People are always telling us that we need to talk more about our personal lives here on the blog, so that we can let our blog readers ‘in’ on our lives a bit more. So, dear blog readers, here’s where we’re at this week: we are feeling just a little stressed. MOST of the time, Marissa and I are ‘on-top-of-the-world-girls’… where we can tackle anything and everything that comes our way. We usually LOVE big ideas and big decisions. We usually THRIVE off of craziness and a million cool projects happening all at once. But this week, friends, we have to admit that we’ve been feeling the stress of having a million cool projects in the works. Don’t get me wrong here – we absolutely love our job, we love teaching photographers, we love traveling and speaking and leading workshops and creating websites and making clients feel beautiful and running a busy, high-volume studio. We love it all. But there are days when it all sort of catches up to you, and all you want to do is get away from it all. This week has been a little stressful for us, and we’re both feeling the weight of some big decisions that we have to make. Marissa sent me a text message this morning that said: “Feeling super-overwhelmed… last night had a dream that you and I were being chased by a bull elephant. Symbolic maybe?” It made me laugh – but it also made me think that we need to find our own little ways of relieving stress. One of my favorite stress reliever is taking a bath… “There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.” ~Sylvia Plath … And then I also love reading and journaling. This morning before work, I spent an hour on the beach, reading my Bible, sitting in silence, and just trying to calm my thoughts and heart before the day started. It was wonderful, and I definitely felt more relaxed and refreshed today. So the question that we want to pose to you all is this… what’s your favorite stress-reliever? We’d love to hear your thoughts! xoxo, Kimberlee (and Marissa)
Boudoir photographer Teresa Nora Trobbe posted this adorable photo on our Boudoir Divas Photographers FB Page. I thought it was so stinkin’ cute I just had to share. Thanks for the shout out as well Teresa! That was really sweet. Here is what she posted….”LOVE The Divas and workshop is sooo worth-it! I have been shooting boudoir for about 6 years and yet I learned so much…the timing could not have been better. Even Everest raises the Bra to the beautiful Divas!!”
Our Oct boudoir workshop is totally full but if you want more info on the next we will launch please visit www.boudoirshop.com for more info.
The speaking engagement in Irvine will take place at the Hyatt Regency (17900 Jamboree Road, Irvine, CA 92614). We will be speaking at 3:30pm.
The speaking engagement in Dallas is taking place at the Crowne Plaza Dallas (14315 Midway Rd, Addison, TX 75001).
Hope to see you all there!
We have been working on this baby every spare minute that we get. Boudoirinternational.com you will be the best boudoir photography website on the planet!!!! Or my name is Marissa C. Boucher! Ha.
We are thrilled about the idea of all of us pooling our resources and bringing boudoir to the masses rather than trying to push our individual studios. Then when millions upon millions of potential clients go to bou int, there will be plenty of love to go around. Yes, I know, I dream big. I can just imagine a boudoir international ad campaign and a boudoir article in the pages of Glamour Magazine already. I mean they are finally embracing celebrating “real beauty” which is the perfect lead-in for boudoir.
In fact we are already making only the first move on many big ad campaigns to come. Check it out… will hit the newstands in Nov… in BRIDES MAGAZINE! Yay! What do you think… still need to justify, center, and all that jazz, but we are digging it.
Email Ashley Sapp at [email protected] to get more info and to see if you have got what it takes to be on the biggest and best elite list of boudoir photographers! Please include your website address as well as the city or cities you would like to be listed in.
Miss Stacy Clark, this out-of-this-world singer/songwriter asked us to not only photograph her earlier this year but also, gasp, lets us use her songs for our slideshows and marketing videos. Well now this beauty is officially a celebrity! Yay, she is itunes featured free download this week ! You deserve every bit of the recognition Stacy. Although we already knew you were a star inside and out. xoxo- Marissa and Kimberlee
That’s right, you guys – it’s FINALLY time for us to start posting some videos from Paris! 🙂 Here’s one that shows our outdoor fashion shoot with our fab model LoArna… we absolutely LOVED shooting on the streets of Paris, and our workshop attendees also got some stellar images for their portfolios! We LOVE Paris! 🙂
We’re leaving tomorrow for San Francisco! Woo-hoo! We are thrilled & honored to be platform speakers at the PPC Expo! Click here for more details. If you’re planning on coming to our presentation (on Saturday)… check out these awesome prizes you could win!!!
We also have to give a huge SHOUT-OUT to our fabulous sponsor for this speaking program… BAY PHOTO! Be sure to stop by their booth at the expo & check out some of our favorite products (during our speaking program, we’ll be sharing our top 3 products that we offer our clients, all from Bay!)
Oh – AND – one last thing! Immediately after our speaking presentation on Saturday evening, there’s gonna be a fun PARTY! So be sure to stop by and say hello! We’d love to chat and hang out w/ all of you!
Wow. This is a dream!!! Honestly I never would have imagined that this would be coming together the way it is. So nothing is solidified yet, but since I am sure you all will need to mull over this decision for a few weeks, and since we will probably be opening up for registration in the next weeks, we wanted to give you an update so you could start; A. justifying it to yourself, which by the way we have to throw in that not only will you catapult your business completely to the next level ten times faster with this, but you will be able to completely write off a trip to Jamaica, B. start convincing your significant other, which by the way, kids and spouses are invited or C. confirm your “YES!” to yourself and start celebrating!
So here is are the loose, unconfirmed details (subject to change at this point):
An incredible resort that I have had the privilege of staying at when I was younger.
It’s gorgeous, spacious, right on the beach and it has, uh, fifty one pools!!! We are hoping the workshop will be in a secluded villa that
looks like the one above. I can’t even fathom how incredible your images of the models are going to look!!! Attendees will be required to stay on the resort. Our hope is to have 4 rooms available in the Villa for couples or for people who wouldn’t mind paying extra to have the whole space to themselves. Others can choose among other accommodations at resort.
The Boudoir Workshop will follow the same format as all of our others with very special perks and additions thrown in during the shooting portions of the workshop and an additional few hours of outdoor shooting. We will be launching more thorough info in a couple of weeks.
We are thinking the date of the Workshop will be the first week in May, 2011.
We are working through what our expenses will be but the cost of the workshop will be around $1200-$1400, not including accommodations which are looking like $700 per person for 5 days/4 nights at this incredible luxury resort, note that it isn’t an all inclusive resort.
As a reference, airfare to Jamaica from San Diego is looking like $500 per person. So all in all this workshop will be quite a bit cheaper than our previous Paris workshops considering airfare, lodging and the price of food in Europe.
Yay!!! So, what do you all think? Are you interested?
xoxo- Marissa & Kimberlee
Happy Friday everyone! So if you follow our blog at all, or know any of us here in the studio, you know MOST of us are big Twilight fans (me, (ashley), not so much). Marissa and Kimberlee even have a life size picture of Edward in their office. (Marissa is Team Edward and Kimberlee is Team Jacob if you were wondering). So, when I came across this movie premier for a Twilight Parody movie, we just had to share it. Even if you aren’t die hard Twilight fans like myself, this should have you laughing. Check it out and enjoy your weekend!
YAY! We are sooooo excited to announce that….
That’s right… the Boudoir Divas photography studio will be featured on the news tomorrow morning, on FOX channel 5 news! Heather Ford (the fabulous Fox 5 reporter) will be here doing a few features on our studio, all about the boudoir experience, our “Mama-To-Be”™ maternity photo sessions, and our Pin-Up Parties!™
