The Zoo

It was two dollar Tuesday at the zoo and we decided to venture up to Portland. It was soooo busy and it took us a few hours to get in but when we did we had a wonderful day together! Lots of love in the air... My boys share a snow cone and the hippos just relax. Really they were fighting over that snow cone like vultures but it sure looked cute!

Summer Beach Trip!

We finally made it to the beach this summer! It was an overcast day and the ocean was freezing but the air was warm and the kids loved it!!! We even took our dog.

July 29, 2008

My Birthday!

Tomorrow is my 32nd birthday! The best present is (yah, I already opened it) a licensing agreement for my artwork; A design, "Tea for You", to be released in 2009! I am so excited to see my design in stores. Maybe next year on my birthday I will be able to eat my cake right off my own artwork!! How great does that sound! Yummy!!

As for the day the rest of the day...

I am planning on going to pick peaches with my boys and their Grandma Antzy! I hope to have a great coffee, a nice dinner and to relax with my husband and kids at the river! We have a favorite spot on the Santiam.

This was just yesterday!

Drawing for Kids

Just in case you are local and would like more information about my class, Drawing for Kids...

Join other creative kids in a fun and exciting class environment. Learn to draw with imagination, observation and memory. Classes will include circle time with games and discussions to emphasise the drawing theme of the day. All supplies included!

I am teaching at the Keizer Art Association, in Keizer, OR. There are two more classes this month, August 18th & August 25th from 10 am-11:30 am. For late add-ons, it is $9 per class. 

I hope to be teaching more in the fall after school! If you are interested leave me a comment or call the Keizer Art Association at 503-390-3010 or Carol Harris at 503-580-5476.

Julie & Anita

Me, Teaching!?!!

I started teaching a class called Drawing for Kids last month, this has been my first teaching experience and in all I think it's going really well! These are two drawings done by my kids, who are of course in my class, and love having Mom for a teacher. They are a part of a project I called Wild Things.

We read the book Where the Wild things Are, by Maurice Sendak. Then we talked about what makes a wild thing wild. To start the kids creative imaginations we played a game. They drew four cards. A color, a number, a shape and the last one was an emotion. They then had to use the color somehow and using the number they drew, their wild thing had to have that number eyes, arms and legs. Then they had to use their shape and try to make it show the emotion they choose.

Simon, Age 7

Roman, Age 4

Simon chose purple, four, rectangle and bored. See how the wild thing is sighing, That's not just purple fire!

Roman chose brown, one, triangles, and scary. I love that he added the "mom" and the heart!!!