Crayolas are like Proust’s madeleines. One sniff and you are transported back to childhood.
Ahh! Yes! Just yes!
Oooohhh the anticipation of the perfect outline to then fill in with a soft wash of color… At least that was my coloring technique way back when…i pleaded for new box of crayons with every new coloring book… How else was I going to get that pointy point perfection (never really used the integrated sharpener)… Thanks for the memories :) Alexandra
a new box of crayons. the beauty. the tingly wonder. so awesome.
Totally agree! Love a new box of crayons! I have to confess that I’m a crayon snob….Crayola Crayons are the only ones for me!
Crayola are the best! A group of guys at my school dressed up as Crayola Crayons once. It was fantastic.
Although I never really got the smell part of this post, I do get the blast of rainbowy colours beauty, the sensation and can really appreciate this! I personally “awesome” as well, Edward Binney and Harold Smith for inventing crayons b/c since there was none “back in the day”, I remember the blessed discovery of MY asthma medication being to sit on the porch, rainy days, or on the edge of the forest sunny days, awe, sunny, sunny, sunny days… colouring! Lucky to have a box! When prescription medication was finally tried, it made me sick! I thanked God for the crayons I was so fortunate to have… they could dance, I could sing and just like Thumelina~ never really mattered if they were just 1″ tall…they were at times life sustaining to me!
Although the asthma is under pretty good control today, I still appreciate; love the feeling and relaxation colouring can bring! Amen to that! ~.~
Crayons are one of the smells that just takes me back in time to little me sitting on my bed coloring. I never really stopped coloring. I colored with my little brothers and now I color with my kids. I color one page and they color the other. Its one of the small simple things that make for great memories!
Absolutely! It’s memories of childhood that does it. Like a song that makes you feel good and you can’t explain why. It just takes you back to a better time. But maybe all those kids that got them stuck up their nose feel differnently.
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This is one of the most amazing memories from my childhood, and even now I still get excited!
xxoo
I used to use crayons all the time when I was a kid, but now I forget what they smell like. I must now begin a quest to find crayons.
Yeah, it’s been a while since I snorted at a crayon. I’ll have to track some down and enjoy the memories.
You talking about snorting crayons gave me some interesting mental images.
Crayons and paste…the perfume of childhood! Even as a teen I loved ’em because I’d melt them onto pieces of wood/bark to make unique pictures! Very cool!
A joyful, delightful, olfactory Deja Vu!
Wow yes, I can also remember how they taste for some reason.. not to good BTW
My best friend and I used to colour and read together. When we coloured, we’d always fight over our favourite colour: Magenta! We still get nostalgic at the very word. So exotic, so exciting, that’s magenta.
Crack open a fresh box and get ready for a neuron-splattering headrush.
Crayolas are like Proust’s madeleines. One sniff and you are transported back to childhood.
Ahh! Yes! Just yes!
Oooohhh the anticipation of the perfect outline to then fill in with a soft wash of color… At least that was my coloring technique way back when…i pleaded for new box of crayons with every new coloring book… How else was I going to get that pointy point perfection (never really used the integrated sharpener)… Thanks for the memories :) Alexandra
a new box of crayons. the beauty. the tingly wonder. so awesome.
Totally agree! Love a new box of crayons! I have to confess that I’m a crayon snob….Crayola Crayons are the only ones for me!
Crayola are the best! A group of guys at my school dressed up as Crayola Crayons once. It was fantastic.
Although I never really got the smell part of this post, I do get the blast of rainbowy colours beauty, the sensation and can really appreciate this! I personally “awesome” as well, Edward Binney and Harold Smith for inventing crayons b/c since there was none “back in the day”, I remember the blessed discovery of MY asthma medication being to sit on the porch, rainy days, or on the edge of the forest sunny days, awe, sunny, sunny, sunny days… colouring! Lucky to have a box! When prescription medication was finally tried, it made me sick! I thanked God for the crayons I was so fortunate to have… they could dance, I could sing and just like Thumelina~ never really mattered if they were just 1″ tall…they were at times life sustaining to me!
Although the asthma is under pretty good control today, I still appreciate; love the feeling and relaxation colouring can bring! Amen to that! ~.~
Crayons are one of the smells that just takes me back in time to little me sitting on my bed coloring. I never really stopped coloring. I colored with my little brothers and now I color with my kids. I color one page and they color the other. Its one of the small simple things that make for great memories!
Absolutely! It’s memories of childhood that does it. Like a song that makes you feel good and you can’t explain why. It just takes you back to a better time. But maybe all those kids that got them stuck up their nose feel differnently.
Reblogged this on and commented:
This is one of the most amazing memories from my childhood, and even now I still get excited!
xxoo
I used to use crayons all the time when I was a kid, but now I forget what they smell like. I must now begin a quest to find crayons.
Yeah, it’s been a while since I snorted at a crayon. I’ll have to track some down and enjoy the memories.
You talking about snorting crayons gave me some interesting mental images.
Crayons and paste…the perfume of childhood! Even as a teen I loved ’em because I’d melt them onto pieces of wood/bark to make unique pictures! Very cool!
A joyful, delightful, olfactory Deja Vu!
Wow yes, I can also remember how they taste for some reason.. not to good BTW
My best friend and I used to colour and read together. When we coloured, we’d always fight over our favourite colour: Magenta! We still get nostalgic at the very word. So exotic, so exciting, that’s magenta.
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Crayola has always made a good product, yet the washable markers have brought on some serious commercial lawsuit funding loans.