B is for Blue, Blue and more Blue
Blue. A bleaching method. A feeling. A color.
I remember Grandma pouring dark blue liquid from a tiny bottle into the laundry rinse to remove the dinginess from white clothing.
When daylight is short and dark, do you feel blue? I do.
I remember my first box of eight crayons which contained one generic blue.
Recently I purchased a telescoping tower of 150 (can you believe that?) Crayola crayons to replace a cheap Brand X set of 12. I'm not sure I can select all the blues from this tower, but some are shown. These blues make shading delicious and choice difficult.
Here are some web blues. and the ubiquitous Wikipedia Blue
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What a fun post! Love all all of your Bs! And all your Blues!! Hope your week is going well!
Sylvia
You must be an exceptional artist with crayons, some many shade of blues. I always love the perfect blue sky and try hard to try to capture its true color with my camera.
Oh such beautiful blues :)
Blue is one of my favorite colors. And I'm so jealous of your 150 box of crayons!
BRILLIANT BLUES! I sometimes feel "blue" but never get to be "dark blue." lol
Doesn't it just take you back to childhood. So much fun.
Oh, I do love blue posts :-)
Enjoyed that.
A friend of mine used to do some amazing drawings in Blue or Black Biro.
OMG, I too remember that blue stuff my mom used to put in the washing machine when she was doing the white sheets!
Thanks for the memory!
What a wonderful idea for this weeks letter! I love your blue crayons. I just love that feeling you get when you open a new box of crayons! So exciting and fun! : )
I saw something on Twitter in the past week that will almost certainly interest you: Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010.
Great shot!
On behalf of the ABC Wednesday team, thank you! - Ramblin' with Roger
Phew, the crayons take me back, we used to layer lots of different colours onto a piece of paper and then scratch a simple picture - it always came out multi-coloured!
And the smell!!
Isn't it amazing all the different shades and tones of blue that crayola has made? They really are the very best crayons.
beautiful brilliant blues, battling blue brain brooding
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Bluing! I used to use that on my daughter's diapers. Bought it from the Vermont Country Choice. Crayola spoils us for choice, and that is a very beautiful thing.
My favourite colour, - it cheers me even more than yellow!
I remembered my mum used the blue liquid for all white laundry, but she stop doing that long time ago.
I wonder why they moody blues. Its such a vibrant colour
i love the color blue but i don't like feelin' blue :)
my entry is here http://kcelebration.blogspot.com/2010/01/beauty-and-beast.html
Fun blue post!
Obviously Blue is not just Blue - I dmire your skill in using them.
Blue is my second favorite color, after green! Thre's nothing like a bright blue sky!
Lovely post!
Kisses from Nydia.
How pretty this photo is! The shades of blue, when combined, are so pretty! And, I love your framing...such a nice photograph!
What is it about stationery: paper, pens, pencils and crayons that makes me so happy? Now a tower of 150 colours? That would probably make my day. :)
"You remember Grandma pouring dark blue liquid from a tiny bottle into the laundry rinse to remove the dinginess from white clothing.".. I remember that too! Blue is a very popular word in expressions and sayings:"once in a blue moon.."but also "blue blood", "blue cheese", "blue girls", "blue movies"and "blue jokes". A redhead is called Bluey in Australia,"a blue dahlia"= something impossible.Great choice!
Nice blue post:-) I got the blue sky today!
Have a nice day!
We never outgrow our love of crayons. It seems to be a gender friendly and universal phenomenon.
Yes, I remember the blue liquid that was used to make white whiter. I saw grandma doing this too. I used to wonder why a dark blue liquid can makes clothes white!
There are many childhood memories tied to the color blue. For example, "Oh dear what can the matter be... he promised he'd buy me some pretty blue ribbons to tie up my bonnie brown hair," and the color "sky-blue-pink which a classmate called when we played a color-tag game. ;-) Great post for B!
I didn't know there were that many different color blue crayons. I see your favorite on the right - it's not as pointed as the others!
Great post!
B-utiful remembrances. I've forgotten about 'blueing' the laundry...very cool. I like blues even when I get the blues. Last evening the sky was an amazing indigo - wish the camera could capture exactly that color.
What a fun post!
Blue color shades, very nice !
Wow, that's a lot of blues. It's fun to have choices, though, isn't it?
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