birthday

A friend of mine had her big 60 birthday while we were away in Arizona, so I missed it. This friend loves, loves, loves monarch butterflies (or any kind of butterflies). So the obvious thing to buy her is something with butterflies. I was sitting in my craft room the other day and thought maybe I could paint something with a butterfly on it, so I started looking through all my "stuff". I found this neat papier mache round box and it has a rusty looking metal lid. Well, I started drawing a butterfly on the lid (had to redo it several times before I was happy with it. It took me all day yesterday but I am kind of finished. However, now that I look at these pictures, I think I need to do something to the bottom half of the box. Hmmm....

Here is what it looks like right now.