Posts Tagged "tattoo"
In lieu of real content, quick update stolen from PMs
I can’t remember what the last ting I really posted was, and I don’t really feel like looking.
Before the end of January, I completed my first tattoo. It was smaller than a quarter, but it fulfilled my own requirement of doing this before the end of January. I know it was stupid, but this has been going on for two years, and I told myself if I wasn’t ahead of where I was last year, or the year before, that was it. So Michael let me do a cute piece Malachai drew a bit ago and I don’t feel so much pressure from myself now. Phew!
We went to Orlando (Disney) in January as well, both to celebrate with Michael and Sara who turned 18 and to celebrate Eshiva turning 5. It was a super quick overnight trip, so we didn’t make plans to visit with anyone. She had a blast. She got her birthday pin and heaven forbid anyone not say Happy Birthday to her – she made damn sure they saw her pin lol
Dorian went to the orthodontist and he goes back the end of March to get his braces. Malachai hasn’t started his yet, but we’re getting there! He goes back I think the end of this month.
I went to the periodontist and had a gum therapy transplant thingie done yesterday. I am slightly better than miserable but not entirely well. It was a stupid nothing and I am surprised it took so much out of me. I put the details behind a spoiler tag for those who don’t want to hear. It’s not so bad, but it’s not so good either.
Read MoreJanuary 2, 2010
coffee and mac & cheese for brunch. yah. salad for dinner!
The pipe out front popped this morning. It happened last year. Except the flood is in our front yard because of where the pipe is. So yah. It’s being fixed but what a hassle. The cold make the PVC pop. Yep, SoFl got cold enough for busted pipes. Better than frozen busted pipes! I guess it’s a good thing the new neighbors were moving in at 2 AM?
Orkin is calling me Monday about coming to spray for the fleas. We’ll nee to board the dogs, but since they are calling Monday, it will be the following before we can have them out. Oy.
I also need to get my oil changed (we didn’t make it in last week), phone the HOA and find out where I send a letter about having speed bumps put in the neighborhood and find out when the next meeting is so I can make a nuisance of myself when they ignore my letter, and a handful of other things I need to do. Why are my Monday’s always super crazy?
Michael works on Sunday, so Monday isn’t a tattoo Monday – I am way behind. I am really really anxious to finish my arm so I can start the other one. I am also really anxious to start on him.
Read MoreJune 30, 2009
First, my twitters psots will be once a week now. See, I have twitter feeding to my WordPress, because I use twitter to keep track of things. It’s just quicker. But then WordPress feeds over to LJ, which people hate. I can’t tell WP to feed to LJ except if it’s twitter, so the best you’re gonna get is a once a week twitter feed.
Second, and for my own records, I am still stumped on this whip shading thing. Lining = check. Solid = check. Watered down black to make greywash = check. Whipshading = fail. However, we have an entire huge collection of tattooing dvd’s and whatnot, so maybe one of them explains it in a way that I get? I kind of got it down, but I had to turn the power way down. While Michael said some artists do that for shading, I’d like to figure out how most of them do it without doing so.
Third, I must have these shoes. Someone should get them for me. Yes, I want them in yellow. My Olssons recently broke, and needed re-soling anyway. Was it a hint? A shove to buy these beauties? I don’t know. I have a check coming that will cover them though…
and forth, my new system is working! The kids are keeping up on their daily personal hygeine and daily chores and so am I! I haven’t stuck to it 100%, but my floor is swept, my counter is cleared, and my laundry is (still getting) done. I’ve done four loads in the past two days and it’s pretty much all put away. I cleared out five baskets of clean clothes. (Don’t think me a clothes horse, it was five different people worth of clothes) The compost is out (Michael took it out this morning), the trash goes out tonight, the children and bathed and dressed and fed and we’re getting it done quicker and earlier in the day! They even earned homework points today for starting the Hebrew summer work (and if they finish the book, they get a prize when Hebrew school starts up again, so they win all around on that one).
I made rice today, which turned out over starchy and mushy. I thought a rice maker = idiot proof rice? Apparently not. I made Stitch & Mickey shaped unigari (with fake crab inside and furikake outside), and a terrible krab roll for Fish to take to work. The rice was just wrong :( Also sent him a handful of fake crab, and some fruit and some soy and furikake on the side. I’ll figure out this bento thing. I just need some practice. I’ll also figure out the rice lol
Read MoreToday… Oh today.
It was pouring this morning, thunder & lightning, the whole nine yards. We cuddled in bed (all of us) and watched Titan A.E. and then Michael got up and made breakfast.
Around 11 we made it out the door and to Best Buy. Michael got his phone this morning (he bought the 8gig that dropped down to 100$ – more on that later) and is in heaven. He’ll be fiddling with it all night I’m sure :-) He opted to get the “old” one instead of the new one as I told him if he did, he could spend the rest of what he saved on a tattoo book he wants to update. The author has a deal that he’ll send a check back if you return the old version to him, kind of a rebate for having purchased the original version. Yep, I bribed my man.
Then we dropped him off at work and went to therapy. Then on the way out the kids were horsing around and Dorian slammed Malachai’s arm (around the elbow) in the sliding door of the van. Poor kid. I spent five minutes trying to pop an instant cold pack which wouldn’t pack, so I spent ten minutes driving home with a wailing child. Called ahead and had an ice pack waiting on us. He seems OK now – gave him some ibuprofen for the swelling and he flipped through the new bento book that came. He’s on the computer now. Guess he’s all right :-) Dorian felt awful.
I have to go make dinner. I have garlic-ginger lo mein on the menu (it was a hit last week) but I didn’t defrost the chicken and I have two pot roasts that need to be made in the fridge. I think I waited too long though (which I did yesterday too) as they should have gone in the crock this morning. I forgot I wouldn’t be home at 1 to put it in. Tomorrow maybe… that leaves something for tonight though.
Tattooed a little yesterday. I like shading with the rotary better than the coil machine. Eshiva has the skully I did on her arm – silly girl. I love that the stencils make her so happy.
Read MoreI’ve been thinking a lot about
people who think they can tattoo waaaay better than they actually can… I keep running into this both in person and online. New(ish) artists who either claim more experience than they actually have (in some cases including their apprenticeship as experience!) or who aren’t too bad but take on more than they have any right to take on at this time.
I know my limits. I am still working on melons people. My shading is… shady ;) My linework & solid fill are tight – on melons. Even my greywash wasn’t too bad. My whipshading *sucks*.
My opinion is, if I can’t do it all, I wont touch a person and if I am not willing to work on me (I don’t want that shit on me!) then I will not work on another person either. Eventually someone will have my first piece, and my second, and third, ad infinitum. Waiting is not done yet.I have the healthy attitude of “wow, this sucks!” because it can only get better. I am not overextending my reach. Not yet anyway ;)
It just drives me batty to see what could be amazing work, if it was done by someone who was a little more skilled.
Michael keeps telling me that old joke, How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.
Too true. I am very frustrated with my work right now. My shading needs work. I needed him to help me with a piece I did for someone else this morning (graphic design, not tattooing) because I kept making the same mistake over and over because I couldn’t see beyond it anymore. I am kind of beating my head against a wall creatively right now anyway.
Anyway, back to the point of this – I thought the Green Monster had gotten a hold of me, but after stepping back, I don’t think it’s true. I think I am just seeing more and more scratchers out there and it’s a shame. I mean, by all means, get that shit. Then come pay my husband five times as much to fix it – you are supporting my family when you do that. I just hate to see such bad work that has the potential to be good work from the get-go.
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