Elum Designs

"When you come into contact with one of our pieces, you know instantly that there is something incredibly special about it."

I agree!

I was first introduced to the wonderful world of Elum Design, a modern letterpress stationery company, at Anthropologie. I kept buying what I thought were cool cards and then one day I realized that they were all designed by Elum.

Check out this self mailer postcard.

I love these modern psychedelic greeting cards.

And of course, I love the journals. These aren't letterpress but fabric. My second favorite thing!

Bath dogs

The dogs caught an opossum the other night. ugh. yuck. bleck.

They got into a rolling around scuffle and were a total mess! Today they were privy to an ambush bath at 7am.

A new little dress for me

With all the hot August days, I found myself not wanting to wear my usual uniform of jeans. So we set out to find me a new sun dress and couldn't find anything cute and reasonably priced. I didn't feel like spending over 30 bucks for a dress I was just going to lounge around in.

I've had this dress pattern hiding in my stash for sometime now and it seemed like the perfect time to pull it out.

I've read a lot about the Built by Wendy patterns from Simplicity but hadn't yet tried one. I found this one and I thought it was cute, it would keep my cool, and would look good on me! A most important point.

I cut out the pattern the other night, not too many pieces. Then on Tuesday I wrote some wedding thank you notes, then did a step on the dress, then wrote more notes and so on went my day. And night.

The pattern wasn't hard, but it wasn't the easiest garment I've worked on either. I made the dress, but I cut it to the length of the tunic on the right side of the pattern. So with this fabric at that length I have a cute little '60s dress.

Backyard astronomer

Not only is Google taking over the world, but now outer space too! Google has made an add-on program that runs with Google Earth called Google Sky.

"[Google] Sky will allow astronomers a chance to glide through images of more than one million stars and 200 million galaxies.

Optional layers allow users to explore images from the Hubble Space Telescope as well as animations of lunar cycles."

The images are compiled from many sources including the local Palomar Observatory in Escondido.

You can also layer on the constellation, small objects that can be seen with the naked eye, planet positions and moon phases.

Click here to read the entire article.

Mac users can download this Starry Night widget for Dashboard. You can set your location by zip code and see what will be overhead that evening.

Party foul