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So here is the post she wrote today for your pleasure. I feel you need to understand that she is still obsessed with crayons of all sorts. For her 20th birthday we went to Pennsylvania to pay homage at the Crayola Factory.
Autumn is almost here! This is easily my favorite season. School supply time (even though I'm not in school anymore) is so exciting. I love just walking through the aisles in the store and coveting all the great pens, folders, notebooks and crayons that I would be getting if I had a use for them.
As a child coloring was by far my favorite pass time and I took it very seriously. I had mastered the art of crayon-shading by the time I was 3 years old. And if another kid wanted to borrow a coloring book and color with me ... ugh ... it was an ordeal to say the least. I would have to personally the select the book they would use and often even the page they were allowed to color. Then the entire time they were coloring I was looking over their shoulder and criticizing.Some kids just don't care, they are all willy-nilly with their color choices. Making giraffes blue and elephants green etc. That drove me CRAZY! What were they thinking? Were the animals supposed to be from Mars or something? Was it some ancient extinct bread of orange alligator that I was unaware of? No. As far as I was concerned, they were just too lazy to come up with appropriate color schemes and therefore unfit to even touch my crayola 64 pack. How about a nice maize/burnt sienna combination for that lion, wouldn't that be nicer?
And don't get me started on the crayon box etiquette. Why did they have to be asked repeatedly to put the G.D. midnight blue back with the rest of the blues where they got it from?!? And sharpening -- no way in hell mister. If you think I'm going to leave your sloppy ass in charge of that job you are sadly mistaken. You better just use that stubby purple and be happy with it or pass it over my way and I will sharpen it properly.
Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure all the other kids hated me.
14 comments:
Your daughter did a great job. She writes really well. Like Mother, like Daughter.
I second that!! Great job!
I'm curious how the highlights came out. Cute post, I was never very artistic with crayons and I colored willy nilly so your daughter would have never let me even look at her books let alone color.
The highlights actually look very well. I have never done that before but it was really easy. You really can't do it yourself though, you do need a friend. But $8.00 vs. $60. plus at the hairdresser! She wouldn't let me take a picture.
It used to drive me crazy when the other kids wouldn't put the crayons back into my 64 crayons box right either. Fun post!
I was the kid who (accidentally) broke all the crayons in the box.
Wow - 64 crayons, we never had that many. We used to have to keep our crayons in the metal box that band-aids came in (see how old I am?)and one time one of the yucky boys took his white Elmer's glue and tried to glue his hands to the metal tin. (Why I would ever remember that, I have no idea). He also liked to eat the white paste glue we had - came in little jars with the brush built into the lid.
Okay Grace ... I'm not THAT young. I remember paste and the kids that ate it.
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Oh my, somebody is pretty bossy about the crayon box! Whatever did you do with the broken crayons??
A crayon box can be a special thing. If it is yours you have to take control.
I have to admit that I still color sometimes. If anyone asks, I say the crayons and coloring books are here for my nephew (he stopped coloring though about 2 or 3 years ago) and I was an art minor, but I still find it relaxing. You have to buy good crayons though, preferably the Crayola ones. Those non-name brands never give you vivid color and smell funky.
Back in the day, I always liked having the coloring books with girls in them like Barbie or Jem, mostly because I liked coloring their makeup and hair.
OMG! This is so funny...because it's so TRUE! When Ethan was little she used to get irritated with the way he colored. How dare a 3 year old color out of the lines.
@Lin - broken crayons you say? Never heard of them.
@ Staci - yes! I find it relaxing too. I never thought of coloring as an adult but you may have just inspired me! I used to have Jem coloring books too!! I was such a stickler for using accurate colors that with a coloring book like Jem I was thirlled to finally be able to use the "fun" colors.
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