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To buy myself a colouring book?

220 replies

TheCunnyFuntIsAGrittersWife · 12/01/2013 22:23

I used to love doing them as a kid! I quite miss them to be honest. I'm itching to get one and dig out some crayons :o

Should I?

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MousyMouse · 13/01/2013 08:23

yanbu
I have a very old one from when I was a child.
I use some the designs as templates when painting or other crafts.

Glittertwins · 13/01/2013 08:27

I'm tempted. I'd need to keep it and any pens away from the DCs!

Piemistress · 13/01/2013 08:35

I saw a fab big cardboard tent play house you could colour in think it was from Lidl?

Colouring pencils or pens?

TheCunnyFuntIsAGrittersWife · 13/01/2013 08:39

Altair design pad.

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Glossynotflossy · 13/01/2013 08:47

binkybix yes i owned fluff it pens anx spent many an hour with a hair dryer getting them to fluff up.

Binkybix · 13/01/2013 08:49

Ah yes, I'd forgotten the hair dryer stage!

pettyprudence · 13/01/2013 08:55

ive got fluffit pens in my house right now!

father christmas (dm) still brings me colouring books. sometimes its hello kitty but this year it was colouring for grown ups Grin

Glossynotflossy · 13/01/2013 09:06

Wow so they still exist!iff to google.

Binkybix · 13/01/2013 09:09

Awesome! I couldn't find any on doing a quick google but will try to locate some in the shops next weekend. And a mosaic sticker book.

JazzAnnNonMouse · 13/01/2013 10:06

I'd forgotten how much I love colouring. Have brought two adult colouring books and some berol pens Grin

Piemistress · 13/01/2013 10:16

Mosaic sticker books! I used to love them! I think jigsaws and colouring in books are my new stress busters!

LittleMissFantabulous · 13/01/2013 10:19

Berol pens are the business! I have a stash of them. The older spawns are gutted that I will not share. They regularly try to con me into loaning them a black one, as theirs are inevitably broken. I laugh and refuse. Mine! Mine I tell you mine!

firawla · 13/01/2013 10:22

I have a colouring book and it is this www.amazon.co.uk/Fabulous-Doodles-Nellie-Ryan/dp/1906082316/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358072474&sr=8-1, I was really getting tempted by all dses doodle books so got my own

fuzzpig · 13/01/2013 10:26

Does anyone else get upset/frustrated if the pictures don't have closed lines?

Or is that just me Blush

fuzzpig · 13/01/2013 10:27

I think I may have had a mosaic sticker book but I'm not sure. I may have to get one. You know, just to check.

I also had some sand art thing where you peeled off the sticker and sprinkled sand over it, one bit at a time.

BrandonFlowersHoHoHo · 13/01/2013 10:37

Yanbu

I love the geometric patterns and Crayola felt tip pens. Hate when dd tries to 'help' me and goes out the lines, I'm screaming inside.

My secret santa at work bought me colouring books and pens. My desk is decorated with beautiful geometric patterns.

BrandonFlowersHoHoHo · 13/01/2013 10:37

Yanbu

I love the geometric patterns and Crayola felt tip pens. Hate when dd tries to 'help' me and goes out the lines, I'm screaming inside.

My secret santa at work bought me colouring books and pens. My desk is decorated with beautiful geometric patterns.

Jbck · 13/01/2013 10:58

DDs have had some lovely stuff from SIL in Oz by a company called Smiggle, I did hope she'd send me some for Xmas as I enthused over their stuff so much during the summer but sadly not.
Just have to get myself some of the recommendations on here, I love a fine nibbed gel pen since I discovered them for intricate work, till then I was strictly a pencil girl.
When DD1 was little we had colouring time together but our books and pencils were separate and woe betide if she helped with mine Grin

GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 13/01/2013 11:03

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fuzzpig · 13/01/2013 11:05

What can I say, I'm a nostalgia pig :o

TheCunnyFuntIsAGrittersWife · 13/01/2013 11:06

I remember overwriters too! Weren't they double ended pens or something?

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starsandunicorns · 13/01/2013 11:08

On reading this thread i going to order two adult colouringbooks i would like felt tips but wonder which ones to get the expenise gel pens on offer at amozaon look good anyone got any ideas. My dp think i am having a funny turn but thought why not just imagine dp playing his facebook game and me colouring in in the eveing

TheCunnyFuntIsAGrittersWife · 13/01/2013 11:12

I can imagine sales of colouring books are now shooting up through the roof and hundreds of mumsnetters are now eagerly awaiting their delivieries :o

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GoAndDoSomeWork · 13/01/2013 11:15

My daughter has these - have shared them with many an amazed child on train journeys! Diddl/Diddlina Magic Felt Tip Pens
by Diddl & Friends

www.amazon.co.uk/Diddl-Diddlina-Magic-Felt-Pens/dp/B001KNQMZ8/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1358075534&sr=1-1-catcorr

GoAndDoSomeWork · 13/01/2013 11:17

Also for dot-to-dot fans www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dtoys&field-keywords=extreme+dot+to+dot - can you tell I am taking job of mother to 6 year old girl very seriously - sometimes I even let her have a go Wink

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