> I have decided that they are a great hobby for him and that it is a real neat thing.

Aww. It is really great when family can say that about hobbies.

My mother doesn't really understand the obsession I have with collecting dice (close enough to a hobby I suppose) - I have far more than I could ever use at once for roleplaying.

She makes my sister and me birthday cakes every year, and asks us what we want on them. This year I said a picture of a d20. I thought of that since I recently got a shirt with a drawing of this type of die on it, and the perspective of the drawing was simple enough that it could be easily reproduced on a cake. She did not really take to my suggestion very well, so I thought that I was just going to get some roses on the cake, which would have been fine. She does nice roses with icing and they always are pretty.

Well, I was absolutely delighted when it was time for me to see the finished cake... no drawing of a die, but five actual dice on it. They were pink and green ones to match the roses and leaves that she put on the other side. She wasn't able to find my shirt as she was decorating the cake, so she went out to the garage where my box of dice was, and went through them all to find the perfect colors. That was just amazing to me. To top it all off, she said later that "some of them are really pretty." She had previously seen all my dice as more or less identical to each other, but now had a bit of my appreciation for the different colors and styles that dice are created in.


Gahalyn