It took me a while to do this one because I was so busy, but I'm definitely going to take time when I feel stressed to do this while I watch a movie or TV. I messed up a little bit on one of the color patterns, but I really like the design the more I look at it. I used fine, fine tip Sharpies and Crayola color pencils.

This image took me about four days to color. The end result or even just completing small portions of the page makes me truly happy to see that I've participated in bringing a simple image to life. I’ve also used my Marco Renoir pencils and love how the smooth surface of the paper allows the colour to glide on smoothly.I've started my journey into adult coloring and so far have discovered that it's a relaxing process. I’ve played around with Faber Castell felt pens and while there’s slight shadowing on the next page, I’ve not had bleed through. While the book doesn’t lay totally flat when opened, it does lay open in such a way that it would be perfectly possible to write or draw right up to the binding without a lot of difficulty. I was ridiculously excited to see a mini version of the fox and the dragon in the corners. There’s a well balanced variety of animals, buildings and fauna adorning a corner of each double page spread. Both are just personal choice and don’t take anything away from how luxurious and well made both journals feel. The inside covers are white this time, I preferred the black design of The Secret Garden but white looks nice too.

The front cover itself features an image from the book with gold embellishing, I like this better than the repetitive pattern featured on The Secret Garden Journal. You also have the removable paper band which can be coloured if you wish. The hardback sleeves mean the journal won’t get destroyed in a bag, the stitched in ribbon along with the gold guilded pages and blank cream paper add the same luxury they did with The Secret Garden Journal. The Enchanted Forest Journal works really well too. I loved how the small elements from the larger colouring book translated into smaller motifs in the journal and how week the whole thing work. On of the things I loved about The Secret Garden Journal was how it allowed me have pretty journal pages with lovely decorative drawings but without spending forever badly drawing them myself. The Enchanted Forest Journal – My Review. The only time I’ll include Amazon links is when it’s the lowest price at the time of writing. My blog is not linked to the Amazon affiliate programme so I have no financial incentive to get anyone to buy from there. I was kindly supplied a review copy directly from the publisher Laurence King.

Enchanted Forest by Johanna Basford