My “Happy Mirthday” cards are intended to be shared any day of the year to bring a smile to someone’s heart and encouragement to their spirit. Who do you know who could use a smile today?

My Native Women series of cards use antique photos to celebrate women’s roles as Mother, Shero, Sistah, or Goddess. Inside there is a brief quote with plenty of room for you to write your own thoughts and wishes.  These cards come in sets of four.

My Mothering series comprise beautiful handmade cards that celebrate and honor great expectations and motherhood.  Each card centers on an Anne Geddes’ photo nestled in handmade papers. Inside each card is either a Rumi or a Rilke poem printed on textured paper with plenty of room for your own special note. The pages are tied together with a rayon yarn (symbolic of an umbilical cord). Some of the cards have preserved maple wing seeds attached.   Click the View Series link to see the entire collection of these special cards in my etsy shop.

The Rumi poem:
“The Way Wings Should”

What will our children do in the morning?
Will they wake with their hearts wanting to play,
the way wings should?

Will they have dreamed the needed flights
and gathered the strength from the planets
that all men and women need
to balance the wonderful charms of the earth
so that her power and beauty
do not make us forget our own?

What will our children do in the morning
if they do not see us
fly?

The Rilke poem:
You must give birth to your images.
They are the future waiting to be born.
Fear not the strangeness you feel.
The future must enter you
long before it happens.
Just wait for the birth…
for the hour of new clarity.

All money from the sale of these cards goes directly to Planned Parenthood, which provides numerous valuable health services to women, including pregnancy check-ups and prenatal care.

Since I can’t spread out in a studio, I have taken up digital art, and have created digital collage cards that honor the seasons of the year and of the Self. While the inside of each card is blank for your message, the back side of the card playfully challenges the recipient to find the various images within the collage. It’s kind of a fun form of “I Spy… Nature and the Self”.

Again, please relax with a cuppa and review my lines of cards that honor time past and present.