Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 20, 2014

“Birth flashbacks”, Dill? How does one have those over crayons?

Remember getting this box? Oh the possibilites. I liked magenta the best.

Oh the extra waxy ones too

The magical box of 64 colors! The Holy Grail of primary grade art students! Oh, oh, oh! Wow!(I understand, Dill.)

Oh man, I remember that feeling. And the smell. :)

@ Tom FalcoYou mean, of being born?

Everything must seem colorful and new when you open your eyes for the very first time.

and they have names for all those colors,which I can never remember heliotrope

When I was their age I wanted a 64-crayon bonanza really bad. When I got old enough to afford all I wanted, well, eh.

The 64 box has 58 crayons that will never be used.

The crayons in this box will very soon look like the crayons in the old box. Sigh….

Well, it’s hard to say just when some might have seen it. It was Flesh Tint (A more or less standard art color), then just Flesh, then Pink Beige, then Flesh again, and finally Peach. But you have to be at least nearly Medicare eligible to remember Flesh. .And Indian Red, which never had anything to do with Native American but referred to the original course of the color in India. Became Chestnut.

I remember some brands of extra waxy crayons, but they did not come in the iconic Crayola box. And I remember “flesh” color as a rather masculine ruddy flesh, so that it had to be shaded/blended with white and pink for girls faces. I have not used crayons since we had to use them for submittals of heraldry for registration. I registered mine in less than a year, with my name. I hope to do his in even less time because I understand the process. This is my heraldic surcote:

Yes! All those exotic colors to choose from, what wealth!

And it’ll take exactly 64 seconds for them to destroy the whole box!

Oh gee. when I was a little girl, I used to just LOVE those 64 piece boxes of Crayola Crayons at the beginning of the school year! Funny how times have changed, isn’t it? Most kids today would consider that totally “nerd” or whatever.

DAZZ lovely job on your costume, I know you made that yourself. You honor Cuddles very well! :-)