{"id":59,"date":"2026-04-28T20:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:26:43","slug":"2000-hours-spent-in-a-coloring-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"2,000 hours spent in a Coloring Game?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2 years ago, I grew out of my old pattern of dealing with stress. Then I came upon Coloring Pixel by Toastie Labs!  It isn&#8217;t really a game but a color-by-number program. It wasn&#8217;t expensive to buy, and each DLC is 99 cents! Over the past month, I bought all the previous DLCs and have been grabbing each new one as it is released. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love it because it has a very calming effect on me. The perfect way to get rid of stress or anxiety has been coloring in this program.  It&#8217;s one of those activities that takes just enough of your focus that you&#8217;re not able to focus on anything else. I actually only realized in the past couple of days that I was close to such a milestone!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"426\" height=\"373\" src=\"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-28-162333.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-28-162333.png 426w, http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-28-162333-300x263.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In addition to the Color Pixel, I recommend a similar program called Pixel Cross Stitch. This program is also for coloring, but its look is completely different. The outlines are thicker, and the presentation has a more knitted quality. It also has a number of DLC&#8217;s, but they are also inexpensive, so collecting them will not make you go broke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have these programs already or decide to give them a try, let me know! I would love to hear what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 years ago, I grew out of my old pattern of dealing with stress. Then I came upon Coloring Pixel by Toastie Labs! It isn&#8217;t really a game but a color-by-number program. It wasn&#8217;t expensive to buy, and each DLC is 99 cents! Over the past month, I bought all the previous DLCs and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tarahstake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}