Postcards made during COVID-19

Sending Good Cheers and Beauty During Tough Times

During COVID-19, I've made over 450 postcards. In April I mailed around 60 cards to members of the African American Quilters of Baltimore, to let them know that I was thinking about them. We couldn't meet in person and I wanted to send them something beautiful in the mail.

I decided to archive the rest of the postcards. They have become a wonderful record of how I experienced each day during COVID-19, especially the beginning days of lock-down.

*Coronavirus Disease 2019:

Update in Maryland- 12/23/2020

257,862 confirmed cases

5,568 deaths 9,128 recovered

Update in New York State - 12/23/2020

878,702 confirmed cases

36,873 deaths 96,185 recovered

Total in United States: 18,381,991 confirmed cases, 325,097 deaths

Total Worldwide: 78,471,775 confirmed cases, 1,725,959 deaths

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