25/500

the first 25 pencil crayons of my subscription set of 500 arrived today!

looks like my first batch is set #5 and it includes a fine set of reddish hues, each with an awesome name, written in both japanese and english. fun names like 'plum crazy', 'scarlett o'hara' and 'little red wagon'. funny, i picture scarlett o'hara as a deep, rich emerald colour...

i'm not sure if i'll keep going until i get all 500 because, let's face it, that is a hell of a lot of pencil crayons, but i love the idea and the potential so much. and really - i need all of those colours. now... do i play with them as i go along, or wait until i get them all?

500 coloured pencils, how i covet you

five hundred coloured pencils! felissimo relaunched this set of 500 coloured pencils recently, and they're available to purchase by subscription - you pay $33 each month and receive 25 pencils at a time, for 20 months. that price includes shipping from japan. i can just picture the inspiration bursting out of my mailbox every month! you can buy the subscription over here at social designer.

i am so coveting these, both for the range of colour and the coolness of the whole idea and am really, really considering ordering them, although the overall cost of (i don't want to know but am still mentally calculating it - who said i wasn't great at math?) is a little frightening, i really would love to see them in the flesh. i would use them down to nubs myself, of course, but i can just picture opening my pencil crayon stash up to cole one day and him going "ba-ga? 500 pencil crayons!?!". picture that with cartoon bulging eyes, please.