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It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.  

Sunny, low 80's, breezy enough to be cool.  

Beautiful!

Spring is definitely in the air here in Texas.

 I felt the need to create something pretty & spring-ish to go along with this pretty spring weather.

 This is a layout for my BOM. 

The photos were taken Easter Sunday 2007, just a couple of weeks after I moved down here to TX.

I had just split up with my now-ex husband and was really struggling with it.

Thankfully, I had a really good friend here in TX that was there for me to lean on and to take me out to The Cheesecake Factory for Easter dinner.  

I don't know what I would have done without her.

Now, I look back at these photos and see myself a little differently.

I was on the verge of becoming someone entirely new, I just didn't know it yet.

Someone much stronger, more independent and with way better hair!

That's why I chose to use the butterflies on the layout.  

They were a good symbol of what was to come.

This layout was also a good "use-it-up" project. 

The pictures are 4 years old.

The paper is some that I've had for so long that I don't even know who made it.

The pink letter stickers are from a DCWV Spring Sticker Stack from a couple of years ago.

The little skinny blue ribbon is left over from some baby shower invitations that I made 3 years ago.

The tag was cut with an old-school Sizzix die--one of the very first ones I ever bought.

The cardstock for the butterflies is all scraps.

The only new thing that I used is my Serenade Solutions Cricut Cartridge.

It's one that I have wanted for quite  a while now & when they announced that it was retiring, I decided it was time to get it before it got super expensive.

If it's one you don't have, I would highly recommend it.  

There are so many beautiful beautiful images on it.

Alrighty--

enough about pretty paper butterflies.

Time to go outside & enjoy some real ones!

Happy Monday Friends!