Going in a new direction

I'm pretty flippin excited. I'm attending the Business class tomorrow on campus and a few other classes. I'm working on my business plan. I'm having prototypes made of a product and then I get to present it to a bank. I am scared, nervous and so super excited. I'm not going to mention what I am doing until it is set in stone and I get a business loan. Fingers crossed that it happens. I've been praying really hard about this.

I am a photographer. I have been since I married my ex in 1998. He accidentally overbooked a wedding and I had to shoot it. That is how I started photography. I did soooo many weddings with my ex. My life was consumed by weddings. I think I ate, lived and breathed weddings. After years of marriage we split and went our seperate ways. Anyways.....that's a whole different story and I honestly could care less about it. It's just a part of my past, I learned from the past marriage and gained a great skill. I mainly do boudoir nowadays. I enjoy it. I think it's such a wonderful genre and enjoy meeting all kinds of women. After MANY shoots with different ladies, I have been hearing the same "need" for something over and over repeatedly. It has my brain wheels turning and I'm ready to provide the need to so many women in this city. I want to make this need a reality.

If this comes into fruition I will be saying good bye to photography. Maybe not 100% but for the most part I will be letting go of it. It's time for me to move on to a new and exciting phase in my life. Although I adore creating photos for women I think I have found an even more exciting thing to offer the ladies.

Way excited over here! I can hardly sleep! Doug is so on board with this and has thrown some good ideas my way. I have done so much research I can hardly sit still here.

Chicago!

We finally got to take Amelia to Chicago! We took an Amtrak and then the Megabus to Chicago. It's actually a LOT of fun! I can't wait to take another Amtrak ride somewhere else. I really, really like it! And you can't beat the price of the tickets. Megabus was $30 bucks from St. Louis to Chicago for 3 people!! Holy camoly!! It was a great experience and I'd do it again!

We got to see my family and my friends in Chicago. It was a really great time catching up with them and seeing the city. I ate so much food, I'm gonna have to double up on the workouts in order to stay put with my weight! Geeez!

It was a great little vacation. Doug wants to go to a beach next year and I couldn't agree more. Even though the city was fun to visit, I'd like a nice relaxing time on a beach. Sounds good to me!

I'm going to Vegas in September. Going to meet up with Princess Farhana and take one of her classes in Vegas! Mr. Yaz is supposed to be making the trip from Egypt to the states and staying at our house for a month. If he does, I'm going to sew costumes with him and honestly - I couldn't be more giddier than a kid in a candy store! I SO want to learn to sew better and to learn from a master costume maker! This would be a dream! Approx. 30 days in crash course sewing. Sign me up. Oh please sign me up!!!!! I could eat, live, breathe costuming and creating. I want to be able to make costumes for the studio that are 1 size fits all with special velcro and ties. So I hope he makes the trip here. Plus it will be fun to hang out with Mr. Egypt himself. HA!

Amelia starts 6th grade soon. She visited my mom for 2 weeks. Now she's off to visit her grandjo for 2 weeks and then school begins. I'm really sad to see her growing so quickly but I can't stop it! She will be 12 this year and then a teenager next year. It's hard to believe ... time has flown by so quickly. She is such a cool kid. Brilliant, funny and well adjusted. I am a very proud momma!