OK not really good at this blogging thing

I realize now that I've started blogging about 5 different things all half-cocked like a stairway in the Winchester Mystery house that leads into the wall. It's just months of silence punctuated by non sequitor.
I'll try to do better.
Just needed to get this off my chest real quick. Now that the campaign season is over and the chips have fallen... I must say that as heinous a person as Meg Whitman turned out to be and regardless of that fact that they were not all true her campaign's anti Jerry Brown TV ads were stunningly beautiful.
One came on while I was in the kitchen and my husband paused the ad so that when I came back into the living room I could see it from the beginning.
The art direction is brilliant. The lifetime of politics legacy of failure spot especially so. It has a strong concept--using the medium of a particular era to show Jerry Brown in each decade. first a record on a turntable, then newspapers, then TV, then the internet all cycling back to the record on the turntable. Brilliant.
I include some screenshots below:






Her other ad about Jerry Brown as Mayor of Oakland is just as stunning
Here are more screenshots:

Making my own wedding dress

So what happened is this. When I started digging my hands into the wedding planning in earnest I was looking at all these great blogs where brides had created all these personal touches. Being an artsy/craftsy person myself I felt like saving money and making it really personal and meaningful were two good reasons to craft things myself. So I decided to make my own wedding dress.

Most of the other craft projects have fallen by the wayside as I realized that I was turning the wedding into my own personal crafts fair and the only things left on the table were the invitations and the wedding dress.

Being a graphic designer by trade I am slightly less daunted by the invitations. But while I've sewed off and on for most of my life I've never really become expert at it and have definitely never made anything couture-level at all. So I'm terrified I'm going to screw it up but I'm also committed now.

I've already started the process and I feel the need to document it so this will be the first of a series of posts on how the dress is going.