{"id":8173,"date":"2017-01-09T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=8173"},"modified":"2017-01-15T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T14:13:17","slug":"daily_784_-_colouring_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2017\/01\/09\/daily_784_-_colouring_book\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 784 – colouring book"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI got a colouring book for Christmas, and it has surprised me how much I like it. Colouring books for adults are everywhere these days – even in the magazine rack at the supermarket. I’ve never considered buying one for myself. I have no shortage of activities to fill my time. But now that I have a colouring book, I use it more than I had expected. It’s an excellent time-filler for those little gaps when I’m waiting for something (Ingrid to finish brushing her teeth, or potatoes to finish cooking) and the time is too short to pick up a book – or when it’s late at night and I’m too tired to do anything demanding, but not tired enough to go to bed. Previously I would have been tempted to just browse reddit or gotten stuck in some blog. Colouring is a better alternative.<\/p>\n

Another reason why I haven’t thought of buying a colouring book is that I simply don’t think of myself as an artistic person. I have my elementary school teachers to thank for that – they taught me that I cannot sing or draw or paint. Drawing is the quintessential “art”, so at the back of my head I’ve always equated “creative and artistic” to “can draw”.<\/p>\n

The years have taught me that none of that is true. Yes, my singing may sound awful to a trained ear, but that does not mean I cannot sing. Yes, drawing is an art, but drawing is not the only way to be creative. I write, I photograph, I sew and craft, I design our garden. Even programming is a creative endeavour!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a colouring book for Christmas, and it has surprised me how much I like it. Colouring books for adults are everywhere these days – even in the magazine rack at the supermarket. I’ve never considered buying one for myself. I have no shortage of activities to fill my time. But now that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8174,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions\/8174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}