escape.
In this morning’s hearing, state District Judge Joan Campbell granted a defense request for funds for such expenses as hiring an investigator.
Rosenthal said he believes Quintero could come to trial sometime next spring. The next step in the case will be another court hearing in 15 days, he said, and the case could go to a county grand jury shortly after that.
The arrest of Quintero has renewed debate over the enforcement of immigration laws and HPD’s policy of not questioning suspects about their residency.
Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt appeared on ABC television’s “Good Morning America,” this morning where he accused the federal government of not properly securing the nation’s borders.
With 250,000 to 400,000 illegal immigrants believed to be living in the Houston area, Hurtt said the resources are not available for HPD officers to assume a greater role in immigration enforcement.
“I would need another 2,500 officers,” Hurtt said. Hurtt was interviewed for the ABC program from Charlotte, N.C., where he is attending a meeting of the Major Cities Chiefs Assocation that he heads.
Quintero was deported as an illegal felon in 1999, following a charge of indecency with a child, HPD officials said.
Court records show Quintero was given deferred adjudication in that case.
His previous criminal record included an arrest for driving while intoxicated, for driving with a suspended licensed and for failing to stop and give information after an automobile accident, HPD officials said.
What is the proper attire to attend a musical downtown?
We are going to see “Wicked” next week. I have no clue if people dress REALLY nice like they do for operas or the symphony….or just church nice. Any opinions?? The musical is in downtown houston at the hobby center.
How else could I get from my house to downtown (21 minutes) without parents?
I want to do this course at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in downtown, but the problem is, I have no way to get there. I’M going to pay full tuition (my mom doesn’t like the fact that I don’t want to be a doctor)…and I asked my mom and her boyfriend if they would be able to take me…my mom said that she didn’t think her boss would let her get off at 3:30 (the class is from 4:30-6:00)every Wednesday for two and a half months (and if he[her boss] did, she’d have to give up getting out of work at four every Friday for TWO 1/2 MONTHS. Boo stinkin’ hoo[sorry])….and I asked her boyfriend, and he said that it would be impossible for him..and I can understand THAT…he has a very fluctuating work schedule…so I need some other ways to get to the Hobby Center (Houston) every Wednesday (my mom could at least pick me up) safely and on time….who are some ppl that I could ask…or what kind of public transportation could I take?
I need to get to downtown Houston from Northwest Houston.