What a long, strange year it has been! This time last year, I was shopping for plane tickets to Baja to go see the gray whale calving ground near Loreto. Amazing trip! There were more gray whales than I could count in Magdalena Bay, active, and mating, and babies everywhere. And enormous blue whales in the Sea of Cortez. The tour operators use pangas which are small boats that sit really low in the water, so the whales seem really close. I imagine it’s like kayaking next to a submarine, even though I’ve never seen a submarine in real life!
I guess I’m fantasizing. I miss the sun this time of year! And being warm. And on the water. With whales. And fish tacos. I wish I had photos to share, but I was too busy experiencing life to document anything. In the age of influencers and curated posts, I highly recommend taking some time to STOP documenting life. Just live it.
Sometimes it feels like I’ll never travel again. Last year when I left Seattle, the world was still ‘normal’. COVID had begun, but nobody was too worried in the US yet. One week later the world had changed. The border officials at the Loreto Airport were wearing surgical masks. There were a few empty seats on the airplane. It still didn’t sink in for me. Not long after that cases were discovered in King County. And the NBA cancelled its season. And Seattle shut down.
And the world changed. On the plus side, I can make a mean cast iron pizza. I have time to make art. I made and sent Christmas cards this year, something I rarely manage to do. And my card making has expanded into a whole group of screen-printed wave-themed cards. Then I remembered IT’S ALMOST VALENTINE’S DAY! I NEED A VALENTINE’S CARD! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!
I came up with the Waves of Love card. It’s a limited edition—I’m only ever going to make 50 of them. They are hand screen-printed by me in metallic gold on heavy 140lb. watercolor paper. I send them in rigid mailers so you can fill them out yourself. OR, tell me what you want to say and I’ll fill it out and mail it for you! Totally worth ten bucks! I’m selling them on my website, and in my Etsy shop. I think we could all use a little love note this year, that special someone, mom, BFF. And if we send enough of them we can make our own Wave of Love!
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Etsy Shop: etsy.com/shop/LizEwingsStudio
