A few things....

It has been a bit quiet on the spanking front around here. I have been busy with family things and had a great Easter. I also got a new toy that I have had alot of fun playing with. It isn't a spanking toy though but I got a new android phone and have had some fun figuring out all the cool features it has. I am still learning and exploring all the things as I go LOL.

Here's a few pictures from Easter that I got to take with the new phone LOL

Now that I have this phone and it is alot easier to send pictures to my home computer I will be taking alot more pictures at parties and things and sharing them. LOL. My next task will be taking pictures of the customized Spankopoly game that Todd and Suzy made for Thomas and writing a post about that. The kids are home from school this week though so I don't have a whole lot of time for privacy and things. I can't wait till next week when they return to school.

I also am working with the Lupus foundation of America on a project for our party in August. They are sending me some material for our booth. I kind of left off the nature of our party though they suggested that they could set up a booth there. I kind of shrugged that thought off and just ask if we were allowed to just set a booth ourselves and donate the money. She said sure and is sending me materials to do so and things. I am excited to see what she is sending me as on May 15th I am also joining them for a walk for Lupus. May is Lupus awareness month so I will also be posting and spreading that news around and lots and lots of my favorite color purple. purple is the color and a butterfly, a purple butterfly, is the symbol. So spreading awareness will be pretty however the illness and things is far from pretty. my regular doctor has been helping me alot though with pain management and things. If you can help donate in anyway please go to Donate for Lupus

On Sunday I had a little scare with my blog. I checked my email and found a message on my fetlife wall asking what happened to my blog. I then went to the computer to see what they meant and my blog was gone. It was completely not there at all and just had a message saying that blog is not found and the URL was not available. I then logged on to my blogger dashboard and the only blog that showed there was the Tampa Tanners blog. It was a heart dropping moment to think that I had lost everything from the last three years that I have been blogging and had no idea why. Later that night I text Katia and told her my blog was gone she just replied I was just looking at it and she left a comment. I was at work so I called Thomas and told him to check and see if my blog comes up and it did. All the information is also back on my dashboard. So i am really not sure what had happened at that point or why my blog ran away for a little while LOL. I have to export all my posts though and save them on the computer in case that happens for good. Blogger has been known to delete blogs of our nature before.

Tonight I am going on a play date with some friends I meet at a local munch. it should be fun to get away for a little while and enjoy some spanking play and things.

Walk for Lupus Now

Dear Friends

On May 15th I will be walking in the Walk for Lupus Now® to raise funds for the Lupus Foundation of America (LFA). Our goal is to raise $60,000 for the thousands of people living with lupus in the greater Tampa Bay area. My personal goal is to raise $1,000 and I hope that you’ll help me reach this goal! I realize these are tough times for many people, but every little bit helps!!
As you probably already know, lupus has affected me and my family, especially in the last year. There are many more people out there who are on permanent disability due to this disease. I believe the fight against lupus is more important than ever – we recently reached the sad milestone of 50 years without a drug approved by the FDA specifically for lupus. The medications we take can have serious and toxic side effects. That's why we need your help in walking for a cure!
You can donate to my efforts online with a credit card on a secure website by going to Donate for Lupus and immediately after making your gift you will receive an email with tax receipt information. You can also send a check payable to the LFA to my home address.
I will keep you updated as I reach my goal. Please spread the word to anyone you believe would support me in the Walk for Lupus Now. Thanks so much for your support!
Most sincerely,
Cookie Crawford
Making a difference starts with one step!

The party continued

Once everyone got there things were in full swing. Lots of spanking was going on and it just seemed really natural. The people who came were all very friendly and most everyone got along and was comfortable with each other. Todd and Suzy had gotten me a little gift bag for my birthday. In it of course was some really interesting spanking gifts. It was really cute and Suzy had asked me earlier about me taking a spanking with any spanking implement I got. Of course she never told me she got a bag full LOL. Anyway I opened the bag and everyone that wanted to took a turn at giving me a swat with each item. There was a wooden heart paddle, a wii tennis racket, a badminton racket, a wooden kitchen spoon with little shells on it and a wooden paddle ball game. There was even a tiny little paddle ball game that got interesting when people used it LOL. Here's a few pictures of that with Thomas spanking me with the heart paddle.





And here is the pics of me opening the gift bag and reading the card. It was a cute card as well.

Of course as always in the spanking scene when it is someones birthday bottoms that don't normally switch do like to get a few spanks in. That happened at this party as well. I got a few spankings from strictly bottoms. here is Suzy giving me my birthday spanks from her.



Like I said there was quite a few spankings going on and alot was happening. The picture thing was hard to do because we all were just having so much fun and not really thinking about pictures and things. There were a few times we got pictures like when I finally got the nerve up to Take a Niko spanking. Now anyone that has seen Niko's videos knows what i mean by had to get up the nerve LOL. Niko is a really nice guy though and is well known in the scene as well. He brought his Thud along for the event so I got to get thudified by Niko for my birthday LOL. Here is a few pics of Niko, The Thud, and that spanking LOL.

Suzy is a really brave spankee. After the party was coming to a close she asked Niko to take a spanking and see how much she could take with the Thud. They took a video as well. here is that video that they took. My heart goes out to Suzy for being so brave and taking it so well. I don't think I would have taken it that well at all.



The party was pretty much 6 hours of non stop fun and spanking LOL. Lots and lots of things happened and it is always hard to write about everything. we had guests from California, New York and a few from right here in Tampa as well as a few hours away. We even got a newbie hotel staff member join us after he got off of work. LOL. The whole atmosphere of the party was very warm and welcoming and friendly though. We had planned out a few games but things just sort of took there own turn and everyone was having such a blast and there was alot of spanking going on so we really didn't take the time out to really play the games as they were intended LOL.

Many tried out new implements, we had coupons floating around and such LOL and lots of birthday spankings. In all it was a great party and we enjoyed ourselves and hopefully all of our guests did as well. From the emails we received afterwards it seems that everyone had a great time as well.

Here's all the photo's I have from the party. I may have already used some but I like them all and didn't want to forget any LOL

Tampa Tanners April party "Spanking showers/Cookie's birthday Part 1

After all the pre party planning, preparing and the playing on Saturday night it was time to start the fun. We got up and Katia and I wanted to try out the hot tub that was in our room. We had some time before we had to get the ball room decorated so we decided to give it a try. Thomas had been saying that it would make a great scene for a video. He went down to the lobby to get on the computer for a little bit while we enjoyed the hot tub. As we were enjoying though Katia and I decided to surprise Thomas and let him do a shoot with us. This was a very big step for both of us. neither of us felt very comfortable about shoots that include nudity but with the support of having the other there we decided to take the plunge and go for it. Although we did decide to keep our bras on for the shoot. We shot a video for Thomas in just our bras and then we got dressed and headed down to the ball room to start decorating. I shared some of the decorations yesterday but there was alot.

Here's a few more pics of the decorating we did.

Niko was able to attend the party and we were really excited about that. He also showed up early and he helped us decorate. here is a picture of him playing around with the Tampa Tanners paddles. He is a real fun guy that is for sure. LOL

Anyone that is on Fetlife has probably heard about operation "I love it in the can." If you haven't then you should look it up as it is a very worthy cause and Tampa tanners is proud to be joining the efforts. I made a little sign for our donation box on Saturday before heading to the meet and greet. I will be probably starting a contest for a picture to use for our group and the cause. There are some great opps for that one LOL. Anyway here is the sign for the donation box for "I love it in the can".

Once we decorated and Katia and I got a salad to share we set up the registration desk and waited for our friendly party goers to arrive. WE had alot of people registered and a few that we had not meet yet who came on friends of ours reference so we were excited to meet them. It was a slow start though and i was getting a little worried. LOL Here's two pictures from the registration part of Katia and I. We always have fun together even sitting at the registration desk.

Todd and Suzy were already at the party since they came and stayed at the hotel the night before so they sat and chatted with us and when Katia and i ran to the restroom we left them with these coupon books that we always make for the parties. LOL Todd and Suzy decided to alter a few and write things on some of them it was quite amusing. Todd even made a special one for Katia LOL

During the party we continued to alter the coupons and had fun with that. Suzy had made her coupon for Cookies birthday party say with the aluminum cane so I returned the favor and made a coupon that said give Suzy 30 with the aluminum cane. She took it well though I never had to take mine since the party got so hopping that it was never redeemed LOL.

We had one guest who came to our meet and greet the day before who had traveled from California and he was the first to arrive. He asked if Katia and I wouldn't mind doing a short video for him to keep with her spanking me for my birthday. We aren't switches though but for the sake of my birthday and for fun we agreed and headed to the party room to do the video. He asked that we did half with the hand and half with the Tampa Tanners paddle to save Katia's hand. I was like save her hand heck save my bottom LOL. I didn't get a copy of that to share though.

Since Thomas has become our Mascot for the themes and parties it is now a very new tradition for every bottom to go across the mascots lap for a spanking and for those that don't mind we get a picture. Almost all the bottoms at the party took there turn across Mr. silly Thomas bunny though I only have permission to post the ones of Suzy, Katia, Shy and I. So here are those pictures.
Cookie


Shy


Katia


Suzy


And it is such a cute picture I have to share it again of Thomas as the bunny spanker LOL

We took turns getting spankings while we waited on guests to arrive and getting some pics. At one point Suzy and I were getting spanked together and I was tickling her feet every time she raised them up. I don't think she realized till the end that it was me and that I was that close to her to reach her feet. LOL.

I have alot more to write and will finish that tomorrow. I'm going to rest since I worked last night LOL and I have so much to write about.

Pre party preparing and playing

Last week was really hectic and my health was such I wasn't even sure I was going to make it to the party this time. I ended up at the doctors the Thursday before and she gave me some new medicine and a few days off of work. It actually helped me some to just be able to take my medicine and actually get some rest at night like I should. Trying to sleep during the day when I have so much stuff to take care of at those times gets really hard. But the lack of sleep and the sun from the Renaissance fair was really bringing me down and making it difficult to do anything.

Friday morning after a good nights rest I met with Katia. She came over like she usually does the Friday before the party so we could get the goodies baskets made and also so we could bake and make some candy. It is alot of fun and we have a great time. Here's a few pictures of us as we are preparing for the party.

As always we had a blast and really enjoyed the pre party preparing that day. We have lots of laughs and fun together and we even got to talk to two special Tops and harass them. Of course Thomas calls because he is both of our Tops but we also gave Niko a hard time teasing him about the party since he was planning on being there. We were not finished until almost 6 that night though and Katia helped me with getting my dinner for the family started which I decided to make Chili that night. Probably not the best plan since we were planning on staying the night before at the hotel for a little pre party get together with Suzy and Todd from American Spanking Society. LOL

Saturday quickly came though and we were excited and Katia came to our house to meet us for the Meet and greet that day. We had a very good turnout and got to meet some really nice people. Almost all of the people at the meet and greet were planning on coming to the party though so it was interesting LOL. The word is getting out though about us and we had a few people show up just to see who we were and what we were about. Tampa Tanners is quickly growing and it is alot of fun watching as it does and meeting the new and exciting people as we go.

We had about 23 people register for this party so we were really glad that we switched venues as we were able to take everyone that wanted to come and we had alot more room for our adventure. The new hotel though was very accommodating and works really hard at giving us what we need and working with us.

After the meet and greet Todd Suzy jean Katia Thomas and i all headed over to the hotel. Katia and I had reserved the suite they had with adjoining rooms. When we got to the hotel though there was an issue with our reservation. Apparently they decided since someone had wanted to stay over in the adjoining room that they were just going to change our reservation and give us the suite but not the adjoining room. That wouldn't work for us besides the fact that we knew that the people in the adjoining room wouldn't want us next to them LOL. We asked for the other suite that they claimed was out of order but we got it all taken care of and eventually talked the manager into renting us the other suite with the adjoining room.

In the beginning we really only talked a little and got some things together. I had gotten Thomas a custom made Spankopoly game from Todd and Suzy for his birthday and they showed me that and since I told him already about it I went ahead and let him see it himself. It is so awesome and I will be doing a post just about that real soon. Here's a few pics of the game board and things. Todd and Suzy also got him the custom Spankopoly paddle from Cane-iac to go with the game.

If you are interested in Spankopoly you can get information from the American Spanking Society run by Todd and Suzy who are also good friends of ours. The game is a wonderful thing for get togethers with other spankos.

Thomas was very tired so he ended up falling asleep before we started playing the game though which left Todd as the only spanker with 4 bottoms. That made for a interesting game and us bottoms even got in on the spanking action. None of us consider ourselves switches or anything but when you are all friends and all spankos and things it is fun to goof around and go with the flow. I have three short video clips of some of the fun we stirred up that night. The first one is of me spanking Katia for the game. The second is Katia spanking me and the third one is a cute one of Katia and I spanking Suzy at the same time with our Tampa Tanners paddles from Cane-iac







As you can see none of us are really experienced at it or really choose to switch but we did have fun playing around some between ourselves as can be shown by the laughs and the giggles and things.

We played some then we headed to bed since we all had alot to do the next day and couldn't wait for the party to start. More to come tomorrow about the party though!

I just wanted to share this picture of Thomas because I think it is really really adorable. Thomas has decided to be the Tampa Tanners new mascot! he was the lucky leprechaun at our first party and this time he was the happy bunny LOL I am afraid to see what he comes up with for our next party which isn't until June but is a spanking masquerade theme at the Phoenix club in Largo.