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!
My crayon would be that clear turquoisey yellow that you see in the sky at sunset. It’s so incredible, I have to stop and wonder every time I see it. I think I’d call it Transition.
A crayon?…I want to create the whole box! The color I want to create is called “Burgundy Rose” and it is a deep burgundy with a little silver shimmer like dewdrops…and it would have the scent of a rose! It would be a part of the “Garden Series Crayons.” Each color with a different scent from the garden: flowers, evergreen, even good rich soil!
My crayon color would be called “pomegranate seed” and it would be the same gorgeous deep purpleish red color of the inside of a perfectly ripe pomegranate. Ooh, and it would smell just as good too! And using it would provide rich antioxidants!
Beet Sparkle! It would be that gorgeous, jeweled, variegated (juicy reds to near-black) hue of uncooked, freshly cut beets. To mimic the play of natural light, there would be incredible flecks of silvery-gold throughout. I would love this crayon so much that I would order a crate-full of it and hand some to my toddler and tell him to go crazy on the walls. (Side Note: Maybe the answer to parental frustrations with unsolicited “wall-art’ is not making crayons that require special paper to leave a mark, but to make such gorgeous colors that moms & dads would be delighted to see them appear in their living spaces!)
I would like a crayon that is glittery silver….and I would call it northern lights.
wow!!! Create a color? I think… I might do something chartreusey-yellow-green that just melts in my hands its so beautiful! My sister actually makes fun of my obsession with this shade!!! I’d call it Mossy Yellow. Or Mellow Lime. I can’t decide. Oh, i should go call crayola!
I think I’d clone OPI’s Kinky in Helsinki. I adore that color (a deep hot pink) and the name makes me laugh every time I say it.
Eco funfetti. A little surprise in every white crayon. Little bits of fuschia and royal blue and green and silver. Fantastically entertaining, beautiful to color with, and a super duper way to use up those broken bits that never make the “cut” in the factory.
the color would be a rich cinnamony type brown and I would call it “freckle”!
I would have a crayon that changed according to my mood. It would appear light pinkish clear but would color according to my mood.
Right now I am very happy and centered in my life and I consider that yellow, golden rich egg yolk yellow.
Anything having to do with driving would color all the )(&*&^(*& symbols intermittently, because I hate driving.
The crayon would be called “Etc.”
a beautiful light turquoise blue named “bliss”. That color is just so peaceful and calming to me.
I would create a mix of light pink and light yellow – I would call it “sweet serenity” to represent the feminine nature of the colors :)
I would create a crayon named Grateful to color all of the complainers and ranters . . . the color would be Gold. Those whom I know with very little seem more grateful than those with so much.
Oh duh. Naming crayons is my life’s purpose.
A bright citrusy yellow green named “easy peasy lemon squeezy”
A light turquoise with a pearly sheen. It would be called “Smokey Mountains at Dusk”
I introduce you to my lovely crayon, Victoria Rose.
This exclusive piece of colour has 2 layers which were inspired upon Queen Victoria. The outside presents a candy-hard layer of a delicate but austere black, while the filling indulges your senses by presenting a rose-scented smooth and deep shade of pink, which resembles the colour of rose petals left to dry in the sun.
My crayon would be hot fuschia pink with streaks of glittery gold and turquoise throughout it. It would be called ‘Life’s Delight’ and give everyone a huge smile when they use it.
oh how fun I always wanted to be a crayon color namer…ha ha. I would create a very light rosy pink and name it “just made me blush”
Something bright and cheery…a shade of yellow…named “It’s going to be a good day!”
It would be the soft glowing color of the first hints of sunrise over the ocean, and I would name it Hope.
LOVEloveLOVE this question!!!
I would grace the Crayola company with a little wax stick full of potential like no other. My crayon, called “Third Stripe from the Bottom, Reflected”, would be the first in a 24-pack Designer Line box, setting the tone for the future Picassos, Monets, Gaudis the world over. It would have a series of layers going all the down in the following order:
- rich cerulean blue
- deep, dusky purple
- pale lavender
- ballet slipper pink
- glowing fuschia
- the thinnest layer of intense red-orange
- deep pumpkin
- rich amber yellow
“Third Stripe from the Bottom, Reflected” has a bit of shimmer and sparkle sprinkled throughout to allow little minds to really capture that stunning moment when a sunset in full color and wonder is reflected on the rippling surface of the ocean.
my crayon would be a very deep and beautiful blue, like the color on the roofs of Greek churches and i would call it azur. Blue is such a calming and peaceful color and it makes me happy :).
This is like naming nail polish….I love it! I think mine would be an amber color with stripes of brown and black and I would call it tiger paw.
I would create a yellow-y, orange with a tad of pink thrown in and call it “cantaloopy” :)
I would create a rainbow crayon with the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) side by side in one large crayon. So everytime you color with it you see the whole spectrum of the rainbow!
It would be the color of the line where sea melts into sky along the horizon. If you really look at it, you can see sea is not merging imperceptibly into sky : there’s a space where it’s not sea nor sky, there’s a space where all the softness of the universe lies. It’s not grey, not blue, not white. It’s bliss.
I would call it Humanity.
Crimson + Sparkly Silver + Blue = Stainless Steel Love
It would be a rich, plum color with silver glitter in it called “Royal Sparkle.”
Sorry for the lame name…I’m not good at that kind of thing. :-)
My crayon would be a crisp, icey white with the teeniest tiniest hint of blue-gray, and iridescent silver sparkles. It would be called “Girls’ Best Friend”.
Not that I’m entirely sure you can capture this, but that gorgeous purple-y pink and orange color the sky shows off when the sun is just about to set. I would call it “unbridled.”
I’d love to capture the color of the Carribean ocean at sunset, “Mermaid Magic!”
The first thing that popped in my head speaks to my Memphis roots. A rich midnight blue called “Blue Suede Shoes.” Thank you, thank you very much!
Rusty Car Door.
It would be a warm, deep, antique orange-red. I don’t especially like the rust spot on my car, but it is an awfully pretty color with a lot of character and a bit of a story behind it. What coloring book doesn’t need that?
I’d make a crayon called Paige for my girly girl daughter. She is the type of girl that loves her tutu and wants to wear it to soccer practice. Her crayon would be magenta with a glitter swirl and a layer of purple, wrapped in a soccer ball print paper.
I’d make a crayon color named Imagination and it would be a very translucent goldish color. Anything you put it on would become sparkly and brilliant. Kind of like how imagination is.
Peace and Quiet. It would be a shimmery blue with a hint of gold. You could draw it on walls and make masterpieces, on your face for a night out, and on your roof to make heavenly clouds to sink in to.
Sigh. it’s making me sleepy just thinking about it…
I would make a crayon in the color I am trying to describe to my hairdresser every month. You know- that long, crazy sounded “blond but a warm blond, not ashy, very warm, not too far from my natural color, not too red”. I would call it, “this is it!”, and I would carry it in my purse at all times.
Sweet Peach would be the color of a warm summer day, sweet and content to sit in the sun.
New Baby Eyes – a dark gray color with a little sparkle – just like my daughter’s eyes at birth.
grass green
If I had to pick one color, it would be a sparkly, light, almost opalescent shade of purple. I would name it Perle Aubergine , because I like the sound of it.
a shade of green..light but not too light, a bit retro, with a turquiose center..Dream Green maybe?? Too corny? lol!
my favorite hue to paint with is called “burnt sienna” it is a warm rusty brown that when diluted or mixed with a little white creates this almost burnt peach color. I would make a crayon this color mixed with cadmium red, my favorite way to use it. I would call it “GOLDEN EARTH.” After my favorite Paul McCartney song, Golden Earth Girl.
I would make a really good skin color. Whenever I would try to color people in my coloring books, there was never a good skin color for any ethnicity. I guess I would need a whole “skin” line of colors.
It would have to be purple and have different shades of purple as it gets sharpened and I would call it “Purple rains”! (Yeah, I have to say I’m a HUGE Prince’s fan!)
Sugar-pink satin. A smooth soft pink with a hint of shimmer and a touch of softness. This is the color I created as a child. Every short story I wrote, or princess I imagined was always wearing a “sugar-pink” satin gown. It’s envisioned in a dream and I would love it to become a reality!
Riboflavin. It’s a vitamin that’s purpose is entirely mysterious to me. And yet it’s featured prominently in my breakfast cereal. So I would create a yellow-dun color (to match my cheerios) and name it after the mighty Riboflavin.
My crayon would be that fabulous French Aqua color a pale aquea/Green inspired by the beautiful colors of Paris and Marie Antoinette’s Versailles. I would call it Trianon. *sigh* xoxo Judith~
oooh. well I LOVE sugar like no one’s business. I put sugar in EVERYTHING, and I love my sugar treats. I am a sugar addict. big time. (welcome, joanna)
I’d make a white crayon with white crystals (3D) that glitter and I’d name it SUGAR!
It might actually cure me.
;)
A Plum-like purple, and name it Memories. We used a similar color on our wedding day.