HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy new year readers! I hope 2014 was a good year for y'all, if not, there's always 2015.
What are your new years resolutions? (Are they something you're actually going to work on? :P) I know in past years mine haven't exactly worked out..
This year I'm planning to get my shit together (excuse my swearing). I know everyone is like "You don't need a new years resolution to get your shit together, you can do that whenever." I know I don't need a resolution to get my shit together, but the fact that it's day 1 of 365 helps ya girl out. With college coming up and high school ending this year, along with finally being 18, I figure I should start acting like the young adult I'm expected to be now.

Anyway, this is an art blog, not a "complain about my life" blog. Let me show you some art.
I got another really cool thing for Christmas. It's a coloring book (how is that cool?) BUT not just any kind of coloring book. It's a coloring book of mandalas!

these things

They come in a bunch of different patterns and shapes, too. Obviously they aren't all going to look the same. But hey, they're cool, especially when they're colored in too. Here's the book I got, it's the cat's bananas:

Coloring them is so much fun too! The cover says that coloring these is for inner peace and inspiration, I was coloring some while I was babysitting on New Year's Eve (yeah I babysat on NYE..) and I was in a hugely bad mood. I was annoyed I had to be babysitting and I was fighting with a couple of friends, so I was pretty upset. I was tired and cranky and I kept overthinking things, as teenage girls tend to do. I just kept coloring, eventually my petty problems were nothing, because I was focusing on making the mandala I was coloring pretty. (And my colored pencils were starting to run down, I didn't have a pencil sharpener with me, so I was trying to save them.)

Here's one of the finished mandalas. After coloring it I felt so much better, it was very therapeutic. If you're ever feeling stressed I highly suggest googling these, finding one you like, printing it out and coloring it. I guarantee it'll make you feel 10 times better.

What are your new years resolutions?