Animal Rehabilitation Center, Brazil

People know that we love animals so when we went to Sao Paulo we were invited to 2 amazing animal rehabilitation centers. Over our 9-day trip to Brazil, we've met a bunch of really nice people who have dedicated their lives to rehabilitating wild life animals.

These animals arrive at a result of trafficking, fires, hunting, deforestation, urban invasions, and among other reasons, were sent by the Riparian Forest Fire Department, Environmental Police, Municipal Guard, and other institutions.

Many of these animals are treated but cannot be relocated in nature, either for possessing physical injuries as mutilation or the long period in captivity.

However these rehabilitation centers are always in need of more funding so we've decided to do some art to help out the animals! Stay tuned for more info on Monday.

For more information, please visit:

Wildcats: mataciliar.org.br
Monkeys: http://www.projetomucky.com.br

cat pictures

Newborn Pygmy Hippo

lory, a pygmy hippo was born in September at the Diergaarde in Blijdorp, Netherlands.
On the pictures, he is only 10 days old. He is too cute. Look at this little thing ;)
A real positive emotion of the day.

More new Cut Files

Good Evening Everyone....And Happy Hump Day to you all....I hope you've all been blessed with wonderful days and are all able to stay warm and safe from this cold weather!!!!  I've been having lots of fun lately creating some items for swaps and a couple orders I had....which included me creating some more new cut files!!!!!  Thought I would share with you my creations and the cut files!!!!!

So.....Here we go!!! ;)

This first creation is for a Christmas Candy Bar Swap for my ARTHaven Creations & Friendships Yahoo Group.......We are to design a wrapper for a Hershey's Candy Bar......this is my creation.....Had ALOT of fun doing this....the FLOWER is a Poinsetta Cut File I had designed and shared a couple months ago....if you like it you can click on the link and download the svg file for free....3DPONSETTA

The Merry Christmas on the tag I actually did with my Cricut and some mini Gel Pens.....LOVE it....I placed it where I wanted it located on the shape I wanted....placed the words on one layer in Inkscape and the scallop on another layer below it......turned the eye off the scallop layer and printed the words Merry Christmas first.....INSTEAD of hitting UNLOAD I PUSHED LOAD......then I swapped out the gel pen for the blade housing....closed the eye on the Merry Christmas...opened the eye on the scallop shape and then cut....WORKS LIKE A CHARM!!!!!  The Scallop shapes are a file I created months ago and shared also...if you like it you may click SCLP3ST to download the scallop oval file......


Ok....These next creations are for some tags I designed and created in Inkscape per a request from my boss.......I LOVE the way these turned out......

These files have MULTIPLE uses.......as you'll see on my next project........Used my embossing sleeves to decorate, embossing powders.....Tim Holtz Distress Inks...Skittles...Ribbon and Glitter.....LOVE the way these turned out and they resize wonderfully!!!  If you're interested in these files I've got a picture of the SVG files below...you can just click the image and it will take you to the page on my website where you can download the svg files for free......I do offer them in other formats for a small fee.....


This next project......Is very special to me....it's for a very dear cyber friend who is like my soul sister......I can't wait for her to get it...I just wonder if she'll be able to stay away from peaking until her package arrives....This is a Christmas Book for my ARTHaven Creations & Friendships Yahoo Group........We used 3 lunch sacks folded in half and made into a book...SUPER fun to make.......

I designed and created several different cut files to create this book.....I'm showing images of the SVG files below....if you would like to have any of them....please just click on the image below and it will take you to the page on my website where you can download the SVG file.........


Now these are all the cut files I've designed and created as of late.....the 2 tattoo cut files are drawings my oldest son Billy Duncan has drawn free hand.....I decided to bring them into Inkscape and hand trace each area on them.....WELL worth the outcome I believe...He's SO talented and I treasure his creations.....so I'm sharing with you the cut files as well........Some of the others are requests I've had the past couple of weeks....As always if you would like to have any of them....just click the image...it will take you to the page on my website where you may download the SVG file for free...they are also available in other formats for a small fee.....

I AS ALWAYS want to THANK YOU for taking time to stop by and visit with me.....Means WAY more then you'll ever know!!! I hope you've found somethings here you enjoy or can use!!!!!  I love hearing from you and I do hope you will come by and visit with me again.......I hope you all have a VERY blessed Thursday.....until next time......

Owl drawing

Here's a little owl doodle I did today.


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