I will be taking some time off from this blog, and from photographing boudoir portraits for women. I am so thankful for each and every one of my gorgeous clients who chose me to shoot their boudoir sessions over that past four years. As my post title says…change is as good as a rest. I am making changes to my business, and I am stepping away from the boudoir side to spend much needed time  to be with my family and friends. The decision has not been an easy one. However, I am at peace knowing I am doing the right thing, as it feels right in my heart.

I am working on a new personal blog that will focus in on my family, running, my weight loss journey and a bit of photography. I have decided to simplify, and see where my heart leads me next. If you are interested, the new blog is called Running on Empey.

All the best to each and every one of you, and thank you all so much for everything you have given me. I have so much to be thankful for.

Cathy xoxo

As a photographer and artist, Pinterest has been a blessing to me! Why you ask? Because I can visually organize my most favourite things and ideas on a virtual pin board! OH YES!
I love having so many boards I can easily refer to, and get inspired by!

Do you love Pinterest as much as I do? Find me on Pinterest!

Happy pinning!

Cathy xoxo

Happy Monday!

I have slowly but surely been updating my facebook pages to the new timeline. I updated my Cathy Empey Photographer page if you want to go check it out. I added in some new photo galleries as well!

Oh, and if you don’t already like my Boudoir by Cathy Empey page…

Cathy xo

Happy Friday!

How was your Valentine’s day? Did you do something lovely for yourself? My husband arranged for our youngest to head to my parentals so we could spend the day together. My other five we already at school of course. I thought that was sweet of dear Hubby. Part of my Valentine’ day was going to the doctors! Yup. I went to my Doctor for my yearly physical (WAY late on taking care of MYSELF!) and then later that evening I went out for a run with my local run Running Room in Langley.  All in all, a wonderful day. I cannot believe that my husband and I have spent the past 16 together!

This particular Reveal Session, was done especially for her special Valentine, her hubby…Now that Valentine’s day has passed, the lovely Miss J has graciously allowed me to share some images from her session! Thank you! I love it when my clients are able to share! Thank you to dear Gaby, who styled her up. Gorgeous!

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Name:  Miss J

Age: 35

Married or? Married

Kids, and their ages? 1 girl who’s five

Animals? 1 cat , a cat that thinks its a dog and a dumb blonde dog

Best advice? Eat chocolate and sing loud.

How did you feel when you first saw your images? AMAZED, how could that be me?

What was the session for? Valentine’s Day

Who was the session for? husband

Favourite quote?

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. ~ Christopher Robin

Are you surprised by how you look in the images? Definitely, those that have seen them asked who was in the picture because I hate getting my picture taken.

What did you want to be when you were growing up? What I am now but five inches taller and a bit more graceful.

If you could go back to school, what would you learn? Fine Arts or psychology

Three words to describe yourself? baker, mom, creative

Advice to your younger self? It’s okay and it gets better.

Advice to your friends?  You are your own hero.

What is your favourite happy memory? playing on the beach at my old beach house with my mom and my daughter

What are you doing when you feel you are at your best? helping others

Random questions:

Where would you live if you could live anywhere?  New York City

Favourite Vacation spot? Disneyland

Silver or gold? Gold

Favourite drink? Bounty Bar Martini, sangria or chai tea latte

Favourite snack? cupcakes, candy, cookies, chocolate, peanut butter…that would be anything sweet really.

Favourite piece of clothing? pajama pants, wedding dress

What is your favourite thing you can buy or do for under $10 dollars? go skating with my daughter

Favourite scent? Pine trees

Extra questions: 

What is on your bed right now? My child and 10 000 toys

What is your favorite holiday? Christmas

What is the best ice cream flavour? champagne sorbet

What is your guilty pleasure? Pinterest and the TV shows Weeds and Dexter, Tiramisu cheesecake

Look to your left, what do you see? family photo of someone who died far too young

Last song listened to? Adele- Set Fire To The Rain

Last movie you saw? sadly, The Green Hornet

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Thank you so much for sharing your reveal story with us gorgeous Miss J! I loved hanging out with you, and I am SO glad your hubby enjoyed your Valentine’s gift! ;D

Cathy xoxo

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What I love most about my “job” (I have a difficult time calling what I do a job!) To me, photographing women, and making them feel beautiful through an empowering photographic experience is what I call my PASSION! Boudoir and beauty photography sessions for women are what I believe every woman should experience in her lifetime. I encourage you to do this for yourself when you are younger (pre kids), when you are older, before you get married. After you have had children. You catch my drift! Celebrate the YOU that you ARE! Please remember that we are fabulous at EVERY age, and stage of life.

If you are too shy for a boudoir photography session, please come in and see me for a beauty photography session. I would LOVE to show you my beautiful Langley beauty and boudoir photography studio. I promise you, that you will really feel beautiful! The moment you are styled, and you have your hair and make up done…to feeling relaxed and beautifully sexy during your session…to after! I HIGHLY recommend you go out and celebrate afterwards!

You will look so glamorous, so I totally encourage you to feel your beauty, feel your womanly power, and embrace how WONDERFUL you feel.  Take that feeling, and RUN with it! Run with it!!

We ALL deserve to feel beautiful!

I love what I do, and a lot of the time, I am unable to share sessions online. They are mostly top secret , and I am so grateful to those who allow me to share a sneak peek of their sessions with me. (and of course, the fantastic referrals! — thank you my past, and present clients!) It is truly the only way I can share with women what I do. So thank you, Ms.F (F for Fantastic!)  for allowing me to show your gorgeous-ness here on my site. I loved seeing your transformation. From the before, to the after. Your great reveal. Wishing you so many good things in 2012, and beyond. I look forward to photographing you again.

Meet Ms.F :

Name: Ms. F

Age: 29

Occupation: work with people

Married or? Happily married

Kids, and their ages?  none yet..

Animals? Charlie, Bernese Mountain dog & Emma, kitten

Best advice? Be yourself

Which was your favourite image? The one of the feather in my hair. (above)

Best advice? Be yourself

How did you feel when you first saw your images? Very impressed that I can pull this look off!!!

What was the session for? To feel good about myself

Who was the session for? In part for my husband

Are you surprised by how you look in the images? Yes!

What did you want to be when you were growing up? A veterinarian

If you could go back to school, what you you learn? Animal behaviour

Three words to describe yourself? Impatient, reserved, planner

Advice to your younger self? Don’t forget to have fun

Advice to your friends? Be true to yourself

What is your favourite happy memory? My wedding day

What are you doing when you feel you are at your best? Travelling / spending time with  family

Favourite quote?

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” ― E.E. Cummings

Where would you live if you could live anywhere? Italy

Favourite Vacation spot? St. Lucia

Silver or gold? White gold

Favourite drink? Toss up between a nice white wine on a summer day or a Raspberry Mojito

Favourite snack? chocolate

Favourite piece of clothing? A cozy sweater

What is your favourite thing you can buy or do for under $10 dollars? Rent a good movie

Favourite scent? Jasmine

Thanks so much Ms. F! Loved hanging out with you in studio!

Cathy xx

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As promised, a studio tour of my Langley boudoir and beauty portrait studio located in downtown Langley, BC Canada. Usually my sessions aka the “Cathy Empey Experience” take place on a Saturday or Sunday by appointment, but yesterday I had a special session with gorgeous, voluptuous client who shall remain anonymous.  She was absolutely gorgeous, and I loved watching her transformation. From before, to after. With all of this snow, and icy conditions we have been having in the Fraser Valley I was so glad to see that her session was A GO!

My studio is located in a Langley heritage building, has plaster walls, and aged, original hardwood flooring. High ceilings, a large window, with the most amazing natural light!  I believe this is the most beautiful space  I could photograph a woman in. My space allows you, my gorgeous clients, a place to shine! I have been looking for a space like this, for well over 3 years and finally, I found it!

I would love to give you a personal tour, and share more information on my portrait sessions for women. Please contact me through my site, or send me an email to: cathy@cathyempey.com

Cheers!

Cathy xx

A beautiful welcome-to-my-studio-sign created by my beautiful, creative and talented friend, Cynthia. Love her!

My lovely fainting sofa…ahhhh. It is the perfect shade of grey.

A peek into the change area of my studio.

My beautiful hardwood floors, aged to perfection. My boudoir and portrait studio for women is in a heritage building that well over 100 years old.

Silky goodness.

Little details…

A chandelier…I love the patterns the light makes on my studio walls.

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go confidently in the directions of your dreams! live the life you’ve imagined. ~thoreau

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I don’t know about you, but I have been doing a lot of dreaming lately. I don’t know if it is because it is a brand new year? You know, that whole FRESH start, thing. I am not sure. All I know is that I have been doing a lot of thinking, along with all of that dreaming! It feels good to work towards my dreams. I highly encourage this! Even if you do not want to do a vision board, write down all of your dreams. Keep adding to them. Please never stop dreaming!

Another fun way to a vision board would be with Pinterest. I am a big Pinterest fan! You can check out my boards. And believe me, I have MANY boards. As an artist, I love to see things, as I am a very visual person. Pinterest is the best thing for a visual person who likes to stay organized.

For over a year, I have been trying to create a large vision board. I had the large blank, white poster board. I had the glue. I had lots of clippings I had been saving in a box. On Saturday I decided that I am JUST GOING TO DO IT! So, I did. I invited my husband to made one as well. I am totally happy with it, and I have it sitting beside me in my office, so I can look at it often.

For those of you who do not believe in using a vision board, I have a little story to tell you. I had a bright green plastic folder of clippings from home and design magazines that I loved for our home/for the dream home…not a vision board, but a dream folder of ideas. I had it categorized by rooms, and spaces. (I love feeling organized!) I had it hidden away in a moving box. When we were moving back to Langley last June, I found my green plastic folder. In amongst those clippings, a particular art piece that I loved from a design magazine. You see, when we moved to our second to last house, (not this home, or the last…the previous home…yes we move a LOT) the owners of that home had a beautiful large art print hanging in the upstairs niche area in the upper hall. I mentioned to our realtor, and to my husband just how much I loved it, and how beautifully it fit in the house. So, I thought nothing more of it. Deep down I couldn’t picture anything else there…On move day, we received our keys, and we walked into our new home, and immediately I looked up and saw the beautiful art piece located upstairs. It was still there! Surely it was left behind…a mistake…but NO, our lovely realtor GIFTED this art piece to us (she bought it off the current owners, for us!)  It was a beautiful surprise! Anyways, to finish my story, when I looked inside that green folder as we were packing to move back to Langley…THE VERY SAME framed art print was one of the tear outs in my green folder!

My vision came to life. In living colour. That print is still with us, and and has followed us from house to house, and is now settled into our hallway. I love it even more, because of the story behind it.

Do you have art, or photos that have a story? If not, I would LOVE to help you create a beautiful piece of art for your walls.

Cathy xoxo

p.s. A wee studio tour, and a reveal session up this week on the blog.

As promised, a little something, something just in time for Valentine’s Day! The perfect try-it-on-session just for you. Come see my beautiful boudoir studio, located in downtown Langley, BC. And see what a boudoir session is all about!  It will leave you wanting more…

This mini boudoir session can be a gift just for you (you totally deserve to feel gorgeous, beautiful and sexy! – oh yes you do!) and/or the perfect Valentine’s day gift for him!

You will knock his socks off, gorgeous! 

These sessions will sell out fast, so be sure to email me to book your mini boudoir session: cathy@cathyempey.com to book today!  (When they are gone, they are GONE!)

Cathy xoxo

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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Happy New Year! I wish all the best to you all! I wanted to share a quote (above)  that I find really close to my heart this year. It gives me hope for a fresh and beautiful (and sexy) new 2012!

I will be back in a day or two with a limited time offer Valentine’s day special in my Langley Boudoir Studio! (get them while you can, as this doesn’t happen very often!) and also I will be blogging a session aka a lovely reveal story!

Oh yah, and some studio photos! Do you like my gorgeous heritage door? Just you wait to see the rest! I am so proud of my boudoir studio!

Cheers!

Cathy

p.s. I am going to share some revealing stuff about me this year!

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“It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.” ~ C.JoyBell C.

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It is hard to believe that 2011 is almost over! I hope everybody had a happy holiday season! I am going to take the next, and last few days of 2011 to reflect back on the past year. So many changes, and so much to be thankful for. I very am excited about for my life and boudoir photography business in 2012!

On Saturday, January 14th I have four mini boudoir sessions available in my brand new boudoir studio located in Langley, BC. If you have made it your new years resolution to have your boudoir or beauty portrait with me, now is your chance! Come check out my new langley boudoir studio! Contact me if you wish to book a mini boudoir session. Just in time for Valentine’s Day! The sessions are $350-plus hst. Let’s start 2012 off RIGHT!

What was the best part of 2011 for you? Let me know if the comments section.

Thinking beautiful thoughts for 2012! Make it your best year ever!

Cheers!

Cathy xoxo