Monday is Fun Day - New Crayons and Coloring Books

I finished my crayon quilt on Saturday, one hour before it was due at the store.  With commute time, I got it there with 20 minutes to spare.  That was exciting!  We'll look at the quilt tomorrow.

In the meantime, it got me in the mood to dig out my crayons and coloring books, which I hadn't done in WAY too long.  I was disappointed to discover that during one of my purging fits over the years, I kept the crayons but had gotten rid of all but one coloring book.  That wouldn't do, so I went shopping yesterday and today to freshen things up.

I already had a lot of crayons, but it seemed like the colors were dreary.  So I bought this package of 120 new ones.  Much more colorful, I'm glad to say.

New plus old gives me a total of 248.  I'm not storing them like this - I have a new plan that is fun and it just might be something to look at next Monday.

 The new crayons came with a sharpener that reminds me of my Mr. Peanut cup.

These are my new books.  The two on the right (Despicable Me and Puppy Hugs) were a deal - I got them both for 32 cents.  I more than made up for that savings by going overboard on everything else, including a gorgeous book of Disney stickers (not shown).

Because some of the books have illustrations that are relatively small and detailed, I bought this 50-pack of markers with fine tips.  I'm looking forward to the intense colors that crayons just don't have.

For my first page, I chose a dog, and used crayons instead of the markers.  (This coloring book has newsprint pages, so crayons worked better.)  I colored the dog to look like a Goldendoodle and used multiple layers of colors on most of the objects, something I tried for the first time today.  

I noticed that many of the coloring books sold nowadays come with stickers, a new concept for me.  I think it's a brilliant idea, because as far as I'm concerned, you can never have too many stickers in your life.  So I added some stickers from my old stash.

I looked at lots of adult coloring books at Barnes and Noble, having read a few articles lately on how they're a big fad.  But I much prefer the children's books - they're vastly more playful.