….And Now I Have Three!
I’ve wanted a tattoo for a years ! I’ve even mentioned it in this post but I’ve always been too chicken to do it (a tattoo of a chicken was mentioned in the comments – haha, very funny :-P)
Then last year, after a devastating event, I decided it was finally time to overcome my fear and just DO IT! And I knew exactly what I wanted. The initials of all four of my kids in the shape of a heart….and I must say, it worked out perfectly. The design was a bit of a problem for me, though, because I was working with all upper case letters…until a friend’s genius idea of using lower case, then it all came together nicely.
My hip seemed the perfect spot for it, because that’s where I carried them when they were little (not to mention the fact that there’s a bit of umm…padding…which would hopefully make it less painful 😉 ) It really wasn’t bad at all. It stings a little bit and kind of feels like someone’s drawing on you with a mechanical pencil. The weirdest thing was the vibrations I felt from my hips all the way down my legs.
The thing about tattoos…..they’re addicting! You can’t just stop at one, because you’ll want another one. NEED another one! LOL
And the perfect second tattoo for me? A camera of course! A very good friend of mine was nice enough to agree to draw one for me (Thank you! Again) because my camera drawing skills just aren’t that great, and I wanted something original. As expected, this hurt a bit more than the first one, but still not too bad. Ha this one done in February, about a week after my birthday.
When I got my camera tattoo, I already knew that I wanted a third (did I mention tattoos are addictive??) and decided on a butterfly. Just because I like butterflies. And this time it was my own drawing, too. I chose my left shoulder because it just seemed like the right spot to put it, and it would balance out the other two that are both on the right side of my body. Had this one done just a couple of days ago
Not sure if I’ll stop at three. I might. But there’s also a chance that I might…maybe…possibly….get two more. Just need to decide what and where 😉
A big thank you to Matt (who did my first tattoo) and Daryl (who did the other two) at Scarecrow Tattoo and Art Gallery for doing such a wonderful job.
2014/158: Graduation Day
Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday she was this sweet little girl….it’s hard to believe she’s grown into this beautiful young woman, who will be off to college in just a few months to study creative writing and art.
I’m so proud of her for all her achievements throughout her school years. She is a member of the National Honor Society, the Spanish Honor Society, and she’s graduating in the top 10% of her class tonight (her class rank is #15 out of 363)
Happy Graduation Day, Melissa! I’m SO proud of you and wish you success in all you do ♥
Then… (at age 20 months)
And now… (at age 17)
2014/157
People will forget what you said,
People will forget what you did,
But people will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Maya Angelou
2014/155: At The Butterfly House Again
Seems like I’m there a lot, but I’m not. I just try to get as many pictures as possible when I am there.
2012/180: Dinner….Is Served
There’s a bit of a story to go along with this shot, because it’s not the one I intended to post. This isn’t even the original photo, but a iPhone shot of the LCD display of my camera that I sent to show a friend.
I transferred the original from the memory card to my pc, edited it, and saved it to my post-it-on-the-blog-someday folder. Then, out of boredom I decided to play with the iPhone shot, edited it in Snapseed ….and ended up liking it better than the original edited photo.
2012/175: BookBook
I like the BookBook for my iPad so much, it was only natural that I would get a BookBook for my iPhone as well! (Although I found a much better deal on eBay 😉 )
2012/170: Chihuly At The Dallas Arboretum (1)
Aside from some quality me-time, Dale Chihuly’s glass art was another reason I wanted to go to the Dallas Arboretum. Lots of great stuff there, so look for a few more Chihuly art posts.
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