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Hey!

I am Melanie Toye and I love all things craft. My current arts and craft hobbies are scrapbooking, diamond painting, paint by numbers, miniature DIY kits and more!

If you are seeking to sponsor someone crafty then choose me! I currently make YouTube videos @ littlemissmel23 which are about arts and craft. I am happy to feature a sponsor / products / review within the video or on my blog.

Also, if you are wanting to submit a guest blog post for review, let me know and roughly what date you would want it published. Please note, I post on Saturdays.

You may also be interested in my other blogs listed below:

Check out my walking for health blog: https://melanietoyeswalkingforhealth.blogspot.com/?m=1

Check out my dance blog here: https://melanietoyesdance.blogspot.com/?m=1

Check out my dreaming of Japan blog here: https://melanietoyedreamsofjapan.blogspot.com/?m=1

Check out my reviews blog here: https://melanietoyereviews.blogspot.com/?m=1

Check out my love of pink blog here: https://melanietoyesloveofpink.blogspot.com/?m=1

To contact me please email: Melanie.toye@gmail.com

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Crocheting my first blanket

So I decided that crocheting animals etc is pretty stressful. Not really stressful but not relaxing. A cool end result but I wanted to find something to crochet where I didn’t have to count the stitches or focus on the different type of stitches. So I decided to crochet a simple blanket. I just wanted to use a small amount of stitches and not count them. I didn’t want to do anything fancy. But I still wanted to crochet. I believe if I could find something to stitch that I could just relax doing than it was worth it. I started googling a simply blanket planet using single crochet stitch. And I found one. It’s simple start off with the first row with a chain stitch and then turn it over and do the rest with a single crochet stitch. Brilliant. So I started crocheting a baby blanket. It didn’t work out. The sides were uneven and the blanket was all different lengths. So I googled and realised after I do a row of single crochet stitches, I have to do one chain stitch at the end before ...

Paint by numbers revival

For a few years, a few years ago (lol), I did some paint by numbers. I really enjoyed the painting and the end result looks amazing. I have quite a lot of hobbies now and my last two paint by numbers I never finished. I think because some of the paint had dried, because I left the painting too long at times and the other painting I just didn’t enjoy the picture, so they didn’t get completed. I then got distracted with new hobbies such as diamond painting, which is similar to paint by numbers. With diamond painting you match the drill to the number to create a picture. However, I have redecorated my home and put up my finished paint by numbers. So I decided to try another one. A few years ago, I had to buy the wooden frame with the canvas and build it together but now you have the option to buy a ready frame, where the company puts the frame and canvas together for you. My most recent purchase is this beautiful image: If you are interested, please find the ...

My AliExpress wish list for diamond painting

Image via: pixabay.com *Please note this post uses affiliate links* If you love diamond painting, here is diamond painting inspiration that you may fall in love with. This is currently on my AliExpress Wishlist: For those who love Disney and especially Stitch, look no further than here: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DCaPBd9 If you want to try something challenging, try this balloon diamond painting with lots of colours: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DdqlrCT For cute Winnie the Pooh, look here: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DE2aXN5 OMG and if you love unicorns like me, you will love this: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DeN8SA7 For something different why not try this: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DeuHBEX I have this exact same panda from paint by numbers so I want to try it as a diamond painting: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Dc6V3SX This elephant is super cute: https://s.click.aliexpress.co...

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