This ain’t no Olan Mills!!

I’m too excited about it to keep it a secret. I have decided to organize a photo shoot for my upcoming birthday. My mind is going so crazy with ideas that I can’t concentrate on work which is a very bad thing! Still, I have so much planning to do and I have to get everything going right now if I want to make my deadline. I am trying to schedule everything for the first weekend in May. I realize its Mother’s Day weekend, but hopefully that won’t interfere with my plans.

So I have started thinking about locations and I am beyond excited to say that I have set the wheels in motion to have a photo shoot at the Neon Boneyard. How completely cool is that??? I have contacted them to determine if I can get the date I want and to arrange all the particulars. Since its run by volunteers, I have to plan in advance and get permission to even get in let alone bring a photographer with me. Fingers crossed that everything is approved. And speaking of photographers…

I asked a friend of mine to take the pictures for me. I started to go down the road of looking for local photographers since there is certainly no shortage of them in this town. I contacted a few and frankly I was less than impressed with the way I was treated if they bothered to acknowledge me at all. Maybe it had something to do with how far away the date is, maybe not but they can just forget it. I decided to ask my friend David to do it. It’s a bit of a leap of faith for both of us, but even just a couple of conversations about style and tone and we are already on the same page. I feel really great about my choice.

Since I am using a friend that isn’t going to be watching the clock I feel a lot more adventurous to try different things. Case in point is that I am looking into renting a classic Cadillac convertible and have us drive off into the desert. I proposed the idea to David and he loved it. Yay!! Now I just have to start pricing that out and figuring out how far in advance I can make the reservation and if I have to get special insurance, blah, blah, big money blah…

So in case it isn’t obvious yet, I am going with an old Vegas, 50’s retro kind of vibe for the shoot. That means hair, makeup and clothes!! WooHoo!! So far I have been hitting the gym almost everyday. Amazing the things you can accomplish when you have a deadline. Come Hell or high water pictures will be taken of me regardless of the size of my waistline. Ugh. Might be time to invest in some Spanx! My hairdresser is on board and although she has also offered to do my makeup, I am pricing that out too. As for clothing, I am all over the map. I have some ideas and some items earmarked on various sites, but I really haven’t decided yet. Plus, what size do I order? No, unfortunately I have to wait on that part for now. You can count on the fact that something is going to have cherries on it!