{Images from Haute Boudoir}

Last night I stayed up ’til the wee hours baking chocolate heart shortbreads for my daughter’s bake sale.  Between the mixing, dipping, cutting and bagging … ( hmmm it really sounds like I was engaging in a drug distribution assembly line but anyway I digress),  my mind wandered off to Boudoir Photography – don’t ask.  What is Boudoir Photography you ask?  See here (under boudoir), here, and oh now here also.  It seems to me like a trendy ritual amongst brides to “gift” their Intended with photos of themselves in their unmentionables.   It may be because its now 3 AM and that I am exhausted and satiated that I am going to set forth this bit of truth.  Two V-Days ago, I too set off to present my  husband with photos of me in my scanties.   What started as a fleeting thought became a whole 3 month project of finding the proper photographer, securing a make-up artist and hair stylist, taking up residence  in the dressing rooms of  Agent Provocateur and Kiki de Montparnasse.  I started to think that I had waaaaaaaaaaay too much time on my hands because I mean it really took on a life of itself.  What started out as me taking a few shots became me making a 20 page photo journal and diary about myself.  Fast forward to the day of shoot 11:00 AM – Here I was with my Fab team of “it” girls – Amber, Kat, & Lee who spent the next eight hours dressing me, powdering my nose, and fluffing my hair, to get the “it” shots.  In the midst of all this, the purpose of the shoot totally changed focus – I became the Intended.  This totally became about me.  I felt uninhibited, empowered, confident, sexy, and it was just CRAZY FUN!  I embarked on this whole self love journey that continues still now.  This was one of those experiences I will never forget and my sexy is forever preserved in print!  Now I look at the photos and all I can do is smile and think to myself “I ROCK!”.  Oh yeah, and it was V-E-R-Y much appreciated by my Hubbie  and it has become the gift that keeps on giving- nuff said!

{image by Amber Rima}

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