This past month was pretty much a blur, just trying to push through our never-ending Winter, but I managed to keep myself distracted with new tattoos!
Stef and I made a consult at Rebel Waltz with my buddy Bram, who is extremely talented, I especially love his plant-life drawings so I knew I wanted to get him to do a tattoo that I have been thinking about for over a year now. I went into the consult with an idea of what I wanted - a botanical drawing of dill, and when we went back for the tattoo, his drawing was completely different than I imagined, but one hundred times better. I got this tattoo in memory of my wild and crazy Auntie Marj who was killed in a car accident a few years back. Her and I had a very special relationship, and I had a few ideas for tattoos that I could get in her honor, but then I thought of dill, and it just stuck. She always had the craziest garden, with dill that was waist-high, and she put it in nearly everything. I spend a lot of time in my kitchen, and I too cook with a lot of dill, and to this day I can not smell it without thinking of her (and usually tearing up). So, here it is, this one's for you Auntie Marj. I love that every time I look down at my arm I think of her, it's a tattoo that I know I will never ever regret.
Bram did such an incredible job of this one, the shading and the detail of it is so beautiful.
So it goes. Kind of self-explanatory. I knew I wanted a short and simple saying on my opposite forearm, and this is a saying that I remember my dad and my grandmother use on a regular basis. Yes it also happens to be a Kurt Vonnegut reference too, but that's not why I chose it. It's just kind of stuck with me in the past few months. Don Ritson at Rebel Waltz did this one, and it turned out completely perfect.