AUCTION WINS OR I NEED MORE JEWELRY

So much for swearing off auctions. When I looked at the on-line catalog and saw 200 (!) lots of jewelry, well, how could I not? I ended up winning 3.

 The bracelet on the left is acorns and the earrings sort of match. 

 5 pair of earrings and a Christmas pin.

 Beaded collar/choker and bee pin.

 Matching set: earrings and bracelet, just beads. 

 Crazy beaded necklace, which I wore the other day.

 2 matching sets. Shells and beads.

 Rhinestone pin and earrings.

 A bunch of "gold". Haha, the leaf pin is Miriem Haskell.

 BUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The big one on the right is from a company called Jewelry 10, and their big pieces start at $125!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 The coolest pieces ever: tiny table pins, with coffee!

 All that for about $70. The local auction house only does on-line now. I really enjoy sitting at an auction watching the action and listening to the auctioneer. But on-line is a whole lot easier. Does anyone go to auctions?

Jury duty update: got a letter yesterday telling me not to show up as the process was canceled. Good thing we still have Saturday mail or I would have gotten up early and had to turn around and come back home. Now I can go to work and finish the dance concert.  Sometime I'll have photos. 

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Hello, everyone.

Here's a pretty lady. There's a label on the bottom on her stand that says  "Maria Clara".  I don't have any other information.

 Are you enjoying Autumn? I'm not enjoying the continuing summer like weather. It's almost like  we skipped over Autumn and Winter and went straight back to Spring. 

Part of the front garden from yesterday. 

Freaking out plants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A PLAY, THE MOON AND NEW CAMERA

About a week ago our last play closed. It was The Women of Lockerbie, which is about the plane being blown up and crashing on Lockerbie, Scotland. That sound like a total downer of a subject, but it's a very beautiful play. You feel the pain of the family and the people on the ground. It's timely now, seeing as another plane just crashed under mysterious circumstances. Here's a photo from the show, which was taken by Dean Pooling. 

I'm playing around with my new camera. The moon was full the other night.

It came with a selfie stick. Hello!

And can take special effect photos.

One click and 6 photos happen. I liked these best.

And a cat photo.

Last year at this time I was getting ready for a trip to California. This year it's the 30th Anniversary dance concert, jury duty and a root canal. Oh yeah and a birthday.  

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The Halloween Edition.

Walked into the scene shop today and ran into these lovelies.

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WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS NUDITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, it's just a naked doll. 

Bit the bullet and bought a new camera. I am keeping the broken one to take artsy fartsy photos. 

 The old camera was pretty cheap, $125. So I don't feel too bad about replacing it after 4 years. I upgraded a bit . I'm not a professional photographer and probably wouldn't know what to do with a fancy camera. It's point and shoot for me. Wonder what the fisheye photos would look like...........

FREAK OUT

No, it's not a new photo app. My camera is freaking out. I showed it to our photography faculty and he said 'Yep, something's wrong with your camera".  He had no idea way it's doing this.

Good morning, Mr Scooty

the camera turned upside down.

 Maybe I'm now making art? Anybody have any idea why this is happening? The camera is a canon power shot and it's an easy to use point and shoot, I'll probably end up buy a new camera. I would welcome suggestion on a replacement camera. I don't need anything "fancy".

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Here's a happy fellow. Even with his feet nailed to a piece of wood, he's still smiling.

To top off a rather boring 4 day weekend, I got a jury summons yesterday. Next month I get to go to the court house bright and early and then who knows what happens. The first time I was summoned, I didn't have to go, because I was going to be out of the state working. I'll go do my civil duty this time.