Grown Up Colouring : Peacock

It's Monday, it's grey outside, it's tax time and I am overwhelmed :) I love owning my own business, but the business end of owning a business is well business-y, and I am in no way a business person. I just want to make pretty things :)  I need an agent/manager who takes care of everything business and just let's me make pretty things!

But amidst all the crazy stuff-  I did take the time, because I was procrastinating from doing my taxes (shh. don't tell my accountant) to create this beautiful Peacock.  When things are at their craziest, I find myself running to my art board, it feels like procrastination, but if I break it down, it is actually rejuvenation. I can do so much more in life, when I take time to create.

How do you rejuvenate? How to you make sure you don't get and stay overwhelmed?

Reminder, all graphics are free to download, but I am asking you to donate $1 per download to support the orphanage that we will be volunteering in  from September 27-November 3, 2015. Help us in this  Living Life ON Purpose Journey 2015.  You can do that -> using the donate button!

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M.

LostBumblebee ©2015 MDBN All "LostBumblebee Grown Up Colouring Pages" are designed, sketched/ drawn, inked and vectorized by Melissa Dawn Baker-Nguyen and all have the LostBumblebee Logo on them. 

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all starts with a sketch.

Now to Refine and Ink it.

What I'm using right now to colour-
loving both sets!

Choose Your Colours and let the
magic begin!

My Finished Product :) Can't wait to see yours-
upload it to Instagram and Tag @LostBumblebee in it!

Blame it all on my Roots.

You know how sometimes, just sometimes,  you feel totally out of place in life? Well, whenever I do something less than stellar, I like to blame it all on my roots... 

So this one is for all of us, who grew up the down home way, simple-  One fork on the dinner table kind of people. Yup, that's me and that's ok. We are good people. Hardworking people. Salt of the earth people. Kind people. Helpful people. Heart people. 

Don't know which fork to use at a fancy dinner because there are 3 (!) of them on the table... just start humming... "blame it all on my roots, I showed up in boots, and ruined your black tie affair..."

Enjoy this and share it with someone you know would love it!

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M.

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Why Not?

This one I did with Pencil Crayons, it is the word Heart.

Why is it that when we get older the colouring books go away and we replace them with things like bank statements, hydro bills, emails, movies, computers, iPads, etc.

I love to colour, probably one of the main reasons I have a creative lifestyle. I take time to colour things in, I colour code my calendar, I colour in the squares for birthdays. I have all of the markers, crayons, pencil crayons, paints, and pastels you could ever imagine. I love when my nieces come over because if I can convince them, we get to colour! YAY! Although sometimes they would rather watch a movie, and that always boggles my mind. We can do both! I try to convince them... what ends up happening is I end up colouring while they watch a movie...

We've all gone the way of high-tech, I get it, Me too, sometimes it is easier just to pull something together in illustrator rather than actually sit down and write it out.

But sometimes we need to take a minute and colour, it frees our minds and our hearts.

I've been creating words lately and colouring them in, so I thought I'd share a few with you.
These ones are Hope and Gratitude. It's just a scribbled word, but when you colour in each section it becomes a kaleidoscope of colour, almost stained glass... it's a wonderful activity to do while you meditate and pray...

It's definitely different than my usual printable, these ones are DIY, you get to be creative, you get to make them beautiful...

Print them off on your printer at home, Colour them in and see how it feels... I hope you enjoy!
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M.

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My hope all coloured in :) I used makers for this one

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