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Celebrate 2025 with bread!
Homemade Bread
use melted butter instead of oil
Happy New Year!!!!
Is your resolution (starting tomorrow of course) to eat less processed food? To take care of your body with actual foods and ingredients you recognize? Me, too. I mean I started this a couple months ago when I listened to Dr. Casey Means on the Megyn Kelly podcast and Tucker Carlson's interview.
I've always had this vague "do better" and "eat healthier" mentality. Count the calories, watch the fiber and protein intake, stay away from allllll the sugar. Now, Dr. Casey Means wrote a book and it is intense. I find it kind of adorable because she doesn't have kids yet. You know how before you're a parent you have lots of "I will never...xyz" and then reality teaches you a thing or two.
So, I will never strive to be 100% "good energy" like she is because that's not the world I currently live in. Instead of cutting out all the bad, I'm finding ways to replace with better. Does it take more time? Yes, but I've learned to enjoy it. Does it take more money? Not really, all those packaged foods are freaking expensive now. So the first thing I really feel like I mastered is homemade white fluffy bread. I had a few fails along the way. First try: Too crusty
First Try: Too Crusty
For sandwich bread, I prefer a softer crust
Second Try:
I left the oven light on while it was proofing and essentially baked it like an EZ Bake Oven.
Third Try:
nailed it. It's amazing with herbed cream cheese from South Mountain Creamery and local tomatoes.
So much better than a bag of Cheetos. Are my kids on board with all of this? Nope. Do I force them to eat for "good energy" all the time? Nope. Do I force them to eat it 50% of the time? Yup. I'm converted. I feel more satisfied with food, I feel virtuous for cutting out the poisons I fed my body for 40 years, and I feel hopeful that maybe if I take good care of my body, my body will take good care of me for another 40+ years.
Digital files kind of suck
IT's christmas eve and i'm feeling nostalgic
We live in a digital world. It's how we communicate (duh, you're reading this), it's how we socialize, it's how we shop, and it's how we entertain ourselves.
Sadly, it's also the primary way we hold on to our memories. I remember flipping through my Nana & Papa's wedding album and family scrapbooks. Holding those photos in my hands, I felt like I was taken back in time.
I'm old enough that I grew up taking selfies with a polaroid or disposable film camera. Con: Most were terrible Pro: I still have most of them in a box. Then shortly after college, everything started switched to little digital pocket cameras. Then came the iphones. Pro: practice makes perfect on those selfies Con: I have literally no idea where most of those digital files went and I have a few corrupt drives that probably mean I'll never see them again. Well, what about the cloud? It's not as much fun to hover over a digital screen with all that stress-causing blue light and click down memory lane.
I don't even have a wedding album!!! I've been married for more than 15 years. 7/8 discs are backed up on the cloud and i'm too overwhelmed to make my own album. So I look at the one and only framed print we have on the wall of my bedroom. And my wedding was way too much fun to relegate to a single posed photo. I still don't know what happened to disc 7, but its gone and took the memories with it.
All of that to say, I'm a firm believer in prints and, even better, albums. It's really difficult to lose a 12x16 handmade album. It's also a lot more fun to browse page by page than it is to scroll my phone. So if a client truly demands digitals only, I can do that for the same price and throw in a free album. 😉 I offer the best of both worlds, a beautiful album you'll cherish for decades and still have the ability to send a naughty text. And yes, you'll have the full size files for backup. Because sometimes physical things do disappear in fires, floods, etc. So indulge in the tactile intimacy of an album and fall in love with both yourself and your photos.
Lingerie for red sessions
I love jewel tones! I love Christmas! I love bling! I love Valentine’s Day. I love Christmas lights… but that’s irrelevant here.
We are in the middle of our Red Sessions for Christmas and Valentine's Day gifts. These outfits pair perfectly with the red set, or just for a little fun at home
Featured lingerie finds:
Top Left - HONEY BIRDETTE - Josephine $295
Top Right - YANDY - pearl body jewelry $38
Bottom Left - AMAZON - body chain $10
Bottom Right - HONEY BIRDETTE - Charlotta - $190
See you next Tuesday!
Ms. N - an even better session
Hello, gorgeous!
Let me introduce you to the fabulous Ms. N. This was not her first boudoir photoshoot! But while she said her last experience was "fine" and the photos were "okay," she was ready for something a little more special to celebrate her weight loss goals and to see the beautiful woman her husband tells her he sees.
That just happens to be my specialty! I made sure to create a photoshoot that created a feeling and photos she loved. "Fine" would be a devastating description of Lavish Boudoir. I mean a total knife to the heart because that is not enough for my clients.
Leading up to her session, I sent her some wardrobe ideas in her favorite colors and sent her my Boudoir Bootcamp workbook. She elected to add our couture wings to her session, and let me tell you... that brought out a whole new level of confidence for her. No longer was she feeling shy and unsure. She was feeling like the amazingly gorgeous woman I saw. The woman her husband saw. If that isn't a win, I don't know what is. When she saw her photos at the reveal, she couldn't resist adding a few extra things to her pre-paid album. No one ever expects to truly love as many photos as they do. It was such a joy to photograph N, and I hope she comes back to see me for another photoshoot. This one will be even better.
CLICK EACH PHOTO TO SEE THE FULL IMAGE WITHOUT A CROP
See you next week with some fun new boudoir wardrobe ideas!
REd Sessions
I know, I know. You're still recovering from Thanksgiving.
How was it? Mine was spent in Texas since my husband had job training that week. At least I didn't have to do the cooking!
But let's get thinking ahead for Christmas and Valentine's Day because if you feel you're overwhelmed now... just wait until you freak out and realize you've got zero time to come up with the most romantic/amazing/sexy gift ever.
So let's just take care of it now. I'm offering simple boudoir sessions with a red romantic theme.
Red lips + red satin sheets + red faux leather folio. 😍 for just $750!
These limited sessions are available during the months of December & January, but you'll want to reserve your spot now because I have very limited availability.
*December sessions have guaranteed Christmas or Valentine's delivery
** January sessions have guaranteed Valentine's delivery
Want 15% off?
ADD AN ALBUM & USE THE CHECKOUT CODE: GIFTUPGRADE
See you next tuesday!
Cheers, Leslie
