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January 2009
Blush
Saturday, 31 January 2009 6:39 A GMT-06
Blush was introduced in 1998. It looks like red with a bit of purple or blue. I'm not sure, but whatever it is, I like this red hue. Can you believe that there was 23 crayons in the red hue family? Blush makes me think of two things--the stuff I put
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Blue Violet
Wednesday, 28 January 2009 8:20 A GMT-06
Okay, this is my favorite color so far. I like blue, and I like purple. Putting them together is a great mixture. Blue violet was introduced in 1949, along with 47 other colors. I bet there were a lot of happy kids when Binney and Smith jumped from
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
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Blue Green
Sunday, 25 January 2009 10:25 P GMT-06
Blue green was added to the eight original colors in 1949. The name has not been changed either permanently or temporarily, and it is no fancy-smancy name either. It is in the blue hue family, so you know that I like it. It reminds me of the ocean.
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Blue Bell
Friday, 23 January 2009 8:36 A GMT-06
Boy, do I like the name of this color! I recently heard the song by Johnny Mathis called "The 12th of Never. It is a beautiful song, and oh, so romantic. One line in the song says, "Illl love you till the bluebells forget to bloom." Ahhh. In Brenham,
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Blue
Wednesday, 21 January 2009 8:27 A GMT-06
Blue is another of the eight original colors made by Crayola and was temporality renamed in 2004. It was Patriotic, America the Blue-tiful. Blue is my husband's favorite color. Over the years, I've come to like it too. I guess his favoritism for the
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Black
Monday, 19 January 2009 9:34 A GMT-06
Black has been around since the beginning, when Binney and Smith first made crayons in 1903. The other crayons were blue, brown, green, orange, red, violet, and yellow. No fancy names, just straight forward, simple color names. Black and outer space
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Bittersweet
Friday, 16 January 2009 3:18 P GMT-06
The color bittersweet has been around a long time (since 1949) and without any name changes. It must be a well-used color with a low profile. Probably kids use it to color low-key things like oranges, flowers, sunsets, cute little kittens, and
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Best Friends
Thursday, 15 January 2009 8:19 A GMT-06
Like the color awesome, this color underwent a name change in 2008. After 59 years! Now why couldn't they just keep the name orchid? And like awesome, one has no idea what the color is by the name. Best friends is in the purple hue family. Purple is
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Bear Hug
Tuesday, 13 January 2009 3:46 P GMT-06
Today is the first color with an animal name and in the brown hue family. It's personality traits are earthy, not at all frivolous, dislikes showiness, dependable, and comfortable. I guess it could be boring...or maybe not. This color was originally
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Banana Mania
Monday, 12 January 2009 12:00 A GMT-06
Wow, another color named after a food! The personality traits for this hue are bright, sunny, radiant, mellow, and interested in the future. Crayola introduced this color in 1998, along with two of the colors that I talked about earlier--almond and
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Awesome
Saturday, 10 January 2009 12:32 P GMT-06
For 36 years, this color was called wild watermelon. Last year, the name was changed to awesome. It is one of eight 2008 Kids' Choice Colors. I don't know if the name change is permanent, but I've decided to use the new name here and for the seven
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Atomic Tangerine
Friday, 9 January 2009 8:14 A GMT-06
Chartreuse was one of eight fluorescent colors introduced by Binney and Smith in 1972. In 1990, it was renamed atomic tangerine by consumers. The personality traits for this orange hue is warm, sociable, good natured, jovial, and glowing.
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Asparagus
Thursday, 8 January 2009 8:30 A GMT-06
I'm not crazy about most green colors, but I like the name of this one. It's personality traits are cool, crisp, fresh, close to nature, and immature. I guess that pretty much describes the vegetable asparagus except of the immature part. I guess
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Two More
Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:00 A GMT-06
Here are two more photos that we took when we lived in Germany. The first one was taken in a room with gigantic cannon balls in Marienburg Fortress, Wurzburg, Germany. Wurzburg is about an hour south of Frankfurt, so it was a nice day trip, which we
Category: The Past
Aquamarine
Tuesday, 6 January 2009 8:17 A GMT-06
Now we're to a color that I like! The personality traits for aquamarine are, cold, calm, relaxed, loyal, and melancholy. Binney and smith created aquamarine in 1957 and is in the blue hue family. Aquamarine is the birthstone for March. I was born in
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Apricot
Sunday, 4 January 2009 9:42 P GMT-06
The third Crayola color is apricot, which was created in 1949. It is in the orange hue family. The personality traits for this hue is warm, sociable, good natured, jovial, and glowing. Now doesn't that make you smile? A colorful story from the
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Antique Brass
Friday, 2 January 2009 5:14 A GMT-06
Crayola added antique brass in 1998, along with almond and 22 other colors. It is in the metallic hue family. On the Crayola web page, it states that someone chose antique as a favorite color because a little sparkle in the crayon gives a drawing
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons
The Colors of Crayola Crayons
Thursday, 1 January 2009 9:34 A GMT-06
I've started a new catagory--The Colors of Crayola Crayons. It is inspired in part by my two granddaughters receiving the 64-color box of Crayola washable markers for Christmas. I had heard that Crayola started putting new colors in their in the
Category: The Colors of Crayola Crayons