With the holiday’s coming up it’s time to think about what to get for people who are IMPOSSIBLE to shop for. You know who I’m talking about, the ones who literally have everything. Sure, you could get them another gift card to Outback Steakhouse (who doesn’t love a blooming onion?), or you could throw down the gift giving gauntlet and give the gift of stress relieving, mind clearing, adult coloring awesomeness. Below are some of my top favorites from the adult coloring world. Books and supplies that if I received them as gifts, would have me singing Joy To The World all damn day.
This is the very first adult coloring book I bought. It’s a book full of mandala’s (I chose it because I have a mandala tattoo on my left arm and it seemed like a sign that I NEEDED this book).
Angie’s Extreme Stress Menders Volume 1
Look at these pictures I’ve colored! The best part of this book is it’s size, it’s smaller than the others and square. It makes it really easy to color in. For this book I recommend the Primsacolor Scholar Pencils and Gel Pens. (See below for links to the supplies)
Next up this guy, look familiar?
I came across this book when I got the chance to review it for That’s Normal and I have adored it ever since. This book is so much fun to color in; the detail is spectacular, the pages thick, and the bragging points when you finish a page is off the chart! For this book I recommend Gel Pens and the Plinerise Fineliner pens.
Next is my go to book, Creative Haven Mehndi Designs Collection Coloring Book. I pretty much color in this book almost every single day. Even if it’s just for five minutes, I can’t help myself.
There’s just something about this particular book that is very soothing and relaxing to color in. Some of the pages offer very large designs and are very easy and quick to color; other pages are more intricate and take a few hours. Either way, this book is kept on my nightstand with a bag of gel pens to help me wind down after a stressful day at work. I would also recommend the Primsacolor Scholar Pencils and Gel Pens.
I promised supply links and here they are:
Super fancy colored pencils, but WELL worth the cost. If someone gave me these as a gift I would be forever in their debt. They color like a dream. Splurge on the fancy the pencil sharpener to go with them, I didn’t and 2 weeks later regretted it. Now I have the fancy sharpener and after watching the Youtube video on how to *correctly* sharpen these pencils, nothing can slow down my coloring genius. Well, except for needing sleep and having to go to work. That kind of puts a damper on things.
Real conversation with my real friend: “Are you coloring with gel pens yet?” I asked her. “No, should I?” she replied. “Here, take mine and you tell me.” Two weeks later Cathryn gave me a brand new pack of gel pens. Why? Because she couldn’t put them down and ran several of them out of ink. Gel Pens. The future of coloring. All the books I recommended hold up beautifully to the gel pens, no color transfer onto other pages.
Gel Pens: welcome to coloring heaven
Last but not least, the Plinerise Fineliner Pens. I recommend these if you are considering giving Johanna Basford’s book Lost Ocean as a gift. There is a lot of very small detail in that book that not even the gel pens can handle easily. Fineliner pens make sense for that book. This is the set I have and I love them!
Going to that office White Elephant party? You have two choices my friends; show up with some super smelly toiletry items you got last year, or be the Queen of the Party and show those chumps coworkers who really is the boss (besides the actual boss of course. Unless you are the boss, in which case, go you).
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