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April 19th, 2008 | 
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I went in last night for two hours so Erica could start the color on the flowers. The iris was first, and it’s stunning. It looks like it could rustle with the slightest breeze. The iris is for my grandmother, and I can’t wait to send the photos to her. The lotus was much less time-intensive, but it is no less lovely. I love the pinks and the lovely veining.
Dudes, I am all YARDCORE and stuff.
I’m so very excited. There’s still signficant work to be done, but I’m hoping to get as much done as possible in the spaces between the long weekends of teacher training.
Birthday is May 2nd!
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Last night, Matthew and I went over to the Ink Spot to see what Erica Flannes had worked up for me. I’d given her concept art, but I am not so much of an artist, so I made sure to include photos, lest I end up with a gigantic vulva instead of an Iris. What she’d worked up made me teary-eyed. I knew she’d come up with something beautiful, but once it’d been realized, I was so emotional and overwrought.
About an hour later, I walked out with the beginnings of my birthday present!!
(if you click the image, you’ll see a tagged version, which explains the flowers)
It’s done in a medium grey, so it won’t have garish outlines. I think we’re heading somewhere semi-realistic, which should just be AMAZING.
I’m going back next Friday, where we’ll be layin’ down some color!
I loathe this holiday, mostly because people don’t get the difference between righteous pranking and behaving like a childish asshole. My mother (smartmouthed trickster she was) ascribed to the former school, and chose to die on April Fool’s Day eleven years ago. It was an appallingly perfect sunny day. Today, it’s a dreary, miserable day, which means it’s perfect tattooing weather. I’m making an appointment for a tattoo that will serve as a constant reminder of her, and all the things and people in my life that keep me strong.