Coloring Books on Homes and Architecture

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Have you caught the coloring craze yet? I have several posts now on my blog of different categories of coloring books {more on that later}, but today I am focusing on homes and cities...let's take a look:

{NOTE: Most of these books have photos of sample pages in the review section. Take a peek to see if it is a style you would enjoy coloring.}


Home is Where the Heart Is: A Hand-Crafted Adult Coloring Book-These pages are adorable! Items and scenes in homes. You can see several page samples in the review section.



Home Sweet Home: A Hand-Crafted Adult Coloring Book-Similar to the above book, but there are more pictures of the outside of homes (i.e. gardens, backyards).



Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined-Many of these are aerial views of cities from around the world: Germany, Canada, Brazil, England, Greece (just to name a few).



Splendid Cities: Color Your Way to Calm-I personally own this one and love it!



World Traveler Coloring Book: 30 World Heritage Sites-I want this one!

Secret Village - A Coloring Book Adventure: Beyond the Garden Gate, Beneath the Forest Floor, Among the Hollow Trees - A Mystery Endures!- This looks so adorable! Tiny houses in a secret village!



Creative Haven CityScapes: A Coloring Book with a Hidden Picture Twist-Cities of the world with hidden pictures.


More Categories of Coloring Books:

Faith-based coloring

Animal coloring books

Coloring books with an International Flair

Nature-Inspired Coloring Books

Coloring for Literature Lovers

Art and Faith

Gardens and Flowers

Gift Ideas for the Anxious Person- For many coloring helps de-stress. This post talks about coloring books and more.

Tools for coloring:

Here is what I use...

Prismacolor Premier Soft Core Colored Pencils-These soft core pencils are great for laying down color in large areas.

Prismacolor Verithin Colored Pencils-These are what I use for detail work.

Sanford Prismacolor Colored Pencil Accessory Set, 7-Piece-Love this! The blender pencil is such a fun item to use to blend color. It also includes erasers, a sharpener, and a pencil lengthener.

LolliZ Gel Pens -When I don't want to go the pencil route I use these. Bolder colors.

Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic Gel Ink Pen Set-I LOVE these pencils. The metallic quality is awesome!

Happy Coloring!!

Think On These Things {May}

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He used them to create the world. We can build and destroy a person's life with them. They are medicine to the soul, and sometimes they are weapons. Words are powerful. Join me in May as we go through verses related to what words can do in our lives and the lives of others. It is an opportunity to "Think On These Things". These verses can be used to meditate on, journal about in a Bible (see below about what I use.), or write out in a separate journal. It is my prayer that you will be blessed as you focus on His Words.

Download the file here.

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During the month I try to post my thoughts on the verses on Instagram. If you would like to follow me you can find me here. Also, if you are posting your own thoughts there please use the hashtag #thinkonthesethings. I would love to read how God speaks to you!!

There are many ways you can use these verses. You can read and meditate on them. You can write them out as you meditate on them. You can read them and then write about them in a journal or journaling Bible. Here are some of the items I use...

A single column journaling Bible...

ESV Single Column Journaling Bible (TruTone, Chestnut, Leaves Design)
ESV Single Column Journaling Bible (Black)
ESV Single Column Journaling Bible (Brown, Flap with Strap)

Some highlighters {These are my absolute favorites!}...

Eco Highlighter Pencils - Set of 5 Colors

Black pens...

Black Ink Pen Set

If you are writing out these verses may I suggest these journals...

Studio Oh! Journals-There are several styles on Amazon if you search for them. I love them because they lay flat and make writing easier (especially since I am left-handed).

Never Go Back

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A few years back I realized I needed to make some changes. The way I was interacting with others was only causing me pain. Frankly, my problem was that I was too nice. Too nice?! Really? I thought we were all supposed to be nice. True. Kindness towards others is what God calls us to do, but speaking the truth is another part of His desire for us. Kindness killed me. Being too kind and not standing up got me smashed...you see, people don't tend to mess with those who speak their mind and have great boundaries. However, those who are kind and sweet by nature tend to get walked all over. Think of the perilous relationship between Cookie Monster and those sugary, little round discs...cookies will always be in danger around him because they are just too sweet! Ha! 

These days kindness is still the way I operate. Honestly, it is what I normally gravitate to doing if given a choice. I am learning that I need to speak up more, drop the people pleasing, and block others' bad behavior towards me. I need to not do so much for others and allow them to step up. It is one of the hardest things I have done. It just doesn't come natural to me... (And by the way, before you begin to think that I am so type of arrogant saint touting how kind and wonderful I am: STOP. I have my faults...too many to count. Besides, being TOO kind is a fault!). I have had to hold myself back and proceed with caution when it comes to relationships. In the past, I didn't heed warning signs that people were unknowingly giving me about who they were and what they would do. I paid dearly for it.

So a few weeks ago, I was in Barnes and Noble leafing through books not really intending to buy anything. Until my eyes drifted over this title...

I love Dr. Henry Cloud's books. Years ago, I read his book on Boundaries and have been trying to learn how to create and maintain them ever since. He has great, practical Biblical advice when it comes to relationships, and his new book, Never Go Back, offered just what I needed in this new season of life. Dr. Cloud talks about ten life lessons that we need to follow. He proposes that once we have really learned these lessons we won't go back to our old ways. Here are a few of them...

Never again...

Return to what hasn't worked.

Believe that you can please everyone. {I need to read this one daily!!}

Take your eyes off the big picture.

Fail to ask why you are where you are.

All I can say is I wished I had read this book and followed what it said YEARS ago. I would have saved myself so much heartache. I can't express to you totally how mind changing this book is. It probably needs to be one of those reads that I pick up once a year and review. As a human being, I have the nagging problem of quickly forgetting sound advice...the type of advice Dr. Cloud's book offers. So instead of going through the details of this book let me leave you with a few snippets of wisdom {in picture form} from its pages...

It's time to never go back!

Waterlife Coloring by Georgie Woolridge

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Right before Christmas I walked into Barnes and Noble and saw this beautiful coloring book on birds. I was in love! I texted a friend about it, and she told me NOT to buy it. She knew my love of birds and had already purchased it for me for Christmas. I then learned that Georgie Woolridge had two more coloring books in the works...one on waterlife and the other on animals. In March, the waterlife book came out. When it arrived I immediately started in with my gel pens and prismacolor pencils.

I not only love Georgie's artwork, but I also like the quality of these coloring books. Heavy duty paper. A short explanation of each animal with a description and the area in which it lives {which makes these books educational}. An index with pictures in the back. A strong binding. All of these features make for a great coloring experience. Here's a look at a sample of some of the art that is contained within its pages that I have colored over the past few weeks...

So if you are looking for a great coloring book on sea life, this is the one!

Georgie Woolridge's Coloring Books

Birds: A Mindful Coloring Book
Waterlife: A Mindful Coloring Book
Animals: A Mindful Coloring Book - Coming in September.

So what do I use for coloring?

Tools for coloring:

Here is what I use...

Prismacolor Premier Soft Core Colored Pencils-These soft core pencils are great for laying down color in large areas.

Prismacolor Verithin Colored Pencils-These are what I use for detail work.

Sanford Prismacolor Colored Pencil Accessory Set, 7-Piece-Love this! The blender pencil is such a fun item to use to blend color. It also includes erasers, a sharpener, and a pencil lengthener.

LolliZ Gel Pens -When I don't want to go the pencil route I use these. Bolder colors.

Sakura Gelly Roll Stardust Pen Set-These are glittery pens! Absolutely beautiful!

Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic Gel Ink Pen Set-I LOVE these pencils. The metallic quality is awesome!