I had spent years and years building and creating miniature houses. I used to display each of them in my craft room but not many people saw them because they wouldn’t go past the lounge room. And then I mixed things up and moved them to the lounge room and I realised nobody really looked at the them there either. I had hidden them for years in a cupboard before placing them in my craft room. Just to make room for the built ones.
It requires large space to make miniatures and I would have a dedicated table for building and drying my miniatures in progress.
But there came a point where I started to notice the newer projects had a lot less in them because instead of trying and trying and trying to glue the pieces together, if it didn’t work after three or less goes I didn’t include it in the final piece and it turns out there was quite a lot I missed. I wanted to finish the project but once I did I realised I didn’t include much in it. It didn’t look as complete as the picture I bought it for.
Making miniature DIY kits feels like you have to be perfect at it. Some people even go beyond perfect and paint the walls a different colour and really make it their own.
I just felt like when I looked at the miniatures that I just wanted them gone. I didn’t find them cute to look at anymore. I wanted to fill the space with other things I loved. And I realised, I wanted all of my miniatures that were built gone and I wanted the ones still sealed in boxes to be also gone because I felt like I would never make them again.
So I put them on Facebook marketplace for really cheap. $5 for the small ones and $10 for the medium sized ones. I even put $20 on a huge multi-level mansion which wasn’t perfect. It was interesting how many people viewed the items. After some questions, I had to amend the ads to say, the furniture is glued down. Because some people thought it was like a dollshouse.
And then, they started to sell. I couldn’t believe it. I was in disbelief that even the miniature homes I thought were the worst, people were buying. I just thanked them immensely for buying it because I did put a lot of work into them.
And I even gave extra away for free to those who were buying and interested in more.
I also sold the sealed miniature DIY kits because I decided I would most likely never want to build them again. People love the kits as longest as you sell them cheaply, they will be bought.
I simply chucked the rest of the completed miniatures and that felt good. It didn’t hurt like I thought it would. All that time, all that patience. I feel it was more the moments in time that I spent on building them was more the exciting part then when they were built.
And now I had let go of my past. What I no longer found joy in. And I opened up my future and replaced my space with books. Lots of books because until now, my books sat in the back storage. But now I wanted to read books.
I’m here to tell you, that it is ok to let go of past hobbies that no longer excite you. It is ok to sell them or chuck them out if you no longer want to see them. Or if you want to replace them with a new hobby or a hobby you once loved and have decided to re-love again.
I can assure you, my enthusiasm for making miniatures died years earlier but I tried to push through. To keep them. To keep building. But it felt like work. And I didn’t enjoy it no more. That’s when you let it go. And when it feels good to see them gone, you can treasure that moment. You have lived and you will continue to grow as you move on to new hobbies.
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