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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.

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; 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!

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; Cerise

 

Venice Cherries

Venice Cherries

 

Banana Cherry Crepe in Venice, Italy

Banana-Cherry Crepe in Venice, Italy

Cerise is French for “cherry”. Crayola is now going French on us! I didn’t have one picture of a  French cherry! How can that be? But, I did have some pictures of Italian Cherries!

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; Caribbean Green and Carnation Pink

 

Charleston House, Home of Vanessa Bell

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!

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

IPhriday Photo Challenge: Garden Chairs

 

Garden Chairs

Garden Chairs

 

Painted in Waterlogue


Painted in Waterlogue

 

Painted in Brushstroke

Painted in Brushstroke

I am ready for Spring! Here the IPhotos are painted in the Apps; Waterlogue and Brushstroke! They are IPhone Apps!  I print them into notecards! More notecards for me!

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

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Canary

Corpus Domini Festival, Orvieto, Italy

Corpus Domini Festival, Orvieto, Italy

Here is a ceremonial guard from the Corpus Domini Festival in Orvieto, Italy. See more about the festival Here! The Canary colored balloons added to the festivities!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Cadet Blue

 

Budapest Lights

Budapest Lights

 

Cadet Blue Crayola

Cadet Blue Crayola

 

Crayola’s Cadet Blue looks to be on the violet side to me. Here is a photo that I took in Budapest, Hungary. I think these lamp posts look like Heart Angels, don’t you? And don’t the lights on the chain look like thuribles that hold the incense in church? I can just see the thuriblers swinging them! The lamp posts are very tall, as you can see, because the hanging plant basket, that is barely in the picture at the bottom, was six feet off the ground. The multi-colored blue sky really shows them off!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Burnt Sienna

Quebec, Canada

Quebec, Canada

 

Quebec City, Canada

Quebec City, Canada

 

Quebec, Canada

Quebec, Canada

The Trees in Canada go from Burnt Orange to Burnt Sienna! Crayola has featured Burnt Sienna in their line of crayons since 1903. Since Crayola has a color selected for every state in the US I think I will name Burnt Sienna the color for Quebec, Canada! Beautiful, beautiful shades of Orange!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Burnt Orange

Quebec City, Canada Pumpkins

Quebec City, Canada Pumpkins

Quebec City, Canada Pumpkins

Quebec City, Canada Pumpkins

Burnt Orange has been in the Crayola collection since 1958. The best place on the earth, in my opinion, to see orange, of any shade, is Quebec, Canada! Oh, it is so much fun to be in Quebec City in the autumn! Well, anytime really, but it is SOOOO colorful in the fall. The city goes above and beyond the norm to dress up the city for Fall. Here are just a few pictures to get you in the mood for Burnt Orange!

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; Brown

 

My Fanny Mae Fudge

My Fanny Mae Fudge

 

My Salted Caramel Brownies

My Salted Caramel Brownies

 

My Peanut Bloosoms

My Peanut Blossoms

 

There are over 50 shades of Brown. The shades of brown include auburn, burnt ember, camel, chestnut, chocolate, coffee, copper, maroon, sepia, seal brown, sandy brown and russet, just to name a few. I decided to go with chocolate for my brown color! Crayola also has a color to represent each state! Mississippi is the state for BROWN, naming it the Mississippi Mud Color. I guess I should have made a Mississippi Mud Cake! Here is the recipe! For my baking needs I go to King Arthur Flour. They sell 25 different kinds of chocolate for baking! How can you go wrong with that? Won’t you have a piece of fudge?

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

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