The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Addendum: With the amount of digital photos the kids are accumulating, I suggested creating a separate photo blog for them. Sam said no. She wanted their photos posted in THIS blog because “mas maraming tao doon.” hehehe
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Addendum: Sam took the photo of the ball point tip. She saw a similar photo in a science book. Some schoolmates said no camera could capture such minute details. I guess they were wrong. 
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Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
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Hi Connie,
Like mother like daughter. What type of camera does she use?
Sam uses an Olympus MJU 410 (inherited from me) but she used her sister’s Canon PowerShot A410 to take this one. Mahilig manghiram yan pag walang charge bettery ng cam nya. Which is often.