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If you’re looking for a simple way to relax and reduce some of the stress in your life you might want to consider a coloring book.
This statement is not as silly as you might think. Millions of ‘grown ups’ have started coloring again here’s why.
If you didn’t know coloring books for adults are a super hot trend right now, don’t feel bad, we didn’t either. Not until we came across a story about it on the internet.
Turns out a couple of coloring books filled with drawings by artist Johanna Basford are the two best-selling books on amazon.
One of the coloring books is called Secret Garden. It was ranked number one on Friday and has sold more than 1.4 million copies since it was first offered in 2013.
Her second book, Enchanted Forest, has just moved up to the number two this week.
We also discovered that coloring book enthusiasts included both men and women, young and old, and a surprising number of twenty-somethings.
So why is coloring so popular?
to find out why we gave coloring books to a couple of our newscast producers.
Kirsten Schaffer does the 6 p.m. on KRIS6 and Elizabeth Noyola produces our 9 o’clock news on the CW.
They’re busy, young professional women with demanding jobs, and we wanted their opinions on the coloring craze.
Kirsten was skeptical but quickly became a convert.
Yes I was actually very incredulous I said, ‘I bet I’ll get bored with this after a couple of minutes.’ And sure enough as I’m doing this as my homework assignment, this morning, I allotted 20 minutes to get it done and all of a sudden I look at the clock and it was 45 minutes later and my coffee’s already drank and I’m like oh ,oh I’ve got to go it’s totally addictive!” says Kirsten Scahffer.
However Elizabeth was just the opposite, she thought coloring sounded great.
But after trying it, she gave it a thumbs down.
It’s not something that would be on my first thing at night it would be a random thing I would do. It would not be something I would do for a new habit or a new hobby that would be persistent,” says Elizabeth Noyolas.
Lots of other folks, like 6-news reporter Caroline Flores, say they color as often as they can.
She picked it up from her college roommate and says it’s better than mediation.
“It relaxes my mind. It takes my mind off all the stress from the day and its fun! This is perfect. You can just like take this and put it in your bag and you know kind of pull it out. I was thinking about using it on the plane. I might steal it and you know what was funny was I just got off the phone with my mom and I told her and she was like ‘what were you doing?’” says Caroline Flores who can’t help but laugh at the memory.
It’s often been said the best things in life are the simple things, and in this case there seems to be a lot of truth to that.