Adult Coloring (the not so new fad)

 An estimated 12 million adult coloring books were sold in the United States. Supposedly people find it therapeutic. Once again I am behind the trend. For at least a year I have seen women in our break room coloring in adult coloring books. I was mildly interested. My daughters boyfriend has a five year old. This got me looking at coloring supplies. I would pick her up Lisa Frank things here and there. I am a sucker for her stuff. I love me some unicorns. I recently seen at the Dollar Tree adult coloring books. I picked up 2 of them. My thoughts were if this turns out to be another hobby I'm not so thrilled about I am not out much money. Well the school supplies came out in all the stores and I naturally had to buy the biggest box of crayons they make. That really brought back some memories. The box is even bigger then the one I had as a kid. The smell of those crayons was amazing. Even though I had 120 colors to choose from I picked my favorite childhood crayon of all time. Magenta. As a child I loved everything about that crayon. The color, the name, and even how the wrapper was a lighter color then the crayon. Most of the crayons wrappers were the same color as the crayon. The Magenta just seemed so special. Even now I want to say Magenta, Magenta! I kinda want to get a kitty and name her Magenta. If you think you might enjoy coloring, check out The Everyday Goth the coloring books on this blog are really pretty.

The one I had as a kid probably looked like this

Dollar Tree coloring books and the biggest box of crayons. Still do not know why I had to buy the biggest box? I guess I am still a greedy little child.

There is almost too many. I think it would be overwhelming for a child to pick out a color. 

My daughter colored in the top book and I did the bottom one using just Magenta for the flower. That is as far as we got. Its really boring.