RUBY FIG
Seems like some of the best businesses are started to fill a void in the market. I love to hear stories of a shopper who searches and searches for the perfect “fill in the blank here” to no avail and then decides to take matters into their own hands. Said shopper then scours the globe until finding just what they need and then fills that market void for themselves and other searchers. Soon many like them flock to their storefront making shopper and shop keep blissfully happy. It is the business version of a knight in shining armor!
In today’s fairy tale Nathalie Wheldon is the heroine and the Ruby Fig is her castle. A jewelry designer and “thing maker” by nature Nathalie was often frustrated by the lack of findings that would make collectible jewelry come to life. She made it her quest to find the most glamorous, delicate, intricate, and unique beads, baubles and trims for both her own work and yours. Knowing that the time, effort and love put into each project is worth only the best materials Nathalie spends her days in glamorous spots like dusty warehouse floors in search of forgotten treasures. Through Ruby Fig, she strives to provide inspiring materials and a welcome retreat to fuel your creative endeavors. Any crafter will delight in the glass beads, vintage crystals, couture sequins and antique ribbons that abound at Ruby Fig–just imagine the fairy tale you could create with Nathalie’s help!
What a fun question! I had to think about this one for a minute.. but I think I would create a color that was in the green family with a hint of blue and silver… like aspen leaves before the sun rises… where they have that shiny silver undertone. And I’d call it Breath.
i love this question because i really love crayons. long after i stopped needing a new box of crayons for the start of school (so realllly long after) I still buy the new box of crayons because i love that they have a great box where they all fit with great names. i love discovering the ones that i haven’t seen it and reconnecting with oldies but goodies like burnt sienna, maze and cornflower blue.
my color would be a pale buttery yellow orange like the sun when it is first rising on a winter morning. I would call it Breaking Dawn.
I would like a crayon that seemed grey but changed tone with the light – outside it was bluish, inside pinky, sometimes greenish, or brownish – so that you can never really label it with its precise colour. And I would call it “Possibility”.
I love crayons, in my classroom I let my students combine colors and I have them baked and melted into new colors for them to use!
I would combine blues and greens to create this new blue color and maybe combine a little pink in there! I would call my color, Infinity!
I would love an opal crayon! My husband’s mom got me an opal ring on her recent trip to Australia (part souvenir, part extravagant birthday present), which just happens to look exactly like my engagement ring (my husband gave her some very basic guidance as to my taste in rings, but getting so close a match was unintentional on everyone’s part, and no one noticed until I pointed it out). I’ve been wearing it nonstop, and I love catching the little flecks of pink and seafoam green and sky blue in the cream base. I’d love a crayon that mimics that, especially if it had some shine to it when you colored with it. It’d be so neat to fill in a field with that crayon and see the different colors that appeared.
the deepest darkest truest black. ’cause i wear black all the time.
Argent colour glittering I’d call it “plata dreams”
My crayon would be swirls of various shades of green. I would name it “Spring” after all the amazing shades of green that emerge after the winter gray. It would have that smell of fresh clean air after a downpour of rain.
When I was 12, my family took a once-in-a-lifetime cruise vacation to Alaska. While there, I was captivated by the glaciers we passed in the Inside Passage. They have a blue hue to them that doesn’t occur in anything else in nature, or crayons. It has been my favorite color since then, though I can only see it in my memory, and the occasional photograph. I would truly love to see it replicated in a crayon (and would likely use said glacial blue to mark everything).
It would be the color of the rich, velvety, impossibly deep moss growing around my house in Oregon. A green so deep and jeweled you can smell it. I would name it Oregon Moss.
I love the colour magenta. I’d name it Extraordinary Beauty.
The name “Ruby Fig” served as my inspiration. I would have a crayon called Fig Newton — love those cookies – and it would be a warm brown with flecks of gold to resemble the littles bits of seed and crust. You could make fabulous paths with this color or fall scenes not to mention fabulous renderings of baked goods.
I would make as swirl crayon in browns, golds, silvers, and creams and name it “Chocolat-Royale”
I’d make a bright light pink color and call it “hello kitty pink” so that everyone could color themselves her enviable shade of cuteness.
My color would be not your typical crayon shape. It would be round but almost almond like. I would be a mix of ocean blue, gray, light blue, gray blue and royal. On any given day it could be a mix of any of those colors depending on the mood and the colors surrounding it. I would call my crayon blue eyes, because those are the colors of my darling little girls eyes.
The Crayon I have been dreaming of lately is a mix of orange, red, and yellow. It’s the color of ruby red coral necklaces dipped in sugar crystals…. it’s name? Sugar Dipped Goodness
I would create a color named Brindle in honor of my first retired racing greyhound foster, Tucker. It would be a striped crayon with brown, black, gold, and cream!
I would create a crayon entitled My Love. It would be the amazing color of my husband’s skin–he’s 1/2 Caucasion and 1/2 Mexican. It’d mostly be so I could draw a picture of him and keep it forever. No crayon exists in the color of his skin.
I’d make a color that was a pale, but rich blue, make it glow in the dark the same color, and call it Aurora.
I’d create a vibrant orange crayon with a blue sparkle in it and call it “Loyalty” after my alma mater the University of Illinois.
I’d make a crayon the color of my baby’s cheeks when he wakes up from a nap – I’d call it Cheeky!
i love brown. there needs to be a dark brown crayon – not tree brown or the light/tan brown – a “doo doo brown”
i would love a deep rich red color and i would name it ruby rich
It is a sad coincidence that I was just coloring with crayons. I am 25.
I would name my crayon color “Smooshed Banana” and it would be a creamy yellow color, tinted with brown (the smooshed part).
I’d have a teal blue crayon the color of the sea… and I would name it Collin’s Eyes after my son’s big peepers!
I love reading all of the responses to these, but it makes me feel not-so-creative. I think if I was going to create a new crayon I’d want one that was a deep blue with hints of purple and green and I’d use it to color in dragonfly pages.
I would name it “ambiance” and it would be a dash of dark rose pink with a bit of purple. The color would remind you of that romantic evening spent with your loved one.
i would have a crayon named sunday afternoon like the ones we’ve been having recently. it would be grey, but with just enough warmth to make one feel cozy, but glad to be inside.
oooh. can you mix turquoise with dove grey? amethyst with clean white? hot magenta with inky black? i’m afraid my crayon would be a swirly tie-dyed mess. i think i’d love a crayon that looked like lipstick. i’d also love to make a crayon that was wide and flat, like a big quarter…i imagine it would be pretty fun to color with! oh wait, but you just asked about color…well, if i had to choose i guess i’d have to make a double-ended crayon with my 2 favorite colors right now, turquoise (just named Pantone’s color of 2010!) and a rich, royal purple. great question!
I love that Crayola has a color called, Happily Ever After…I don’t think I could come up with a better one than that.
Chaffinch will be the name. It colors the memories that I have of summers gone by spent in part sailing with family on the Connecticut shore. A rich combination of cerulean and teal, the happy hue floats through my mind and is the color of the waters of the Connecticut sound.
Mine would be a blend of purple and pink, and Im not sure what the name should be, but something very 80’s inspired.
A mixed green that is both the color of leafy topiaries in a botanical garden and the color of freshly minted money. What would I call it (get ready for the cheesy joke..)? Hedge fund, of course! : )
I would create a crayon the color of homemade cooked pumpkin, a nice and light orange … and call it pumpkin!
My crayon color would be…’Between Sunrise and Sunset’. Those colors would reflect in the vibrant reds, magenta and soft pinks palette, as the seconds go by the colors can change from reds and magentas to pinks and peaches then to blue and the ball of sun. In fact, at this moment I am viewing a most glorious sunrise of those pinks, magentas, peaches. An old sailors saying goes something like this; ‘Pink sky at night sailors delight, pink sky in morning sailor take warning.’ Some say red sky also. In the UK it is said that shepherds use this saying, bringing in the sheep in the evening from the hills.
I’d create a crayon full of glittery swirls of all the colors in the rainbow and name it Sparkles.
I’d name my crayon “nature” and have it be a lovely blend of greens, browns, deep reds and beige-y orange. :)
If I could come up with my own crayon color, it would be 2 parts sea-foam blue (which is my favorite existing crayon color) to one part teal and one part baby blue. It would just be the perfect light blue, but with an ocean of depth, and I would name it Schoolhouse Beach after my favorite Northern California beach.
Oh…..that’s a good one! I would invent a new color of green. Similar to Celedon, but a little darker. Maybe called celereluan?
I would make a color that was purplish-pink and had a 3-D sparkle and call it GIGGLE. I love when my two year old and five year old have a ‘belly giggle’ that is contagious.
Wow these pieces of jewelry are so beautiful! There really have been such great pieces of art on this site; so impressed.
Anyway, I’d have a pink/rose crayon because it’s cheerful and delicate, and I’d name it Tocca, because it’d remind me of Tocca’s line of delicate things.