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3 hours ago, Scrappile said:

WOW! Yes, those are beautiful!!  Awesome work.....

Mine sits, haven't tried finishing,,, I'm not really sure what to do.... Just stain every other layer is all my imagination can come up with...

I was quite stymied in how to finish!  Glad they are done!

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4 hours ago, dgman said:

They look fabulous Barb. Other than decorative, do they serve a function?

Here is info from Wikipedia: 

A mandala (Sanskrit: मण्डल, romanizedmaṇḍala, lit. 'circle', [ˈmɐɳɖɐlɐ]) is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. In the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Shintoism it is used as a map representing deities, or specially in the case of Shintoism, paradises, kami or actual shrines.[1][2]

In New Age, the mandala is a diagram, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically; a time-microcosm of the universe, but it originally meant to represent wholeness and a model for the organizational structure of life itself, a cosmic diagram that shows the relation to the infinite and the world that extends beyond and within various minds & bodies.

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