Worked my little butt off the week before going to LA. The feeling that you want to finish stuff off before taking off and not leaving unfinished business hanging. I’m lucky to have met Valentina who is an awesome chick and also a professional model. Didn’t take me too long to ask her to come over and throw some Psychonaut Explorer stuff on her 🙂

I also have Tanya who I dressed up. For safety reason she got to wear a helmet lol…

After that it all got a bit too ‘creative’…

Then dressed myself up on some latex, skimpy stuff and tried to pull off the librarian look. Found one of my all time favorite books too – American Psycho! It was one of the first books I read when I was younger. I realized that there actually are some amazing books out there, other than the crap they made you read at school!

Long time since I had long acrylic nails. Knowing I was going to shoot a lot in LA, I put some glittery claws on. I love long acrylic nails. Could never grow my own weak nails to something like these. Only bad thing about them, is the maintenance and getting them filled and re-painted like every other week.

Then I took off to LA. Always so excited to see one of my best friends, Sandy & her family. I call them my extra family in LA 🙂 This trip was intense. First priority was to get my passport renewed. Found an office that issues passports in 3-5 days that you have to pay some more for. Couldn’t get an appointment at the regular passport office. I love my old passport since it has memories of so many amazing travels. It had only 4 pages left without stamps plus it was expiring now in August.

Then I had contacted a Swedish girl, Monica or @Swedish_Bella on IG, that I really wanted to shoot with. Only stalked her on Instagram and finally we got to meet and play. Superchill and fun chica and we had a great day. I got more pics coming, but here are some BTS (behind the scenes) pics…

We actually had so much fun that we decided to meet up the next day and have some more fun. She also brought her friend Holly Treats that actually was like a real life sized treat 🙂 Pretty sure (fingers crossed) that I will see Monica & Holly again 🙂

Then I’m also working on a really creative and crazy NFT project with some long time friends from LA. We shot some stuff for 2 days around town and I can’t wait to show you. I have seen some of the NFT stuff and it’s trippy just the way I like it. There will be more stuff coming, but the IG page is @yardsaleonacid if you don’t want to miss out!

I also had the pleasure to shoot with Shay Sights for the first time. She been in the same industry as me for a long time, but our paths never crossed. Wow, what an amazing person and we had such a fun time. I already warned Shay she hasn’t seen me for the last time 🙂 Oh, and not to forget, her cats and dog that I was ready to take with me!

I love Sandy’s kids and between work there was the regular play time with Barbies, making dance videos, throwing parties, swimming in the pool and the list goes on… Sometimes I got the honor to babysit which you can see I handled like a pro!

Did a last photo shoot to really make sure I squeezed in as much as possible…

Time flew by way too fast. Felt like I needed one more week. But hopefully I’ll be back in LA in October. And yes, my new passport arrived in time and it was time to take off to Sweden!

I’m heading up to the northern parts of Sweden tomorrow for a 4 day hike with my sister. Hiking and being outdoors is definitely one of my top 5 things to do! Might even be number 1. What’s on the top of your list? Remember to take the time and prioritize doing them 🙂

Kisses, Puma