Hello!

We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and may 2010 bring you lots of exciting times.

As you may have noticed, we haven't sent out an update since September. If you haven't been following our blog, you may not be aware that we had a baby! To our surprise, on September 22, our baby girl Madison came two months early! Then we spent 55 days in Seattle while she was in the special care of Swedish Hospital. (Thus, the lack of HOLD updates.) We returned to Vashon on November 16th and have been loving our new life ever since. You can read, see photos and 5 homemade movies about our experience on our blog.

The main HOLD artsy news that has happened since September is Matthew and I got accepted into the annual Art Port Townsend/Expressions Northwest exhibition juried by Jess Van Nostrand. The show was at the Northwind Arts Center in Port Townsend during the month of October. And the best part was Matthew was awarded Best of Show and I got a Special Award.

Oh! And Matthew has been working on our webisode series "The Travelers"

Check it out!

Episode #1 "Getting Off the Island" www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAiz7yXpIQg

Episode #2 "Canada Attacks" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfpb7zK99rM

Finally, we would like to thank all of our new and continuing clients who worked with us in 2009, especially those who were so patient with us during the past three months.

Happy New Year!

Heather & Matthew & Madison

aka HOLD studios

www.HOLDstudios.com