On Tuesday I modelled for another Yerbury Workshop at the beautiful Maunsel House about 10 minutes drive from my house. The last workshop we did there was back in February (linky) when the grounds were covered in snow, so we mostly stayed indoors but this time I spent the majority of the day outdoors.

Arrived around 9am and got ready with Lozie who was also modelling. She introduced me to Vaseline Cocoa Butter body oil which I absolutely have to get some of, it makes a really nice delicate sheen on the skin.

The morning was spent with Trevor giving a talk and then demonstrating how they work, setting up different shots with Lozie and I while the delegates listened and took a few of thier own shots.

Then break for lunch, they provide the most yummy food at Maunsel House! Home-made chicken and mushroom pie with many vegetables and then apple pie and custard for desert. I was pretty hungry and managed two helpings of main course and also polished off desert (and this was after eating plenty of coconut biscuits on the coffee breaks earlier! I think modelling naked makes me more hungry than usual!). I love the room that lunch is served in at Maunsel too, it's like a small bar with stone walls all totally covered in antique weapons and taxidermy mounts. I need to take some photos if I'm there again sometime!

After lunch the delegates split into two groups (one indoor group with Trevor and one outdoor group with Faye) and got to set up thier own shots and try out what they had learned in the morning. I modelled for both outdoor groups, really enjoying the mild weather. The wind was slightly chilly but I totally forget about that once I get into posing. Managed to get a little more scraped than I intended by doing odd poses on my shoulders on the hard groud (but it looked cool, this is the important thing!) and went home feeling tired but satisfied that I had done a good job. Muscles aching slightly the next day, but in that good way that means I wored hard!

There are several of Trevor ad Faye's images already up on their blog, I think this one is my favourite of me so far :)

Hope everyone had a nice St Valentine's day, if you're into that sort of thing! I made use of my National Trust membership and had a day out at Castle Drogo, known as the last castle to be built in England. Though it's more of a folly than a real castle. It was still cool. Went on a small rooftop tour with amazing views out over Dartmoor. The highlight of this was meeting the castle kitty which had decided to venture out on to the roof :)

Being a little spoilt for choice on pics to post today. First pics from my recent shoot with John Tisbury. It's been a long time since I shot anything remotely involving bondage, though obviously this was much more decorative than serving any restrictive purpose!


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( several more with less odd posing...! )

And secondly, I just got sent some preview images from another of the photographers, Viran De Silver, who shot me at the Yerbury Workshop at Maunsel House (hopefully it's obvious by now why I kept pimping this workshop so much! :)


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( and here's 1 more.. )

I was quite pleased with the makeup on that last one (did it myself with some new stuff I got in the sales).

Aside from a lingering sniffle and cough, I'm almost recovered from the ill of this week. My body suddenly realised I hadn't eaten properly for 3 days yesterday and I was met with ravenous hunger soon fulfilled by an enormous plate of home made chilli. I love cooking chilli, it's one of the few things I can cook well. Excessive amount of birds eye dried peppers is the key. Though I always forget not to touch my nose or eyes after handling them. Tonight I shall be continuiing the tasty food theme with a big juicy steak with peppercorn sauce and garlic mushrooms. Nom nom.

Alas no TG for me. Mixture of feel-that-I-should-rest but mostly because I'm still waiting on payment for a big job I did last month that I was expecting to have by now, so a bit broke until it comes through. And as I am temporarily without a railcard, I don't even want to consider how much the full train fare to London is.

I also wanted to share this image I got sent from photographer Tom Lee. It was shot at the Yerbury Seminar I modelled for recently. I mentioned in a previous entry here that the delegates had the afternoon to set up their own shots. I was particularly looking forward to seeing the images from the copper bathtub, I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it! This is the first one so far. I am also liking the way my butt is reflecting the colour of the copper reflections! lol.

Back home from the workshop earlier, very tired but had a fantastic day! Maunsel House was an amazing place to shoot, just full of decadent bedrooms, bathrooms, gorgeous furniture and rather a lot of armour/weapons and taxidermy. I arrived slightly early which gave me a chance to wander around in the snow covered grounds a little. The landscape looked amazing in the snow. Didn't get to do any pics in the snow in the end as it all melted by the afternoon but the house was so cool it didn't matter.

I took a couple of quick snapshots of my own before I started modelling..



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The morning was spent doing demonstrations with Faye and Trevor, with myself and Lozie taking turns to pose. Was really interesting to watch Lozie model, she has pretty much the opposite body shape to me (incredibly slender and petite, almost waifish, in a good way!) and the shapes made were different to those that I make. I was itching to take photos of her myself (if only I knew how to use a camera!)

After lunch we then split into 2 groups and the delegates set up their own shots. Managed to squeeze in some pics wearing my new latex dress from Lady Lucie at the end too. The green latex looked cool with my hair, kind of poison ivyish. I wore my white ballet heel shoes too. I'm sure I used to able to stand in them better than I could today. Don't know if it was because I was tired or because what muscle I had has turned to jelly since I've stopped walking for 30-40mins every day! Pics still looked cool from what I saw though :)

Shall be posting a selection of the results of the workshop over the next week or so!

In other news, I am "model of the month" over at Nocturnal Models. They did a small interview with me which I answered in my usual rubbish-at-interviews style. The little blurb they wrote about me was very kind though!

And also I'm published on a full page in this month's issue of Advanced Photoshop magazine with an image by Rebecca Parker. The main image is the 'before' pic with the final pic in the corner - I'm wearing my rather amazing made-to-measure corset from Starkers Corsets. I hadn't realised that my waist wasn't even altered in the final pic, it really is that shape closed! :)



I need to do some more shoots with it this year!