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While the blog may be called A Leap Of Faith, my life consists of many of these giant steps, each one getting me a little bit further along on my journey to the woman I am toady. (And the woman I will be even further along in my story. And my first event was a resounding success!
Following Kink and Cake my Fetlife profile suddenly became more interesting. Before I had even arrived home I had received half a dozen friends requests, and as I accepted them my feed gradually took on a different feel. No longer was it littered with pictures and writings by unknown kinksters. There were now updates from people I had met, experiences that I could relate to. Over the following days I uploaded a couple of pictures of my bruised feet and had likes and comments from people I knew. My confidence was still fragile and I hadn’t quite come round to the fact that people may actually like me.
All these little steps of friendship gave more supporting evidence.
I had a little over two weeks to wait until the fetish night and I was starting to worry. I had the usual butterflies chasing each other around in my belly at the thought of going somewhere new. But more than that, I also had no idea what I should be wearing. How I should behave. And how I would feel faced with 70+ kinksters in a setting I had never experienced before. When I started my journey as a submissive I assumed that these kinds of events would be experienced under the supervision of Sir and his ideals would be spelled out for me. As this was not to be I had to keep pushing myself. Driving forward to this monumental task of my own setting!
True to form my curiosity got the better of me.
Rather than sitting and wallowing in my doubts and fears I took to the internet. Reading the event’s page on Fetlife gave me a clue on the “rules” and reassured me that I would be safe. It also gave me an insight into WHO would be attending. I had never noticed this before, but on events there are lists of people going, maybe going and friends going. I probably hadn’t noticed this because until this point I hadn’t had any fet-friends. Now though there were 7 people going that I had already met, plus the two hosts.
So I sent a few private messages. The first person I messaged was Trautaruan who had decided that he would be going along with CC. They had been to events together before, and as this was the relaunch party they were happy to travel a bit further than normal. They’d spend the night in a hotel, removing the need to travel back the same night. I asked what they would be wearing, and was told that they would be wearing latex. We arranged to catch up in the club and I looked forward to seeing them in their outfits, but I knew that wasn’t something I would be wearing… yet.
So no outfit tips for me there but at least I would know two people.
Next up I messaged MT, the submissive man who had flexed his switchy muscles on my feet the previous week at Kink and Cake. He really put my mind at rest in a lot of ways. His Domme was going with her husband so he would essentially be going on his own, saying he’d meet me inside the door when I arrived. He always arrived to things early so expected to be one of the first in. When I asked him what he would be wearing I was a lot less intimidated by his answer. He would be wearing smart black trousers, a smart black shirt and smart black shoes. I knew that I didn’t want to wear all black, but I knew now that I didn’t have to go all in with expensive outfits. I had no idea if I would want to attend more events in future and was reluctant to spend out a lot of money on something I would wear once.
With MT’s outfit in mind I started taking little steps online, to find an outfit.
There were a number of ideas so I sent the links to MT. With his help I narrowed it down to one outfit that I would be comfortable with. I wanted to check with someone on the other end of the outfit spectrum and sent the links to Trautaruan. He also thought it a good choice. I ordered myself the corset style top and had decided I would wear black leggings and my killer heels with it.
Outfit sorted with little over a week to spare, next I took steps to decide what equipment to take.
This was easier as I didn’t have a lot of kit. I did have a pair of carpet beaters and a little leather slapper. My children had a lot of hot wheels track so I borrowed a length of that as it was something we had been discussing at Kink and Cake as a potentially stingy pain. With my kit planned and my outfit on its way all that was left was to wait. Fortunately work and the children took up so much of my time I barely had time to worry. And when I started to fret I did something I have never associated with stress relief.
I even painted my nails – toes and fingers – to match the colour of the top I would be wearing!
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