Toadstool Villages

Description

A whole village small enough to hold in your hands.

Behind the ferns there is a lane, and along the lane there are doors — round ones, painted sage and cornflower blue, set into mushroom cottages with smoking chimneys and window boxes. This is a book about somewhere very small and very warm.

Inside you'll find 60 original full-page fantasy scenes, every one a complete world rather than a floating object on an empty page.

Each page has foreground detail, one clear subject in the middle and a receding background, drawn with clean outlines and open shapes to color. It's detailed enough to be absorbing and open enough to be relaxing. For a gentler cottagecore page, try The Honeywick Collection or The Cozy Cottage Collection.

What you’ll color in Toadstool Villages

• Mushroom cottages with round doors and smoking chimneys
• Cobbled lanes, stone wells, and humpbacked bridges
• Market stalls, bakeries, and lantern-makers at dusk
• Washing lines strung between rooftops
• Beekeepers' skeps, garden gates, and window boxes
• Snails, hedgehogs, and a cat asleep on a warm doorstep

All 60 pages

Every design is different. Here’s the whole book, page by page:

1. A toadstool cottage with a round door and a smoking chimney at the head of a lane
2. A stepped village of mushroom houses climbing a mossy bank
3. A cobbled square where four toadstool cottages face a stone well
4. A mushroom mill turning its wheel beside a fast little stream
5. A lantern-lit lane winding between overhanging mushroom caps at dusk
6. A market morning under striped awnings between the cottages
7. A humpbacked bridge over the village brook
8. A cottage doorway framed by window boxes and a climbing rose
9. A washing line strung between two mushroom roofs
10. A bakery cottage with its shutters thrown open to the lane
11. A beekeeper's row of straw skeps behind a picket fence
12. An autumn harvest heaped outside a barn-red cottage door
13. A snow-capped mushroom village on a still winter evening
14. A hillside stair of stone steps linking upper and lower cottages
15. A snail making its slow way along a cobbled kerb
16. A cottage built into the roots of a great tree
17. A tiny signpost where three village paths divide
18. A rain-wet lane with lamplight pooling on the stones
19. A garden gate opening onto a vegetable plot behind a cottage
20. A cooper's yard stacked with little barrels
21. A moonlit rooftop view across the whole toadstool village
22. A dawn mist settling between the mushroom caps
23. A cottage porch stacked with baskets of berries
24. A firefly evening above the village green
25. A mouse's front step swept clean beneath an amber cap
26. A bell tower built from a single towering mushroom stalk
27. A thatched cottage half-buried in foxgloves
28. A stone wall lane with cottages leaning together overhead
29. A wheelbarrow of firewood outside a low mushroom door
30. A village pond with cottages ringed around its edge
31. A hedgehog trundling home along the lower lane
32. A cottage roof garden planted with tiny herbs
33. An ivy-covered cottage almost lost under its own greenery
34. A candlemaker's window glowing in the blue hour
35. A spiral stair wrapping a giant stalk up to a high door
36. A windy afternoon with the washing snapping between roofs
37. A beetle procession crossing a mossy doorstep
38. A cottage built under a fallen log at the village edge
39. A well-head crowded with buckets on market day
40. A lane of violet-capped houses after rain
41. A garden of clover and daisies behind a cream picket fence
42. A chimney sweep's ladder leaning against a mushroom roof
43. A frog sunning itself on the stones of the village brook
44. A lantern maker's stall hung with a dozen glowing lamps
45. A stone archway leading out of the village into the ferns
46. A cottage cat asleep on a sun-warmed doorstep
47. A bridge festooned with flower baskets over the mill race
48. A first-snow morning with smoke rising from every chimney
49. An orchard corner where windfall fruit lies among the caps
50. A night lane under a full moon and hanging lamps
51. A potter's yard with drying pots stacked on stone shelves
52. A schoolhouse cottage under an unusually broad ivory cap
53. A lane of doorways carved into a single fallen trunk
54. A bird feeding on crumbs outside a bakery window
55. A rooftop weathervane above the tallest mushroom house
56. A summer evening with tables set out along the lane
57. An acorn store built against a stone retaining wall
58. A garden shed leaning against a red-capped cottage
59. A stream-side row of houses with steps down to the water
60. The whole village seen from the hill above at golden hour

Specifications

How detailed is it?

Medium to high detail: roof tiles, windows, cobbles and climbing plants fill the village lanes and market streets, while a single mushroom house or a snail on a path is a quicker page. Sharp pencils or fine-tip pens suit the buildings best.

Toadstool Villages suits adults and teens alike — a calm, screen-free hour for fantasy readers, gamers, and anyone who colors to unwind. Because it’s a download, you can print the pages and give them in a folder, or send the file to someone who prints at home.

More from The Emberwilde Collection

Toadstool Villages is book 2 of the ten-book The Emberwilde Collection. It’s also part of The Emberwilde Magic & Mystery Trio (three books for $16.99), and of The Complete Emberwilde Collection, all ten books for $39.99. Not sure yet? Print the free sampler: one page from every book.

Looking for more like this? See all our fantasy coloring pages.

Good to know

• It’s a digital download: PDF files, no physical book is posted.
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