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Her name is Isabel Nicole. Isn't she beautiful!
We also took a family vacation to Florida. Not just my family but we met my mom, my 2 sisters and four of my seven brothers down there.
Here is Jorge playing on the beach.
Here are the girls playing on the beach.
Sunrise in Dayton Beach.
St Augustine Lighthouse.
Flagler Beach.
We got lost in a swamp somewhere in Florida. 
The kids got to meet Superman on the way down.
Well that's just a little of what went on over the summer. 
Interior shot...my seats look like lawn chairs.
From the back...this is where the fire blew from the other car to mine.
Apparently my car was held together with plastic and just melted. The bomb and arson detective said even my gas tank was plastic so once it melted the tank of gas ignited and it all went up.
There was a surveillance camera on the lot that filmed the whole thing and that's how they determined what happened. The detective is going to get me a copy for my insurance company so we can see the fire because by the time we got there it was completely out.
Monday: BBQ/all we can do is laugh because a couple of years ago the car I had before this one was parked in front of my house when 90 mile an hour straight line winds knocked a 100 foot 60 yr old (huge) oak tree right on top of it.
Thank God for insurance! (three of the six cars were not insured)
Maybe I should just get a bike this time instead of a car...what do you think?
Well gotta go...another business trip this week.
Peggy
And this one from a Dover book of flowers.
It looks like designing a papercut would be easy but once you start cutting you realize it's tougher than it looks. The entire design needs to be in one piece and the inner cuts need to give the piece dimension. There's no erasing a mistake...once you make the cut that piece is gone!
That's why most of my cuttings are done using patterns that I get from Papercuttings by Alison. They have some great designs and each pattern is rated as to how difficult it is to cut...Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced. This is a small family owned business with Alison and her mom Gloria designing most of the patterns. How neat is that and they also have patterns from other talented designers.
When I cut I use a tiny pair of Hofer scissors made ecspecially for papercutting. They are made in Switzerland and are a bit pricey but if you cut alot they are well worth it.
When I began cutting I used my Gingher embroidery scissors.
I very seldom use an exacto knife but there are alot of people that do...some don't use scissors at all and use just the exacto. I only use it for really tiny cuts that I can't make with the scissors but my Hofer scissors have a point as thin as a needle so I can cut almost anything with them.
This next group of cuttings are done using patterns from Papercutting by Alison.
Tiny ballarina's:
I think would lood cute mounted on pink paper and framed individually in little white frames.
More ballarina's:
A Butterfly:
A fancy fan:
A couple of heart designs:
These last designs are reproductions that I have done of vintage papercuttings: 
Men playing a game of chess:
I really love these old sihlouettes from the colonial period. I think they would look great hung next to each other.
