Sew! Sew! Sew!

                       Sew, I bet you thought I forgot about my blog...not a chance! I love my blog
                       as much as I love sewing and crafting and sometimes it's really hard to keep

 up with it...so a shout out to all of you who have amazing blogs...because I

 know you work hard for it! I thought I would share some vacation photo's today...
just of the amazing view we had from our Beach House rental in Malibu, CA. 

We had three decks where you would find us most of the time...

                                                           The locals call it the BU

We and the neighbors had a private little beach...at

low tide it was even better.

I love using my DSLR when the charger decides  

to charge the batteries for me (8 ...I even took an 

action shot here cool!...ps. woot woot

my new charger came in the mail today!

They say this coastline area is the best in the area...this is part 

of what they call the "Queens Necklace"...I wasn't able to 

get a full picture of it...but we are going back for another 

week and now that I have a new charger...I will be on 

a mission and hopefully bring something worthy of posting

as I am merely a beginner behind my lens. :)

woo-hoo! Look at the action shot! (8

The house was right on the water at high tide see!

It was a little chilly there but overall great 

weather and while I was out there I spotted

something...

S-H-A-R-K!!

Oh silly me it's just a pod of dolphins playing 

in the surf, right outside the house! 

G! Quick it's A-POD-OF-DOLPHINS RIGHT

OUTSIDE THE HOUSE!

GET THE CAMERA!

WAIT! The charger is not working! 

GRAB YOUR CELL PHONE! Thank you god for cell phones.

They actually were much closer than they appear...

it was pretty neat. (8

ENJOY!

Photography

In the last year I have been experimenting with a new creative outlet, Photography. Here it's all about black and white. 

Doesn't this baby make you want to cook? I love this range. We did a complete kitchen remodel a few years ago, and my husband insisted we buy it, I thought, "Are you crazy?  I can be very frugal at times :). However, my opinion has changed and  I am very happy that he won this time...don't tell him I said that!

Look a new pedicure!

  

This is Louie, our 8 year old English Bulldog/adorable model.

Last year my dad gave me one of his many cameras, a Konica Minolta 7D DSLR, I was so excited! Before, I had only used a Cannon PowerShot (CPS), I would recommend this little camera to anyone, it's light weight, small enough to fit into your pocket, and if you play around in manual you can really manipulate it to get some great shots. My husband and I each bought a CPS in 2006 for a trip we took to Italy, (we are down to one now because my husband dropped mine into the tide pools in Laguna Beach, the camera was ruined but luckily the card was saved), it is a great all around camera and perfect for traveling. Back in 2004 we traveled to China and found that a bigger camera means you carry more stuff and no one wanted to carry it. The CPS has no extra bags or bulk and takes really good pictures. Disposable cameras, "HA!", I am embarrassed to say we took several with us to China and bought even more while we were there, luckily a friend also a photographer, brought his camera took lots of great shots and gave us copies of all his photo's. Disposable camera's are trash people don't waste your money!  

LOL, like you didn't know that right? 

These were all taken on the CPS... 

Look at that face! :) He makes me smile every time I see him.

So, I have only taken one weekend crash course in photography with my new DSLR, and figured I better get to knowing this thing inside and out before doing a longer more detailed course. This thing has a lot of options and has even helped me to understand my point and shoot better. The CPS isn't intimidating anymore and makes me pull out the DSLR to see if I can create the same shot. They are actually fun to use together in that way.