Mermaids are Happiness Cards

Notice happiness cards are 3.5" X 2" mini pieces of art with space on the backside to write a little observation of something going right in the world. 
 
These cards feature Mermaids. When I was teaching in Copenhagen, I lived close to the French International School and a lot of my students were French speaking. We used solfège; Six mermaids whistle became six sirènes sifflent or si, si, si. Six sirènes sifflent et sirotent. (Six mermaids whistle and sip.) 
 
I started making them for several reasons:
to share my mom's art
as a balm for the negativity in the world these days
to pay better attention to all of the great things my students do in their lessons
 
This is the first set. It features work by Beatrice Powell, my mom, who was in art school in New York in the 1950s. She had a long career, worked in many different mediums,  was fluent in written and spoken Chinese, and is the illustrator for the Sarah and Nikolai Musicland series. 
 
Her artwork is beautiful and recipients of the cards have told me that they feel an easing around their hearts when the see it.