Comments | sillypilgrim: tattoo idea

sillypilgrim

tattoo idea

Aug 12, 2009 09:02

So I've been thinking a lot about getting a new tattoo. It started a year or more ago when I saw this poem inside of a greeting card. I think it was a "daughter birthday" card. I copied the poem and have been carrying it around since. Then two things got me going yesterday in planning it. One was a photo of a friend's tattoo. It was the placing ( Read more... )

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bonjour August 12 2009, 16:24:13 UTC

The bottom one is frame-able!

My husband is a tattoo collector and his strategy is to find an artist whose work he looooves (most have their portfolios online) and then gives them some reference images and instructions and lets them come up with the final design (of course he can still request changes before anything is permanent). In all cases, the art has turned out even better than he had hoped. If you do this, you will have to give the artist a nonrefundable deposit (around $50) just in case they spend time creating something for you and you end up not wanting to go forward with it.

sillypilgrim August 12 2009, 16:29:09 UTC

I had thought of asking the tattoo artist to do it, but yeah... someone I have to pay for is less attractive to me :) At least until I'm ready to have it inked. I do have a few artist friends and someone suggested I make it a sort of contest.

We'll see... I'm excited :)

jeney August 12 2009, 16:37:36 UTC

I was wondering if you did this when I saw it last night! I was going to ask, but thought maybe it was something famous that everyone would eye-roll over me not already knowing about.

What are the words?

sillypilgrim August 12 2009, 16:41:27 UTC

All the dreams I prayed you'd be are all the things you are.
You were once my little girl, you're now my shining star.

Reading it again yesterday I felt like maybe just the second sentence actually fits. I'm not sure how much of the words should be in the tattoo.

Something famous! Ha! Well, it was really fun to do and I'm happy with it :)

jeney August 12 2009, 16:46:59 UTC

I like the whole thing. Both lines. She *is* all the things you prayed she'd be but like, in spades. She is just all those things with Jesus and we have to wait a little while to be able to see it for ourselves.

sillypilgrim August 12 2009, 17:20:30 UTC

Any design ideas about the words?

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ericalynnfoster August 12 2009, 18:25:52 UTC

I hate to be all contrary and in your face and all, but ...

You can draw. You should draw more. Stop it with that negative self talk about the drawing that is clearly a lie.

My, I'm bossy today!

sillypilgrim August 12 2009, 19:05:06 UTC

The thing is.... I just didn't know! :)