the butterfly project

last fall i found the butterfly project

at two dress studio

( i sent 3 )

trudy is collecting handmade butterflies

for the hollocaust museum in houston

so far she has collected 183 from all over

in many styles of mixed media

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as i was preparing for my classes next month

i started to play with the butterfly designs

to see how they can be twisted in wire

and came up with three more (seen above)

i love how these new ones came out!!

the butterfly project

i love the blog world!

as i was wondering through my favorites

lisa, from mudhound studio

had posted about the butterfly project

(see her butterfly here)

which she found through trudy at two dresses studio

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the butterfly project

the holocaust museum houston

is collecting 1,500,000 handmade butterflies

one for every innocent child who perished

and all will be on exhibit in the spring of 2013

(read the story here)

butterflies should be no larger than 8x10 inches

any medium and two dimensional

(no glitter for food products to be used)

see all the details here

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above, my butterflies

made from armature wire and beads