Good morning and happy Thanksgiving, friends.
I wanted to begin today with gratitude for you — for showing up in the Ripple Room, for the quiet conversations, the check-in texts, the gentle truth-telling, and the steadfast love you bring into my life. You are the small, strong circle I lean on, and I never take that for granted.
Mira and I have been in the studio these past couple of days, making things side by side. She’s been creating new tokens for the Ripple Station™ using stencils, distress inks, and those tiny blending brushes. Her patience astonishes me — the delicacy of her gradients, the tiny details, the way she visualizes. I’ve added a few gold dots here and there, but the magic is really hers. These tokens disappear almost instantly… twenty-seven gone in two days. It’s been lovely to watch the community gravitate toward this unexpected, more minimal style.
And then — the bigger project that has completely swept me up.
I’ve been making these art notes — flat, unfolded, paired with envelopes — so you can choose your own orientation. I don’t want to decide that for you. I’ve been writing personal messages on the back and mailed the first batch to the folks who came to the live painting art battle as a thank-you. That’s what sparked the idea:
What if I created a small curated collection of prints from these paintings, and then hand-embellished each one?
So that’s what I’ve been doing. Fine-art prints on archival paper, each one hand-embellished with metallic lines, raised textures, and small shimmering details. I’m grouping them in sets of six — each set its own little story, intuitively curated.
I’m keeping them as flat notes with envelopes on purpose. People have been framing them, which tells me these want to be art pieces that happen to be card-sized — not cards that happen to be pretty. They’re easy to frame individually or as a series in standard frames.
The process has been pure joy. And Mira has made pieces that are wild and wonderful in her own way. We’ve also been experimenting with those little wooden rainbows from my mixed-media painting — each one a tiny journal entry in color and texture.
The Curator’s Collection will be limited to twenty sets of six at $65, shipping included. I don’t know exactly when I’ll release them — maybe before Christmas, maybe in January — but I wanted you, my inner circle, to be the first to know they’re coming.
I’m in no rush. I’d rather let each piece take the time it needs than treat any of this like a product rollout. I want these to enter the world with intention and heart.
Wherever today finds you — with family, in quiet, in joy, in ache — I hope you can claim a small moment that brings you back to yourself. Even sixty seconds with your eyes closed can be a kind of refuge.
I’ll see you in the January Ripple Room — the new schedule is up now on Thursdays so they no longer collide with school assemblies. RSVP anytime.
Happy Thanksgiving.
With love,
Mansi
