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Friday Favourites: Colouring Books + Pottery + Fruits + Murakami.


Hello! 

Happy Friday folks. 

I've had a nice Friday today. 
Lots of rest. 
New glasses. 
Reading a literary magazine called IQ. 
Listening to my Dad tell stories of his childhood. 
Eating yummy Motoshooti kachori (peas paratha) and aaloo dum
Had amazing coffee. 
Washed a few of my plushie toys. 

Hope your Friday was nice too :)  








1. & 2. Colouring pages and colouring pencils. My love for colouring is out of control. I love the time I spend with my colour pens, pencils and even water colours filling in the intricate patters on pages. I love unwinding and thing out the world. If you haven't tried adult colouring books I highly, highly recommend them. The colouring pages here from my planner, these came in a stationery kit from Happie Scrappie. Love it. Happy little cute monsters. I love colouring them in with glitter pens. 

3. Fresh Fruits/// Last year, one of my Resolutions in my life was to eat more fresh fruits. As a child we were given fresh fruits every single day. So as an adult I was kinda sick of fruits. But it is such an easy way to incorporate healthy foods in our everyday diet. Plus, fruits are delicious! :) I love fruits. I eat apples, bananas, grapes, kiwis, strawberries, pineapples and jamuns as regularly as I can. 

4. Ceramic Pottery/// Wonderful works of art and artistry. Beautiful colours and patterns. 

5. Nights of journaling, colouring and creating. 

6. Murakami Madness. In the last few days of January, Bookstagram was full of #MurakamiMadness, people reading any book by Haruki Murakami. I was a little late to the party and I didn't have time for a full-fledged novel. So I delved in with a short graphic novel. A re-read for me and I loved this book this time as well. I loved that I got to read my favourite author in the first month of the year, a good way to start my reading life of 2016. 

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