00:00So, um, it's set out like this.
00:26So on this video, I'm going to be doing it at a British home store, Chelsea Gold.
00:29Can you take over some order at the British home store?
00:31But thank you.
00:32Oh, sorry.
00:33Oh, sorry.
00:34Oh, no, you're welcome.
00:35Do you, do you feel a certain connection to it?
00:38No, no, it's just amazing.
00:40Maybe it's a blessing.
00:41That's a blessing to me.
00:42Well, that's a blessing to me too.
00:45And then he came down and over a period of four or five days, we stuck the, stuck the
00:49carpets on.
00:54They come from all around the UK, from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, from people
00:59who live in towns to people in rural areas, from all kinds of different backgrounds, sometimes
01:04individuals, sometimes big communities who create stuff together for your charitable
01:09events.
01:10Sometimes it's people just squirreling away at home doing something, creating miniatures,
01:14you know, it's from such a range.
01:16And that was part one of the points of the exhibition.
01:19You know, it's not about pretending we're all the same.
01:22We're all different and we're proud of that and we show all those different ways, but
01:26we can still be together, you know, in the space and that all of our practices, our ways
01:31of thinking, that our approaches can be together and it can be joyful and we can kind of lift
01:37each other up.
01:53As we put the nationwide call out, I think the thing that surprised me, as well as all
02:08the different hobbies coming in, one, how many different hobbies there are.
02:11If I asked you to list for me now a list of hobbies, we can come up with a few, but you
02:16wouldn't think of hundreds and that's what we were getting.
02:20And then the second thing was how humble people are.
02:23People almost every time don't value quite what they're doing.
02:27And they always say, oh, you can exhibit my stuff if you think it's good enough.
02:31And that's kind of heartbreaking, you know, you sort of, we don't see our own value sometimes.
02:36And even in the show, speaking to the hobbyists, people sometimes go, oh, I feel like a bit
02:40of a fraud here.
02:41Everyone else's stuff is so good.
02:43You have to tell them, you know, this is what people are saying about your work.
02:49Can you make me a...
03:10This feels like home in a weird way, because everyone's got more than one hobby.
03:15So I've seen people dotting between things going, oh, I do that too.
03:19Or, oh, that looks cool.
03:20I might start doing that.
03:21And we just, we're all talking between each other now, which is really nice.
03:25We're exchanging details ourselves.
03:27But just, I feel so honored and so privileged to be invited here and to actually see my
03:35hobby on display.
03:36Because I don't do it for, I don't do it for likes.
03:39I don't do it for money.
03:40It's just, this is what I do in my spare time for the fun of it.
03:44And to feel recognized for that and feel appreciated is, it makes people smile.
03:49And that makes me smile.
03:50So it's just, it's even better than I thought it would be.
04:13Yeah, very sought-after stuff.
04:15Yeah.
04:16For a long time.
04:17And then it's all going into digital.
04:18I think it's great.
04:19Yeah.
04:20Yeah.
04:21Mm-hmm.
04:22Yeah.
04:23Yeah.
04:24Yeah.
04:25Yeah.
04:26Yeah.
04:27Yeah.
04:28Yeah.
04:29Yeah.
04:30Yeah.
04:31Yeah.
04:32Yeah.
04:33Yeah.
04:34Yeah.
04:35Yeah.
04:36Yeah.
04:37Yeah.
04:38Yeah.
04:39Yeah.
04:40Yeah.
04:41Yeah.
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