Melanie Toye's Hobbies

So I decided to cut out my media opportunities, paste it into an art book and scrapbook it. As I am quite proud of what I have achieved through out the years writing.  Let’s begin with my greatest achievement. A two-page spread interview in the Courier Mail, Career One section. The third largest newspaper in Australia. It is huge so I had to fold it up into the page, which is fine.  The next media, is a press release I wrote for a printed magazine, The Messenger, which also included two images of my first ever book, Entice Me. I used to write short stories in My Town magazine, which was a local printed magazine. As you can see on the right my novel, Entice Me book covers are pictured.  I am proud of this article I wrote for The Dollar Stretcher, an American magazine.  Also, in terms of scrapbooking, I bought a tonne of books, writing and quote stickers for this scrapbooking and I used all the above book washi tape in one sitting. I have never done that before. I...

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Its been a full on year! Full of major harsh realities but also a renewal and rediscovering myself. And it was in October that I started my new strategy for growing my blog and it was in October that I doubled my views. That is success! But guess what? "Next year is going to be even bigger!"   But before we focus on the New Year. Let's review my year in review. Because you have to look back at what succeeded to know where to build in the future. Plus, I just want to say a special thank you, to you, who is reading my blog, because you bring me joy, every day that I look at my statistics of views and think, I am helping someone start a new hobby, or get more inspiration for their current craft. It's exciting that I have finally found my people, who love hobbies as much as I do. Thank you, you are awesome. Alright, let us review! The top 5 performing blog posts of this year.  5. How much craft supplies should you have  "So, if you...

Image by Pexels from Pixabay Welcome to my Hobbies blog, where I write about crocheting, scrapbooking, diamond painting, writing and reading... sometimes other hobbies as well, but these are the main 5 hobbies I write about. What is cool about a blog is that it is ever growing. For example, for a year I had about the same amount of views each week. Then I created this whole new strategy and I have doubled the views to my hobbies blog in a month. It feels amazing and I know over time, the views on my blog will grow even bigger. I obviously have great plans and strategy for growing my hobbies blog. The best part is, as long as I have a blog, the posts will be published. This means, viewers can visit and read old blog posts.  What does this mean? If you advertise on my hobbies blog, you will have a long time of advertising because the blog will be relevant for many years to come.  What can you promote on my blog: As a business you can promote your business as a whole, or promote...

Image by Arivle One from Pixabay Blogs, what are they? Blogs are cool, personal experience adventures that are written about a particular topic. In this case, my blog is about hobbies.  Sometimes I write about personal experiences relating to hobbies and sometimes I write interesting information that I have researched about the hobby.  Why promote on a hobbies blog?  When I write a blog, my written voice builds trust with the reader. So I have a trusted audience that likes what I write and might learn something new from it.  Promoting your business, service or product on a blog means it reaches a wider, targeted audience of the topic you seek. My blog in particular has a new post every week day and I promote this on various social media platforms on a regular basis.  So your business will receive a higher view of traffic the more views I get on my blog.  If I am an author can I promote my book on your blog?  Yes, reading is a hobby in my eyes and I do...

 So it’s half way through the year but when you feel you want something different and change is occurring, then it doesn’t matter what month of the year it is, you can still goal set.  So once your goals are set, then it’s best to create a vision board related to your goals so you can look at it every day. One minute or ten minutes it doesn’t matter, just look at it every day. This way you remind yourself of where you want to be in life.  So are you ready to make a vision board? Let us begin:  Start off with either cardboard or thick card paper. I chose pink for mine because it’s my favourite colour. And if I am going to look at something each day, it has to entice me. Which interestingly enough was the title of my first ebook I published.  Now, I found some white card board and decided to write key words that I wanted to focus on the vision board. You can see it below. You don’t have to use as many as I did. But I am a writer so words are my passion and words s...

Image by GraphicMama-team from Pixabay 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.   I am only seeking paid opportunities. I have over 1,000 views on this blog. 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://melaniet...