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Gearing Up for Big Things Ahead…

I’ve struggled for a few years with reconciling what each of my three websites will focus on. What is too personal for the business blog? What belongs where? What do I need to do with this site or that site?

It has sometimes reached a point where I just didn’t write anywhere at all. Posting 140 characters on Twitter or a quick blurb on Facebook? So much easier. But as I mentioned a few weeks ago, I miss it. I’ve had a blog for 11 years now almost. I don’t want to give it up.

So while talking with my business mentor, Jeff, a few weeks ago, I brought it up. Like his website name? He has earned it, that is for sure! I can’t even begin to tell you how many times he has made me say, “Damn it, Jeff!” over the past few months, but he really does help me get to the bottom of things. The blog situation was one of them.

So moving forward, I’ve got some things to change.

Christine Tremoulet will be a working portfolio site. Mostly weddings, but sometimes I photograph other things as well. My photography identity will live there.

Hot Mama Boudoir will be all about boudoir and why I think every every mom should do a boudoir session. It will be all about sharing my super power.

BigPinkCookie will stay focused on the personal side of my life. Which I really need to work on, because my work/life balance is really skewed to lean towards work and I want it to lean back towards more LIFE.

Speaking of which, and completely inspired by Chookooloonks, I plan to work on creating a life list. This is a BIG challenge for me, since I actually seem to have no ability to dream. Ok, fine, maybe I’m exaggerating. But I need to work on dreaming. So a life list it is. You know, once I get some work done around here.

So now you know the big plan. It isn’t that far off of what I’ve been doing already, but I had to put it out there. I’m taking the first step. What do you think? As the reader, does that help you find things easier?

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But What About the Zombies?

While riding through the back roads of Virginia, after two and a half days in a 22-foot truck*, I started to wonder…

If zombies were married while they were human, and are now undead, and they have a zombie wedding – are they polygamists?

After asking Kelly about this while she was driving, I am not sure if she will ever take me on another road trip with her again.

* No, I did not move. Kelly did. Another friend of ours was going to be joining her for the ride from Houston to Washington, D.C., but had a family emergency 36 hours before they were supposed to leave. Since I am the boss of me, and there was no way Kelly could do it alone, I shifted some of my plans and went along with her.

I’m now typing this just over 24 hours after I arrived in DC, on my flight back to Houston since I have a wedding tomorrow to photograph. We got in a trip to see the Cherry Blossoms though, which were beautiful! I’ll return again soon to see more of the city – it has been too long since my last trip there!

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Change – and falling in love…

I’m feeling the need to change things up. To stretch, to grow. To reclaim things I once used to do. SXSWi interrupted my steady posting here, and I’ve missed it. So I’ll be doing more. I’ll finish my 30 lists, but on my own time. Who knows what it will be.

I know a big part of this is the shift in my photography business. After years of identifying myself as a wedding photographer + boudoir photographer, it is hard to flip it around. And yet I must do it – I long to do it. Not that I don’t LOVE weddings, because I do. So, so, so very much. But I love even more that through my intimate photography I can help moms grow in their confidence and rediscover their beauty.

I just stumbled upon Apricot Tea this morning while searching for a new blog theme. (Part of that whole need for change, I was looking at blog themes and pondering redesigns for all of my sites.) I couldn’t help but notice her sidebar links to Sex, Love, Liberation. I mean, how can you miss a blog with a name like that?

There, in the sidebar. There it was…

“Fall in love with yourself.”

That is what I want. That is what I want for my clients. That is what I want for myself. That is what I want for my friends, my family, for everyone I meet. I want them all to fall in love with themselves.

When we stop comparing ourselves to everyone else, we can finally see the beauty that we are. I think the world needs more of that.

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My Favorite Websites & Blogs (30 Days of Lists: Day 9)

This could be a really, really, really long list if I let it be – I like a lot of websites & blogs! So instead, I’m going to list the places where you can almost always find me online first, followed by some of my favorite blogs to read.

– Gmail
– Twitter
– The SWPB Group on Flickr
– Facebook
– Etsy (beautiful handcrafted goodness!)

I love to read:
– Design Sponge
– Psychotactics (Business tactics for the small business owner)
– The Bloggess
– Chookooloonks

And about a zillion others that I would list if I had time to pull up all their URLs and add them here, but pulling up The Bloggess already sent me off into a 20 minute spiral of reading her posts and posting to twitter about Wil Wheaton. He may have angered the Blogosphere back in 2002, but his photo of him collating papers today totally makes up for it!