Goodbye Hotlanta, hello 'Bama!

Today was pretty cool. My shoot wasn't until 5pm, and since we had to check out of our hotel room, Eric & I had some time to kill. I took him back to Little Five Points, and we had brunch at The Vortex. The wait was long, but the food was delicious & well worth it! Afterwards, i went back to Stefan's, the vintage store that I like to visit whenever I'm in Atlanta, and I found a beautiful dress from the 40's. I scooped it right up because it's hard for me to find cool vintage clothes in my size at a reasonable price. I can't wait to wear it! I also found an amazing mint green panty girdle for my gal pal J.J. Plush. I was sooooo pissed that it wasn't in my size, but happy that it's going to a good & well deserving home. I texted her pics, and she's excited!!

My shoot this evening was with Addie Juniper & Psymon, and I just LOVE working with them. Tonight's shoot was pretty easy, and went by way too quickly, lol. We shot a really funny custom first, and then we shot some clips for http://www.ticklechicks.com/. Keep checking the site for the clips, and whenever they go up, I'll be sure to post it around in my Yahoo group. It's been quite a bit of time since I shot any tickling, so I had a lot of fun!

After the shoot was finished, we gassed up my car & drove to Birmingham, AL. The drive was pretty smooth, but it was kinda weird to pass a sign on the highway announcing that I had driven into a different time zone.

We got a room for the next two nights at the Hyatt, and let me tell you, the room is actually bigger than my apartment! I mean, that's not saying much, but still! I feel really bad because, we have all of this room & Eric doesn't have anyone to shoot, lol.

Tomorrow is going to be a loooong day for me. I have a 6 hour shoot with http://www.pumpthatpedal.com/, which should be a lot of fun, but it's supposed to be wet & muggy, and I'm not looking forward to that at all :-(

Anyway, here's a pic from my shoot yesterday, taken by Spicy Hot Creations:

Today's Blog Is Dedicated To Dixie Comet

We are less than a week into our trip, and I am already completely exhausted! After my shoots in Atlanta on Thursday, we drove back to Knoxville because I had a 4 hour glamour shoot there on Friday. I shot with a really nice photographer, Rick Owens, and he had some neat ideas. The studio space was in Old Town, in Knoxville, and it was a really cool space! He had a book of Olivia paintings that he wanted to try to re-create. We accomplished that, for the most part, but on a couple of poses I was like, "Rick, I'm not drawn that way, lol".  He also did some really cool body scapes. I hope he emails me some pics soon, because I'm really anxious to see them!

Afterwards, Eric & I grabbed some lunch at a place called The Crowne & Goose. It was English pub fare, and I had yummy fish & chips. We walked back to my car, and we realized that there was a rail yard behind the building where the studio was in. I noticed some really old rail cars, so we walked toward the tracks to get a closer look. There were about 6 or so really old & creepy rail cars sitting on a set of tracks. I took some pics with my phone & sent them to Dixie Comet, and then I took some real pictures with my regular camera. Dixie, this is for you!

Old Town was pretty cool, and we walked around for a bit before getting into my car and driving back to Atlanta.

We drove the 3.5 hours back to Atlanta, and then ordered a pizza, lol. I was so tired from the day, and I had another 4 hour glamour shoot again today. I met my friend Allison for bruch around 2, and then my shoot was at 4. We went to the Highland Bakery for brunch, and it was deeee-licious! I had a cowboy benedict & of course, tons of coffee ;) Afterwards, Allison had to go and take care of something, so since I had some time to kill, I went back to Little Five to do some shopping. I found another pair of jeans at Rag-O-Rama, and then I found a beautiful circle skirt at a vintage store there. They had a lot of cute stuff and the prices were really reasonable, so I think I'm going to go back tomorrow.

My shoot is at 5pm, tomorrow, so I will have quite a bit of time to kill beforehand. I'm shooting with Addie Juniper & Psymon tomorrow, so it should be pretty cool. I shot with them one other time, in November of '09, and we did quite a variety of stuff. We did tickling, ballbusting & I even did some vor for her, too. I'm anxious to see what we do tomorrow! Then, after my shoot, we drive to Birmingham, AL. I have a 6 hour shoot for http://www.pumpthatpetal.com/ on Monday. I'm too tired to even think about that now, lol!

Knoxville to Atlanta & Back Again

We left Knoxville yesterday morning, and headed towards Hot-lanta. Woohoo! The weather was beautiful, but the drive was pretty uneventful. We got there, checked into out hotel, and worked a bit on our laptops. Since Eric had never been to Atlanta before, I decided to take him to Little Five Points for dinner. I was thinking either El Myr or The Porter. The Porter won, lol. I called up my friend Allison to see if she wanted to join us, but her & her boyfriend were still 'recovering' from the night before. We did, however, make plans to do brunch on Saturday. I love brunch, and I haven't seen Allison since 2009, so I'm pretty excited.

We drove to Little Five, and went to The Porter. I love The Porter. Since their beer list is pretty much endless, it always takes me a lot longer to decided what I'm going to have to drink than to eat, lol. I finally decided on the Dogfish Head Palo Santo and the fish & chips.

Today, I had 2 shoots, but at the same location. The first shoot was for Jacquelyn Velvets for http://www.velvetsfantasies.com/ . She was so sweet & nice, and the shot was so much fun! I'm so glad that I got to meet & work with her! Her site is sleep/knockout fetish, and since Eric was with me, she used him as the bad guy. It was soooo easy. All I had to do was get chloroformed, and then just kinda lay there limp while Eric posed me & moved me around.

The second shoot was for http://www.sleeperkidsworld.com/ and was fantasy wrestling. I worked for them once before, but that was in November of 2009, so i was super excited about working for Santiago again! We did a quick video clip where Jacquelyn & I did some catfighting on the couch. That was a lot of fun, even though I lost. The second thing I did was a photo set with a girl named Tiffany. We both wore shiny leotards, and did some wrasslin' moves on the mats. I lost again, but it was still a lot of fun, lol.

Right after the shoot, we had to high-tail it back to Knoxville for the night. I have a 4 hour glamour shoot here tomorrow, and the afterwards we have to drive back to Atlanta. I have a glamour shoot there Saturday evening, and then a shoot with Addie & Psymon Sunday evening. Then we get to drive to Birmingham, and there, I have a 6 hour shoot on Monday. I'm so exhausted, and this is just the beginning!

And so, the trip from Hell begins....

Ok, well, it didn't start out quite that bad, but it was close. I didn't get as booked up on this trip as I had hoped, and I already had 2 cancellations before I even packed, so you can see that I'm a little concerned about the financial aspect of this trip. I'm trying to be positive, though, as anything can happen on these trips, and often times bookings come through while you're on the road. I'm spending every minute that I'm not in the car or shooting, scouring the web for work.

I was originally supposed to leave Pittsburgh on Sunday, 2/20, and to Detroit to pick up Eric, but he called me that afternoon and told me to wait until Monday, because they had a blizzard. Great. Thanks, weather. So now, that meant that I had to drive 4.5 hours to Detroit on Monday, get Eric, pack up all of his shit in my car, and then drive 8.5 hours from Detroit to Knoxville. *sigh* I wasn't too pleased, but what are you gonna do? It wasn't anyone's fault. Weather happens.

I arrive in Detroit around 5pm (barf) and head to J.J. Plush's house to meet Eric. Eric, of course, isn't there. However, Tony Gotcuffs is there, so the 3 of us hang out while I wait for Eric to arrive. An hour and a half later, he finally does. Even though he is running late, he does pack up the car a lot quicker than I expected, and we left almost immediately. We do ok driving through Michigan, but once we hit Ohio, it was all downhill. There's a blizzard, the roads suck, and everyone is going 20mph. The ENTIRE way down through Ohio. We lost an hour and a half of travel time, and I wasn't too happy. I'm sure the raging pms that I was experiencing wasn't helping, but still......

Fast forward to 4am, and we FINALLY arrive at our hotel. We check in with no problem, get the gear out of the car, and get ready for bed. Let me just start by saying that the bathroom door doesn't close. I mean, not doesn't close like it just doesn't catch, and you have to hold it shut. No. It doesn't close because the width of the door is about 1 inch smaller than the door frame. Ok. Awk. Ward. I go in the bathroom to take a shower, and at some point when I was in there, Eric broke his bed. Don't ask me how, J.J. & I have our own theories, but I didn't really care. He was sleeping over there, broken bed or not.

Today when I woke up, I felt much, much better. I was rested, I drank a bunch of coffee, and slowly started to feel less cranky. I started checking emails, and unfortunately, it looks like my Black Dahlia shoot in New Orleans isn't going to happen. That sucks, because I really wanted to do it (I'm obsessed with the Black Dahlia), but now I had to rethink our route. Which I did, and when Eric woke up, we talked about it, and now have a different game plan. I did, however, FINALLY book a date with Tolstoy Tony in Tucson. We are going to shoot after the Vegas portion of our trip. Yay! We have been trying to hook it up for soooo long.

I had a 2 hour glamour shoot at 5pm, and Eric had a model coming to our room at 6pm for a shoot with him, so I had to hurry and get ready since I slept in and then dicked around most of the day. I started doing my make-up, and I guess I got really involved because whenever I truned around from the mirror, Eric had completey disassembled his bed and was starting to assemble the bondage chair that he made. The room looked a wreck, lol. *sigh* No worries, I knew that I would have to deal with it, so I will just delight in the clean up portion whenever that happens ;) I should have taken a picture. I will next time.

My shoot was really, really cool and a lot of fun! It actually went by pretty quickly. I saw some of the photos, and I really like them! I can't wait until they are emailed to me. I got back to the room and Eric was still shooting. He finished up quickly, and then we went to get food. We were starved! Ruby Tuesday's was right down the road, so that's where we went. I ordered a big bowl of pasta and the salad bar. I also ordered a lavander pear martini (I'm obsessed with lavander, too). It was dee-licious!

Now, it's time for bed. We head to Atlanta tomorrow, and I'm shooting with both Jacquelyn Velvets & Sleeperkid on Thursday.

Bye Bye PNW!

So, this is my final blog from my 2 week trip to the PNW, and so much has happened since my last blog. Both my sister & I had Saturday off, and we had planned on spending the day together, shopping & grabbing lunch. I woke up kinda feverish & achy, which is never good. The weather was super shitty too. Cold, rainy & damp. We decided to persevere with our plans anyway. We walked up to Broadway, from her apartment, and went to Crossroads. I love Crossroads, and my sis assured me that this was a good one. Well, she was right! I found 2 pair of designer jeans, a cute pair of leopard shoes, and a pair of Bordellos for $16.50!! Jackpot, lol. From there, we went to Red Light, which is an ok vintage/thrift store. I've been  in there before, and never found anything, but I wanted to poke around anyway. Well, I had much better luck this time! I found 2 pair of vintage shoes, in my size, which isn't easy. I wear a size 7.5, which by modern standards, is average, but not so much for back then. Usually, the sizes I find are 5.5-6.5, which is like baby feet, lol. Well, I found a red leather & clear pair that need a teeny tiny bit of love. One of the round plastic gemstones is missing on the right shoe, but that can be remedied with a trip to Michael's. I also found a pair of black leather Spring-o-lators, that have absolutely no wear at all. Score! I also had a good bakelite find. I found a chartreuse bangle, 2in wide, with a strand of rhinestones in the center. The price was so good for the piece, that I just couldn't pass it up. I'll post some pics as soon as I get home. That night was pretty chill. We went to Redbox & rented movies, and then went to Pho Cyclo to get Pho. Since I was feeling sick, it sounded like the best thing to eat. We went home, watched The Social Network, which we liked, and then we tried to watch Dinner For Schmucks, but just couldn't finish it. Oh well, lol.

Sunday, I woke up feeling much, much better. I had a shoot with Andraste that day for www.publicfetishgirls.com, and I was pretty excited! He dressed me up in a black latex thong, clear latex catsuit, a leather vest thing, and thigh high latex boots, and we drove to the beach, haha.

The shoot was super fun, I got to wear really fun latex, and I can't wait to work with Andraste again!

After my shoot, I picked Amy up downtown, and we went home to eat. She got take out from her favorite teryaki joint, and it smelled sooooo good! Teryaki joints in Seattle are like pizza joints back east. There's one on every corner, and everyone has their favorite. It is indeed, deeeeee-licious!

That night was the big Grammy party in Seattle that my sister was invited to. I was to be her date, lol. It was cool. We dressed up a little bit, went to the bar (it was closed to the public for the private event) and watched the Grammy's on the big screen.

Here we are at the event. It was cool, I mean, I'm not up on popular music at all, because the majority of my musical tastes lie in the past and with the obscure, but it was fun.

Monday, I had a private session in the early afternoon, and then I had the rest of the day to run around Seattle, which meant that I spent most of my time at the Public Market! I went directly there & got yummy mac n cheese from Beecher's Handmade Cheese.

I walked around the market some more, and found some yummy lavender earl grey tea. Can't wait to drink that when I get home. I also grabbed some smoked salmon for my dad, and when Amy was finished with work, we went to Sephora to get her new make-up & skincare. She refused to buy an spf, which horrified me. If you do nothing else for yourself in this life, please buy yourself an spf & wear it daily. Even though I am very adamant about spf use, I only used it intermittently a few summers ago, and now I have sun damage on the left side of my face that occurred while I was driving all spring & summer. So now, because I didn't spend $30 on spf for my face, I'm spending $300 every few months on Kinerase products to reverse the damage. It's all but gone by now, but I use MAC's face primer with an spf 50 daily to keep it from returning. Plus tanning beds & the sun speed up the aging process, and who wants that?

After we finished shopping, since it was Valentine's Day, my sister took me to her favorite pizza place in the Market, The Alibi Room. If you weren't looking for it, you'd never find it. It's way down below, and the entrance is in an alley.

 The wall across the alley from the Alibi Room. That's gum......

...yep.....gum......

Later that night, we met up with her friend Val, Sig, & Sig's girlfriend Shaina at a bar called Redwood. It was cool, and we had fun. Sig bought us pearl necklaces for Valentine's Day (har har).

Now, I'm just sitting in the Las Vegas airport, waiting for my connector back to Pittsburgh. I'll get back home around 12M EST, which kinda sucks, but whatever. My friend Jay is picking me up from the airport, and my apt/cat sitter, Tony, should still be living at my place. I have so much to do before I leave again on Sunday, it's ridiculous. I don't even want to think about it......

This trip went really, really well, and surprisingly, I didn't miss Pittsburgh at all. It was really nice to see my sister, whom I never get to see, and I felt really sad when I left her place today. Hopefully, I'll be able to go back at least one more time this year.

The view from my sister's rooftop.

A Bloodless Death

Today was a relatively easy & low key day. I drove 2 1/2 hours from Seattle to Vancouver to do my second shoot of my trip, with Master Snaurg. He got an order for a custom while I was in town, and after we shot the custom, we shot some more content for his site.  The custom was pretty cool. I got to die by strangulation this time, instead of a big bloody scene, lol. After we wrapped it up, I drove back up to Seattle where my sis & I ordered Thai food in & are now watching Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist. Yep, the Bauer girls know how to live it up!

Tomorrow, Saturday, I have off & Amy (my sis) & I are spending the day together shopping, going out to lunch, and hopefully going back to the Public Market. There's a place there that makes their own cheese on the premesis, and Amy assures me that they have killer mac n cheese. Yinz guys know how I loves my cheese, lol!!

Fasten your seatbelts, this is gonna be a long one!

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Die Another Day

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Lazy Day In Portland

I finally got to explore Portland a little bit yesterday, and have some down time. I had a shoot downtown at 12N at the Hotel Monaco

The shoot was quick, and easy, and didn't even last the entire hour. A nice way to make a quick buck, lol. Afterwards, I decided to nose around, and see what was in the area. I needed new mascara, so I found a Nordstrom's, and the MAC counter. I bought my mascara, and an eyeshadow base that I had been wanting for a long time, and then I bought ANOTHER RED LIPSTICK. I just don't have enough, you see, lol. I think when I get home, I'm going to line up every single red lipstick that I own, and take a photo & post it here.

Then, I went over to the Pearl District, and found a Buffalo Exchange. I didn't really find anything good there, so I decided to move on. I went into a cute little lingerie store, but didn't really find anything that I HAD to have, so I moved on.

 I headed back out & drove over to NW 23rd St. The very helpful girl at the MAC counter suggested that I go there. There were a bunch of little shops & restaurants, and it was very cute. It reminded me of teh Shadyside area of Pittsburgh, but 10x as large. I parked, and saw a nail salon that had a sign in the window advertising that they were open on Sunday. Perfect! Soooooo, I went to get my nails done, lol. I desperately needed a fill, and they were getting way too long. The nail tech did a lovely job & I was very, very pleased!

I walked around for a bit, had some delicious burritos at a Mexican place, bought ANOTHER RED NAIL POLISH, and a very pretty perfume oil. I also found a cool antique store that sold antique shipwheels. I really, really wanted one, but alas...... it would not fit on the plane :-(

So, I got back on the road & left Portland & headed towards Master Snaurg's place in Vancouver, WA. It was only a 13 minute drive, so I got there pretty quickly. I arrived and the Superbowl was at half-time. I just couldn't bear to watch, so we kept it on in the background. I mean, I'm not a football fan in the least, hockey is my thing, but I was born a yinzer, I'll die a yinzer, and I'm always excited when our teams do well.

I had a hard time falling asleep last night, and I'm not too sure why. I kept tossing & turning and waking up. I feel ok today, and I have a 5 hour shoot, so hopefully all will go well.  I am supposed to have a shoot with Shadow Play Imaging, tomorrow, but I just talked to him, and I'm not too sure if that's going to happen. Him & his wife are stranded in Portland, and are waiting to hear the diagnosis on their truck. If it's not too bad, then we're on. If it's not too good, then I have to find something else to do. The situation sucks, but what are you going to do? That's life on the road. I have a few calls in to people about booking so that I can fill up the time, and try to recoup lost money, so we'll see.

Now....... time to get ready for my shoot with Master Snaurg!

A Little CBT Never Hurt Anyone. In Fact, I've Never Felt A Thing!

Yesterday's shoot was pretty cool. Long, but cool. It was a fem dom shoot, and the main focus was CBT, cock & ball torture. We shot 4 different 15 minute scenes, and then went out & had a very delicious dinner afterwards. I'm sure the day felt longer  than it really was because I'm still dealing with jet lag, which sucks.....

I get to the shoot, and it's in this really neat loft space in downtown Portland.  A really nice couple, who run the websites, live there, and they turned one corner of their living area into a dungeon-type shoot space.

You can see all of the really cool things to play on, and Nathan had a pretty impressive toy collection as well! Bones, my slave for the day, brought some of his own unique, and very cool toys, as well. He had a violet wand set from 1918, that I got to use.

He also had some pretty sweet German handcuffs, too.

Although, I think the coolest thing was the antique violet wand set! We started the first scene with him wearing a plastic chastity device, and basically he was tied down to the table while I tortured his poor wang inside the device. I got to pinch it, knock it around, poke it with Wartenberg wheels & little wooden sticks, and of course, I got to use the violet wand!

The next few scenes we did were pretty basic. I got to attach clover clamps to his foreskin (he was uncircumcised), attach a hand drill to the chain and twist, twist away. I also got to attach a tens unit to his balls while I did this, which was also a lot of fun :-) I did your basic flogging, cropping & caning, but I do have to say that the absolute coolest part of the day was the very last scene we did. Sounding! I have never done this before, but I had always wanted to, so I was pretty excited. A little nervous, but really excited

Sounding is when you place a metal rod into the urethra of the penis. The rod is pretty long, and it has an egg shaped tip. These tips come in different sizes ranging from pretty slender to pretty thick. The rod is really long and the tip is suppoes to reach all the way down to the prostate. By all accounts, it's supposed to feel great. The one rod that I used, was also a vibrator, and after I inserted it, I turned it on and it gave Bones an internal vibrating sensation. Besides the violet wand, this was truly the highlight of my day!

Afterwards, we went to the Slow Bar for a very delicious dinner. I had the Slow Burger, and it was gigantic & delicious! I headed back to my hotel room, and fell asleep, I was so exhausted.

Me, in between scenes at the shoot yesterday.
Today, I just have a quickie shoot in downtown Portland, and then I head up to Vancouver, WA for an all day shoot, tomorrow.