A Symbol that represents me....card 4

It took me a long time to figure out what I was going to do for a symbol that represented me. I thought about every different possible symbol I think that there is in the world but I couldn't come up with any ideas. Then suddenly, it came to me. What symbol is more "me" then the symbol that is the meaning of my name. My name is Melissa, and in Greek, Melissa means "honey bee". So, for this weeks card, I chose the symbol of a honeybee.

As this definition shows, Melissa was a name of a nymph who discovered and taught the use of honey, and from where bees were believed to have received their name.

Melissa also was said to have nursed the infant Zeus. Zeus was hidden from his father, the king of the Gods. Melissa plundered bee hives in order to feed honey to Zeus, who developed a permanent sweet tooth. Melissa's role in protecting Zeus was discovered and she was turned into a low species of insect. (We'll leave out the part of the story where we find out that this "low species of an insect" was a worm...no one needs to know that!) Luckily, Zeus later took pity on her and turned her into a Honey Bee, which is involved with making honey.

With that said, here is my card:

This is the front of my card...with a cute little honey bee on the corner...much cuter than a worm!

This is the back of my card. Pretty simple, but tells what my symbol is for this card!
Feb 2, 2007