Wearing Handmade Wednesday: My Funky Camera!

Hey there everyone!


Early Wednesday for me here, but it's mainly cause I've just come back from working night shift, and I've decided to write my blog entry before going to sleep today! And work related is this Wearing Handmade Wednesday post too!

My Funky Camera neck strap for my work's ID badge

I discovered My Funky Camera when Gaurav gave me a wrist strap for my camera as a birthday gift, I don't know how he does it, but he can always find the most awesome sites for camera related gear! When checking the website, I saw that they also offered neck straps for point & shoot cameras that were longer and could also work as straps for video cameras and for ID badges, and I thought that I really needed one for my work ID card! I got me the super cute Geisha print, and to this day, all my co-workers are envious of it! ;)

My Funky Camera

Happy gloomy Tuesday!


Surprised that I'm writing a new blog entry today while being on holiday?


Today is a gloomy, cloudy Tuesday and though I got my Riona cardigan in the mail from Argentina today (which cheered me up considerably), it's one of those days that don't really make you feel like going out anywhere, and since almost everyone over here is napping, I'm gonna use my time to catch up on at least a blog entry.


Since I got my new camera, and with it the neck strap, I've been thinking that I'm really not a neck strap person, and even less a regular (read as boring) Olympus strap... I obviously have nothing against Olympus (I do love my E-620 and lenses) but I guess I don't like having their name written in HUGE letters around my neck... And besides, I don't find neck straps to give me the kind of flexibility for shooting that I want.


That's how the quest for a wrist strap began. As usual I started by looking on Etsy, and I found that though not very numerous, there were a few shops that made camera straps, but unfortunately most of them only made neck straps, or strap covers (which I have considered to hide the huge Olympus letters on my neck strap), and the wrist straps that were available were so for point & shoot cameras, not DSLRs.


So, I was again left with a neck strap option... until my photography all-knowing bf came upon My Funky Camera's website that offered wrist straps in very fun and quirky fabrics, exactly just what I was looking for! After looking around and loving a lot of the cute fabrics she uses on her straps, I decided that the one I loved the most was the Andalucia Blue Birds fabric (which as it happens, has a Spanish name!) and that's the one Gaurav got me as one of my b-day presents!






Once I arrived here in WI, I got to get the neck strap out and instead start using the wristlet from My Funky Camera, and I have to say that not only I think the size is perfect and the strap is very well made, but also, THIS is how I love to play around with my camera, making sure I won't drop it by accident (it'll always be hanging from my wrist, so I only have to avoid banging it against walls & the like) but not having a limiting strap either!






And also, my camera looks so cool with her new accessory!




I will now return to my Apple Cinnamon Green Tea and wait for the bf to get up... If there's a general nap time tomorrow, I might write another blog entry! Till then... Ciao!