The blog has been quite for a bit.  I have been focusing on brushing up my design skills with the adobe suite, maya , and 3ds max.  I will have some more later but here is a xaml ninja I made. I made it with adobe illustrator based off these instructions:

http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/illustrator-tutorial-create-a-gang-of-vector-ninjas

I then cut and pasted it into expression design.  No problems there which is pretty neat.  Here is the copy as xaml from expression design.  It is all pretty much done using paths. 

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