Underwater-1

Years ago hubby had bought me an Olympus. It finally broke down.What a pity.It was such a good popcket camera. As I have a good mobile I wasn't going to buy a new camera. Hubby has his DSLR and I am happy with my Samsung A3 quality of photos. But a couple of months ago the local Public had an offer for a camera that can be used underwater as well and that rang a bell. I always wanted an underwater camera so I bought it as it had a very good offer price.

 Here you can see it in the water waiting for me to wear my mask. It's a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT25.The price you can find it now is double unfortunately.

I admit that the photos out of the water are not impressive. But I really like having a camera underwater and taking all kinds of strange photos in the water and from the water. Also maintenance is easy. You go back home and put it in tap water for a few minutes and then dry, that's all.
Here are some photos I took with it.
Sea glass.

 A dive in the deep

 Fish and the surface from underneath

 There is an octopus in there.

 A rainbow

 Me and my Crocs

 Urchin and bubbles

 Fish

 Grass

 Sunrays

 It's better when there is sunshine

 Spot the fish

 Big stones

 From the sea towards the beach.

 Another fish

 And what's this?

 Another rainbow

 light

 pebbles

 I love reflections

 Barca wants to swim

 Hey mummy....

 I think a shark is coming!

 Mummy!

(To be continued!)

Some purchases and a gift!

I have little money to spend on purchases but some things just beg you to come back home with you at times, don't they?
So here they are in random order....
Three little tables from IKEA bought at very good prices during the sales.
First the IKEA PS 2012 side table. It comes in three different styles. Flat, fruit bowl top, or four bowls top.
You can see them here.

(This photo is from houzz site)
I bought the fruit bowl top one for 15 euros. I put my felted stones inside and covered it with glass. It looks great as a display and I can take great photos of my stones too.Barca seems to agree.

Then two small side tables made only of wood and glass for 10 euros each. I put some of my grandma's crochet on top. All three tables are in the living room as we didn't have any side tables there.

Those lovely colourful socks, one for each day of the week I bought at Lidl.

 Then this online purchase from a favourite shop Dutchsisters. They make amazing bags from vintage embroidery. They even added this lovely heart on the parcel.

The embroidery is all around the bag, so I can hold it on both sides.

When I went to buy a book for my Godson, I just happened to see this notebook and all of a sudden I realised that I could buy Geninne's notebook-journal here at home. I bought it at Public. You can find it online here.

 There are empty pages to draw or write.

 Pages to colour.

 Pages to paint in watercolours.

 And lovely colourful pages.

 I tried to videotape the pages as I have seen being done on online bookstores but Barca didn't really allow that. Still you can have fun with her here.

Finally a gift I recently received from a very generous lady. Zina of EfZin Creations chose me among her other blogland friends to gift me with one of her lovely jewelry pieces. She even managed to choose the proper colour for me, blue.

(Photographed on an otchipotchi stone)
You can find her shop on etsy and read her blog too. Thank you Zina.