The most fitting start to cotton candy day. I woke up this morning and my blinds were glowing an electric pink. I opened them to see the most gorgeous cotton candy sunrise. The blue and pink standard cotton candy colours * must * be inspired by this kind of sky.

Before this morning I was planning on drawing cotton candy as I don’t see myself getting to the fair or a circus today but this sunrise says it all for me.

Still, cotton candy is a pretty cool thing. From Wikipedia:

It was introduced in 1904 by William Morrison and John C. Wharton, at the St. Louis World’s Fair as “Fairy Floss”[1] with great success, selling 68,655 boxes at the then-high $0.25 ($5.70 in 2007 dollars), half the cost of admission to the fair.

The center part of the machine consists of a small bowl into which sugar is poured and food coloring added. Heaters near the rim melt the sugar and it is spun out through tiny holes where it solidifies in the air and is caught in a large metal bowl.

It’s called Barbe à papa (Papa’s beard) in French - so is Barbapapa actually a cotton candy man?