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Happy Color Update: A Bit Past Mid-April 2026
April 22, 2026
It’s been about a month since my previous Happy Color update, so let’s review what I’ve been up to. This update’s featured images are two hearts I just liked the colors of; they weren’t paired with each other but I think they look good together.
Groups I’ve finished since the previous update (most recent listed first; all counts include any friends I matched with the main images for the group):
– Dailies and mysteries for second full week of April (16)
– Songkran/Thailand (2) [a holiday I didn’t know about, featuring water pistols]
– Bonus hearts (32)
– Bonus messages (12)
– Bonus hobbies (16)
– Daily and mystery for second week of March (16)
– Bonus vehicles (38)
– International Day of Human Space Flight (4) [aka Cosmonautics Day]
– Orthodox Easter (10)
– Bonus interiors (46)
– Geometric quilt-like patterns (2) [one was award bonus]
– Bonus bathroom interiors (10) [re-arranged these a lot until I found an order that pleased me; one quartet in particular gave me trouble until I decided it was okay to split up the two claw foot tubs)
– Bonus mysteries (26)
– Passover (2)
– Geometric pattern samplers (2) [these were separators]
– Dailies and mysteries for end of March/beginning of April (10)
– Pictures of the week and month for March (10)
– Easter (50) [included a picture of the week so kept my fingers crossed that wouldn’t be the picture of the month, and it was not]
– Dailies and mysteries for 4th week of March (18) [includes one from previous week that I’d missed and its partner]
– Earth Hour (4)
– World Theatre Day (2)
– Trios of women (4) [decided not to wait for July to do the bonus I missed getting in time for last 4th of July, which is three women with a U.S. flag behind them, so I grabbed another three trios and made a group]
– Line-intensive star patterns (2)
– Waffle Day (4) [there was a bonus for this, which turned out to be a duplicate of an image already in the food category, which I found out via searching for “waffle fruit”]
– Dailies and mysteries for 3rd week of March (14)
– International Women’s Day (12) [decided to go ahead and do the bonuses I got late for this holiday and added a bunch of women holding bouquets for good measure]
Currently In Progress:
1.) Tattoo design bonuses (14 images plus 2 separators) [Separators: detailed rug- and embroidery-like mandalas]
2.) Pics of the week for first three weeks of April (6 + 2) [Separators: detailed round-ish mandalas]
3.) Tattoo bonuses with the designs on people (28 + 2) [Separators: detailed rug-like mandalas]
4.) Award bonuses (10 + 6) [Separators: detailed rug-like mandalas, triangle geometric patterns; these bonuses are from various categories, just ones I came across that went together]
5.) Cinco de Mayo (2 + 2) [Separators: rug-like mandalas]
6.) Mother’s Day (6)
How Things Are Going Post-Reinstall:
As I mentioned last time, I deleted and then re-installed the Happy Color app to free up space on my phone so I could do an iOS upgrade. Frustratingly, a few days after I’d done that and rebuilt a healthy in progress queue, another iOS upgrade popped up demanding 13.45 GB free, which I did not have (HC was already up to 2GB but deleting that wouldn’t give me the 13.45 I needed anyway). Sorry iOS you have to wait a while.
As might be obvious from the lists above, in addition to my usual daily/mystery/holidays/pics of the week and month, I’m working on bonuses, specifically the bonus awards for completing challenges (rather than the ones that are just given to everyone who can find the links for them on Facebook and wherever else they are these days, like WhatsApp and Telegram). This will make it easier to do the delete/reinstall to free up space in future, as those bonuses don’t get restored automatically. If I color them all, I won’t need to re-download them if I don’t want to take the time to do that (which means updating my bonuses spreadsheet accordingly and that’s proven tedious though I’m making changes that will make it easier in future, namely clearly identifying which pictures are from which awards). I’ve been using my bonsu spreadsheet to find images to color less anyway since the search feature was introduced (it doesn’t reliably pick up bonus images but does come in handy to find pictures to pair with bonuses I’ve already started) so I’m not super concerned about how long it’s taking.
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