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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Violet Red

Violet Red or is It Red Violet?

Day 110 into the 120 Days of Crayola Challenge and we are really being challenged! But, I’ve been doing my homework! There is no color called Violet Red! There is a color called Red Violet and we had that color back in the R’s. Been There Done That! See I’m paying attention!

Anyway, the weather has been acting like Spring this week; warm, cold, rain, cold, warm, blustery. Back and forth, so maybe the Challenge is also suffering the challenges of Spring! So I am showing another garden photo from my English Garden Tour. I want it to be summer!

These photos are from Sissinghurst Castle Gardens, near Cranbrook, Kent, UK. Can one ever get tired of Sissinghurst? I don’t think so. Sissinghurst, is a small village in the county of Kent in England. It was originally called Milkhouse Street, but changed it’s name in the 1850s, to avoid association with the smuggling and cockfighting activities of the Hawkhurst Gang. I can see why, who would want to say, I live in Milking Street! Click Here to see what Sissinghurst, the castle gardens, is up to this Spring!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Violet

An English Cottage with Violet Blossoms

An English Cottage In Brushstroke

Day 109 in the Crayola Challenge! An English Cottage is the Perfect Place for Purple or is it Violet?

First there was Purple. Then in 1914 Crayola made Purple, Violet. Violet has transitioned through Violet 1, 2 and 3. There are more names for Violet in all the collections than I can shake a stick at! Violet has been called Bunch of Grapes Purple in the “So Big” set, Jellyfish Purple and Venus Violet, in the “Discovery ” series, Psychedelic Purple, in the “Retro Colors” set, Ravenous Purple, in the “Colors of Baltimore” series, Pike’s Peak Purple, the color for Colorado in the “State Crayon Collection” and Love & Purple in the 110th Anniverary set. Crayola loved their purples!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Unmellow Yellow

Unmellow Yellow, Unmellow Orange, and Unmellow Green!

It is Day 106, I think, if I have done my math correctly, in the Crayola Challenge! Wow! Look at these guys! I’d say these plants have Unmellow Yellow, Unmellow Orange and Unmellow Green! And no leaves, just a stem! I think they are part of the Red Hot Poker family of plants. Correct me if I’m wrong! Wouldn’t this plant perk up any spot in the garden! I think so!

Unmellow Yellow

Here is another Unmellow Poke in the garden! These are surrounded by grassy spikes which sets them apart! I love the color combinations! Both these plants were found in the Hot Garden at Sissinghurst, home of Vita Sackville-West. For more information about Vita Sackville-West look Here! For a review of a great pub near the garden look Here!

Unmellow Yellow is a fluorescent color that was introduced into the Crayola Collection in 1990. It is also known as Yellowstone in the “State Crayon Collection.”

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Color; Sky Blue

A Garden Gate with Sky Blue at Sissinghurst Garden, Kent, UK

Taking pictures through a garden gate, a door, or a window is one of my favorite ways to take a photo! Today’s garden gate and very blue sky was taken at Sissinghurst, family home of Vita Sackville-West. If you ever want to visit a beautiful garden in Kent, this would be one to see! For a peek at Sissinghurst look HERE! So for today the Sky’s the Limit!

Did you know that Blue is the most popular crayola color? There are a lot of blues to like too! Sky Blue as been part of the Crayola Collection since 1958. It is also known as Peacock Blue in the “So Big” set, and both Caribbean Sea and Milky Way in the “Discovery” series. My favorite, for this color is, Sky’s the Limit Blue, found in the special “Colors of Binney & Smith” set. And, it is the color to represent Montana in the “State Crayola Collection.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge! Day 96!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Purple Pizzazz

Beautiful Purple Pizzazz in the UK Cottage Garden

A Spot of Purple Pizzazz

In Europe Crayola calls Purple Pizzazz, Powerful Purple. In the US Purple Pizzazz is a fluorescent color which was introduced to the line in 1990.

In the cottage gardens of the UK you will find some Powerful Purples clustered together to make a beautiful Purple Pizzazz spot in the garden!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Green Yellow

Sissinghurst Garden, UK

I thought this was a great photo to show off the Crayola color Green Yellow, which is a brightish yellow! Won’t you stroll through the gardens at Sissinghurst, country home of Vita Sackville-West, with me? There is an entire garden devoted to yellow flowers and of course lots of green foliage too! For more pictures of the garden look here!

Green Yellow has been part of Crayola assortment since 1958. It is known as Tye-Dye Lime in the “Retro Colors” set.

In 1948 Crayola started a teacher workshop program to begin in-school training to educate art teachers about the many ways to use the growing numbers of Crayola products. What a great idea!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Gray and Green

The Garden Moat at Windsor Castle

Today, in my photo for the challenge, I have combined the Gray for today and the Green that is tomorrow’s color, since I love this photo of the Windsor Castle Garden Moat so much, and the photo combines both colors so beautifully! This is what you do if you have the proper moat! Turn it into an exquisite garden!

I really would like a job naming crayons for Crayola!

Gray has certainly made the rounds again at Crayola. Since 1956 it was know as Neutral Gray. In the “Discovery” series it was known both as Satellite Gray and Shark Gray. In the Hallmark, “Ugly Duckling” set it was called Ugly Duckling Gray. In the Hallmark, “Tales of the Tooth Fairy” set it was known as Martin the Mouse Gray and in the “Colors of Washington”, DC series it was called Monument Gray and in the “State Colors Collection,” it was Archway Gray, the color for Missouri.

They also had the Grey crayola, but I won’t go into that! I say, never let a good grey go to waste!

Green has been part of the Crayola Collection since 1903, but that color also evolved over the years. In the “So Big” set it was Leap Frog Green and Graphic Green in the “Techno Brite” series. In the “Discovery “series it was known as Martian Green as well as Serpent Green. And in the Hallmark series it was known as Bullfrog Green in the “Ugly Duckling” set and in the “Mouse and Hole” set it was Mole’s Green Boots.

What’s all this talk about The Hallmark Company and Crayola? In 1984 Binney & Smith became a subsidiary of the gift and greeting card seller, Hallmark Cards, of Kansas City, Missouri.

One more! In the “110th Anniversary’ set it was known as Jalapeño. Whew!!! All that kept a colorist busy for awhile!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Caribbean Green and Carnation Pink

Charleston House, Home of Vanessa Bell

I found two colors today in one picture from the garden of Vanessa Bell’s home, Charleston House, seven miles east of Lewes, UK. What a beautiful and bountiful garden. For more pictures, look HERE!

Caribbean Green has been in Crayola Collection since 1997. Carnation Pink is the name given to Rose Pink since 1958. It was known as Flamingo Pink in the second “So Big” set of crayons, 1988-1992. It was Pink in the Mexico collection since 1990, Cherry Blossom in the “Colors of Washington, DC series, 2002-2006 and Paler Pink in the special “Color of Binney & Smith” set, 2003.

So Carnation Pink has been on the radar with Crayola a long time and seen many makeovers!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Blush

My Idea of Blush

Crayola Blush

When I think of Blush, I am thinking of a light pink cheek. Crayola is thinking of a very, very, very, pink cheek! It must be the sun-kissed version of the standard Blush. Crayola’s version of Blush is more like a raspberry. Did you know that Crayola had eight multicultural crayons? Developed in 1992, the colors Apricot, Black, Burnt Sienna, Mahogany, Peach, Sepia, Tan, and White were colors that, “come in an assortment of skin hues that give a child a realistic palette for coloring their world.” No blush there! Have you seen the Burnt Sienna color? It’s a shade of orange! I have never seen an orange person, but what do I know? Wait, maybe I have. They are the people who spend too much time in a tanning booth!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola: Blue Violet

The Blue Violet Flowers

A Beautiful Garden in West Hoathly, UK

I do not know what these flowers are. I think they are primroses. They were a beautiful iridescent Blue Violet! It was just one of thousands of beautiful plants that I saw in the English gardens on my English Garden Tour 2015!

Just to let you know, I’ve been thinking of what I would do with the lottery money that now is up to over 1 billion. One of the things I would do is purchase a garden and lovely little cottage in the UK and hang out with gardening friends that know all the latin names of flowers. Perhaps they would have a class on such at the local Woman’s Institute meeting, for transplants like me, who would like to be in the know. I can only dream! Well, maybe I could start on one flower. If the flower shown is a primrose, it is called primula vulgaris. How could anything so beautiful be vulgar?

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