Beautiful Butterflies & MMOM

Here are some beautiful butterflies made by Jenn (My Lavender Ave) and her children on a very cold and snowy day for The Butterfly Project

Questions

1. Did you get any Valentine's Gifts?
Yes, perfume (Paris), flowers, chocolate and a cheeky card!

2. What is your favorite topping on something toasted?
Cream cheese and smoked salmon, especially on toasted bagels

3. Do you pick out your outfit the night before?
If it is somewhere special then yes.

4. What food item do you absolutely despise?
Hearts and pigs trotters, yuk!

5. Righty or lefty?
Right handed

The Butterfly Project

Hello to friends of Crystal at Surviving a Teachers Salary.

If you would like more information on The Butterfly Project please see pages above. I am happy and would be delighted to put photographs of butterflies that your children make on here (this applies to everyone not just Crystals followers!).
Please feel free to email any questions to thebutterflyproject@hotmail.co.uk, thanks for visiting me.
Helen x

 

The Butterfly Project

1.500,000 innocent children perished in 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 2013, for all to remember.
The Museum has already collected an estimated 600,000 butterflies.

Please facilitate the “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” activity and create as many handmade arts-and-crafts butterflies as possible. This project may be completed by all ages as individuals or groups.

•Butterflies should be no larger than 8 inches by 10 inches.
•Butterflies may be of any medium the artist chooses, but two-dimensional submissions are preferred.
•Glitter and all glitter-related products should not be used.
•Food products (cereal, macaroni, candy, marshmallows or other perishables) also should not be used.
•If possible, e-mail a photograph of your butterflies, to butterflyproject@hmh.org.

Please send or bring your butterflies to the Museum
by June 30, 2012, with the following information included:

•Your name,
•Your organization or school,
•Your address,
•Your e-mail address, and
•The total number of butterflies sent.

Mail or bring your butterflies to:
Holocaust Museum Houston
Butterfly Project
Education Department
5401 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004
USA

For questions or additional information, please e-mail butterflyproject@hmh.org.

The Butterfly

The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing
against a white stone....

Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ’way up high.
It went away I’m sure
because it wished
to kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I’ve lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.

That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.

Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942
Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921.
Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942.

Died in Aushchwitz on Sept. 29, 1944.