The Butterfly Project

We’re doing something a little different this week for Flutterby Wednesday. The lovely and talented Harriet challenged us to make butterflies for the Butterfly Project.

Here is what their website has to say. “One and a half million innocent children perished during the Holocaust. In an effort to remember them, Holocaust Museum Houston is collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies. The butterflies will eventually comprise a breath-taking exhibition, currently scheduled for Spring 2012, for all to remember.”

This is definitely a worthy cause. Our friends in Europe have also been touched in some way by the Holocaust and might like contribute as well.

When my ex-husband was in the Navy we had some dear friends and the wife was 100% Polish. Her mother and father were in concentration camps apart from each other. Her mother received inhumane treatment of which I won’t go in to detail, but suffice to say, they had to sterilize her because of it. At the end of the war, they were released from the camps and migrated to America. They went to see the docs in America but they told her they would never be able to have children. I’m sure you can guess the end of the story by now. By some miracle, her mother became pregnant and had my sweet friend, from whom I’ve lost touch over the years, was born.

Anyway, here’s my project for the museum.

I hope you don’t mind some quick pictures that I took after midnight. I’ll replace them tomorrow with some outdoors pictures so the butterflies can be in their natural habitat.

I took all of these pictures in the same room at the same time – my bathroom (he-he). That’s where I could get the best light. I don’t know why one turned out so differently. I used Core’dinations Black Magic paper. I cut and embossed them with a Cuttlebug die/folder combo. Here’s one last picture of the entire project.

I’m not a jewelry maker so my bead stringing is quite crude. I think I’ll try to get it a little better before I send them out. I’m also going to make a few more die cuts before I send out the package. I sure hope we’ll be able to see a photo of the finished project from the Holocaust Museum Houston. I’ll let you know in Sept 2012. It’ll be here before we know it!!!

If you would like to play along and contribute, go see my fellow Flutterbyers’ blogs to see their butterflies and the to Danni’s Dreams to link up your project.

See ya’ll again tummaree. I was puttin’ on my southern accent for ya’. he-he

Blessings,

Christine