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?

[Piemistress]

Mine should be here on Sat, can't wait!

[LaTrucha]

elizaregina - Warning! Do not buy those metallic pens if you have children of the age that might scribble on walls. Ds Did lovely big swirls on ur walls a year ago and we have tried everything: we can still see them.

[whatphididnext]

elizaregina I also want to know what's a quiche ?

[feministefatale]

It sounds like a good ideaive stolen all of dds

[TheCunnyFuntIsAGrittersWife]

A quiche is an ongoing thread, that just keeps going, like The Nobdies, The Moldies, The Sweary thread, The Thread Killers etc.

[12ylnon]

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This is such a great colouring book. I love it when DS gets it out and i have an excuse to have a colour :)

[TheCunnyFuntIsAGrittersWife]

Was it something I said? :(

:o

[pamish]

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[JakeBullet]

This thread is fabulous, I started using colouring books last year after a friend said they were really relaxing to do.....love them. I get the the Doodle Designs ones which you can frame afterwards. Have some lovely watercolour pencils which I use and which cost me a bomb but were so well worth the money.

[LaTrucha]

I know this is mainly a parents' colouring thread but Melissa and Doug do a colouring book that is transparentish that you can hang in the window afterwards like a stained glass. It is fairies but I still fancy it for me and DD

[LaTrucha]

here

[ConfusedPixie]

Making my place so that I can come back and order some books! I used to buy nice ones from woolworths to colour in in my early adult life :) my eight year old charge and I would suit for hours colouring in!

[spudmurphy]

Go for it- relaxing and theraputic. Cheaper ghan flower arranging

[DoubleLifeIsALifeHalved]

I got my 'colouring for grown ups' book & felt tips today :)

It IS a bit annoying that the pictures don't have borders isnt it! V nice though.

The pens am less happy with, got the staedler (sp?) ones & they are ok but the colours seem to be either bright bright bright or really dark, what happened to the mid range colours? Ah well.

First pic looks crazy as I just threw all the colours in the pack at it... Not very Grown Up at all :)

[Piemistress]

Mine arrived too doublelife, agree aboutthe borders and the pens. Wish I had ordered a bigger pack with more shades. DP has started one picture :)

I think there was mention up thread of a book where the pics had borders so you could cut them out?

[Fluffydressinggown]

I have just started colouring in today, so satisfying. I am much preferring felt tips though, I am using Bic but I don't have many colours.

I like finer ones, any recommendations? The Crayola ones look chunky.

[HawthornLantern]

Books and pencils arrived today. Bliss.

[JazzAnnNonMouse]

I've received mine!
Didn't realise berol are made by papermate

[elizaregina]

fluff i have only tried crayola thus far but the ones we use can be used thick or thin...its the way they are designed and they show the thick and thin lines on the box.

[Tweedledeedum]

Ooh I'm getting this one!
Now to choose the pens, I used to have these amazing ones for graphics at school many moons ago, double ended thin or thick tip depending on the end, v expensive though I think....

www.amazon.co.uk/Victorian-House-Colouring-History-Coloring/dp/048623908X/ref=pd_sim_b_4?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

[Fluffydressinggown]

My friend sent me this one today, it is lovely and it has edges.

My DH bought me a pack of 32 Crayola supertip pens as well (£8 from Toys R Us) very excited :)

[starsandunicorns]

Ever jealous of you all i got my colouring book ( pasley designs) but still waiting on my pens sigh thinking of going to tesco just to get some wails

[starsandunicorns]

Fluffy thats the one i got :)

[Lollydaydream]

Thanks for the inspiration! I ordered one yesterday and can't wait for it to arrive. I did one of my dd's today, she has since 'improved' it so I definitely need a book of my own.
thanks also for the explanation of quiche, that had been baffling me :)

[JazzAnnNonMouse]

Stars - I got the paisley one too

I remember some adult posh pens that had a kind of floppy tip like a slightly more rigid paintbrush- does anyone know what these are called?
Allows fluid sweepy stroke