Emily Gold, artist and friend, was kind enough to come to the farm to give me a collage lesson a couple of weeks  ago.

Her own collage work is amazing. She gives very popular online classes on Zoom to people who want to learn and even provides a collage kit full of stuff to get people started. You can check out her blog here.

Last night, Maria and I said down with our cards and paper and pens and pencils and markers and made some cards. Maria did a lot better than I did, which is to be expected, but I don’t dislike my first Appreciation Card, which is on the right front (with the odd little bird).

In seconds, the table was littered with paper and pieces of paper and brushes and all kinds of pencils. A creative mess. We are not as organized as Emily.

It’s going out this week to one of the donors who helped support our refugee projects.

I’m a little tense doing the colleges, I remember Emily’s advice to just relax and let it flow. That’s hard for me but I’m getting there. Maria’s cards are great, but that is to be expected.

I like my card, but I can do better. One of the things I love about collage is this: if you mess up, you just paper the mistake over and incorporate it into the card.

Emily is still making my appreciation cards, and I can’t top that, but I will get better and better and sprinkle in my own cards every now and then.

We had a blast making these cards together. Thank you, Emily, you are the best. As to the Army of Good, get ready, one of these odd appreciation cards will soon be heading your way. I am lucky to be learning to many news things.