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Sample of "The journey of crocheting for beginners" book by Melanie Toye

So, you are beginner in crocheting? I was a beginner a few years ago and decided to create a book for those just starting out. This book is filled with advice and tips for beginners. I am happy to share a sample of my crocheting for beginners book below: Welcome Welcome to your new crocheting journey. Crocheting is beautiful and can be a relaxing and feel-good experience / hobby. Crocheting lets you use your hands to create and inspire. You will learn that you can crochet anywhere at anytime. Just make sure you have a crochet hook and your favourite yarn with you. I started this journey and found it very difficult to even learn how to do a basic chain stitch but I assure you, the more you practice and just practice, the more your hands will learn the ins and outs and it just becomes easy. It’s not about how fast your journey is, it is all about you starting and continuing. Crocheting can be very healing if you allow it into your life. It can also be very rewarding as you create new...
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What is your reading goals this year?

Image by Carlos Villada from Pixabay Reading... it's funny... as a writer I feel I don't read as much as I should. Bascially, I write fiction and non-fiction books ... but I rarely read fiction. I'm not sure if I should admit it? When I was a young adult, I used to read fiction. But I feel, I have so much growth and learning to do, so I lean towards non-fiction.  This is fine - this is a non-judgement space.  So whether you lean more towards reading fiction or non-fiction, that is completely fine. Do not feel guilty for reading!  Probably in the last year, I have started reading more! But as mentioned in previous blogs. I do have this dirty habit ... do you want to hear it? I go shopping at the second hand thrift stores ... it's so much fun... exploring for non-fiction books...and then, because I love craft...I make all these cool b ookmarks ...because I need more than one.  The reason I need more than one, is because I read part of one book, then place a bookmark ...
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How to mentally prepare to crochet a new project after the last one failed

Image by Julius H. from Pixabay  I am an intermediate level crocheter. I avoid learning new stitches because I don't want to forget the stitches I know. So I avoid a lot of projects that I don't know the stitches for. But I do know a decent amount of stitches...let's see, chain, single crochet, increase, decrease and I can crochet a lot of projects using these four stitches.  Last year I posted my crochet fails , because I wanted you to see that even as experienced as I am, I still make mistakes ... mostly though I blame it on the pattern. Ha ha! I recently bought a rhino pattern off Etsy and I stuffed it up a few times but I kept going. So normally a pattern shows all the different parts of the body and I normally just choose which bit I am going to focus on and not in any order. So I started to create the body of this Rhino ... I skipped the beginning where you create the legs and arms first. Because I like to do arms and legs last, because it normally requires a few goe...
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How imaginative should your writing be?

Image by Xavier Espinosa from Pixabay  t’s interesting, I am author of 10 books . Some are fiction and some are non-fiction, and then I also sell kids books.so I have quite a range of book writing experience. So when I started writing a fresh new fiction novel. I really wanted something different to my normal stories. I love to grow and upskill so why not create a story that is so wild, so imaginative and thrilling that it excites me to write it?  So I started writing my next fiction novel and do you know what happened? I wrote this super cool, just absolute imaginative scene. And then I thought … should I delete it? Now, I did hand write this down so luckily I wasn’t typing it because deleting it, it would be simply gone. I thought about the scene do a few days and this is what I concluded:  Just because the scene is so imaginative, doesn’t mean my readers will not love it! I love to write what I love. So if my imagination is that creative and I do love the scene, why w...
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Reshuffling my craft space for scrapbooking

When you feel uninspired change up your craft space  So I haven’t been scrapbooking as much because I have a set of drawers with stickers, washi tape and other cool stationery and then I have my tub of scrapbooking paper in my cupboard.  I was thinking about what I could do to bring my scrapbooking closer. Here’s a photo of my tub of scrapbooking paper. Look how undesirable it looks. Inside I have large paper about A4 size and A3. Then I have 12x12 inch paper. Plus an ice cream tub full of scrap paper.  It just made me feel unsatisfied and what makes me excited to work on a hobby is that I can see the resources and get excited to get started. But this set-up was not empowering me. I started brainstorming about maybe making a craft space. I found a table from IKEA with draws on both sides that I could put my scrapbooking paper and accessories in as well as my diamond painting. I also found a desk backing which is like a three level high shelving that attaches to the table....
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Show my hobbies blog some love, by subscribing to my newsletter

So I have this blog, which I love writing for.  If you come to my blog to read about crocheting, scrapbooking, diamond painting, writing and more then I suggest you subscribe to my email newsletter. I will only email you once a week and I will share with you my blog posts for the week. I am trying to build my views per month on my blog and I need your help, by reading as many of my blog posts as possible.  You can literally type in the search bar, crocheting, scrapbooking, diamond painting, hobbies or writing and read all the related blog posts on your favourite topic. Have a read-a-thon.  And then subscribe to my email newsletter, so you can read more blog posts that come up so you don't have to remember to look for my blog every week. My blog posts will be literally emailed to you every week. Too easy! You just click my home page, under the first blog post it will show the above image. In your message just type in, subscribing to your email and my favourite hobby is ......
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Thrift store for non-fiction books

Image by Eli Digital Creative from Pixabay  So I did it again ... I have been purchasing books from my Apple Books ... and I thought it would continue this way, because the last time I bought second hand books ... they have only been read a little amount. So I thought if I keep reading Apple Books, I will actually read it. Also, non-fiction books are generally not as old as some of the books in thrift stores. But I had a day to myself and I really love exploring thrift stores to see what cool non-fiction books they do have (and if they have any craft!)... so I went back. Where I shop, there are about 5 thrift stores right next to each other. So if I only find a couple of books at one store, I can progress easily to the next one to see what they have. I also took a big thick bag to carry my books in ... but honestly, if I over did it ... I would just buy some more bags from the store to carry them in. I was really happy with what I got. I bought a hard-cover Bucket List, photograph...
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