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The Magic Box
26 Aug 2015 Comments Off on The Magic Box
in Ramble Tags: Crayola, crayons
Dear Fellow Journalers,
It’s 4:30 pm on a steamy hot day and I need to “chill out.” I could knit, put a puzzle together, or read a book. The choices are really endless. My choice is made. I will open the Magic Box of my childhood. This box contains 64 delightful creative “toys” each one made to inspire the artist in me.
Ok, I’ll end your suspicions! It’s a box of Crayola crayons!
When I was a kid, I loved crayoning. It was a peaceful creative hobby that I could take with me to my treehouse, my reading nook or on a car trip. Little did I know that my crayons would grow up to be markers and I would color my way into a business. My first set was a box of 8 basic colors (box still sold today) but I soon graduated to 48.
I did some research about Crayola and thought I would share:
Crayola was formerly called Binney and Smith and was founded in 1885 in Pennsylvania. It was originally an industrial pigment and supply company but soon focused on art producing product’s like chalk, crayon, markers and paints. Wax crayons came into existence in 1923 and they say the rest is history. To read more about the history of Crayola, please follow this link.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayola
Crayola 48
According to Pinterest and Facebook, the newest adult hobby is crayoning.The coloring books, of course, are different and so are the colors. Adults must choose either blue bolt, bronze golden-yellow, infra red, mahogany, pumpkin, sea foam. Coloring books or pages are available on-line and these are some samples from Barnes and Noble.
Nautical adult images to color
Stained glass images for adult coloring pursuits
Floral adult coloring book
The hobbies I previously mentioned are relaxing but there’s something magical when you envision the color selections for a picture. Colors “dance across the page. There are no mistakes. Coloring engages both sides of the brain – the tactical (feel of the crayon in your fingers) and the creative (colors you choose). Social media (Pinterest and Facebook) are now featuring colored pages and pages are available for downloading! There are now Coloring Meet-Ups!
Won’t you join me in this “new” creative hobby? I bet your journal page will really like you!
‘Til next time,
~Sallie
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The meaning of life
21 Aug 2015 Comments Off on The meaning of life
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life…. I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experience on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive”
Joseph Campbell
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Let Go
19 Aug 2015 Comments Off on Let Go
in Perspectives Tags: human being, let go
Dear Fellow Jounalers,
How many times in your life have you tried to control another person’s behavior or circumstance? How many times have you tried to untied the strings that bind you to those circumstances and then felt guilty when you picked up the “scissors”? The following ideas come from an article I read recently about what letting go really is. Please feel free to share.
~Sallie
To ‘let go’ does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.
To ‘let go’ is not to enable, but to allow one to learn from natural consequences.
To ‘let go’ is not to care for, but to care about.
To ‘let go’ is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.
To ‘let go’ is not to be protective, it’s to permit another to face reality.
To ‘let go’ is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.
To ‘let go’ is to fear less, and to love more.
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Random Thought on wrinkles?
14 Aug 2015 Comments Off on Random Thought on wrinkles?
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
Mark Twain
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