Stress Relieving Adult Coloring Books

Stress Relieving Adult Coloring Books

Adult Coloring Books are fun and offer stress-relief too. A decade ago, I was a long distance telephone operator on the International Night Shift. Coloring Books saved our sanity during those lonely nights with only 6-8 of us on the calling floor.

I didn’t speak a foreign language but answered in English and transferred to the appropriate foreign speaker. We were proud to offer 100’s of languages at our International Center.

The problem with that job was boredom. An 8-hour shift could feel like 40 hours. The length between calls for some countries could be several hours. Many times an 8-hour shift would bring no more than 4 phone calls.

Though an easy “work night,” that meant long hours of nodding-off and rubbing your eyes red just to stay awake.

There was no such thing as Fun Adult Coloring Books for Sale back in those days.

A couple of my friends with small children defied the front-office ban on playing games at work and brought coloring books from home instead. Later a few others brought young adult coloring books, and soon we were all heads-down with fat crayons coloring away when the morning shift arrived. At least we were still awake.

We took our share of harassment too, lots of teasing because we were paid a good wage to scribble in coloring books all night long, “the day-shift said.”

Actually, management finally accepted the validity of our coloring to stay awake when  call-answering improved and fewer customer’s complained of snoring operators on the midnight shift. We were awake and alert when every call came in and there was no longer stress on the night shift.

Eventually the front office encouraged us and printed large bold sheets of intricate designs we could copy and make available for our own pleasure during the night shift. And the posted some of the best on a lengthy bulletin board in the Cafeteria.

When I retired from that position, I brought home a stack of Awards and complements from customers and the company right alongside my all-time favorite Coloring Projects.

Check out a few of these stunning patterns and imagine how your choice of colors could explode into Beauty!

Stress relieving Adult Color Books

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You can use Crayon or Colored Pencils or Markers

I used very “fine-tipped” Markers – I’ve seen some stunning pictures with Pencil

Do what you like Best

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