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Book of Changes: Hexagram 50 (The Cooking Pot)

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Gunmetal grey metal, ornamented with silver (with intimations of blue and rose).  Silver handles, a silver base, and a silver top.  The corners are ornamented with ornate fan-shaped metallic decorations. 

An auspicious hexagram, related to the notion of feeding the soul or intellect (in case you think they are distinct) of those of superior capability, provided they handle it properly. 

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Peach Blossom Fortunes

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They don't really look like the blossoms of a peach tree:  instead, they are literally peach colored "flowers" (transparent pale yellow shading into authentic peach and coral pink) "painted" onto dark bronze stones.  The background is dark brown and peach.  They have a shiny ceramic look.

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Sundancers

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You can see them dancing if you look closely.  A button in shades of purple, red, vermilion, deep apricot and peach, with a delicate green border.  Many complex patterns in one image.

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Star Orb

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This one's meant to look like a drawing.  A metallic bronze tinted star with a gold center embedded in a blue and gold bauble.  The star is decorated with bits of blue " cloisonne."  It is really more of a Christmas image that didn't get posted, but it could do for other purposes as well.

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Book of Changes: Hexagram 56 (On the Move)

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The Traveller:  Moving through the changes....always dangerous, but always on the verge of something new. 

A digital ceramic tile in purple, rose, pale green, and white convering on an off-center mandala in bronze surrounded by green and violet.

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Lily Pond

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"Ceramic" lily pads:  rose and blue in a "pond" of mottled blue and green leaves.

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Butterfly Crosses

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Two beautiful crosses made from "clay":  one multi-colored with gold, green, purple, and vermilion; the other in shades of gold and rose. 

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Hippie Buttons

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This is the sort of thing we used to love:  a red  flower with a blue center carved in "sandstone", surrounded by a white and green ring, surrounded by an INTENSELY purple background with weird little chains in it.  Silly, but bright.

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Semiramis (Homage to Colette)

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Golden and bronze metallic embroidery on a cinnabar colored fabric "rose."

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