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I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. What a cute little coloring book. Highly recommended. The pages are super cute.

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"Cottagecore Galore" by Katie Vaz is a very pretty, very dreamy coloring book full of gorgeous coloring pages. As you can understand from the title, this book is packed with BEAUTIFUL cottagecore illustrations.
It has 128 pages filled with a mixture of illustrations, which is a great deal for its price range and this way, you'll never run out of pages to color! The coloring pages have everything from deliciously drawn strawberries, cherries, jams, coffee grinders, tea cups, herbs, muffins, cakes, pies, cinnamon rolls, different types of breads (any kind of comfort food really) to bees, butterflies, ladybugs, snails; a variety of wild flowers (but also daisies, sunflowers, roses, dahlias...), plants and forest animals...
This one brings such cosy feelings... It is absolutely delightful, the designs are so immaculate and they just make you want to sit down in a comfortable environment and start coloring in your own world.

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This coloring book provides a wonderful way to relax and de-stress. The pictures are cute and I enjoyed it.

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Beautiful coloring books with so many projects to do, will enlighten your day!! It has so many pages to look forward too, and heartwarming ones about cottage, countryside, nature and cozy living.

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One of the best adult coloring books I’ve come across! The images create a perfect cottagecore vibe while coloring and are even more gorgeous when framed and hung. Perfect gift for the colorer in your life.

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I've been very intrigued by the "cottagecore" movement, but I don't feel like I can really get away with the clothes at my age, and I don't have the money to redecorate my house. However, I do love to color, so this was perfect. Obviously, I received this as an ARC e-book, but I like to look at coloring books before I buy them because I'm pretty picky, and I'll definitely be picking up a hardcopy of this! The pictures are absolutely adorable!

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It's difficult to explain why I love this adult coloring book so much. My design esthetic is a weird mix of gamer chic, home library, renaissance faire, with just a smattering of what probably could be called cottagecore. Despite that, the pictures in this book are just wonderful. So wonderful, in fact, right after looking through it the first time, I ran out to the store and bought a new set of colored pencils so I could jump right into coloring it.

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This coloring book is adorable and very detailed. I could imagine myself spending some quality time in creating colorful work. If you enjoy the Cottagecore-vibe, you will enjoy coloring in this book!
I received an eARC of this coloring book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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*received for free from netgalley for honest review* This is exactly what i need for a good summer in the country! Super cute artwork and i plan on buying this!

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Cottagecore Galore is a coloring book with detailed, but not overwhelmingly so, images of flowers, kitchen implements, and books in black and white that can be colored in.

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Cottagecore basically describes my life, despite the fact that I live in a very urban, downtown flat. I adore knitting, sewing, making pottery, herbalism, baking, curling up reading, gardening, birding, and going for long walks right from my front door. This colouring book perfectly captures the cozy, earthly, slow-living cottagecore style in all sorts of fabulous designs. Further, there are differently patterned styles so that you can chose whether you are interested in colouring intricate details or prefer to shade in larger swaths, according to your mood. Some of my favourite pages include bundles of recognizable herbs, a collection of diverse candlesticks, a scene with a kitty warming itself beside a wood-stove in the corner of a cottage with herbs hanging from the ceiling above, a bunch of different cottages, bees, and the owl on a stump. But there is really SO much more to discover in this cute collection of feel-good colouring pages. Honestly, I really wish that the publisher had sent me a physical copy so that I could be colouring right now!! If you are into anything cottagey or homesteady or slow-living in any way, I absolutely recommend this colouring book to you.

Many thanks to Katie Vaz, Andrews McMeel Publishing, and NetGalley for the digital advance preview copy of this colouring book, in exchange for this honest review.

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Extensive colouring book with lots of unique pages to colour (I did not notice any repetition like some adult colouring books have). There is a good mix of patterned pages and actual scenes to colour. Some pages are more detailed than others, so you have a variety of pages to pick from depending on your mood. I think this colouring book would be good for any age, and for anyone who just wants to relax with a pretty picture. This would be a great addition to any colouring book collection and would make a lovely gift.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my advanced reader copy.

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I don't think I have ever reviewed an adult coloring book before, but I can go with the flow. I love the pictures and illustrations of the coloring book. After browsing this coloring book I can not wait to pick up a copy of it. Cottagecore is something I now want to try with my life.

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Super cute! Lovely illustrations in line with the cottagecore theme. I would definitely be interested in purchasing this coloring book to use.

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The images to colour are really good looking. Good if wanting either repetition or detail colouring. The images are sweet.

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Okay, it is a little weird to give a review of a coloring book that you can't print out. This was provided to me at no cost by NetGalley, and at no point during my review process did I color any of these pages. I think the best way to do this review is going to be to list all of the types of coloring pages in this book, and add my notes if I have any.

1. There’s an “about this book” page, which is very cozy, with a colorable-border around it. Rating: Cozy

2. This is a cupcake pattern spread with little flowers on top of the cupcakes. Rating: Too repetitive

3. This is a coloring page of a pie on a table cloth with a recipe box and a little bowl of strawberries. Rating: Cozy

4. This is a page of a cat resting in a window seat. Rating: Cozy

5. This is a pattern of mushrooms and leaves. Rating: Foresty

6. This is a repeating pattern of just strawberries. Rating: Boring

7. This is a repeating pattern of bees and thistles. Rating: Boring

8. This is a spray of flowers up against a fence. Rating: Springtime

9. This is a repeating pattern of teacups with floral designs on them. Rating: Teatime

10. This is a bowl of cherries. Rating: Boring

11. This is a confusing spray of tiny flowers. Rating: Confusing

12. This is a bunch of cookies with flowers on them laid out on a baking tray. Rating: Confusing

13. This is a page of overlapping butterflies. Rating: Confusing, boring?

14. This is a bunch of different types of bread! Rating: Cozy

15. This is hanging herbs from a wall. Rating: Confusing

16. This is a bunch of different types of jam. Rating: Cozy

17. These are dishes on a shelf! Rating: Cozy

18. These are cinnamon rolls in a dish! Rating: Cozy

19. These are a bunch of bachelor’s button seed packets and flowers. Rating: Confusing

20. This is a repeating pattern of daisies. Rating: Boring

21. This is a bunch of teapots in different patterns. Some of the teapots repeat. Rating: Cozy, but I would be bored by coloring the same teapot more than once.

22. This is ladybugs on leaves. Rating: I don’t like bugs :/

23. This is two sunflowers. Rating: Boring

24. This is a leading path to the woods, complete with mushrooms. Rating: Cozy

25. This is a bunch of watering cans in different patterns, but some of the watering can patterns repeat. Rating: Boring, we already did the teapots in these patterns

26. This is a page of poppies. Rating: Boring, but possibly relaxing

27. This is a stack of cozy cottagecore books. Their titles are GUIDE TO WILDFLOWERS, BACKYARD BIRDS, NATURE REMEDIES, CANNING & PRESERVING, HOMEMADE SOURDOUGH, FOREST FORAGING, ORGANIC GARDENS, and FLORAL EMBROIDERY. Rating: Cozy

28. This is a repeating pattern of books with flowers and mushrooms on them. There are also glasses thrown in for good measure. Rating: Cozy

29. This is a repeating pattern of leaves and acorns. Rating: Boring, but also cozy.

30. This is a pattern of pennants. Rating: Boring

31. This is fir leaves. I would find these too difficult to color. Rating: Confusing, difficult

32. This is baby’s breath inside a patterned vase. Rating: Confusing

33. This is flowers that I forget the name of. Rating:Springtime

34. This is a repeating pattern of teapots and teabags! Rating: Cozy

35. This is my favorite page in th ebook, it’s a bunch of tea tins. Rating: Cozy

36. This is a floral pattern of overlapping flower. Rating: Confusing

37. This is a different floral pattern of overlapping flowers. It’s slightly better. Rating: Slightly better

38. This is yarn with needles stuck through them! Rating: Cozy

39. This is a page of started knitting projects! Rating: Cozy

40. This is a book full of flowers that are about to be pressed. Rating: Cozy

41. This is a little house built into a tree. Rating: Cozy

42. This is a repeating pattern of roses. Rating: Boring

43. This is a repeating pattern of toads and toadstools. Rating: I really want to like this, but I don’t.

44. This is a plat of jam tarts. Rating: Cozy

45. This is a repeating pattern of snails and flowers. Rating: Boring

46. This is a repeating pattern of sprigs of blueberries. Rating: Cozy

47. This is a weird repeating pattern of flowers. Rating: Boring

48. This is a repeating pattern of wooden spoons and spatulas. Some of the physics on these don’t seem to be correct. Rating: Confusing

49. This is a cake with a lot of flowers on it. It reminds me of THE ONES WE BURN. Rating: Sad

50. This is a bunch of skinny thistles. Rating: Boring

51. This is a coffee grinder, a muffin, a mug, and a pitcher. Rating: Cozy

52. This is a confusing floral pattern. Rating: Confusing

53. This is a basket full of poppies. Rating: Cozy?

54. This is a wreathe of flowers. It looks kind of lonely. Rating: Lonely

55. This is a bucket full of flowers and vines. Rating: Confusing

56. This is a pitcher of lemonade and two jars of lemonade! Rating: Cozy

57. This is a repeating pattern of lemons. Rating: Cozy

58. This is a picnic basket all ready to go! Rating: Cozy

59. This is a repeating pattern of sunflowers, but they have no stems? Rating: Boring

60. This is a repeating pattern of very teeny tiny flowers. Rating: Boring

61. This is a repeating pattern of raspberries. Rating: Boring

62. This is a basket of donuts with… flowers on them? Rating: Unrealistic, not edible

63. This is a repeating pattern of peaches. Rating: Boring

64. This is a repeating pattern of bunnies in some flowers. Rating: Cozy

65. This is a repeating pattern of flowers on steps. Rating: Boring

66. This is a sign post in an apple orchard. There are also apples. Rating: Cozy

67. This is a repeating pattern of pies and apples. Rating: Cozy

68. This is a repeating pattern of carrots. Rating: Boring

69. This is a repeating pattern of an assortment of flowers. Rating: Boring

70. This is a repeating pattern of martini glasses and mint leaves. Rating: Boring

71. This is a page about an herb garden. Rating: Cozy

72. This is a picture of some daffodills! Rating: Cozy

73. This is a repeating pattern of baskets full of various flowers and fruits. Rating: Cozy

74. This is a picture of a cat in a field of flowers. Rating: Cozy

75. This is a bird in a birdhouse. Rating: Cozy

76. This is a repeating pattern of various types of honey in jars. Rating: Cozy

77. This is a repeating pattern of pancakes, pitchers with mushroom decorations, and maple syrup jars. Rating: Cozy

78. Thisis a table with pancakes, pumpkin, tea pot, and a mug on it. Rating: Cozy

79. This is a repeating pattern of mushrooms and flowers. Rating: Cozy

80. This is some candles, a book, and a plate of cookies looking out a window. Rating: Cozy

81. This is a fireplace and a chair in front of the fireplace. Rating: Cozy

82. This is a spray of flowers inside of a mason jar. Rating: Cozy

83. This is a repeating pattern of taper candles in candleholders. Rating: Cozy

84. This is a woodburning fire stove. A cat naps nearby. There is a pair of slippers nearby. Rating: Cozy

85. This is a repeating pattern of small flowers. Rating: Cozy

86. This is a repeating pattern of clothes, including wicker bags, large sunhats, and boots. Rating: Boring

87. This is a confusing spray of flowers. Rating: Confusing

88. This is a repeating pattern of necklaces with lockets. Rating: Cozy

89. This is three firefly jars hanging on some trees. Rating: Cozy

90. This is a flowerbox by a window. Rating: Cozy

91. This is an illustration of mushroom embroidery. Rating: Cozy

92. This is a repeating pattern of sewing scissors and thread. Rating: Cozy

93. This is a confusing repeating pattern of lime wedges and pine and cinnamon? Rating: Confusing

94. THis is a repeating pattern of paintings hung up on a wall. Rating: Cozy

95. This is a repeating pattern of lilacs? Honeydew? Rating: Confusing

96. This is a repeating pattern of pinecones. Rating: Sad

97. This is a repeating pattern of bows. Rating: Confusing

98. This is someone doing a watercolor painting in the field. Rating: Cozy

99. This is a repeating pattern of calligraphy ink and accessories. Rating: Cozy
100. This is stationary for writing a letter! Rating: Cozy
101. This is a bunch of fir leaves. Rating: Confusing
102. This is a repeating pattern of seed packets. Rating: Cozy
103. This is a repeating pattern of lots of tiny flowers. Rating: Cozy
104. This is a big bread in a pot. Rating: Cozy
105. This is a repeating pattern of toast and buckwheat honey and maybe capers on toast.. Rating: Cozy
106. This is a repeating pattern of patterned dresses. Rating: Confusing
107. This is a hobbit hole door! Rating: Cozy
108. This is a repeating pattern of zinnias. Rating: Cozy
109. This is a spray of flowers. Rating: Cozy
110. These are some birds sitting amongst some flowers. Rating: Cozy
111. This is a repeating pattern of beets. Rating: Cozy
112. This is a basket of tomatoes. Rating: Cozy
113. This is a repeating pattern of little houses in the woods. Rating: Cozy
114. This is a repeating pattern of flowers in jars with corks. Rating: Cozy
115. These are spices on a shelf. Rating: Cozy
116. THis is an owl. Rating: Cozy
117. This is a sewing machine, sewing something together. Rating: Cozy
118. This is a little mushroom house living on top of a teapot. Rating: Cozy
119. This is a clothesline with clothes drying on it. Rating: Cozy
120. This is a repeating pattern of deer and flowers. Rating: Cozy
121. This is a bed with a cat sleeping on top. The bedspread is very busy. Rating: Cozy
122. This is a repeating pattern of lanterns. Rating: cozy
123. This is a wicker basket on a bench. Rating: Cozy
124. This is an archway covered in flowers. Rating: Cozy
125. This is a repeating pattern of chickens and eggs. Rating: Cozy
126. This is a repeating pattern of flowers and keys. Rating: Cozy
Final countdown:
28 repeating patterns
80 pages that I would like to color - out of 126, that's pretty good! Four stars.

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If you are looking for something cozy for your coloring book hours, look no further! This entire book is full of beautiful, cozy pages to color that fit all my cottagecore needs. Every single page is absolutely beautiful and brings everything from pretty quilt patterns to fruits and baking. It’s such a simple and beautiful book to have on hand and fill with natural colors or put a funky spin on the pages as one sees fit.

I really like that there’s a good variety of scenes depicted with beautiful artwork. There’s flowers, bunnies, baking, picnics, tea, spice jars, and the list goes on. It’s the perfect coloring book for any fan of cottagecore who love the calmness of it all. Plus, it’s aesthetically pleasing even before coloring the pages!

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Cottagecore Galore is a beautiful coloring book. It has a wonderful mix of both simple and more detailed pages so there is something that can fit everyone's coloring level and style. I feel this book will take well to many different types of coloring mediums. My favorite pages include the one with lots of fluffy, adorable, little rabbits, as well as the page with a cute little bird in a beautiful birdhouse. I can't wait to order a physical copy in a few days. I have my colored pencils sharpened and ready to go.

Thank you to NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to have a sneak peek of this beautiful book.

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Oh such a lovely coloring book...
This book full of charming pictures of rural life with strawberry, cookies, ceramics, homemade jams. I almost can imagine my self doing self relaxing with this book. Each individual picture is pretty enough to lift up as another craft project such as decoration journalling book.

Thanks Netgalley for sent me this beautiful coloring book.

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A cozy colouring book, simple enough to be relaxing, but complex enough to hold your attention. Some really nice pictures!

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