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I have had to work for the past 7 days.  Today is my first day off and of course it is raining.  More rain expected tomorrow as well.  All I have to say is April Showers Bring May Flowers and I hope with all this rain that I get lots of May flowers.  On the flip side it is going to be a good day to stay inside and play with all the new cartridges I just got from papercraftingpro.com yesterday.  I am really loving the six newest cricut cartridges.  If all goes well today when nap time comes for the kids I will be spending an hour with my pink cricut expression.  I really want to try some cuts from the Create A Critter cricut cartridge.  I have some flock that I have not had a chance to use in a long time and I think that it will be perfect for fur for some of the animals.  Now, which animal to try first?????

A rainy day needs a umbrella so here is not one umbrella but two to choose from.

Here is a cute little snowman for you to cut out on your cricut.  I did not make a face for him.  I planned on stamping on a face with stamps that I got from Peachy Kean. Sometimes I have trouble with the circles that are small cutting nicely.  I found that if you just have a regular hole punch that it works perfect.  Nice even circles and large enough to put a little adhesive on.

Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.

Dear Editor—

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O’Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

I love this svg, I think that it is one of my favorites.  Now, to find some way to use it.  If you have any ideas, please let me know.  I would love to have suggestions for this file.

Here is an svg of a women wearing a hat.