She Who Dances With Mouselings

[PingosHusband]

...I have come to realize that some of YOU people* have spouses who look at minis and stuff and think "Oh, wow, my spouse would love that," and be right about it... but even workin' on my fourth year with this lady, I'm still not used to that. It's a wonderful change of pace!

 

*Lookin' at those splendid Melons, but I know there are others.**

 

**Oh, ghod, that SO came out wrong. Meant, "I am thinking of the splendid Mr. and Miss Melons, but I know there are others."

 

 

 

Finding minis for people who love them and love to paint them if one does not do so oneself is kind of tricky.  What I've found works best is to see whether there are aspects of the mini that look like they would inspire lots of different ways to paint them or lots of things one could do to modify them.  That way the present isn't just the object but the inspiration as well. 

[wargamer]

it's kind of a long running gag in my family, my wife will buy minis as a gift for me when what she really means is for me to assemble then for her to confiscate.

[redambrosia]

World peace? No way, I'd wish for everyone to have a S.O. who was as accepting and loving as this. I have it too. It's sooo weird and awesome      Best feeling in the world.

[Crowley]

World peace? No way, I'd wish for everyone to have a S.O. who was as accepting and loving as this. I have it too. It's sooo weird and awesome      Best feeling in the world.

I'm pretty sure this would go a long way toward world peace. Well, domestic harmony anyway...

[Chaoswolf]

I agree, David.

[Dr.Bedlam]

I dunno. Perhaps it's because my ex found the whole thing baffling and expensive and pointless, although she respected my interest in it. But she regarded the whole thing as a weird, inscrutable geek thing, beyond the ken of anyone not on "The Big Bang Theory."

I'm not particularly inscrutable or incomprehensible. BRYAN, of all people, could probably pick out a mini I'd like, and he doesn't even wanna marry me. Or so he says, anyway. But my baby hits it out of the park, or at least gets VERY close, every single time. I'm not USED to that.

But I could get used to it.

[ttuckerman]

My wife like miniatures, but in a broader meaning.  She has her shadow boxes of miniatures and miniature shelves of miniature books.  The one thing is she has had my cowboy banjo player and my piano player misses him.