IT'S HERE!

It came! It came! I have my NEW camera in my hot little hands. I was in mid-unloading washer into dryer when the doorbell rang and the FedEx man delivered my camera. So everything else was tossed to the wayside and I dived right into my GE X5 digital camera. I LOVE IT! Yes so far it is as dreamy as a quiet bubble bath with Zen music playing. Of course I cannot tell yet if it is a testament to GE or just a statement to how crappy Nikon's Coolpix was for me. The pictures are amazing, I have not printed one yet, so I will have to see how they turn out on paper, but the images are astounding, and the camera can be used in manual mode or automatic. In automatic it really corrects for alot of issues, the dog photographs beautifully, no glowing eye, the light in the house is dim, yet it looks like it is bright as day. I tried the worse shot, taking a picture through a window, and NO flash in the window shot, no glass glare at all. I am taking my camera to bed tonight, and tucking it in beside me. I love you GE X5.

Pictures coming soon. I am baking cookies right now...my priorities are not totally out of whack. Cookies, Camera, then all household chores...geez give me some credit.

Recipes

I had a lot of success with some new recipes I tried the past few days. My favorite was a homemade pop tart recipe that I found at the smittenkitchen.com. The crust was amazing I really appreciated the tips about baking the scrap pieces, which I did after I brushed them with the egg and sprinkled heavily with cinnamon sugar...YUM! Definitely going to be making these again soon. I have a huge pile of recipes to try and I will be going through them slowly and posting any I find worthy of a mention.

Now I turn my sights completely towards Christmas and my homemade gifts. I started sewing log cabin design potholders I am now starting to quilt them and for the first time ever...bind. I am jittery at the thought of attempting this because I have never done binding and I am doing it all by hand. Yes, no sewing machine yet I am in the market for one and I have my sights set on the Singer Confidence 7470. I love it, and I hope that it performs as well for me as it seems to for all the other people who have rated it.

I am a brand loyal type person, when I find a product and a company that treats me right I buy them FOREVER. I would talk about my Kitchen Aid mixer now, but I have so much more to say then I have room to write so I will continue that story tomorrow. I have to talk about a brand I loathe, Nikon. I bought a lower end model of their Coolpix and the POS has had the same mechanical failure twice, the first time I paid to have the repair done, the second I just applied duct tape and have continued to limp along with it until I can go out and buy a new camera. The issue is the battery door, there is so much pressure exerted on the door from the batteries it cracks and breaks so that the batteries do not stay in the camera-very unconducive to taking pictures. The other issue is the monitor on the back is losing pixels, they are literally going black so I have a large void that is growing larger and larger. The thing sucks!

Anyway enough complaining, I am thankful for my family my reason for taking pictures.

I am off to get my potholders put together and to plan my baking strategy, it is time to make candy. I will post my favorite marshmallow recipe later along with any successful recipes I make this week. Wish me luck.