Butterfly project

If you would like to spread the word....

(Double Click pic , and then you will be taken to blog for sign up & more info)

A project underway called

"The Butterfly Project"

hosted by The Holocaust Museum Houston in Texas, USA.

Their mission as follows:

The Holocaust Museum Houston is dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust,

remembering the 6 million Jews and other innocent victims and honoring the survivors' legacy.

Using the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides,

we teach the dangers of hatred, prejudice and apathy.

The Butterfly Project mandate is to remember

the 1,500,000 innocent children who perished as a result of the Holocaust

by collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies.

In Spring 2013, these butterflies will then become a break-taking exhibition

to serve as a memory of this event.

Can you imagine?

1.5 million children translated into 1.5 million butterflies....?

If you wondering why a butterfly, the project is based on this poem -

I Never Saw Another 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.

Written by 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.

Would you like to be a part of this?

Join in and make a butterfly?

We'll call it ....

The Butterfly Effect "OPEN"

...borrowing from chaos theory,

but much more importantly based on the wonderful notion that if enough people think enough healing thoughts,

then slowly our world will be at peace.

No one said it better than Gandhi -

Be the change you want to see in the world.

The power of the collective consciousness. Wouldn't this be a great place to start?

Consider yourself invited!

How it will work -

Follow the instructions as outlined by the Holocaust Museum highlighted in blue below.

When your copyright free butterfly is completed,

pop it into an envelope including your name, email and blog or web address and mail it to:

Two Dresses Studio
1554 - 20 Avenue South
Lethbridge, AB T1K1E9
Canada


Deadline - yet to be decided

~Here are the Instructions for Making the Butterfly ~

•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.

Is time an issue: Solved -

On the top butterfly framed pic - link to blog : there are images of butterflies,

save one, print it out and following the instructions above,

art it up, cut it out and mail it in!

I have posted two here.

Want to get others involved?

1. Double Click the image of the hand holding the butterfly above, add it to your sidebar and link it back here.

2. Or write a post about it, or post your butterfly to your sidebar.

Finally - here are a few links for more information:

1. Holocaust Museum Houston

2. The Butterfly Project

3. Butterfly Utopia (direct link to the black and white butterfly images posted above)

Love & Light

Trace

oxo

Halloween Party time....

No tricks here,

only treats

*cackles*

Two great parties for

Hallows eve celebration...

MERRY MEET MY LOVELYS

First we have:

Frosted Petunias tea party

Held on the night of the October full moon.

It's on a Saturday this year.

Anna says:

Have a witches tea party under a Hallowee

n moon.

With vintage lace and tarnished teapots set aglow by candlelight.

Wicked sweets and other tattered bits.

You're welcome to bring anything you like.

Bewitched teacups, singing pumpkins,

candy corn stripped cats, cackling ravens and of course wandering witches.

There might even be a ghost or tw

o.

Have your tea party for one or for ninety one!

You can have a real tea with real people.

Or one with your favorite magical friends.

Come and show off your Halloween art, crafts, decorations,

collections, stories, costumes and edible d

elights.

Pop over to leave a comment for Anna and place button your your blog ,

simple as that ;0)

Look forward to meeting you there

Blessed Be )O(

OOOoo more blog fun!!

Leaving my witchy outfit on !

Vanessa over at A Fanciful Twist is holding a

Halloween Tea Party!

All you have to do is leave Vanessa a comment on a fanciful twist,

with your blog link, stating that you want to join in...

Then follow these 4 bits of advice (err, rules)...

1) Share the flyer and/or the button on your blog as soon as possible and link to Vanessa.

She will then add your name to the "Halloween Partiers" list in her LEFT hand side bar, and link back to you.

2) On the day of the party, October 16th 2010, please make sure to post a Halloween Party post of your own, on your blog, linking to Vanessa. Other party goers will be visiting you on that date.

3) IMPORTANT - On the day of the party, after you have your own Halloween blog post up and running, please leave a comment at Vanessa's Halloween party post including your "Actual Party Link."

4) Blog hop with the other partiers on the day of the event and have a hauntingly ghoulish blast!!

Note: Please make sure you post a party post on October 16th if you signed up.

Last year several people did not do this...

(if you sign up and later find that you can't make the event,

please let Vanessa know and she will remove your name from the list)

Love & light

Trace

oxo