Melanie Toye's Hobbies

 I love scrapbooking. I have many photo albums ready to scrapbook but also I have a scrapbook art book for just scrapbooking fun that isn’t going into a photo album. It’s just a bit of fun.  So how do you scrapbook?  Well it’s easy. You can go as minimalistic or as grand as you want. For me, I like three materials that I use nearly every time which is scrapbooking paper, stickers and washi tape. I do have extra materials such as gold tissue and feathers and even rubber stamps and felt pens but the three top materials I try and use every time. This is because it just feels right to me. It’s the materials that I love to use so why not use them?  So to scrapbook an art book, start with a blank page: How to plan for your scrapbook page  I like to set the page at the beginning by getting all my materials that I want to use for the piece of work of art I want to do. I think of a theme and get the materials that I want to use. Noting, that sometimes I select too much a...

Image by StockSnap from Pixabay So I have decided to downsize my craft space so what this means is I originally had three craft tables, a room for it and a tall storage space plus multiple other smaller storage’s such as draws and tubs.  But I realised, I was leaving half finished craft on the other two tables and sometimes the third table.  Why leaving craft on the table isn’t a good idea So some crafts like diamond painting and building miniatures, I tend to leave out on my craft tables. The problem is, for the most part it just sits there. It does not compel me to work on it. It looks messy because the table isn’t cleared.  So by getting rid of the two tables, I now have one table, which means I have to clear up the craft after every time I do it. This means my space looks clean to me. Also, I can choose whatever craft I want to do at the time and then put it back. For example, I can still do miniatures and put the recently glued items in a draw to dry and not leave o...