Getting Back to Real
I'm Phyllis. I spent more than 20 years building businesses online, and somewhere along the way I started to yearn for the physical, the real, the tangible. At almost 70, I want to share my love of color and pattern with as many people as I can, and this club is how I'm doing it. I work surrounded by glass. Shelves of it, organized by color, backlit by the light coming through my windows. Green into teal into cobalt. Crimson into amber into gold. When the light moves through it, I see pattern everywhere. That's where this club begins.
Each month I go looking for the pattern hiding in a photograph (maybe the glass or a photograph of nature), the image that caught my eye and won't let go. I work with it digitally until I feel, deeply, the gears falling into place, that moment when something beautiful clicks into being. Then I find a local artist whose work creates the same feeling in me, one of connection and meaning, and I ask them to send their art to my members too. Two postcards go into an envelope, along with their stories, and sometimes a surprise. And when I seal it, I know exactly what I'm doing: getting the colors and patterns I love out into the world, into people's homes, and into their hands to pass on to someone they care about. That mission started with my grandkids. I sent them postcards when I was away, and I watched what a beautiful thing in the mail can do. This club is that feeling, made monthly, for you.