Creating a DIY Photo Book to Celebrate Your Hobby

Mastering a new hobby or craft can take years. You should be proud if you've dedicated yourself to learning a new art. But don't forget to document your creations too. Making a DIY photo book to capture your crafts, hobbies, or personal projects can help you preserve your memories and accomplishments to enjoy in the future. Project-oriented photo books can also serve as a professional portfolio to show clients, schools, and workplaces.

DIY Photo Books for Every Project

Saving pictures of your drawings, handmade jewelry, or kitchen creations in a photo book is a fun and affordable way to remember what you've made. Capturing the progress of a project can be a fun hobby all on its own. Your imagination is the limit — you can create a stunning photo book no matter your craft, hobby, or project.

Crafts

• Jewelry & Beading Enthusiasts: Make a year-in-review photo book that showcases beadwork and jewelry items you made during the last 12 months. Seeing how you've progressed in your craft over time will be encouraging. A year-in-review book is a good place to record notes about jewelry-making techniques and patterns you've tried too.
• Quilters: Use the Sewing Hobby Book template to design an album that captures your quilting work. If you've made quilts than you can count, put photos of your favorites in an album. Use text boxes to share stories about why or how you made each piece. Capturing the process of creating a quilt also makes for a great photo book. Document everything from the fat squares you used to the hard work of laying out, assembling, and finishing the quilt. Organize them chronologically to create a visual journey of your creative process.

Hobbies

• Aspiring chefs: No matter how long you've been cooking, you probably use cookbooks and recipe apps. Maybe you've even dreamed of writing a cookbook someday. Consider making your own DIY family cookbook to showcase your favorite recipes. All it takes is the right template and some great food photos.
• Bakers and candy artists: Photo book portfolios are also perfect for bakers and candy artists. Create a layflat photo book that shows off your cake-decorating or confectionary skills. You can share it with your friends or use it as a portfolio to launch your home-baking business.
• Writers: Love poetry or short stories? A photo book might not be the first thing you think about when brainstorming ways to share your writing with others. But creating a Poetry Hobby photo book is a striking way to collect your verses. You can even make your own chapbook.

Personal Projects

• Gardeners: Fresh veggies and bright blooms likely fill your spring and summer if you're a gardener. It's gratifying to see all your hard work pay off — but don't you wish you could enjoy looking at a lush green garden all year long? Make it happen with the help of the photo book. The In the Garden photo book is ideal for recording the progress of your garden from year to year.
• Woodworkers and carpenters: Raw wood is like a blank canvas for the carpenter or woodworker. You take pride in the time and effort you put into your woodworking and building projects. Stick with your theme and use the Everyday Wood Textures template to create a photo book showing your earthy creations.
• Globetrotters: Every avid traveler has purchased a guidebook to get familiar with a destination. Why not make a personalized guide after a big trip? Use it to record favorite sites, foods, and experiences from the vacation. Then, transform the Live to Travel photo book template into your travel guide.

Creative Ways to Document Hobbies in Photo Books

A photo book that documents your hobbies, crafts, and creative projects should be as unique as the items you make. You can accomplish that by choosing a photo book theme that speaks to you and adding creative touches with Mixbook's stickers, fonts, and backgrounds. You can also make your own stickers and backgrounds to customize the layout.

Don't forget to include captions in your photo book. Identify the name of your craft or project, how long it took to make it, the date you completed it, and the materials that you used.

Memory Preservation for Creative Endeavors With Mixbook

Your craft and hobby projects may not be around forever, but their memories can live on in a gorgeous photo book. If you want to track your progress as a crafter or make a portfolio of everything you've accomplished in your hobby, Mixbook can help. Use our innovative tools and layouts to craft a DIY book that captures your creative spirit and celebrates your talent.