Holocaust Museum Butterfly Project #2 (Edited May4

I was following up on the Holocaust Museum Butterfly Project #1 swap we did 3 years ago, and discovered that the Holocaust Museum Houston is still 600,000 butterflies short of its goal of 1.5 million butterflies.

Holocaust Museum Houston Butterfly Project Website

Last time we had 87 swappers join this swap. I am hoping we can at least double that this time around. (";)

There are 2 parts to this swap:

PART 1:

Make at least one (but if you can make more, then great!) 2-dimensional butterfly according to the criteria on the website:

• Butterflies should be no larger than 8 inches by 10 inches (20 cm x 25 cm)
• 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 (I think this is facilitate photographing the display)
• Food products (cereal, macaroni, candy, marshmallows or other perishables) also should NOT be used

They don't have to be elaborate - the more the better. No artistic skill is required. If you can cut out a butterfly from pretty paper and add a black body with a marker, or cut one out of construction paper and add some stickers, or have your children draw and decorate one with crayons and then cut it out, you're good! (";)

May 4 edit: Added Leasha's address here::

Then send them to @Leashah who has very kindly offered to partner with me on this swap:

Alicia Cross
7251 SE Lindsey Lane
Hillsboro, OR 97123-6623
U. S. A.

Leashah will take photos of the butterflies and post them on this Flickr account, as well as mail them to the museum with all of the required information. She will also send the Museum a link to the photos.

Revised May 4:

Please included with your butterfly/-ies a separate note with the following info:

• You real name
• Your SB name
• The name of this swap
• Your country
• The number of butterflies you are sending in your package

This will help Leashah to compile her list.

If you wish, please feel free to also add your name and country to the back of your butterfly/-ies.

AND

PART 2:

Send your swap partner via snail mail a note describing the butterfly (or butterflies) you made and how you felt while making them.

Added May 4

To recap:

1. Make and send your butterflies to Leashah along with a separate note with the requested info.
   AND
2. Send a note about the experience to your swap partner.

I am opening this swap to everyone with good swapping records, including unrated swappers with fully completed profiles, in the hope that no one will flake on such a wonderful and bittersweet project.

Thanks to everyone who joins!

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 January 7, 1921.
Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942.
Died in Auschwitz on September 29, 1944.