Still Snapping

I am still wandering around the house snapping pictures of various and sundry things.

This is the inset of a little smoking table that I made out of poly clay since nobody in the immediate area is a smoker.  Just something fun to fill an empty hole.

This cat is one that I bought at my first NAME national in Anaheim in the early eighties.  He is so good that he was once mistaken for a real cat!

On our way home from that show, we stopped at a small café out in the middle of nowhere for lunch.  I had the cat sitting on the table for our own enjoyment. He even has green glass eyes.

The waitress came along and got down at eye level with the cat and asked...Get ready for this one!... "Is that a real cat?" Sadly, I had to admit that it wasn't.

Tessie had to get in on the photo shoot...  She decided to finish the apple pie that someone started in the Early American Kitchen.. Zar Is in his Antique Radio study.  I looked in, but decided that it needed too much cleaning to make a good photo.

This is the Archeologist's office in  one of those Pic' n' Save boxes. It's a place to keep all of my Egyptian Minis.

Last but not least, George and his cacti garden. 
Yes the plants in the foreground are the same ones that I have been showing you for about the last year.  Mother of Millions that I water, once in a while, when I am in the mood... Not very often.  They seem very happy. In fact, these are all the original plants.  None have grown very much...

OK.  Enough picture taking.  I am going to have to go back to actually doing minis now.

See you tomorrow.

Testing, 1 2 3...

For the past two days, I have been taking photos for the blog with my iPad.  Not necessarily a fun thing to do.  My Canon ELPH 115 just plain stopped working.  We poked and prodded it until blue in the face then decided to go find a new one.

Tradition says to always take a photo of my cats first... This time it was only one.  Kota thought I was a bit mad for chasing him around and trying to get him to pose.  This was the best I could do... Is that a sneer that he has on his face?

Anyway, after the cat photo, I decided to try my new ELPH 160 on some minis. 

I am pretty impressed.  Keep in mind that I took ALL of these photos without having to change any settings.  I just walked around and snapped.

First, Daisy's Cottage.  As I did it, she came out of the observatory and yelled at me to finish the kitchen... I don't know why.  She doesn't cook and she can eat, any time and any place in the world that she wants to.

I sat down on the bed to look at the instruction book and whilst there, I shot this one.

It automatically adjusts from close up mode to far away, all by itself!

Zar and Tessie came out to see what I was doing and demanded that I take their photo on the porch of the Nine Dollar Dollhouse. 

No.  Neither of them live there, but they think that any building is fair game, when it comes to photos.

Then I simply stood back a ways and did it again!

The only button that I touched was the one to snap the photo.

Next, I took a very close up of some doilies.  The little ones are about a half inch across and the big one is about two inches!

These were on a pretty dark shelf.  I still didn't touch a button besides the one that snapped the photo!

Then I made a horrible mistake!  I turned around to take a photo of the work room... This was the cleanest corner I could see... Oops! Please don't tell anyone that I cropped the floor out on purpose.

Oh well... At least it's a good picture.  Very clear.  Unfortunately...

Maybe I should do some straightening and see if the photo comes out any better...

See you tomorrow.