My friends at  The Family Journey brought this play to The Tap Room here in Fort Collins last year, which featured a troupe of actors from the Denver area. I loved every moment of the play, the energy the actors brought to their characters, and the empowering script.

I laughed and I cried, and nodded and shook my head throughout.

I’m even more excited for this year’s play, for several reasons:

• some of the actors are my friends
• it will take place in a larger venue (Lory Student Center Theatre)
• being that it will be at the CSU Campus, I’m hoping that there will be a larger audience of pre-motherhood women

After the performance, there is an interactive discussion. Last year the panel included members of our birthing community and some of the actors. It was an interesting and entertaining discussion, and I feel an integral part of the entire experience.

This year even the interactive discussion is going to be more exciting than last year, because the panel will include Peggy O’Mara, the editor of Mothering Magazine.

Soooo, you can imagine that I highly recommend seeing this play, if at all possible. I think everybody who attends, whether they’ve been through the birth experience or not (and even if they never will) will learn something and come away feeling empowered.

Please share this information with all your friends! I think it’d be wonderful if women’s groups (including sororities and young women {i.e. teenagers}) would attend this play; in my opinion it can only be a positive experience.

Here’s all the information you need; get in touch with The Family Journey if you have any questions at all.

Northern Colorado is BOLD again! Karen Brody’s critically acclaimed play,
Birth, returns to Fort Collins on September 26th, and YOU are invited!

Crafted from over a hundred interviews over several years, Birth tells the
story of eight modern, educated women and how they experience childbirth
in America. Entertaining and enlightening, this is a show you won’t want
to miss!

In addition to an incredible performance, The Family Journey and get born
magazine are producing a BOLD evening that will include a vendor fair and
an insightful post-show discussion featuring Peggy O’mara of Mothering
Magazine, as well as local birth professionals Karen Strange, Kim
Lenderts, and Katie Godfrey.

The first 250 people to be admitted will receive a reusable shopping bag
from Vitamin Cottage, along with other information and products from our
sponsors.

Tickets are on sale now. Plan a girl’s night out, a unique date, or an
educational evening with friends and join in the fun at the Lory Student
Center Theatre on the CSU campus! Tickets are just $20, and at a reduced
rate for students and paid members of The Family Journey. (See this post
for details http://thefamilyjourney.org/?p=216).

Visit www.thefamilyjourney.org today to purchase tickets and learn more
about the BOLD movement.

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This is from a session I got to do on Saturday.

I like to start out a session with some “beauty shots” - close-ups of the face. This helps us to ease into the session, as clients are typically nervous having boudoir portraits made.

I *love* the fake lashes - I think they add so much to the shots! I’m even hoping to wear some myself one day! I think they’d make me feel like a movie star. What do YOU think?

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But my oldest son begged me.

And because I can use this to my benefit (getting him to sit for me when I want to practice ), I’m doing him a favor.

B. is a huge fan of ROBLOX, an online place for kids of all ages to create characters and build places. He describes it as “a really fun multiplayer game”. They have a new “Ambassador Program”, which allows them to earn more “tickets” which members can then spend to purchase clothing and accessories and such for their characters.

Sooo, I’m helping him to earn more by posting the links here. Whether you click on it or not, he’ll get 2 more tickets a day.

I am warning you, ladies (since most of you *are* women)… don’t introduce this to your husbands!. Unless you want to give him something to do while you watch a chick flick, or better yet, while you peruse Fig Leaf Studio without giving him a heads-up about your secret plans to have boudoir portraits made.

*As this post can be construed to be a bit sexist, I just wanted to warn you to be careful, too. I’ve only heard of men falling in love with playing at Roblox (and children of both genders), but I’m sure there are many women who enjoy it just as much. I’m just not one of them.

** Roblox admin: The links are here a couple of times! However, I changed some of the wording to make the post applicable to the blog. Here’s the official link for you, in case you need it to be EXACTLY as you have it.

Free Games at ROBLOX. Check out what I have been building lately!

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I thought the light was perfect for our session - cloudy, yet bright. That was fine during A.’s session, but as soon as we started B.’s session (10 minutes later), the sun came out.

As soon as we were done, however, it started snowing. I was wishing it had started during the session; I thought that would’ve been fun!

However, by the time we got home it was snowing hard - huge, heavy, wet snowflakes! Less than an hour later, it had stopped and the sun was shining again.

B. has such a hard time looking at the camera. It’s as though it’s the sun shining right in his eyes! We had to play a few games to get any with him looking at me *and* having his eyes open enough to look normal.

Oh, and he found a $1 bill right when we got to our location. It was like a birthday present from God/Universe/Whateveryoucallyoursource!

Happy Birthday, my babies.

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I want to build my portfolio and I’m discounting big time for the first three two one woman who sign up and pay!

You can read all about it here at my boudoir photography blog.

Here’s a fun photo I haven’t even shared on the boudoir site!

"Want your shirt back, Honey?"

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It’s even more awesome when you watch The Making of T-Mobile Dance.

Have a beautiful day!

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It’s a difficult time for so many people right now, so in light of this I’ve decided to make some changes to my pricing structure.

The fee for a session with me will continue to be $150. However, $100 of this will now apply toward prints, digital images or a collection. It will also apply toward the $250 minimum order, so in essence you will be saving $100!

I will be adding smaller digital collections as well, so watch for those… I’ll be sure to post when I’ve got them added to the website.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Just to make you smile, here’s a recent photo of my little one (already almost 4 years old, I can’t believe it!) made a few weeks ago before a haircut.

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I’m all about the face and capturing expressions, so my focus is right in line with their mission:

The purpose of this blog is to provide a photography sharing forum that focuses on the art of capturing faces and their various emotions. Each week, people from across the world will have the opportunity to enter their favorite face photos into two different categories ~ kids and adults. A judge will pick a winning photo from each category that will then be displayed on our home page.

I really love to focus on the eyes and work to bring them out and make them the main part of a portrait, so I was excited to see that this week’s contest is “The Eyes Have It”.

When I heard that, I immediately thought of this portrait of little I.,

taken last Fall at the CSU Oval; I knew I had to enter it into the contest.

The contest is open to everybody, not just professional or semi-professional photographers, so if you’ve got a photo you think is great, be sure to enter it into the contest!

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Besides peace, the candle also represents a strong spiritual connection and I wish that for everyone as well.

Happy New Year everyone!

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