This is awesome, Curious.  I was unable to see your photos - just had a black screen. I've only coloured on an app so far but the pictures in your cover photo are so beautiful I think I really must get started with actual books and pencils. Thanks for the great info!

@Fascinated  bah.  I had a heck of a time getting those pictures to work.  They kept showing up sideways even though they are right on my hard drive.   I ended up having to flip them 90 degrees to get them to show up right side up.

I think I have them fixed now.  I can see them on my husband's iPhone and my tablet, when I'm not logged in, so it's not just my account/computer that can see them this time.

Love the Crayola twistables.  And it is NOT an addiction.  It is meditation.

Absolutely! I'm a proud adult colorer. I love those adult coloring books with all of their intricate patterns!

@Curious  I love that you're reviewing your favrourite pencils! Always nice to see what other people are using and what they like/dislike about them.  Thank you!

@Curious I see them now!  I'm very impressed and feel quite strongly that you give Erika Shupe et al a run for their money re: organization!  (I don't see any anal labels, though, at least on the ends of the boxes .) 

I know you've talked about your colouring books before, but I look forward to that post also.  How do you decide which to do next?  What percentage of those books have been completed?  Do you find you improve with experience with regard to colour choices?  And, please include some more photos of your finished work.  This is very interesting!!

Well if I had a label maker, but that isn't a road I have ever gone down.  I know my weaknesses and try not to play into them *too* much

I have never finished a whole book yet. There are a few that I tend to pick out of frequently,  I really love the books by Thaneeya McArdle

I'm not sure if I improve or not.  Sometimes a page kind of speaks to me and I immediately have an idea of what I want to do.   Sometimes I sit and stare more than actually color.   I used to have only one page going at a time, but I found that sometimes I would get kind of "stuck" and was just not feeling the page.   So now if that happens, I just start a new one and go back to the unfinished one when I have new ideas for it.

I also used to just pick one page at a time and tear it out to work on that one.  Since I have stuff piled on the books now, I go through the books that seem interesting to me at that moment and tear out a few different pages, so I can have choices if I get stuck and not have to move stuff around all the time.

Sometimes something just looks like it should be done in colored pencil to me and sometimes it looks like a marker/gel pen one.  I usually pick a few of each and tend to do several of one medium in a row, then switch to the other.

So you tear out the pages??  That sounds scary. Don't they get ruined?  Are they perforated?  Where do you put them when they're finished?  

I really, really hope you post pics of some of your favourites. And I know that there are a lot of colouring enthusiasts here - I would love to see their's, too. I love this topic. 

Curious I can see your part 2 post but get an error when I try to view it.  

@Curious. Me, too!

All but one book I have the pages are perforated.  To be honest, had I realized the pages weren't perforated in the one I have, I probably would not have bought it.   I use an exacto knife to carefully cut the pages out of that book.

I wait until I have about 6-8 pages done and then send them with my husband who scans them at work for me.   When we brings them home, we just put them in an accordion folder for safe storage.

@clueliss @Fascinated   I accidentally briefly published the part 2 post.  I'm still working on it and it's in an unpublished state right now, which is why you are getting the error.  Sorry about that.   

Look how organized you are!  You have a schematic!  In my somewhat less tidy organizational style I have a box next to me containing an empty pez dispenser, tiny screwdriver, cat nail clippers, malfunctioning charging cord, nail polish, blistex, hair clip, pony tail holders (2), a barrette, Hello Kitty KISS pin, 5 pens (including a Bluetooth pen I never use and can't find the charging cable), and 4 styluses.  

I would make the worst prepper...what if that was all I had to face the end of the world?