Wanna watch me sew?

[susandennis]

I've had webcams in my living room for nearly 20 years. Always on - always streaming. I initially put them in so my Mom, who lived alone in Charleston, SC, could see me. She loved it so much. I'd get an email "be sure to comb your hair before you go anywhere" or "are you sure about that blouse with those pants????" or "whatcha watchin?" (I finally put one up that was pointed to the TV cause this last one happened a lot.)

It was great fun. When she died, my brother took up the mantel. He has a monitor in his shop that always has my webcam on the screen and below it is a sign that says "Say hi to my sister in Seattle!". He has his own Dropcam (with sound) so I can actually hear them when they say hi.

Vestigially, I had a Dropcam on top of my TV and then another IP cam off to my right. Really no need for two so I moved the IP cam back to the sewing room just now. There turns out to be really no great place to mount it. The current spot is a trial. We'll see how it goes.

All webcams are linked from http://susandennis.com/allcams/

If you want to see my living room:

https://www.dropcam.com/p/susandennis or https://video.nest.com/live/susandennis

If you want to watch me sew:

http://susandennis.noip.me or http://susandennis.com/sew

You should not need a password for either view. And now I'll be sending that el-cheapo one right back to Amazon as soon as it gets here :)

(And to the random person who does not know me and finds this page, please refrain from telling me how insecure and unsafe having these webcams are. I totally understand and appreciate your concern and would appreciate it even more if you keep your thoughts and concerns to yourself.)

Comments

[slinkslowdown.livejournal.com]

Wish we could leave little comments on there, though! :P

I like the angle of the sewing room camera.

And your machine looks like the ones we had in high school. I took ~fashion studies~ [sewing, basically] for my first two years of HS.

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

Omg, HI, friend! I see you, and you are on your computer, you might be reading lj right now! This is crazy--I am on the trolley on my way home with bags of groceries, and I can peer into my phone and see your living room! It is literally a portal in space.

Living in "the future" is awesome. I'm going to peek in on you from time to time, just because I can.

[susandennis]

PLEASE peek in on me any time you like. It's never really thrilling but, heck, it is kind of magic, isn't it?

[lifeinroseland.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! VERY cool. Magic indeed!

[solteronita.livejournal.com]

I see you eating your dinner! Makes me want to wave at my screen. :D

[susandennis]

I once had one that beeped at me whenever anyone opened up the webpage to see the camera. It would beep and I would wave.

[meowmensteen]

My current computer isn't playing well with your webcam. At least each time I reload the page I get a new still shot...haha that would be funny if you still had the camera that beeped at you every time someone loaded the page. I've reloaded several times to try to get it to work. After I let it run all the scrips and allow all cookies, I'm out of secret ideas. For now I'll blame the SeaMonkey.

[susandennis]

Which page isn't work? The living room or the sewing room?

[meowmensteen]

The living room. It seems like the sewing room one works for me, but nothing is moving in there right now, but it has a life feel to it haha.

[susandennis]

Ok, try this:

https://video.nest.com/live/susandennis

[egg-shell.livejournal.com]

I missed your webcams - glad you are back!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I'd get an email "be sure to comb your hair before you go anywhere" or "are you sure about that blouse with those pants????"

I must have known about this, but if so I'd forgotten. Which gave me a chance to laugh about it all over again this morning.

[susandennis]

Nice.

[apel.livejournal.com]

This is fun! I see you on the computer with Zoe nearby.

[susandennis]

Please drop in any time!!

[aellia.livejournal.com]

There is an LJ revival thingy going on at Facebook so I thought I'd pop in. So glad I did as I've missed seeing you on your webcam!

[susandennis]

Penny!!! How nice of you to leave a note. I wish that Facebook thing would send everyone back here. :)

[aellia.livejournal.com]

The Facebook group had 3,700 members join in just a couple of days! I think that a lot of people are going to come back!

[susandennis]

That would be such fun. There are a lot more people around now than even a few months ago so... maybe!

How are those adorable grandchildren of yours? Probably all adults by now!

[aellia.livejournal.com]

Growing!
I've made an LJ entry so that you can see. The photos are a bit big though. Is there a way to make them smaller?

[susandennis]

No need to make them smaller, they are the perfect size and you are so sweet to do that. I love seeing them again.

[aellia.livejournal.com]

I'm happy that you've seen them, Susan :-)

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love that you do this. AJ and I are looking into a cat-cam for our kids, so we can spy on them when we're not at home. If/when we get one, I'll let you know!

[kyrielle]

*waves!* Thank you for having these up again! I keep thinking of getting a webcam, but I have the boys and Scott who might prefer not to be on camera. We're talking about getting a huge cat-tree for the cats, though - if we do, maybe I could put *them* on camera...hmm.

[kyrielle]

(The boys are not allowed to climb on the current cat tree but do. However, I wouldn't feel bad if I did get a camera on a new cat tree and they ended up in the picture. It'd be their fault for climbing where I said not to!)

[susandennis]

hehehehehe

[susandennis]

CAT CAM!!!! Yes. Do it.