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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!

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; 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!

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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!

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Brick Red

English Red Brick

English Red Brick

 

The Rooster in the Red Brick

The Rooster in the Red Brick

 

Brick Red or Red Brick?

Brick Red or Red Brick?

 

New English Brick

New English Brick

 

Brick Red Crayola

Brick Red Crayola

The Crayola color is Brick Red. Compared to the red bricks of the UK it’s a tad too red! I say always go to the source! I learned at Hampton Court Palace how to tell who laid the bricks. The Flemish bricklayers laid bricks of various shades and lengths all mixed together. The English bricklayers laid one row of short bricks then one row of long bricks. It’s good to know your bricks and bricklayers!

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

IPhriday Photo Challenge: My Goat Fritz

My Goat Fritz

My Goat Fritz

 

Fritz Painted in Waterlogue


Fritz Painted in Waterlogue

Fritz is trying to get in the Woodland Garden again. He is trying to sneak in under the Cameillas! Like I wouldn’t notice! I made a notecard of him in the Waterlogue App! Since I don’t paint, this is the best I can do, and it is so easy! I LOVE IT!

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

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Blush

My Idea of Blush

My Idea of Blush

 

Crayola 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!

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: Blue Violet

The Blue Violet Flowers

The Blue Violet Flowers

 

A Beautiful Garden in West Hoathly, UK

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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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Blue Bell

Blue Bell Ice Cream

Blue Bell Ice Cream

 

Texas Bluebells in the Hill Country of Texas

Texas Bluebells in the Hill Country of Texas

Blue Bell Crayola Color

Blue Bell Crayola Color

Blue Bell is a recent addition to the line of Crayola colors, only being added in 1998.

I want to think it was named after Blue Bell Ice Cream.

If you have lived in the South, you know there is only one ice cream for southerners, Blue Bell.

The Brenham Creamery Company was founded around the time of the Crayola startup, 1907, in Brenham, Texas. It opened originally to purchase excess cream from local dairy farmers and sell butter to the good folks of Brenham. In 1911, the creamery began to produce small quantities of ice cream. In 1930, Brenham Creamery Company was renamed Blue Bell Creameries after the Texas Bluebell, a wildflower native to Texas, and which like ice cream, thrives during the summer. They claimed, “the milk we use is so fresh it was only grass yesterday.”  As of 2015 Blue Bell is the fourth highest selling ice cream brand in the US. I could eat Bluebell Ice Cream for 120 days! To see some of the top flavors of Blue Bell Ice Cream look here!

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: Black and Blue

The Crucifixion of Christ, on a Vineyard Hill in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy

The Crucifixion of Christ, on a Vineyard Hill in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy

 

The Crucifixion of Christ, on a Vineyard Hill in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy

The Crucifixion of Christ, on a Vineyard Hill in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy

Today, I thought I would combine the Crayola colors Black and Blue.  They are often combined aren’t they?

Blue has made the rounds in the Crayola collection. From 1903-1958 it was known as Blue. The same color was called Celestial Blue from 1935-1949 and from 1949-1958 it was called Azure Blue! I would like to have the job of naming colors at Crayola. I would say it is a steady job, wouldn’t you?

My black and blue photos are of the Crucufixion scene that is on the vineyard hillside in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy. It was stunning especially at night. We were there in June and July. They must leave it up year round since the terrible floods that nearly washed away their village in 2011. The Black and the Blue. Here is a personal account of what happened that day.  Today, Vernazza is as beautiful as ever! The five villages of Cinque Terre are unforgettable!

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

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