I come from a set of parents who never thought of anything as "man's work" or "women's work". If something needed doing everyone did it. My dad made all 5 of his daughters take a basic auto mechanic's course before we could get our driving license (we lived in the country, so driving was important) and all of my brothers had to take a home ec course so they could cook and sew for themselves. My dad's philosophy was that we should all be self sufficient.
I love doing mosaic. When we were still in Canada I did a lot of stained glass work and have tons of glass left over. I'm going to do a mosaic with some of the smaller pieces for our water feature at the new house.

I would love to take a metalwork course and learn how to do wrought iron work. There was a blacksmith shop about 2 hours from where I lived and used to go up there to watch him work. I don't seem to see those type of short courses here, though.

Have you told them yet?

My wife's playgroup raise funds in their annual sizzle and make 2000 bucks easily.

Example of Australian fund-raising at play.

Broke our Bunnings virginity on Friday: my wife has mentally spent thousands.....which is fine as long as I get the barbie.......have to say, very well stocked, lots of staff and always somewhere to play for the kids.