Emily Gold is a gifted Vermont artist and a friend of Maria’s and also a fellow belly dancer. Her work has been shown all over the state, she is also an artistic baker, painter and a mother and wife.

And she has created an almost perfect Shelter-In-Place gift for people who are already getting a little stir crazy.

Emily created this coloring page called “Home,” it is meant a gift to homebound adults (and children) who are spending lots of time indoors this month.

Emily knows what it’s like to work under pressure, school in Vermont has been canceled until Fall. and she has a young daughter.

That’s why the drawing is called “Home.”

The page will be e-mailed to your phone or computer and easily printed out.

Emily and Maria have connected as two similarly committed artists, working at home, and juggling a million things to make and sell their work. They have a lot in common and Maria is happy to have a friend who gets her art and life.

I love her work, there is an energy and brightness to it that really stands out. Her art was recently shown at the Bennington Art Museum and the North Adams Public Library. I saw both shows with Maria.

She’s the real deal.

Emily is versatile, as creatives and artists need to be these days, she makes amazing scones and cakes, handprinted cotton pouches, small and beautiful collages, tea towels, Maple Olive Oil Granola, handmade and original blank books, and collage cards.

You can download this home coloring book for $3.oo on Emily’s classy new website papercakescissors.com, where the different kinds of art she creates are available to see (or buy.)

This is a creative and engaging thing to do as you skip the news, take some deep breaths, need some quiet activity and some calm and soothing distraction. It’s going to be a long month.

I like that this is something you can do yourself or with your kids or you can let them do it by themselves.

The coloring page is also something I’m buying and sending to my granddaughter in Brooklyn, who is driving my daughter bonkers while her school closes for a while.

I think this is a great coronavirus era gift. Something to hang up on the wall as a remembrance, I think. It will offer some substantial creative time.

One day we’ll call it Isolation Art.

You can see it and buy it for $3 here. Emily wanted to give it away free, but Maria and I won’t let her do it. She ought to make her costs at least.