Photo Challenges | The Travel Lady In Her Shoes

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Fern

My Fern

Fern was added to the Crayola assortment in 1998. In the “State Crayon Collection” it is the color for South Carolina and known as Palmetto.

In 1908 Binney & Smith partnered with Littlefield Maps and made a special color assortment with special Biblical colors pasted on the back of the maps. The maps of the Old Testament teachings were sold to churches. I bet there were big ferns and palm trees to color on those maps with the color Fern!

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; Electric Lime

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

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.

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; Desert Sand

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.

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; Denim

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.

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; Dandelion

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!

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

IPhriday Photo Challenge: Winter is Making a Presence

Winter is Making a Presence

Painted in Waterlogue

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; Cotton Candy

Cotton Candy Rose Garden

Cotton Candy Rose Pavillion

Pink Everywhere!

All of these photos (for my interpretation of Cotton Candy) were taken in the Rose Garden of Lady Winston Churchill at Chartwell, in the UK. For more information and pictures about Chartwell look HERE.

In 1864 Joseph Binney founded the Peekskill Chemical Company in Upstate New York for producing carbon black.

By 1885, son Edward Binney and cousin, C. Harold Smith form a company called Binney & Smith to produce a red oxide pigment used for barn paint and carbon black for car tires.

In 1889 the yellow oxide pigment was added. There were now three colors produced, Carbon black, yellow and red.

In 1900 the company started producing slate school pencils in the new mill in Easton, Pennsylvania. Their Carbon Black wins the Gold Medal at the Paris Exposition. Lets eat Cotton Candy to celebrate!

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; Cornflower

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!

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

Frances Horwich 1955

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Copper

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.

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

	CadyLuck Leedy on Meet the Family: Kinlet to Act…
	CadyLuck Leedy on Meet the Family: Kinlet to Act…
	Dawne Novelo on Meet the Family: Kinlet to Act…
	CadyLuck Leedy on Charleston Farmhouse, Home of…
	travelphotosafari on Charleston Farmhouse, Home of…
	Kaye on Bateman’s: Home of Rudya…
	CadyLuck Leedy on The Dirt on the Domestics; Lif…
	Jacqueline Prichard on The Dirt on the Domestics; Lif…
	Thursday Doors: Door… on The Eyüp Cemetery, Istanbul,…
	CadyLuck Leedy on From Cong to Dingle
	Elizabeth B Labrie on From Cong to Dingle
	CadyLuck Leedy on Thursday Doors: Davidson …
	Bespoke Traveler on Thursday Doors: Davidson …
	CadyLuck Leedy on Conwy Sites and Mawr!
	darwinontherocks on Conwy Sites and Mawr!

Travel, Gardens, Food, Photography, Books, Shoes

Posts tagged ‘Photo Challenges’

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Electric Lime

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Desert Sand

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Denim

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Dandelion

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Cotton Candy

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Cornflower

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this: