how hands can make sunshine

One day, in Oregon, we made collages.  

My collage.

It was all because of Kelly Rae, who shared both her artistic process and her giant suitcase of cool collage stuff (like vintage letters, postcards, ledgers, envelopes, stamps, sheet music) with us.

Ali Edwards' collage-in-progress.

When I saw the paints and canvases come out, and when I realized what we were about to do, I could barely wait to get my hands on all those beautiful old things in Kelly Rae's suitcase.  And I'd brought along an old LIF