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I`m pleased to tell somebody that I actually did something last night and attempted making this thing I`m talking about in that other thread about ideas and skillsets.  Basically, since I have to tell you what it is for the story to make sense :), it`s a new kind of crayon.  I told you it was for the younger kids to play with!  The trick is that it`s unbreakable so you dont have little stubby pieces all over the place, and it can actually color in lots of different colors.  And no, in case anybody`s thinking it, it is not a "rainbow crayon" where you basically just mix all the colors together.  You can make those yourself at home.  Think more along the lines of one of those pens where you can get red/blue/green/black ink depending on which button you push.

Anyway, 10:30 last night, wife and kids are asleep and I`m sitting around watching Tivo reruns and reading blogs on the laptop, when yesterday`s conversation finally gets me motivated to put it down and go actually try something.  So I work on melting some crayon bits in the microwave like I have learned to do from researching the homemade crayon market (lots of info out there, by the way, but no mention of what I want to attempt).

I`m happy to report that I learned something:  the melting point of the plastic drinking cup I used for a mold is just slightly higher than the melting point of the crayons.  So when the solid crayon stopped melting and the liquid crayon started heating up, I had crayon soup all over my microwave.

Luckily I got it all cleaned up before my wife woke up!




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Ah... I love the smell of melting crayon in the morning.
It smells like.... genius.

Congrats on the first step.
(I heard Edison`s wife was very particular about his workspace, as well. He had to pick up shards of broken light bulbs constantly.)

HA! I love it. you`re already building "those stories" you`ll tell when being interviewed about your idea :)

LOL. BardStuff, that`s great! Good for you in taking the first step. Now for the next?

Funny, `Nester, I was thinking of Thomas Edison too. I bet if he had a place like this to get feedback, things would have gone more quickly for him.

 

 

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