Seattle Erotic Art Festival 2007

I am disappointed in the Erotic art Festival this year. We went both Saturday and Sunday, hoping after our visit Saturday, that perhaps Sunday would offer more - more everything, I guess. It didn't.

I mean there were a few exceptionally beautiful and exceptionally erotic pieces in the smallish space, but we walked around the whole place and didn't see much of interest.

One of our very favorite artists did have pieces in the juried and invited show this year, Carolyn Weltman. Her piece Omi, a giclee print on rag paper, for one. She is a hot artist! Check out her stuff at her Art at Large pages, for a real treat


Another artist that we enjoyed this year was an artist we hadn't seen before at the Art Festivals, but wow! Tricia Boyko's Porno Corset, really sexy in an unexpected way. She is apparently a costume designer in Vancouver, BC, and this piece was beautifully executed!

But honestly? We were both rather disappointed in the smaller than last year's offerings, and a few pieces, we wondered how the heck the jury picked 'those'!

Parking and traffic sucked, not all that unusual for Seattle, I suppose, but Saturday was also a huge St. Patrick's Day Parade a few blocks north of the venue, so yuck.

Podcasts and Panties

Ok, I have an admission to make: I am not a geek, not even close! Frankly, learning all these new and geeky things is scaring me worse than my first time under the glowing bulb of the Violet Wand.

I am still working hard on the website, and just published Tawseman's Swicki, (the one down there VVVVVV) and now am learning how to do podcasts and flash pages, along with gif animations. lol, the gif animations for the website will be a bit of fun when they are done.

The podcast sessions are a bit harder to learn, but that is probably because I have to learn scripting and podcast software at the same time, plus I am lining up guests for interviews and a couple of surprises.

Oh, the panties in the title...I was allowed to buy three pair of panties for my book signing tour next month. Usually, Master prefers me to not wear panties, but he thinks for the book signings and other non-lifestyle events, panties might be a good idea. Actually, they look a bit silly, those three little pair of panties in that big underwear drawer.

new swicki search tool! very cool

I have been looking for a great search tool for us and 'I think I've got it, by jove!'

Swicki, silly name, but cool tool.

check out the Dominance and submission swicki at eurekster.com

Fun Stuff

well, it has been a few days since I posted here. part of the reason is that I was flying again (still?) from a great hot violet wand scene with my Master, and partly because Michelle turned me on to some awesome webmaster tools and newsletter development sites.

first, here is what I remember about the scene - IT WAS HOT! lol, yeah, I don't really remember much after the first few minutes but I do remember screaming 'thank you, Master!' about a billion times and I do remember cumming so much that I was dehydrated the next morning. Fortunately, though, Master always thinks ahead and had a big juice bottle of pineapple and cherry juice he had frozen earlier waiting next to my side of the bed...melted just enough to drink and still icy cold.

The new tools and toys Michelle turned me onto are going to help us make A Caged Heart community a great place for kinksters and explorers! One tool is Constant Contact's publication software and email management system. I am so thrilled to find this site!

I will post more later. Right now, I am going to go design our Grand Opening newsletter with special membership discounts and preorder specials for Whispered Dreams, and then, later I will install a chat program to play around with. Oh yeah, I also need to find cool BDSM avatars for chatters and install those too. Dang, I also will need to set up the photo album soon, so that we can publish the pics from our violet wand session.

Back to Reality

Well, back to our reality anyway.

I finally came down from the wonderful subspace I had this past weekend, and two things came to mind: I am thankful my Master is not a neat freak and the second thing, I am thankful for the trust in our lives and the way that trust sets me free to fly and enjoy our life together.

Mini-rant coming on - beware. So, there we are last night, sitting at a restaurant for dinner. It wasn't crowded at all, there seemed to be too many servers, not too few, it was rather early for the dinner crowds...so why did it take 20 minutes even to get our drink orders placed? and, why did it take another 28 minutes to GET our drinks? Well, to be honest, it might have been longer, but Master decided to leave and go elsewhere after the 28 minutes, so I don't know the answers to my questions. shrugs, we won't be going back to Applebee's again.

Now, a full blown rave! WIAN Studios is the best, most awesome, greatest, etc etc etc, lol manufacturer of floggers I have even had the pleasures, intense pleasures to purchase floggers from and enjoy the accurately described sensations from their catalog. Oi! I truly mean awesome. Last night, after we finally had dinner at Red Robin, across the street from Applebee's, we came home and did a few minor chores around the house. Then, Master told me to go to the dungeon and wait for him.

Well, let me tell you -- when he wants to play it doesn't take much coaxing on his part to have me running to the dungeon to strip off and have myself in position, lol. When he came in a few minutes later and put my blindfold on me, I was already er, rather moist. He had decided to play a game Indentify the Implement and wooo hooo I LOVE that game! When I guess correctly, I get two extra strokes of whatever it is, and when I guess incorrectly, I get three extra strokes, so it is a win win for us both!

I had some difficulty choosing correctly with the canes...it is hard to tell the difference between the 1/4" and the 3/8" canes, but mmmmm, I finally got it right after about 40 strokes each! LOL

I was planning on coming here last night to post a blog, but after our game, Master tucked me tight into bed and I slept through the night all warm and cozy, so ooops sorry, no blog last night.

Monday Madness and the Bad submissive

After a wonderful, exciting weekend, it is back to the real world today. My stomach is a mess, I think from nerves. Today, tonight really, Whispered Dreams will go to the publisher for final pre-press formatting. And, today, my stomach is in a tiny little knot and my head aches and blech.

My editor warned me it would be nervewracking, but what she did not tell me was that it would be worse than giving birth to a 25 lb squalling infant in the back seat of a New York taxicab after 120 days of labor! Okay, I have not really ever given birth to a 25 lb kid, he was only 9 lb 8 oz, he was born in a hospital and labor was long, but only 30 hours or so.

Master is working overtime again tonight, to build up a good sized 'fund' for our kinky adventures the last two weeks of March, but if he isn't too weary when he gets home tonight, I am going to beg a beating. Maybe a nice long good girl flogging, a little (or a lot) cock sucking as a thank you, or hell, whatever Master wants. I just know that he understands how much a great caning or flogging can settle me right down and make me feel extra relaxed and at peace.

So, our photos will be here Thursday from the session Saturday. It will be interesting to see what exactly he got on disk, because honestly, I don't have much memory of most of the photo session, just that I was having a blast and that the morning after, I sported a few cane and crops marks across my ass. Go figure, lol

Erotic Photography at its 'Funnest'

So last night we did our photo shoot. I am still a bit fuzzybrained from all the fun we had, but I thought I should check in and say heya.

We will be posting some of the photos on A Caged Heart website, but we won't even get the disks for another 3 or 4 days, until our photographer finishes tweaking or whatever he has to do.

Nine costume changes (and several more no costume changes) and 3 hours later, Master brought me home stumbling drunk with endorphins. Nice day!

So today, Master is at work, and I am working on my ads for Portland Kinkfest. Everything seems to be moving in slow motion. But, that is okay since my brain is moving in slowmo too, lol.

Whispered Dreams is in the final stages pre-publishing. Poor Michelle! My sweet and excellent editor asked me the other night, "So, have you made any more changes I need to know about?" Of course I had, poor her. She did elicit a promise that I would not make any more changes or rewrites...so, I guess I need to sit on my hands and not break the promise, .

We are getting excited about Kinkfest, but really that is nothing new, we get excited (or at least I get excited) by all the events we attend. We're looking for a new TENS unit, a matched set of floggers (WIAN Studios for sure!) and a few other sensation toys, but really, it is already too hard to get all our favorite toys in the large rolling case we take to events. Oh, well...maybe we just need another large rolling case.

Okey dokey, I am off to try to finish the ads for Kinkfest, and then to work some more on A Caged Heart website. I am loving Coffee Cup software!