To buy myself a colouring book?

[TheCunnyFuntIsAGrittersWife]

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?

[fuzzpig]

GoAnd! Thank you so much for that link :o

[fuzzpig]

Xpost - you've made two pigs very happy, goand :)

For anyone who likes logic puzzles, I recommend puzzles like hanjie, enigma and mosaic which involve colouring in squares. You can get books of them in WHSmiths but my favourite is Beyond Sudoku which comes every six weeks as I have a subscription :o

It's a combination of thinking and colouring. :)

[Housemum]

For those who remember the posters in tubes in the 70s I give you

Doodle Art

[Clarabumps]

My friend got be the creative colouring book when I was pregnant. I found it extremely relaxing.

[JazzAnnNonMouse]

I'm hoping my colouring books will have good quality paper and not the type that was in cheap colouring book as a child, ripped if your pencil was too sharp and if using felt tips the colour bled no matter how hard you kept in the lines.
Someone reassure me that I'm not going to have a breakdown due to bad paper quality?!

[JustAHolyFool]

I do it! I love colouring! It's so relaxing.

I'm currently colouring this , I like ones with lots of little fiddly bits.

[DitaVonCheese]

YANBU, it's very soothing

You have to be careful to get one with small spaces to colour though, big spaces are boring and you get those annoying felt tip overlap marks

My friend colours things the wrong colour so blue people etc. She says it's very liberating. She also does not overly concern herself with staying inside the lines.

[CJCregg]

I'm getting very nostalgic reading this thread

Does anyone remember, again from the 70s, giant poster-sized colouring books with different themes for each page? Ie a page of costumes, a page of houses, a page of cars etc.

I bloody loved them. At least four of us could be working on the same page together, fighting over the Caran d'Ache ...

[fuzzpig]

Ooh I know what you mean about poor quality paper. I hate the cheap pound shop jumbo colouring type books, the pictures are often rubbish too.



Can't beat usborne, IME, but would welcome any other recommendations.

I love MN. I don't even have to lie and say I want them for my DCs. I don't think many of my RL acquaintances would be so understanding...

[fuzzpig]

I like doing things the wrong colour too, dita

[starsandunicorns]

Well have ordered two books one is the pasley book very excited and got gel felt tip pens :)

[JustAHolyFool]

fuzzpig I print stuff off the internet.

[TheCunnyFuntIsAGrittersWife]

fuzzpig yy! Where else can you openly admit to love colouring in?!

[Titsalinabumsquash]

At our local hospital the children's ward has a wicked playroom, it is decorated with lots of coloured in pictures tagged with 'by DS's Mum aged 25' he's not so much into colouring when he's an inpatient but I spend hours at the colouring table!

[Swixi]

How lovely to see such support for colouring in from other grown ups! Is it taking it a bit too far to admit it was one of the reasons I wanted to work in a children's nursery? Assisting with colouring in is an important part of my job.

[LadyBeagleEyes]

I used to get so annoyed with ds when he was little spoiling my his colouring in by going over the lines. I really had to bite my tongue.

[littleladyindoors]

Why do I click on these? Now I need to colour, I buy my mum a colouring book every Christmas she loves colouring!! It is relaxing. I am buying myself one tomorrow.
I remember velvet art too-but the fact that the black velvet stuff came off on the felt tip used to drive me nuts! Still loved it though!

[Titsalinabumsquash]

I also like making things with playdoh!

In fact I've been known to sneak into the hospital playroom when all the children are sleeping and set up the dolls house, colour a picture or 2 and create many playdoh snails to stick round the room, then I tidy the home
Corner and set out the tea set

[OpenMouthInsertCake]

This is so the thread for me. I bought myself two colouring books as part of my Christmas present to myself. I have an abstract patterns one and a stained glass mandala one.

[fuzzpig]

Ooh, mandalas!

[milkandribena]

this is why I hate mn sometimes - just bought myself two colouring books because of you lot.

[fuzzpig]

We recently got new ink cartridges for our printer so I will definitely have a look at printing out some pages - that way I can print out one for each DC and one for me! I know they use loads of activity village pages at DD's school, they seem quite good.

DH and I have a monthly budget of £20 each for frivolous spending, usually it goes on DVDs, but I'm glad I have most of January's money left as I am SO getting those diddl pens and maybe a book too. Awesome. :o

The idea of our budget was that we can enjoy stuff we want to buy on a limited income but not have to justify what we spent it on. Not that I'd need to justify colouring stuff anyway since DH likes it too (just not as much as the scifi DVDs yawn and model spacecraft his budget usually goes on) and neither of us think anything of indulging our inner child :o

I think the reason I love colouring is that it is creative but without having to really think about it. I'm pretty good at drawing but never have the confidence to put pen to paper. Colouring patterns OTOH is very soothing especially if I am heading for an Aspergers-related meltdown!

[fuzzpig]

What ones, milk? Do share :o