Thanks, Kay. I looked at the picture of Terracotta Baby on the AHS website. I don't think it's the same one. Guess it will just have to go to a home where the name doesn't matter. I like this one, but don't love it and that's a requirement for a NOID since I have way too many. Val

Irina I agree. I think it is photoshopped also. In fact if you look close,,don't the colors remind you of a hydrangea????? I have one that looks just like it. BUT,,,we all can dream can't we? lol Rosie

A reverse image search leads you to the source (http://www.birminghamhomeandgarden.com/Birmingham-Home-Garden/May-June-2015/Family-Adventure/), which has no paint color listed. Be aware that a magazine picture is often heavily (very heavily in some cases) color corrected before going to press, plus they light the crap out of it often for the shoot. And then your monitor/phone/whatever is going to skew it even more. Best to hit the paint store and grab some chips to see what you can find - and they will often let you check out a fan deck as well.

Great questions! All marbles are made of the same minerals: calcite and/or dolomite, with minor amounts of other minerals that give it color and character. The minerals in a rock determine it's hardness, and each mineral has a characteristic hardness on Mohs scale. Calcite has a hardness of 3, dolomite is 3.5. So by definition, anything that's marble has a hardness of 3 to 3.5. Porosity is an entirely different thing. Porosity is a consequence of how the minerals are arranged. So two different marbles can be made out of the same mineral, but in one case the minerals have void spaces in between them, and in another case it's tightly crystallized together. In that example, both marbles have the same hardness (3 to 3.5) but they'd have different porosities. Hope that clarifies! And I love your screen name! :)