Butterflies and flowers

When you are an only child sometimes your parents go over the top. This huge frame had a canvas painting of me in my high school graduation gown. It was 15.5 x 19.5 inches. About eight years ago my mom gave it me. My husband hung it up, he's sweet. Anyway, with my birthday approaching I got really sick of seeing my 17 year old self smiling at me every morning. One morning I took black craft paint to my image and covered it. I had an idea of gluing butterflies to the canvas. My mom always said I could do whatever I wanted to with the painting. This makes me happier. I like it. My husband said I ruined it, but he's just biased. The butterflies are hot glued on. In all, this project cost $3.54.

I bought these roses from the bargain flower section at the grocery store. They were $4 because they were a little bit old. I have this brocade box that looks like a Chinese food takeout carton. I put a little plastic cup inside the box and arranged the flowers. They lasted four days because I changed the water daily and cut the stems at an angle and shortened them. One thing I must always have in my home is flowers. Someone once told me they don't like flowers because they just die. Well, people die too, and I like them just fine. There's this song by Gym Class Heroes called The Fighter that I love, love, love and one of the lyrics says, "We're gonna live life til we die." Amen to that!
See you next time!