{"id":67850,"date":"2017-09-30T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-passion-to-profit-turn-your-hobby-into-a-business\/"},"modified":"2017-09-30T14:04:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T07:04:53","slug":"from-passion-to-profit-turn-your-hobby-into-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-passion-to-profit-turn-your-hobby-into-a-business\/","title":{"rendered":"From passion to profit: turn your hobby into a business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nEarning money from doing what you love is something a lot of us aspire to. We speak to five people actually living the dreamWhen Hannah Dale was made redundant at the start of the 2007 financial crisis she was three months pregnant. \u201cI had little money, my mother was diagnosed with cancer and soon I had a baby to look after,\u201d she says. Her hobby, watercolour painting, gave her a much-needed feeling of release. \u201cI could switch off my brain when I painted. It was therapeutic and relaxing.\u201dShe started selling her paintings to local shops in Lincolnshire, but discovered she was earning the equivalent of \u00a31 an hour after costs and commissions. Then she realised she could make a lot more money if she printed her designs on greetings cards. \u201cThat was a lightbulb moment for me because it was scalable.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/sep\/30\/turn-hobby-into-business-earning-living\" target=\"_blank\">From passion to profit: turn your hobby into a business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Earning money from doing what you love is something a lot of us aspire to.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-hEm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57826,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/want-to-make-money-from-your-hobby\/","url_meta":{"origin":67850,"position":0},"title":"Want to make money from your hobby?","date":"February 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\r You could rely on your own website, but there are better ways to ensure you have a high profile onlineWhether you want to make a bit of money out of a hobby, or you hope to launch your own retail business, reaching would-be buyers on your own can be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":115923,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/this-is-no-damn-hobby-the-gangsta-gardener-transforming-los-angeles\/","url_meta":{"origin":67850,"position":1},"title":"&#039;This is no damn hobby&#039;: the &#039;gangsta gardener&#039; transforming Los Angeles","date":"April 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Lockdown is an unlikely ally for Ron Finley, who has set about revolutionising attitudes to gardening in inner city areas Read more stories from our wild cities week\u201cThe garden seduces me,\u201d says Ron Finley, who is known around the world as the \u201cgangsta gardener\u201d. \u201cI\u2019ll get out there at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":111389,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-im-under-the-hammer-at-the-auctioneers-eva-wiseman\/","url_meta":{"origin":67850,"position":2},"title":"Why I\u2019m under the hammer at the auctioneers | Eva Wiseman","date":"October 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r So much to see \u2013 and best of all win \u2013 at my local auction houseIt seems I have\u2026 a hobby? 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