new tattoo

So today i got my second tattoo done at Diablo Tattoos in Rochester and it was carried out by Matt 

The quote reads "turn your face towards the sun and let the shadows fall behind you" 

The past year has been pretty tough on me,  I was in a really dark place and fixating on that darkness embracing it. This tattoo is to remind me to put this darkness behind me and to focus on all that is good with my life not all the bad. That there will always be darkness but to turn my back on it and to focus on the light. 

And yes it did hurt, but it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, it was more painful towards the front, and i actuly found it quite relaxing the further back it got. 

my hip tattoo. 

Outfit of the day.

I know the quality of these photos are quite bad. (sorry don't really have means of doing these any more without using my webcam) 

Cardigan: The Anybody Collection at Rocket 
Vest: Top Shop
Jeans: Pall and Bear 
shoes (not seen): old beat up converse   

Skulls and roses: you've got me drawing again

So its 1am or there a bouts and i have just finished this drawing of the skull and roses. It's the first time i have actually sat down and drawn something for the sake of drawing in about a year, maybe longer, but its defiant the first time in over 3 years since I have worked in charcoal. Over all I am happy with how this has termed out, but i'll see how i feel after i've had some shut eye. 

under neath are a couple of photos of the drawing in different stages.....enjoy  

Outfitts of the day: Men Don't Protect You Any More

                                      

Just a little bit of grungie style, wet look leggings: plaid shirt, and a Nirvana vest. With of corse a selection of jewelry :) 

his jeans looked better on me any way.

These are a pair of shorts i made from a pair of my ex's jeans. And sorry to disappoint you but i didn't cut them up out hatred of for closure. He completely destroyed them playing football waiting for a bus, ripping the fabric at the crotch beyond repair (i have sewn up many of his jeans countless times) and i got them for scrap fabric. 

                                      

                                      

•  I started by cutting the length of the legs still keeping the shorts quite long at this stage and keeping the bottom of the legs for scrap.
• I then unpinned the waist band and belt loops and then unpinned the front back and side seams. (I kept the back yoke, pockets and zip in, basically because I'm lazy) 
• using the scrap denim i patched up the larger holes in the fabric and darned the smaller ones. 
• I then pinned and tacked the front and back pieces back together, putting them on to check fit and adjusting. 
• once i was happy with the fit i sewed the seems together using a flat welt down the center front and back, reversed lapped seam along the outer leg this left the edges exposed for a more distressed look and a kind of patchwork lapped type seem along the inside legs. 
• at this point i would have reattached the waist band and belt loops, only they went walkies, so I'm leaving that off, but it adds to the distressed effect. 

• I then cut the shorts to length and dipped in bleach. (unfortunately they turned orange not white/gray, but nether mind. 

• once rinsed and dried I continued by adding dome studs to the back pocket and the front and dripped and distressed the fabric. 

ta-da!!    

i love the outcome, now i just need to get out and wear them ;)

Rose hip tattoo

About a month a go I went and got my hip tattooed. 

I love it, 3 roses and a rose bud. It took 2 hours and is about the size of my hand. This was my first tattoo and it wasn't as bad as every one seemed to make out it was going to be. I'm contempt with just this one at the moment, though who knows what will happen in the future.  

I think the worlds view on tattoos are changing, there defiantly becoming more acceptable. there about freedom and self expression. Yes in 50-60 years time nursing homes will be full of men and women covered in tattoos, but it showed that they lived their lives and have stories to tell, there ink wont be as crisp and detailed as it was when first done, but the technology and quality of the ink is always going to be improving so who knows what a tattoo done today will look like in 50 years time, and hay you could always get them touched up... and now I'm rambling so i better go. 

hope you like my tat. 

since posting this i have since got another tattoo on my ribs