For the crayons

It's National Crayola Day!  I've got the bow...
...and the baubles.  Blue baubles, to be exact, because they match my jeans and my eyes and the necklace I wear every day.
Plain old green has always been my favorite crayon, with Cerulean, Razzmatazz, and Dandelion getting Honorable mention.  It's interesting that what I used to call plain old "green" is called Forest Green by the website I'm using.  Ordinary green is a semi-blinding green screen shade.  Anyway, Razzmatazz was a bright, happy color with a name that made me giggle, while Cerulean was calm and chill with a name that I needed help pronouncing.  I always loved pairing the two when drawing.  Dandelion was a word that my child's mind could read without help, and the crayon did indeed look like my favorite flower.  I'm still not over the fact that Crayola discontinued the Dandelion crayon, by the way.  I like its replacement, a lovely deep blue shade called Bluetiful, but I miss Dandelion.

Poor Bluetiful, it was controversial from the moment it hit crayon boxes!  Adults who were afraid of their kids learning word play swore that it would teach bad spelling.  Got news for them:  this former kid picked up her habit of misspelling words in high school, when such ridiculousness was trendy.  I'm pretty sure that the Bluetiful haters forgot about Mauvelous, another crayon that I loved, largely because of the word play.  Word play can help folks remember things, y'all!  Likely if Mauvelous hadn't been named what it was, I'd have just dismissed it as another shade of purple...or pink, since it's kinda on the border between the two colors.  It can be classified as either purple or pink, really, and Crayola classifies it as a rouge-type hue.

And now y'all know more about crayons than you ever wanted to know!  LOL, I love crayons.  I'm not a Crayola snob, but I do love the names that they assign to their crayons.

Colorful love,
RagingMoon1987

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