Happy Halloween

Halloween Update: Lovely Lady Bug falls for the Mangled Mummy

For the past year I've been living with my boyfriend Josh. However, we had been having problems the past few months and separated in August. I had moved back in with my parents and been spending a lot of time out of town working. It was really hard and I distracted myself with work and friends. I even ended up dating someone else for a short time, but things ended up not working out. Even though he is a terrific guy, I realized we were much better as friends, and as Halloween grew near I started to really miss Josh. Halloween is both of our favorite holiday and I was really sad to not be spending it with him. I tried to avoid this sadness by staying out of town, but it turned out that I came home on the 28th and ended up spending Halloween in Tucson. Since I was home, without any plans on Halloween, I couldn't avoid seeing Josh. We spent the holiday together and ended up having a great time. This lovely little lady bug couldn't resist the mummy's charm. We had a blast all night carving pumpkins, dressing up and watching horror movies. By the end of the weekend we realized that we both missed each other immensely and we should try to work on our relationship. I'm nervous about how things will turn out, but I'm going to throw my cards to the wind and see where they fall!

Pickle Shots!

While I was staying in Atlanta, a good friend/family of Satni and the SKW crew, Lauren Skinner, came to visit from L.A. Santi through a surprise party for her and I got to help set it all up...I love parties! It's too bad the surprise was ruined though... Lauren found out about the party the day before. It was kept hush hush for two weeks, but when Santi sent out a reminder text to everyone the day before, Lauren had her sister's phone in her lap and intercepted the message. So, the surprise was a bust, but the party was still a success. Lauren was excited and quite taken back that there was a party for her. Everyone that came had a super good time!

During the party Lauren's sister Kimmy decided to make pickle shots. I was surprised that there were pickles at Santi's house...since he hates them so. When he heard what was going on he darted out of the kitchen screaming as if someone was running after him with one! How can someone be so afraid of pickles!? They're so yummy! Anyway, I was down for the shot! Let's do it!




A shot glass, tomato juice, vodka and a pickle...there you go! You eat the pickle after the shot. Just like a lime after tequila!

Back to Georgia

After spending two weeks in Texas I was supposed to drive with Kim back to AZ for the Arizona Shootout, a 3 day glamor modeling event in Phoenix. However, how our schedule ended up working out, we would not end up getting there in time to make it to the first day of the event, the meet-n-greet. This is a huge part of the event for me where I make a lot of contacts to work with throughout the year. It is also the night of the clothing swap between all the models which is a big reason I like to attend. I didn't really want to go if I couldn't be there the first day. Plus we would have to drive straight from Dallas to Phoenix in one night, a 14 hour drive, and then work the next morning. I was not looking forward to that. So, I decided not to drive back to AZ with Kimberly. Instead I flew out to Georgia to work with Sleeperkids World again and hang out with all my great Atlanta friends.

London In Austin

Got to spend a few days with London and her boyfriend Pat at their new home in Austin. This is London's first "real" home after living on the road for two years. She did live in Cleveland for a few months, but I don't really count that. She never really seemed happy in Ohio. Austin is much much different. She's bouncing off the walls with joy to be living here. Plus, she's been wanting to live here for awhile. After traveling around the country she decided that this is the best place to be! As far as I can tell, she isn't wrong.
There is always something to do in Austin and it has fun community that strives to Keep Austin Weird. So far we've gotten some great BBQ, walked around downtown and checked some of the several bars and shops, scoped out the state capitol building and watched the bats fly out from under the bridge at sundown. I love hanging out with Jes and Pat and am so happy they found a great place to live. They also found some kick ass roommates that are pretty cool to hang out with. I wish them the best of luck in this city and I can't wait to come back and visit once they're more settled in!

Driving to Texas

I sure notice once I cross the Texas border! I start seeing large stars everywhere, billboards cluttered with "Lonestar State" and "Texas", big T's displayed in windows. Texas definitely lets you know that you are in Texas, lol! I'm on the road with Kimberly Marvel for the next two weeks, while we visit Austin, Houston and Dallas. I have a few shoots lined up in each city and we will get to visit London at her new house in Austin!

Kim and I have worked together a few times before and recently roomed together in Tampa during Fetishcon in August, but this is our first time traveling with each other. Actually, this is my first time traveling with another model other than London. I love working and staying with other people, making new friends. Its one my favorite parts of my job. However, traveling with someone is a whole different story. To be with another person 24/7 can be trying, no matter how well you get along with that person. London and I have traveled so much together, that we just fall into a groove and don't have any problems. We just lucked out that way to be natural travel buddies. I'm curious at how well Kim and I will get along on the road.

So far, traveling with Kim has been good. I can tell that we are very different types of people and have different work styles. Traveling with her is going to be different than traveling with London, but I think it's going to be fun! I'm looking forward to having a new travel partner! We spent the whole drive from Tucson to Texas chatting away, catching up on each other's lives, making each other laugh. One thing I love about Kim is that she is silly fun :) She just says and does the silliest things sometimes that just makes me laugh. I hope we can continue to get along this well throughout our trip!

WrestleMania!

Here are some photos from my wrestling shoots with Sleeperkids' World.

ATL!

I've been spending the past two weeks in Atlanta, GA with Sleeperkid's World. Santiago, the owner and producer of the site invited me out to stay at his place and shoot for his website. It was a blast! I love wrestling! I had worked with Santi and a few of the SKW girls before when they came to Arizona this summer. It was nice to see these friends again. I also made several new friends! The SKW crew, all friends/family of Santi and Sleeperkid's World , is huge! There are so many loving people in Atlanta that I had a great time getting to know and spending time with!

The night I arrived, Santi had arranged a Welcome Party for me. I was welcomed with friendly faces, warm hugs, cold beer and Rockband! He even had a new puppy for me to play with. Life was awesome! I felt like a queen or something...I had never really had a party thrown for me before. I was very excited to be there and make new friends. And to think, this was all just part of my job...Yep! I sure do love what I do :)

The next day started work. It was hard work too! I spent the next few days training in wrestling manuvers and wrestling in videos for the site. Sometimes I would wrestle one-on-0ne versus another model, other there would be several of us in a shoot. The shoots were long and kept me active. I had to remember the moves I was doing, the moves that were being done around me, make the moves look good, act tough, not get hurt or hurt others, and try to stay looking pretty through it all. It was a lot to remember, tough to do, but oh...so much fun!

I loved learning all the moves! I had a great time getting thrown around the wrestling mats. Santi has a great mat room/studio at his house, which is a great place to work in. There is plenty of room to be tossed around. At first, I was beat up and lost most matches. But eventually, I got to win a few! Another great part was that I got to work with several other models, some long term SKW wrestlers and even a few pro wrestlers. I learned a lot from the people I worked with and had so much fun. It seemed as if we were always laughing and having a great time during the whole shoot. This tends to happen when you get several of us models together, but usually not much work gets done. Santi does a great job at getting the work from us he needs, while having fun too. We got several videos completed in efficient time, despite all the fun we had while shooting. It was great to be a part of such a great team! After a long day of shooting we would usually go out to dinner with everyone from the shoot with drinks and Rockband to follow afterward. I have never had so much fun with a whole week full of shooting before!

I had a few other shoots around Atlanta while I was there. I shot in a haunted house that was being constructed for Halloween. That was creepy, but cool! I also had a shibari ropework photoshoot with PassionAndSoul and Photognome. We shot at Joe's (Photognome) house and he had a suspension hook, so I was suspended by the rope up in the air. It was a really awesome experience, and I got some great images too!

Overall, I had a fabulous time in Atlanta. I was surrounded by wonderful people, made tons of new friends and got lots of work in. So, I'm able to pay my bills this month and come home with a little extra money! Yay for ATL!

Fun Times at Burningman...

Burningman: Evolution

Went to the Burningman festival for the second time this year. A whole city, which we call Black Rock, is created in the-middle-of-nowhere desert Nevada and...to me...and many, many others...it is the best city in the whole world. I absolutely love Black Rock City and everyone that lives there! It's my favorite place to be and I hope to attend every year that I am physically able to do so! It is very difficult to describe it. The best I've heard so far..."It's a happening". London wrote a great description of it in her blog, so instead of trying to summarize, improvise, or add-on to what she wrote, I'll have to ask you to read it from her:

"People keep asking me what Burning Man is. My answer to that is: Whatever you want it to be.

50,000 people journey towards Reno every September.... to celebrate the Burning Man Festival. Held in-the-middle-of-nowhere desert - an entire city is created. Difficult festival to explain because its not so much a festival but a CITY! Black Rock City has it's own police, post office, waffle house, music venues, tea houses, yoga centers, clubs, magic shows, a circus, even a Ballet show from NYC. Fire dancers, hoola girls, vampire strippers!..... Everything is Free. No currency. Kindness and bartering. An eclectic crowd. Residents come from all over the world - I have held conversations with scientists from NASA, teachers from the inner city Bronx, a 20 year old kid sailing the world in his sailboat, stealing food from wedding parties and surviving off adventure....
Every minute at Burning Man - something fantastic is being created and experienced. Want to know what I am talking about? Check out the Burning Man website - read through their Theme Camps - experience the photography - you will (kinda sorta) understand what I am talking about.....

Where else can you find a REAL diner with stainless steel counters, with coffee and grilled cheese sandwiches, and a pretty lady in a hair net..... 3 miles in the middle of no where at 5am in the desert?

Where else can you get lost in the desert and find a pay phone and talk to God?

Where else can you ride a bike in your underwear, covered in Camel Fur, wearing Swim Goggles, with two fingers up your ass? And when you get off that bike - someone with a Hippo suit will want to give you a hug?

Burning Man creates a culture that should exist in every day life.... Neighbors are golden! Judgment is rarely passed. Respect for the weird and the outrageous! Breaking out of the box. Art and hugs. Everything is so weird and so strange and new and beautiful - it is hard to keep up with the city as it grows.... Matthew and I spend a lot of time at the HeebieGeebie camp, a healing camp, a meditation camp full of soft spoken spiritual types - I strive for the way that I feel at Burning man. Want to bottle it up and encompass it in my everyday life.... I find myself there, I get lost, I get scared, I meet new people, I ride my bike till I cannot breathe, I roll in the dust, I hug strangers, then the sand storm comes and dusts up my glasses.... Fucking Burning Man. So grateful it exists. So so so grateful that this will be my third year attending.

As I type this, thousands of hard working volunteers are out in the desert - staking out well organized roads, setting up the perimeter, building camps, creating a trash fence, preparing for the rest of the family to show up.... next year... I want to go in early. I want to see the city rise out of the lake-bed and into city....."

New baby!

One of my oldest friends, Jessica, just had a baby! Her first! I am so excited for her. She had him the day before I came home from Fetishcon so I wasn't there when he was born, but I got to see them in the hospital before they went home. He was named after is father and is the fifth generation to carry on the name. John William Paul V. We call him Johnny V or Johnny 5! Anyone remember the movie Short Circuit? Jessica and I grew up watching that movie so we love calling him Johnny 5! He's so precious :)

The craziest part about this is that the whole time we were growing up, Jessica claimed that she would never have kids. She didn't like them and had no desire to have them. It was a fact that anyone she partnered up with would have to deal with. It is still shocking to me now that she is now a mommy and happy to be one. She loves kids now! I was very different on the other hand, I have always loved kids and always knew at I wanted a family. I have had several jobs working with children, in daycares, schools, camps....But I am far away from having any babies at the moment. I would love to have children one day, but right now I am happy modeling, traveling and being a free bird!

It is just so ironic to me that she started a family before me. If you would've asked me in high school where I thought the two of us would be in 10 years...I would've said I would be married and starting to have children and Jessica would be single and traveling the country. But as it turns out...it is the other way around. I'm the single one traveling about and she just had a baby! Oh, how life can surprise you!

Special Thanks!

Fetishcon was an absolute blast! And for that I need to give a special thanks to Dave with Lonestar Damsels for sponsoring my trip, being a wonderful producer to work with and an overall great friend. I have worked with Dave for a year and a half now and I always have a fabulous time when we are together!

This year we held another Batman shoot and have decided to make it a FetishCon tradition. So stay tuned for the 3rd annual Batman shoot that will be taking place next year 2010. Here is a shot from the shoot this year. As always, I play Ms. Barbara Gordon...Batgirl! I love playing Batgirl and get into this character for several different kinds of superheroine shoots. It's so much fun! Na, na, na, nanana...na na na....BATGIRL! :)


This year we had Kordelia Devonshire, Devon as the Riddler, Rossbound as Batman, and SleeperKid

I also need to give thanks to Steve Villa with Girl Next Door Bondage as Catwoman, as the boy wonder, Robin. We had such a great time! Catwoman and Riddler kidnapped me, as a trap for Batman and Robin. The three "good guys" were then tied up and threatened with one of Riddler's home-made bombs. Ha! Story lines in these shoots are just hilarious ;) who is another great damsel-in-distress bondage producer to work with. Although I did not work with Steve during fetishcon, he featured some of the stuff we had shot together at his booth on the convention floor and is always a great supporter of the work I do.

GirdleBound

Girdlebound is a site where you can find beautiful women in gorgeous vintage lingerie. I got to do a shoot for the site at Fetishcon with photographer Larry Bradby. Larry is a great friend, so we had a blast shooting. Last time I saw Larry we were at the DEAC in Detroit and we did way more goofing off than shooting, but we still came out with some great shots!

Anyway, I had been shooting all day and running around like crazy. I was starving and was invited out to a lovely dinner, but I decided to skip dinner and do a shoot for some fun! I’m sorry I didn’t make dinner Richard, but I hope you enjoy the photos. I enjoy your clothes and your company too, of course. Thanks ;)



You can now find me on the site here as TracytheTiger.

Pool Parties

What can I say about the Fetishcon late night pool parties other than, “Whoa!” If you’ve been there, you know what I’m talking about. Huge pool and spa filled to the max with fetishcon folks. It’s where everyone gathers after their nightly activities whether that is dinner, a fetish party, a night at the lobby bar, a night full of shoots, fun in the play room, or all of the above. The pool is the place to end the night! Everyone’s making out, flashing each other, huggin’ on each other, licking whip cream of each other’s asses….oh wait, maybe that was just me, but I doubt it ;)




I had a lot of great times in the pool with my lovely ladies Samantha Grace and Kordelia Devonshire! I love you guys, Muah XOXOXO!! Also had a great time with the SKW crew. You guys are so much fun! And I could also count on Gary Pranzo from Media Impact to be laughing it up in the spa. He’s too much fun! And there were so many others that I just had a blast with!

Best pool experience would have to be when the fire alarm went off. Everyone in the building was evacuated. It was nuts! Glad the pool was only on the 5th floor. We couldn’t use the elevators, so I feel bad for the people that were up on the 17th floor and had to chuck it down all those stairs. Once out of the building, it was like a block party on the street. Most people were either coming from a shoot, a fetish party or the pool. So it looked a little like a fetish circus! People half naked in bathing suits, others in full latex and other fetish gear. What a sight for the locals driving by! I really wanted to climb on the fire truck that was parked out in front of the hotel, but figured it was best not to get in trouble. What a crazy night. This FetCon will now be remembered as “the one with the fire evac”, Ha!

Had Such an Amazing Time!!!

Fetishcon was such a blast! I can't even begin to describe how much fun I had. I worked my ass off all day and partied like a rockstar all night. I had lots of shoots, met many new people, made tons of new friends and got to see so many people I absolutely love! There was no time for sleep, I don't think I ever sat down for more than 30 min at a time. It was go-go-go and I ran on pure adreline for 5 days! It was crazy, but so much fun =)

There is so much to say about all of my wonderful adventures at the Con, but for now here's a few pictures. I've been pretty busy since I've been home and don't have it in me to write much. But I sure do miss the good times in Tampa!