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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Electric Lime

Electric Lime Window Box Display in Edinburgh, Scotland

Electric Lime Window Box Display in Edinburgh, Scotland

Electric Lime is a fluorescent color, introduced to Crayola in 1990.  It is known as Electric Green in Europe, Point and Click Green in the “Techno Brite” series, Lift-off Lime in the  “Discovery” series, and Las Vegas Lights, the color for Nevada in the “State Crayon Collection.”

Don’t these window planters, featuring the Electric Lime color, liven up the gray of Edinburgh?

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

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Eggplant

 

My Eggplant Colored Plant

My Eggplant Colored Plant

If I had my way, and I guess I do, my garden would be full of purple shades and lime green! I love the combination! This year I may add some silver plants. They look very interesting in the garden too.

Eggplant was added to the Crayola line in 1998. I was surprised to see that there are only 4 colors that start with the letter E in the Crayola collection and two of them are remakes, so there really are only 2!

  • Eggplant
  • Electric Green is an alternate name for Electric Lime used in Europe.
  • Electric Lime is a fluorescent color, introduced in 1990. Known as Electric Green in Europe.
  • English Vermilion or Vermillion was found in Crayola assortments from 1903 to 1935.

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Desert Sand

Local at Great Pyramid of Cheops, Cairo, Egypt

Local at Great Pyramid of Cheops, Cairo, Egypt

Desert Sand was added to the Crayola line in 1998. In the “State Crayon Collection” it is known as Tater Tan, the color for Idaho.

In 1908 Binney & Smith redesigned their 8-color assortment to use the “Gold Medal” label and design. They also introduced their Rainbow line of crayons and Spectra, a pastel crayon line.

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Denim

Denim Along the Walkway

Denim Along the Walkway

The first collection of Crayola Crayons, a safe affordable wax crayon, was produced in 1903. The first box, Box 30, contained 30 unwrapped colors. Soon that was converted to Box 51, a box of 28 wrapped crayons. Box 54 contained the 8 classic colors and sold for a nickel.

In 1904, Binney and Smith won the Gold Medal during the St Louis World’s Fair. Their entry was actually for their dustless chalk, but it was the foundation of their “Gold Medal” packaging, in which they featured the gold medal on the front of their crayon boxes for the next 50 years.

Denim was added to the collection in 1993.

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Dandelion

Mahonia in My Garden

Mahonia in My Garden

Dandelion has been part of the Crayola Collections since 1990. In Mexico it is known as Carrot. In the “Techno Brite”  series, Floppy Yellow, Sun Glow in the “Discovery” series, Bug Yellow in the “Retro Colors”, Black Eyed Susan in the “Colors of Baltimore” series and A-maize-ing Iowa, the color for Iowa in the “State Crayon Collection.” Dandelion certainly has made the rounds!

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IPhriday Photo Challenge: Winter is Making a Presence

Winter is Making a Presence

Winter is Making a Presence

 

Painted in Waterlogue

Painted in Waterlogue

 

Painted in Brushstroke

Painted in Brushstroke

Winter is making a presence, and the leaves are hanging on. We don’t do winter here in the South. This week we had snow and worse, ICE. The day after the storm it was back up to the 50’s and should be back into the 60’s by the weekend. This is my idea of winter!

The extra photos are painted in the IPhone Apps, Waterlogue and Brushstroke.

Enjoy the IPhriday Photo Challenge! Post a photo taken with your Phone on Fridays!

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Cornflower

The Lonesome Cornflower Blue

The Lonesome Cornflower Blue

Cornflower has been in the Crayola Collection since 1958. In the “Colors of Binney & Smith” set, a special collection in 2003, it was known as Century Cornflower.

In the “State Crayon Collection,” it was the color for Minnesota, known as the Lakes of Blue.

Did you know that in 1959 the first Crayola TV ads appeared on the Children’s TV show Ding Dong School? Ding Dong School was known as “the nursery school of the air” and was a half-hour children’s show which began in Chicago, IL. The hostess was Miss Francis. Who remembers Miss Francis? Raise your hands! Ding Dong School was the precursor to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and Sesame Street!

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Frances Horwich 1955

Frances Horwich 1955

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Copper

 

 

My Turtle

My Turtle

This turtle hung out in my garden most of last summer. It was the first I had seen him. I thought his coloring was very nice, as his body was Copper colored, as well as the markings on his shell.

Copper was in the Crayola Collection in 1903, so it was one of the first colors, and then in 1915 it was discontinued. It was brought back into the collection in 1958.

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Chestnut

Virginia Woolf's Mantel at Monk's House

Virginia Woolf’s Mantel at Monk’s House, UK

 

Doorbells on Wood Beam, Monk's House, UK

Doorbells on Wood Beam, Monk’s House, UK

In 1999, Crayola renamed its reddish-brown crayon to avoid misunderstandings over the color’s origin.  After going through more than 250,000 suggested names, the color Indian Red, which Crayola said was based on the reddish-brown pigment commonly found near India, was dropped from the collection because teachers complained students thought it described the skin color of American Indians. The new name would be Chestnut.

I took these pictures at Virginia Woolf’s home, Monk’s House, in Rodmell. The wood may not be Chestnut, but the color looks right to me! Also, in the photo is the front and back door doorbells! A time gone by!

In the “State Crayon Collection,” Chestnut is known as Maple Syrup, the color for the state of Vermont in the Crayola Series.

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Cerulean

The Lake at Hever Castle, Kent, UK

The Lake at Hever Castle, Kent, UK

 

Scarlet Pimpernel Crayola Crayons

Scarlet Pimpernel Crayola Crayons

Cerulean has been in the Crayola lineup since 1990. It is known in Mexico as Aqua Blue and also as Magaruite Celulean in the special Crayola collection called Scarlet Pimpernel.

“They seek him here,
they seek him there,
those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That damned elusive Pimpernel.”

The Scarlet Pimpernel is an adventure and historical book written by Baroness Emma Orczy in 1905. The book is set in Paris during the French Revolution. Read all about the Pimpernel HERE!

The Scarlet Pimpernel play, was given at the Roseland Ballroom in New York on January 27, 1998, as a benefit. For the opening of the benefit play, Crayola created four new colors and put them into a generic four color box to hand out at the performance. Wouldn’t you like to have those crayons? WOW!

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