Tag: coloring

Minimalist Challenge Day 2

Today I have to rid myself of two items in keeping with the rules of the minimalist challenge group I’ve joined on Facebook. Yesterday I had planned to take a green bath rug that didn’t match anything I owned and hadn’t been used in years to a charity run thrift shop, but someone in the group said she needed the rug, so I’m sending it to her.

For today I’m cleansing my home of this container of unsharpened colored pencils and a random piece of purple gingham fabric. I bought the pencils a couple of years ago unaware that they weren’t pre-sharpened. I don’t own a sharpener and don’t plan on buying one. Okay, that makes me an idiot, I know. As for the fabric, I have absolutely no idea why it was in my arts and crafts supply box. Aliens? The GOP? Who knows?

Technically I suppose I could count the pencils individually and use them later in the challenge, say, on the 48th day of February (!) or so. But they were sold as a set and thus count as one item.

Coloring

buildings, red and green,
blue, coral, with shades of brown
stacked in city high

  

I purchased this coloring sheet to work on with the grandchildren when I went to babysit them in Illinois a couple of weeks ago. As you can see, we didn’t finish it, so I brought it back home to Florida. 

I’m easily amused. 

Peace, people!

Color Me Happy or Something

I’ve read a number of articles lately on the joys and benefits of coloring for adults. Friends have shared their coloring stories, and I thought that it sounded fun and relaxing. Better yet, there’s no learning curve associated with coloring. Any idiot can do it. One idiot, coming right up.

Of course I had to have a coloring book and a brand new package of markers. Believe it or not there are lots of coloring books made with older colorers in mind. These tend to have a great deal of detail and teeny tiny bits to be colored. I could have spent as much as $30 for top of the line markers, but opted for the extra special pack of Crayola markers.

  
I might have a real future in coloring.