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Turning steel into art | source

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A Christmas cartoon for the Guardian. Happy Holidays, everyone!

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Punch magazine, England, January 1, 1959

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chinese lantern huadeng花灯 by 流小音

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Ch😅

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“When you complain you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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“Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn’t live.”

— Paul Coelho

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“Everything you want is on the other side of fear”

— Unknown

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various pankou盘扣 (qipao buttons) for chinese qipao by 婵寄

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Sample designs from Heinrich Dolmetsch‘s “Historic Styles of Ornament”

1. Egyptian

2. Assyrian

3. Greek

4. Pompeiian

5. Japan

6. Chinese

7. Indian

8. Persian

9. Arabian

10. Moresque

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wrapping jiaozi🥟 chinese dumplings

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guys help i’m LOSING MY GODDAMN MIND over these fat tiger art scrolls

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“You cannot always be happy but you can always be brave. And that is the beginning of everything.”

— Unknown

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My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:

Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.

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A tiny northern girl tries to play with a puppy. A small bells is sewn on the girl’s clothes so that parents can hear where the child is. 

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