It’s past time for another Happy Color update (previous one is here). I’m just back from a three-week trip on which I took my laptop thinking I’d do some entries from the road, but as it turned out, I booted it up exactly once to try and fill out a form that a) seemed to be time sensitive and b) wasn’t working on my phone. The form didn’t work on my laptop either; fortunately the person who wanted it decided they could wait until I got back. I will do photo diary posts covering my time away (and the time before I went away that I was behind on when I left), but first, coloring. That’s a faster way to get back into the swing of journaling. Granted, my in process is a bit of a mess right now, and I’ve decided it’s okay to not wait to do this update until it’s more organized. That’s progress for me and my brain.

This month’s featured picture is a recent finish that seems apropos for this update:

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, and date is when the holiday was, not necessarily when I finished coloring those images):

– Internet Day (6) [October 29]
– Artist’s Day (8) [October 25]
– Color Day (2) [October 22]
– Halloween makeup (10) [this also completed a collection, which got me an award; that’s how they get you]
– Breast Cancer Awareness Month (2) [October]
– Sloth Day (2) [October 20]
– Diwali (4) [October 18 to 23]
– National Day of Spain (16) [October 12]
– Daily and Mystery second week of October (20) [I seem to have missed a mystery somewhere along the way so caught up here]
– Golden Week (6) [October 1 to 8]
– Farmers Day (2) [October 12]
– Mental Health Day (2) [October 10]
– Pictures of the week and month for September (10)
– Daily and Mystery for first week of October (18)
– Teachers Day (6) [October 5]
– Smile Day (2) [October 3]
– Daily and Mystery for last week of September (18)
– Coffee Day (16) [October 1]
– Oktoberfest (2) [yes, I am annoyed that after a long gap between the first Oktoberfest picture issued this year and I thought I was safe to complete that mini group, they put out another one]
– Hispanic Heritage Month (2)
– Oktoberfest (2)
– Autumn: people, fashion, umbrellas, leaves (36) [from the big fall group]
– World Heart Day (8) [September 29]
– Tourism Day (12) [September 27]
– World Dream Day (18) [September 25]
– Rosh Hashannah (8)
– Equinox (2)
– Wildlife event (4) [because I felt I hadn’t contributed enough to getting the donation made to save the little deer species]
– Window mandalas (2) [from separators]
– Vaguely floral overlapping patterns (2) [from separators]
– Daily and mystery for third week of September (14)
– Art, mostly by Mary Cassatt (10)
– Gratitude Day (12) [September 21]
– Art to complete VanGogh collection and work on art award (2)

Currently In Progress:

1.) Halloween & Day of the Dead (110 images plus 6 separators) [Separators: four patterns at the end of the group that are almost fully colored in but I’m not sure if they go together yet, plus 2 wave mosaic separators in the middle because I’m in the process of going through the whole group again, filling in more colors and tweaking the arrangement slightly as the overall effect emerges. I did see that one of these is up for pic of the week for last week, so I’ll have to cross my fingers and hope that doesn’t win as I’ve already paired it here.]

2.) Pictures of the week for October (10 + 4) [Separators: triangle and diamond patterns; this group includes four Halloween images because one of them was chosen as a pic of the week and I’m waiting to see if it gets pic of the month. I will likely know that before I finish the big Halloween group, so those will get rolled into that instead of being finished with this group.]

3.) Daily and mystery for second week of October (12 + 4) [Separators: wavy lines/shapes]

4.) Heart that I found a duplicate of while looking for other things (2 + 6) [Separators: four semicircle-esque patterns and two quilt-like ones; this will be incorporated into the appropriate group below when I can]

5.) Autumn: farms, food, leaves, pumpkins (36 + 8) [Separators: spirals, wavy grids, distorted square patterns]

6.) Autumn mandalas (16 + 6) [Separators: knit/braid patterns, wavy lines]

7.) Images that I found duplicates of while looking for other things (16 + 4) [Separators: geometric mandalas]

8.) Birthday (6 + 22) [Separators: 7 tile like patterns, 4 staircases, 5 other patterns]

9.) Holiday/seasonal: World Down Syndrome Day, Fourth of July, World Kindness Day, Thanksgiving, Day of Veterinarian Medicine, Hanukkah, Winter Christmas, Kwanzaa, Rubber Duck Day, Venice Carnival, Women in Science Day, Valentine’s, Happy Birthday, St. Patrick’s Day, Spring, World Water Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day [105]

8.) All the rest of the separators [32]

On this date in 2011 through 2024: No journal entries
2010: Goal Wednesday: 11.03
2009: No entry
2008: Tink Ears
2002 through 2007: No entries