Shots back from Josh

I'm just going to post a couple as most are more than PG-13 (nothing overly graphic but there is nudity and I don't think that belongs on the blog) I'll post some more when I get the high res to crop them.

 I haven't edited these yet, but here are a few raw images from last weekends shoot. Apparently I still clean up pretty nice and you can see how crazy long my hair is now. :)

Had a shoot in front of the camera today

http://wonderlandstudiosoc.com/Home_Page.php

I shot with Josh Coffman today. I think this is our 4th or 5th shoot since 1999, we go way back. In any case, we shot up in Anaheim at the rocking Wonderland studios and I can't wait to get the pics back. I took a few in the dressing room between sets...

Sporting the 'Oh so sexy" robe while waiting for a set and light adjustment

 

 

Getting ready for a new set.

Fairy Crowns

 

Toad modeling the work in progress.

The finished crown, I'm working on a second one. We are going to have a fairy tale themed event at the gallery later this year. :)

Repo/Devils Carnival event

One word.... Awesome. I met Emilie Autumn and Terrance Zdunich. Terrance complimented my make up. So fucking rad.

We are in the middle right hand side. The pledge was because Emilie premiered her first music video at the event, and they asked us not to record it because it is having it's world premiere soon. It is for the song "Fight like a girl" off her third album and the video is epic. I will link it once it comes out.

EDIT: The video!!!!!!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLTwcv6rVk

The looks we got walking out of the hotel were hilarious. Apparently the demonic clown and the graverobber look aren't the norm. Who knew? In any case, tons of people were taking our pictures at the event. Good times.

Terrance sang!!!!!

Q&A

Getting situated before it started.

 

Shadow cast for Repo, this is obviously Repo Man

 

Pavi and Rotti Largo, shadow cast.

 

The event went until 2 am so obviously we stayed at a hotel. The next day, we hit up the pier. :) We love Santa Monica almost as much as we love Hollywood. Almost.

 

Toad, looking back at the rides

 

 

 

I look so excited. :)

 

Photobooth Mommy and Toad style.

Here fishy fishy fishy

Took his royal Toadness to the aqarium today. It was too gorgeous out to be cooped up...

Inside the aqarium

One of the large tanks

The tide pool

The view from the tide pool. We live in a seriously beautiful place.

Shark bait!

Repo the genetic Opera/The Devils Carnival!

I have been swamped busy lately... in any case.... Toad and I are going to the Repo/Devils carnival event next week. We are of course super stoked as we love love love love both movies. The nerdiness is overwhelming, I know.

http://losangelestdc-repodoublefeatute-eorg.eventbrite.com/#

And since we take any opportunity at all to wear weird stuff in public, we are going in costume. This is mine:

 

It's kind of a Maiden of Woe/Hell's Harlequin sort of thing, the skirt is from a steam punk outfit of mine and obviously the top is one of my any corsets. I need to pick jewelry still and my make up will have a white based face. I just didn't bother putting on full stage make up for the trial run. It's a pain to wash off. The costume isn't exactly like one of the maindens of woe, mostly because I don't generally own clothes with those kinds of prints on them. We are working on a bit of a time crunch to put something together. But I feel like it will go with the feel of the event and work fine.

 

In other news, the count down to this years masquerade ball has begun. We've already got our tickets for Saturday night and I think we will end up going Friday too. We'll see. Friday is steampunk night, so we want to do both. I've picked my costume for this year, but haven't started making it yet as the supplies are still en route to me.

 

I'm going as Wick from the Devil's carnival. This is her:

 

 

The waist cincher, corset boning to make the cage skirt and the gloves are on their way. I'm on a mission to find the bolero jacket now. Wish me luck on that, I'd rather not have to sew one. Gauzy fabrics are a huge pain.

Unicorn Meat guide, AKA "Awesome dad stuff"

Daddy saw a picture of a unicorn meat guide and decided the Toad needed it made into a puzzle.

I added glitter because as we all know, unicorns fart glitter. True story.

April events at Brazen Arts Gallery

Get out and support local artists and local business! I have a ton of work for sale here, as to many other awesome artists. :)

Family fun and update on the fairy house

Well boys and girls, I've been slammed busy lately... So I suck at updating. My bad.

In any case.... The fairy house is coming along.

 

 

And I took Toad and Rach to Scandia... As you can see we had very mature, grown up fun.

The highlight of this was he jumped on this singing "Shut up woman and get on my horse". He's our kid for sure.

(For those of you unfamiliar... http://www.shutupwomangetonmyhorse.com/)

There was a troll behnd me.

They were cheating like a mother f-er at mini golf.

A moment of gym induced narcissism...

For those who don't know me personally, I'm a total gym rat. We have one at my company and I use it religiously instead of having lunch every day. I usually do not post work out progress pictures, but I'm pretty proud of myself right now so I am indulging it. Getting a six pack after three kids is not easily done, to put it mildly. The arms and shoulders have been a huge difficulty over the years, women just don't have arm muscles like guys. I've been in total awe of Linda Hamilton's arms in T2 since I was a child. Nowhere near hers yet, but a hell of a lot closer than I was 6 months ago. I draw the line at posting pics of my ass/thighs, but suffice to say they look better than my arms/abs right now because they were already more toned to begin with and I can do more weight with them.

I've been doing a circut training and weight training regime for about 3.5 months solid, 5 days a week. I was doing cardio/weight training prior to that and wasn't seeing the results I wanted. We walk a couple miles a night, so I have cut cardio out of my day time work out completely. I wasn't sure at first if it was a good idea, but so far it has been amazing. I've been going back and forth between low weight for more reps and higher weight for less every other day. So Mon/Wed/Fri is low weight-high reps and Tues/Thurs is high weight-low reps. I do core training prior to every workout for my back and abs, then focus either on upper or lower body that day.

I haven't been doing any crazy dieting, we eat extremely healthy but I am not denying myself things I love. If I was, I'd be a lot more cut and I know it; but I like food and don't feel like I should live without things I like to get a certain muscle mass sooner. I still stock our candy dish, I still eat bread and drink wine. There are certain things I'm just not willing to sacrifice.

In any case, so that is my first fitness update on the blog. Now return to your normally scheduled posts....

Fairy house (work in progress)

This is a work in progress... I've been working on it for a week so far. I'm planning to sell it at the gallery when it is done. Thank g-d we have an orchard, I don't know where I'd find all this stuff if we had some cookie cutter yard with no trees. :)

I'll post more pictures as I go. It will be furnished as well.

Fairy Furniture

I made two fairy beds so far. They started as wood bases, I used bark and moss from our orchard to make the 'bones' of the beds. The rest of them is dried flowers, fresh water pearls and other random stuff I had in my art room. :)