Ah ha. My blog isn’t all about spanking, you know. Sometimes it’s about other things. Like bondage. NO!!! Sometimes it’s about whole other things, like normal photo shoots. And here is evidence of one, just in case you thought I’d completely lost perspective and wasn’t doing any actual proper work any more.

Wrong! Part of my trip to America involved a week’s journey with my photographer friend, who took the above pictures, and who’s website can be found at www.xanaduimages.com

I’ve been working with him for a couple of years, so we decided to travel round California and Nevada and get some location work done. He’s still working on the pictures, but I posted some of his studio pictures as a sort of warm up.

He’s a lovely chap, and is very into trying to create images of strong looking women. Alas, I do not like to look strong. I want to look like a poor, sad, orphan. But I do try, because he’s so nice.

I’ll be working on his stand at the Erotica Exhibition in London this year, so do come along and see us and all our pictures. There’ll be pictures of other models too, but I hide them under the table when he’s not looking. Urgh, other models. Amelia-Jane hates those….

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Hello everyone. Ridiculously late post, am very sorry, as always. I’ve been Mrs Busy, and haven’t been in England much. And I’m rubbish.

But I’ve been experiencing some interesting things at work this month! I’ve been in Spain with the BDM, shooting for www.restrainedelegance.com with my friend Sammie B and Elle Tyler. And very fun it jolly well was. I try to direct 50% of the stuff we shoot on location trips because it’s too much for one person, really (even when he is a DOM). So I made up a couple of stories, and off we went. Whee! Being a director at the same time as trying to act is not ideal, because it’s very uncomfortable to criticise someone else’s performance when there’s no one there to do the same to you. But it certainly was interesting…

We started off with a harem themed story. Because the dom tends to drive the action somewhat, and the story would obviously be most familiar to me (because I’d, like, WRITTEN it) I reluctantly decided to cast myself as the ‘head girl’ of the harem, who bullies everyone else. Ouch, this meant I was going to miss out on getting tied up, which was a sacrifice, but it did mean I got the fanciest costume in compensation… Elle and Sammie played run-away harem girls who get re-captured and blackmailed by EVIL ARIEL into being her slaves while the Sultan’s away. And did I abuse my power? Oh yes I did.

A few hands-free pedicures, cruel punishments and gratuitous insults later, Sammie and Elle turned the tables on me (the relief! I have no words to describe it!) and tied me up so they could escape again. Whereupon the BDM over-rode my original ending, and decided that Evil Ariel should be whipped. Hello? Why? Does this happen to real proper doms? Errrr, no, it doesn’t. I, however, got tied to a St Andrews Cross and flogged. Hmmm, I don’t think it did my status as director much good…

After taking a break from any kind of authority while we shot the BDM’s Indiana Jones themed story, our third day of shooting found us trying to shoot a Roman Epic. With 4 people. This was my idea again, I’m afraid. I’d been very taken by the film ‘Spartacus’ when I saw it as a teenager, especially the beginning, with poor Spartacus staked out to die in the sun. So in what I’m going to call ‘a sensitive re-creation of the original’, Elle got the same treatment. Whereupon she was rescued by two seriously kinky Roman ladies, who, instead of training her as a gladiator or anything boring like that, invited her to join their bondage-orgy…

I did NOT enjoy giving up the best part (from a Damsel in Distress point of view) to Elle. Oh no I did not. But I really was trying to be professional… I got into my stride a bit with domming (I think I’m quite good at being a nasty, bitchy, bullying type, but RUBBISH at being a sensual or genuinely authoritative type….). Hooray for real doms. That’s all I can say.

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La la la, I don’t have time to properly explain what I’ve been doing, (and I expect it’d be BOOOORRRRING) so I’ll make a quick little list-y so that you’ll have an idea of what kind of work I’ve been engaged in since I’ve been AWOL. Here are some of my best/worst bits, see if you can guess which is which.

a) Shooting with the BDM for www.restrainedelegance.com in the far North of beautiful Sweden, being tied up on beaches, to trees, and in our lovely ancient rented house. It never got dark so we didn’t really sleepy, but even so, it was SUPER. Hmm, I just gave you a clue about whether it was a best bit or not. It jolly well was.

b) Going to work in Switzerland with James Bertoni at the marvellous www.modelstied.com . Oh joy; he lets you wear LOADS of makeup (till your face is sort of stiff, but ever so colourful) and then does beautiful, glamorous bondage in his fab studio sets (which include a pirate ship and a jungle with real running water), while wearing high, high heels the whole time.

c) Working with www.nikiflynn.com (not the website of course, the actual PERSON, but I can’t work out how to write that so it links to her) for www.sm-circus.com ; whee, it was fun! Niki’s written about it properly, but I DID enjoy having a break from talking – being a pet-girl is a lovely holiday from responsibility…

d) Shooting pantyhose somewhere in France (still not sure where, to be honest) with a photographer who had 14 cats and no mobile phone reception at his house. Wowzer! 11 mosquitoes BIT THROUGH THE PANTYHOSE while we were shooting in the forest, YUK! But to make up for the lack of phone reception, he let me listen to my own iPod whenever we were shooting in the house. And sang along with me when required.

e) Whee! Having a date with the BDM when I finally got back to England. And loving him very much – thank you for waiting for me, BDM! We stayed in a hotel, gossiped a lot, and we were too tired to actually DO any BDSM so we just talked about it, which, it turns out, is very exciting too.

Shall try to post more before I go away again, thanks for reading, and sorry for being so sporadic!

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I do apologise to everyone, I’m not really at home at the moment and I’m struggling with keeping up with computer-things… Maybe I should buy a tiny little laptop thing, and then I could post when I’m working away from home… Starting next week, I shall be in ;-

Fuerteventura
Sweden
Switzerland
Cologne
Paris
Milton Keynes 🙂
and Spain until mid August.

So if I’m rubbish at blogging, that will be the reason. I’ll do my best though, cos I love it….

In the meantime, I want to sort out a couple of things for people who’ve kindly commented here 🙂

Firstly – I do apologise to anyone who’s linked to me and I haven’t returned the favour. If that’s the case (or if you want me to link to you) please reply to this post, letting me know where your blog is, and I’ll sort it out. Sorry, I’m still a bit confused by how it all works…

Secondly – I’m really sorry to anyone who’s made enquiries about one-to-one spanking sessions. I’m afraid I don’t ever do them, for a couple of reasons. Mainly, although I really like doing BDSM at work, I feel a bit weird if the person who’s paying me is also the one doing the spanking – I like the top/Dom to have been hired to do the job, the same as me. I’m not sure why, but it feels like there’s more professional distance built in that way. Also, since starting my relationship with the BDM, I try to keep some things just between us, and playing privately with anyone else would make me feel as though I was taking something away from our relationship…

I imagine that if I tried to do one-to-ones, I’d be a bit rubbish because I’d be trying to stay as arms-length as possible, which I’m guessing would be reeeeeeally tedious and not very hot. Whereas when I’m making spanking films I can throw myself into it because I feel really comfortable (except for my bottom, obviously…)

But thank you very much to everyone who’s enquired, I’m very flattered 🙂

And thank you to everyone who’s kindly offered to be my bodyguard. I feel very much in need of at least one and shall be organising a rota very soon. Obviously, I won’t necessarily do what you tell me to, even if you think it’s for my own safety. In fact, I shall probably ignore you and be extremely rude if you try to impose your rules on me. Hmmm.

Mwah, mwah 🙂

Ariel and Amelia (Ariel will treat the bodyguard very well, by the way, it’s only Amelia who’s planning to be difficult…)