Melanie Toye's Hobbies

Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay Crafting hobbies is super fun and sometimes you need full focus to dive right in and just relax. But a shared experience is even more special, even if just done once together, you could create a special memory of bonding with your child, if you craft together. Also you don't have to do some craft at the same time. So if your child is young, give them age appropriate crafts, while you can do the hobby you want.       Here are 3 cool hobbies you can do with your children: 1. Paint by numbers So pending on your child's age, you can give them a sheet of white paper and some paints and let them finger paint. Or you can buy yourself and your child a paint by numbers kit . Look for simple paint by numbers. Super tiny sections are harder, so you want a picture that uses about 10 paint colours. Most are about 24 paint colours.  Buy both of you paint brushes . I don't know why, but I tend to not like the paint brushes in t...

Image by Pexels from Pixabay So the festive season is here and you may have spent some months before Christmas, crafting to gift for the holidays. I know I have! But also, you may find ... you need more time ... This is also the case for me because I don't want to be finished. The joy of Christmas crafting is fun and if you have the time, you can really let it take up most of days before Christmas. It is that beautiful feeling, when you spent time making something that when you go to give your handmade gift, the look of appreciation from that person, makes you feel even more special. So handmaking something for someone, makes the gift receiver and yourself just feel nice. And there is nothing wrong with feeling pretty good about something you made and now gifting.  So you have all this pre-Christmas creations and some are bulky, some are thin and small and you don't want to lose ... you need a place to put it all.  "First of all I would get a storage tub. Maybe 2 storage ...

 Whether you love to create scrapbooking themes in your photo album or just want to scrapbook a page to feel creative, today I am showing you how to scrapbook a Christmas theme . I am going to use an A4 art book , so the pages are a bit thicker than a normal exercise book. You can use the same scrapbooking resources and then add photos to the top of the scrapbooking at the end if you like. Let’s start with the resources. For those in Australia, I bought this last year and hadn’t opened it till now. It’s from Kmart and I looked this year and they are selling a similar or same one again.  The pack comes with thick card paper sheets, some paper cut outs and stickers. I have a photo of some Christmas washi tape below that I believe I also bought from Kmart last year.  Now go get your glue stick, scissors and anything else you may want to include. I wanted to use this scrapbooking craft pack I bought but I do have a tonne more Christmas stickers but decided not to use th...