2009 Christmas Newsletter

This year we had the kids design the Christmas Card. Here are the four versions we sent out.

Christmas Card samples 2009

CityKids Christmas Program 2009

Yesterday was the big CityKids Christmas Program extravaganza!

Here is video of Emma's G2 dance group:

Teaching at Trinity

This past semester was my first teaching at Trinity (formally known as LBI) as an Affiliate Faculty member. A lot has changed since I was a student in the early '80's including the school moving to Everett and offering a number of Bachelor of Arts degrees. This semester I was teaching "COMM205 Digital Design Tools I" covering basic design principles coupled with fundamentals of digital design software programs (Photoshop & InDesign). This was a tremendous opportunity to give back merely a fraction of what I gained as a student.

Save the date. =)

Caleb: My new email/IM account, that I have now, has what I hope will be its permanent picture, (This one actually is centred around me.) And if I type this out, when somebody looks at my picture and ask's "When was that?" I'll say, "its on the blog!"

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The WhaleTrail project

The recent news of a baby orca in J pod makes for an excellent opportunity to mention that there is also a baby non-profit organization focused on identifying locations to view orca’s from the shores of Puget Sound. It’s called the WhaleTrail and the brainchild of friend Donna Sandstrom. [Full disclosure: I’m a member of the WhaleTrail Board of Directors and helping to get things started] This is such a cool idea – there are so many places you can see whales all within a short distance of the Seattle metropolitan area. Look for more information about this exciting new project in the coming months - and in the meantime keep an eye out for that baby orca! 12/9/09: Here is a community blog article featuring Donna.
4/24/10: The City of Langley, WA declares that is it the official Whale Trail city on it's annual Welcome the Whales Day.

Cian's Jelly fish

Cian (5) drew a great looking jelly fish in art class. Watch out for those tentacles - they're dangerous!

Jelly fish 11.13.09

Colin Art

Colin's first try at Photoshop Elements comes out with what could be an award winning piece of self-portrait art. And he didn't even use the incredible self-portrait machine (though a Canon TX1 camera, Mom's Sony laptop, and Photoshop Elements 7 are definitely 'machines'). Here is Colin's work:

Colin (9) self-portrait
11.13.09