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WHO ARE WE?
1 Monika & Shells: That's a very good question. Perhaps after reading this you could Email us and let us know 'cos we haven't got a clue.

2 Monika & Shells: Basically we're a couple of kids that never got round to growing up. We like to be silly and frivolous and don't take things too seriously - least of all ourselves. When we're together we love to have fun, play silly games and do all the things you're not supposed to when you're grown up. We build snow-men and have snow-ball fights, we build sand-castles on the beach, have pillow-fights and call each other names.

We try to be nice and considerate and we're quite friendly people. Both of us are easy going, sociable, honest, open-minded blah blah blah.

Our faults? We could creat an entire site based just on this but suffice to say that sometimes we can get a bit too silly and once or twice this has almost got us into trouble. There's times when we can irritate people for the same reason. When we lived in different countries our time together was precious and when we were together we tended to be a bit isolated - friends and families were neglected which wasn't really fair on them.


WHERE ARE WE FROM?
Shells The simple answer is that one half of me's Italian and the other half's English although I'm not sure which half is which. The more accurate answer is that quarter of me is Italian and quarter is English and the remaining half is split equally between Polish, Swedish, Irish and Scottish. You can begin to see why I'm so mixed up.

I was accidentally born in Civitavecchia in Italy. The fact I was born wasn't an accident although I'm sure my parents regret it now, the accident was being in Italy at the time. My Mom was visiting relatives when I decided to put in an early appearance. True to form, I've not conformed to the norm ever since.

Monika: My answer for this is easy. I was born in Oberhausen in the West of Germany. When 5 I move to Essen and after studies I live in the countryside.


OUR CHILDHOODS
Monika & Shells: For both of us our childhoods were very normal, we did all the usual things and went through all the phases that any girl does when growing up, apart from Monika who missed out on fancying the boys at school and having a crush on the English teacher (why do girls always fancy the English teacher and boys always fancy the biology teacher, what's wrong with the others?)

OUR FAMILIES
Shells: The best family in the world. Mom's the most fun loving person I've ever met, very much the stereotypical Italian Mamma. Dad's the perfect gentleman - totally honest, kind and considerate. I've got two older sisters; the oldest is the sensible one - she's married, settled down and has two beautiful children. To all intents and purposes my other sister is my twin. The fact we were born three years apart is irrelevant - people often get us mixed up.

Monika: As also with Shells I have two sisters but come in the middle. My younger sister lives still with Mom, Dad and grandmother who is old now and has moved in.   My older sister is away from the family by 800km but I'd stay many times with her. I have two beautiful dogs - an alsatian and a German Shephard, now I am in the UK these are given to a special friend for looking after.

OUR JOBS
Monika: My job now is as a structural surveyor. In Germany I was a house quality examiner and for eight years before that I work in the office but have studied surveying and am now qualified. For me this is what I want to do and enjoying it very much. I study and do a job together and it was hard but has all been meaningful.

Shells: I work as a fashion promoter but a more accurate description would be supply chain management. I'm involved from conception through to after sales and customer feedback, effectively trying to co-ordinate all the different people and activities and make sure everything runs smoothly. It can be extremely hard work as everything's done to really tight deadlines and it's not unusual for me to work right through the night.

There's loads of perks - I get to travel all over; sometimes to exotic locations for a week or two but maybe only working on three or four days, a lot of the time I get freebies months before they're available to buy and I get to meet loads of interesting people. By late 2003 I hope to be fully self-employed in the same line of work.

OUR STATS
Nick name: Shells
Chimelle, Shimerlee, Spicy, Shiny Shells, Messy Shells, Baby S

Nick name: Monika
Mons, Nika, Messy Mons, Monzi, Baby M (and Dork until she found out what it meant)

Real Name: Shells
Hmmm, that would be telling. Michelle Rimaldi-Parker is the name people know me by although my real name (i.e. the one on my birth certificate and other official documents) is something different.

Real Name: Monika
Hmmm, that would be telling too. I am Monika but Steiner is another name of the family but not me. I don't wish it known my real name. You can find people called Monika Steiner but they are not me.

Date of Birth: Monika
Born in 1973

Date of Birth: Shells
Born in 1976

Sex
Female

Sexuality: Shells
Prior to meeting Mons I thought I was straight, after meeting Mons I thought I was 50 / 50 but as time passes I find I am becoming less and less attracted to men. I guess at the moment I am 75 / 25. Based on current trends I should be a fully fledged lesbian in about 18 months. I am not, never have been, and never will be, a militant type or a feminist.

Sexuality: Monika
Lesbian and like Shells "I am not, never have been, and never will be, a militant type or a feminist". I find out I am lesbian as I am growing up and for me I am not being attracted to men, even the nice ones.

Location: Monika
In April of 2003 I move to Yorkshire in the north of England, before that it is the West of Germany where I live and work.

Location: Shells
The nature of my job means I spend a lot of time in London and can travel all over the place. I chose not to live in London as it's too noisy, dirty and too much crime for my liking. Home is in Yorkshire, prior to Mons moving to the UK I'd escape there at weekends and stay in London during the week. Now I commute to London 2 or 3 times a week instead.

Height: Shells
1.74m (5 foot 8�).

Height: Monika
1.68m (5 foot 6).

Weight: Shells
59kg (130 pounds or 9 stone 4 pounds)

Weight: Monika
52kg (115 pounds or 8 stone 3 pounds)

Build: Shells and Monika
Slim, athletic

Eyes: Shells and Monika
Brown

Hair: Shells
Mid back length, slightly wavy, brunette

Hair: Monika
More than to my shoulders, straight, brunette

Statistics: Shells
89 - 62 - 90 centimetres (35 - 24 - 35 inches) but changes each time I am measured

Statistics: Monika
91 - 63 - 92 centimetres (36 - 25 - 36 inches)

Appearance: Monika (by Shells)
It's very hard to describe Mons without doing her an injustice. She's a very beautiful person and I'm not just saying that because I love her but because she genuinely is. She has the type of face that you're immediately drawn to and one which radiates warmth and compassion. She has a stunning figure and is so sexy. She's the sort of person that you meet and can't help falling in love with.

Appearance: Shells (by Monika)
Shell's is so very beautiful. Her hair is long and soft and she has gorgeous eyes that are so big and round and soft. Her skin colour is that of the Mediterranean and she is the hot and sexy Italian that I dream of. To more than me she is perfect, not her face only but all of her. If I could to change any part I wouldn't. Apart from maybe I give her short legs so she can't run fast and that makes it easier for me to catch her.

Personality: Shells (by Monika)
I am short of words for her for everything about Shells is so nice. Never have I known of a person who is so much kind and considerate. She is as well very gentle and tender and makes me laugh so much and feel so good. She makes me happy at all times and is so playful like a little lamb. Shells would do for anybody anything she could. I love her so much and couldn't ever not do because she's such a nice person.

Personality: Monika (by Shells)
I have never met anyone who makes me feel like Mons does and that's because she's got an all round amazing personality. Nothing is ever too much, she's so honest, caring, compassionate and without doubt the most loving person there is. She always knows what to do and say in every situation and there's nothing I'd ever change about her.

Hobbies: Shells
Apart from the wet and messy stuff and the leather and latex, I love being outdoors - mountain biking, skiing, kayaking and canoeing, climbing, hiking and so on. I also love the more extreme sports and when I get chance I go parachuting, bungee jumping, white-water rafting, surfing, sand-yachting etc. In fact, I'll try anything just for the fun of it. Indoors I like to mess around on the computer and try to cook things - I'm not very good but enjoy cooking all the same.

Hobbies: Monika
Many of the things we like together are in the environment and are climbing, abseiling, being in the snow (skiing, snowboarding, playing), rucksacktourismus (walking longways with a rucksack) and cycling. We like to be in the water going swimming, diving, surfing and canoes. My hobbies before I move to be with Shells were my two dogs and walking around in the country where I lived. I like to read a nice book and watch movies but recently there is not time for this.

INTRODUCTION
Welcome to our bio's part of the site. As with everything, we've been open and honest and tried to include those things we've been asked in the past and other things you may want to know as well all the things we're going to tell you anyway.

Message from Monika
My English isn't very good and sometimes I don't have the right word so you have to excuse me. I try to explain the word in other ways and hope you understand. My mother has better English than me but I can't bring this to her to check it. She does know about Shells and me and thinks a lot about Shells but I don't tell her everything. I ask Shells to put right the mistakes but she says they're better to be left.

Follow up message from Shells
Monika's English is excellent (usually). I think if I corrected things then something of her personality would be lost and her writing would lose some of its character. I love the way she writes, it's got a special charm about it and in any event, her style of writing is more interesting than mine.

Follow up message from Monika
Today we read together many of the things we have written before. Shell's is the one who needs the English lessons - I tell her lots of her mistakes. She's half Italian so make excuses for her.

Follow up message from both of us
Recently we had a fight with words - big plastic inflatable French words that we threw at each other and hit each other with. We were in a shop in France at the time and the assistant wasn't very impressed but when we spoke to her in German and Italian she shrugged her shoulders and left us to it. Anyway, this is the only fighting we're going to do with words.

1 & 2: Shells and Monika
Shells and Monika are us in 'normal' mode - or as normal as we get anyway, and are the people described above

3 & 4: Ledermons and Shiny Shells
This is us when we're in shiny mode - i.e. leather, latex, PVC and other types of tight fitting, shiny clothing except for rubber which we're not into.

Our favourite has to be a black latex catsuit and it's got to be tight fitting so that it perfectly hugs every curve of our bodies. Both of us love to wriggle and writhe about, especially when we're playing with each other and those cheap catsuits just aren't up to the job - they come apart at the seams the first time you wear them or the zips break. The best time to use the cheap ones is when we get the urge to rip each other out of a catsuit - something that happens a lot.

5 & 6: Messy Shells and Messy Monika.
Persona number 3 is us in wet and messy (WAM) mode. If we had our way we'd live together in a gooey clay pit, there's nothing quite like the feeling of sinking slowly into soft, warm, smooth, slippery clay or mud. Being in England means most of the time it's too cold and there's very few decent places to go for a wallow. Rotorua in new Zealand would be a good place to live, not only is the mud beautifully soft and smooth but it's hot as well.

There's nothing quite like getting dressed up in latex, leather and thigh high boots then sinking slowly into warm, soft mud. Sometimes it's nice to go barefoot and feel the mud squeezing between our toes.

Of course, now we're living together it's infinitely better, bet even when we were apart we'd each sneak off and slither about our respective 'secret' mud pits.

There's more to WAM then just mud, anything soft and sticky is a real turn on for us. Food is excellent, sometimes there's nothing better than a good old fashioned food fight with loads of cream cakes and the like. On other occasions it's the old favourite - the chocolate sauce, not just the odd bottle but gallons of the stuff (see the pics above). Anything else - custard, jam, spaghetti, beans, whipped cream - are excellent, there's very few things we're not keen on.

We once tried molasses, 500 litres in an outdoor Jacuzzi. We held hands, stood on the edge of the tub and jumped in. Now, molasses is pretty thick stuff and we expected to sink slowly, instead we landed on top of what was effectively 500 litres of superglue and couldn't move. Very, very slowly we started to sink, because we were right in the middle of the tub we couldn't reach the sides to pull ourselves out. If it had been possible to throw the stuff we would have chucked handfuls of it out of the tub until we were free, you can't throw it, the stuff just sticks to your hands in lumps. It took ages for Monika to move enough to reach the tap and turn on the water. The inlets are near the bottom of the tub and it took half an hour for the water to work it's way to the surface and to erupt like a volcano. From then on we were showered by a fountain of water and molasses as we tried to dissolve the gooey mess in the water. By now we'd sunk far enough for our feet to reach the bottom and it took ages before we were finally free. At the end, we were both exhausted and suffering cramp in our legs. It was all we could do to drag ourselves out and collapse in a heap on the grass which by now was a mass of watered down molasses.

7: Bi Shells
Shells: You may have gathered that there's nothing I like more than Monika, not only is she very beautiful and sexy but is the kindest and most tender person you could ever meet. She shares my passion for all things shiny and messy (which is sort of how we met) and being with her is the most amazing experience.

Until I was 23 I'd never so much as looked at another woman and then I met Monika. Things changed dramatically. Since we met she's been my only girlfriend although more and more I find myself looking at other women. Which is a bit odd as I always thought you were straight, gay, lesbian or bi from the day you were born. With me I seem to have grown up straight and am now in an evolutionary stage where I'm going to emerge as a fully fledged lesbian. Oh well, time will tell. The great thing about being bi-sexual, which for the moment at least, is what I am, is that you get the best of both worlds. That's not to say I'm looking for a boyfriend or girlfriend as I'm not. I couldn't be happier than I am with Mons and wouldn't want to change anything for the world.

It's hard to say what would have happened had I not met Mons, would I still have boyfriends? Who knows? Would I have discovered my true sexuality another way? Who knows? As is always the case in life, there's so many questions that can never be answered.

8: Les Mons
Monika: Shells is bi-sexual and I am lesbian and this is our difference but it doesn't matter. When growing up I knew I was lesbian and didn't have to realise it as it was normal. But it has been hard for Shells and I'm sorry to her because it was me that made her realise and that has confused her and caused agonies. I am also so happy because she is so much the most special person for me. I love her so many more times than anyone else.

Before I met Shells I had girlfriends but only ever three, one of them was for eight years but it wasn't right for us and we split away. Now it is past I can see it was good to do that. Without this I would not be with Shells. She is the first person who I can do all with like the foodfighting and messy things and wearing the clothes I want.

I am so happy now we are living together, this was a hard thing to do as family and friends are left behind and I am in a new country but it was the right thing. I have no more to say now, I don't like to go over the past before I met Shells so this is where I end.

9: Shells
Shells: The C stands for captive, captive as in BDSM, but definitely NOT the serious stuff. There's no way I would even consider anything that involved torture or pain - for me they're two of the biggest turn offs. For both of us it is nothing more than harmless, playful fun. Something along the lines of the pictures on the left.

I'd never consider any kind of bondage with a man as I don't think I would trust them enough but with Monika there's no problem and being tied together is a wonderful experience, especially when we're squeezed together tightly - rather like a bear-hug but your arms don't get tired.

One mistake we made was to tie ourselves together at the waist, hips and chest and then roll around in the mud. Somehow we messed up with the knots and ended up being unable to undo them.

The fact that everything was covered in slimy mud made it even worse. We spent ages trying to undo the knots and in the end had to struggle as best we could back to the place we were staying. Not easy when it involves crossing rough ground and going up and down steep grass banks. We eventually made it back and managed to cut the ropes with a kitchen knife. Not at all like you see in the films where a quick flick of the knife cuts straight through the rope. This was half an hour rolling about on the kitchen floor trying not to stab each other, it didn't help that we were both helpless with laughter.

10: G Mons
Monika: The G is for the German word of Gefangen which is a captive, prisoner and that's me when I tie up with Shells. This is something new for me and now I enjoy it. We do not do it in an unkind way as some do but for mischief and fun. For us it is harmless and when we tie up together it is so good as we come together tightly. I tie up Shells to something or she does to me and then we tease each other. This is exciting for me because Shells is playing for a long time and teasing me.

I do not consider about being captive at any time before and would not try to do it but I get tied up to the bed with ropes and Shells pushes cr�me cakes on me but sits on the side of the bed looking so nice. I am telling her she must hold me and kiss me and rub me but she is laughing. For me I am getting so excited and keep telling her to hold me but she doesn't and keeps teasing me. When she frees me I am so excited that I am straight onto her. The new happening has been so good that after the first time I want to do it again and again. Now we are always tieing up, sometimes each other and sometimes together.

For me it is so exciting, more when I am tied up, but it is good also to tie up Shells but I would not ever do anything that she didn't like or cause hurt or damage - that's not nice.

Well, that's if for our personas - two people, ten personalities. If there's any psychiatrists reading this we regret to inform you that we're not available for analysis, even though trying to figure us out would be an immense challenge and succeeding would be a major scientific breakthrough.

Thanks for having read this far. If for some strange reason you want more then read our bios or check out the About Monika and the About Shells pages.

OUR PERSONAS

Did you think there was just the two of us?
There's actually 10 of us, read on...

THE PHOTOGRAPHS

At the top of the page: Photos from 3 different sets - Catsuits and Kissing, Playing in the Mud and Chocolate Sauce.
For thousands more photos like these check out Amsterdam Rubber and Messyfun. Check out the Links Page as well for more cool links.

The photos in the Personas part are girls we really like - from top to bottom: Unknown, Zdenka Podkapova, Taylor Rain, Martina Warren, Sydney Moon, Unknown, Unknown, Jasmine Sinclair 1, Jasmine Sinclair 2, Jasmine tied to Ashley and someone who's managed to get themselves rather muddy.