One of my favorite things to do is read. I get books from the library, I borrow books from my friends, (they know lots of good books) and buy my own books (more like ask for them for Christmas and birthdays). Here I have included some (not all) of my favorite books. These are all my own.
Picture 1: My bookshelf. I actually have more books stored in my closet and under my bed. The rest of the pictures are just a few of my favorites. Picture 2: Grandma's Attic Series, by Arleta Richardson. There are four books in the series. These books are funny stories about a girl's grandma talking about when she was young. My age recommendation is: Good for all ages! Picture 3: Dewey the Library Cat, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter. This is actually a true story about a cat that lives in a library. Age: 9 and up. The second book is titled Racketty-Packetty House and Other Stories, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The main story is about dolls who live in an old-fashioned doll house and what happens when the little girl who they belong to gets a brand-new doll house and the old house is supposed to be burned. The other stories in the book include: Sara Crewe, Little Saint Elizabeth, The Story of Prince Fairyfoot, The Proud Grain of Wheat, and Behind the White Brick. The Racketty-Packetty house is my favorite story. Age: 9 and up (or can be read aloud to younger kids). Picture 4 and 5: These books are a series (but they don't need to be read in order) called Christian Heroes: Then and Now, by Janet and Geoff Benge. They are about exactly what the series title says. Age: 10 and up (we read aloud some of them for the whole family, but some I would not recommend for young children). I really like these books and am trying to collect all of them! Pictures 6 and 7: books by Patricia St. John. They are not a series. These particular books have been adapted for children to understand easier. Star of Light, Twice Freed, and Rainbow Garden are my favorites. I did not like The Secret at Pheasant Cottage, it was kind of sad. Age: 10 to 12 is what the book says it's for but I still like to read them sometimes, even though I'm older than 12 These are only some of my favorite books, I have lots more. Hopefully you will be able to find a few of the books I mentioned so you can read them. Or maybe you've already read some of them!
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Here's another one of my hobbies: adult coloring books! I probably have about 10 different books. I still have years worth of coloring to do! The first four pictures are pages that I have colored. They are all from the same book, Kaleidoscope Wonders. It's one of my favorites. The fifth picture is of almost all of my coloring books, the sixth picture is a page that I colored from a book called Folk Art Escapes. The last five pictures are pages from three different books that are by from the same person. I haven't colored very much of these, they are almost more cool if they are left black and white. They are also very detailed. These three books are called: Secret Garden, Enchanted Forest, and Lost Ocean. Note: The last picture is a framed coloring page from a separate book called Secret Garden Artist's Edition, which has extra large pages to pull out, color and frame. In the last row of pictures, notice the picture of the gates and the next picture of the dragons. In the book you would open the gates and inside there would be the two dragons. It's a neat feature of the book.
In case you are wondering what I use to color my books; I use (or have used) watercolor pencils, colored pencils, markers, fine tipped marker pens, probably even some gel pens. To make the designs stand out I try to use contrasting colors and sometimes I will pick a color theme. For example, one time I colored the design entirely in shades of blue, pink, and purple. Also I just finished a darker to lighter coloring theme (see the seventh picture) Here is the second tiny house. As you can see, I took a lot of pictures! This house is for Sarah's Polly Pockets. It was fun to build, but it took a long time. I especially like the computer desk in the kitchen area, the fireplace, the piano, and the green bathrooms. I built the house in separate sections. They can be taped together but Sarah preferred that they remain separated. I might paint the outside and put plants around it, or maybe not. I try to make the houses as if they were really going to be lived in, which means I'm always making sure everything fits and that if it was actually a real house it would be comfortable to live in. Of course there are some things that wouldn't work very well, for example, there are a lot of doors, which would be annoying. I also forgot to make a door in the pink bunkbed room. There should be a door that leads to the bathroom, but it's going to have to be imaginary. In the end, I like how it turned out but I think I'm ready to take a break from building houses.
Here's a house made out of cardboard. It was made for a l inch little Polly Pocket. I will not be including any instructions on how I made it but there will instructions for other projects in the future. This house is probably one of the smallest houses I have ever built. The stairs and the patio with the plants are my favorite parts of the house. I am also working on another tiny Polly Pocket house but it is not finished.
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