Great...

So my tattoo parlor was robbed last night. They smashed through the front windows and took stupid stuff and an empty cash box. #1 suspect is the guy from my last post... the police did fingerprints and took lots of information. Luckily all my stuff is safe.

But this is what I was welcomed by when I went to the shop this morning:





So my tattoo parlor was robbed last night. They smashed through the front windows and took stupid stuff and an empty cash box. #1 suspect is the guy from my last post... the police did fingerprints and took lots of information. Luckily all my stuff is safe. But this is what I was welcomed by when I went to the shop this morning:

Iiiii'm Baaaaack!

Some of you may have noticed that I haven't posted in a while. I have not forgotten about my little blog, nor have I been intentionally depriving all of you the exciting adventures that are my life. Quite the opposite... there has simply been nothing good happening.

A month or so ago a guy was hired to work with me. Because this is a PG blog, I will just say that he was a terrible person and a drug addict.

He only lasted this long because my bosses were trying to see the good in him. He had a terrible past and said he was trying to make right by moving to Springfield and starting over. He did a terrible job of starting over, and this morning he was finally fired.

He made my life awful for a while. I went from having the BEST job in the world to dreading going to work every day. I was stressed out and it stunk.

But now he is gone. My heart is again light and carefree and the black cloud of dark mojo that had been hanging over the shop since he arrived has lifted.

For anyone who is interested, here's a photo:


One of the co-owners of Sacred Art, the shop I am at now, is on the left. He is cool. Creeperface is on the right. He is not cool...

In fact, this may be a better picture:


More updates tomorrow!

Diet time

Its that time of year again... time to drop 20 lbs asap. I began a diet yesterday and started working out again. Feels good.

In other news, I finally ordered my own set of tips, grips and tubes. Those are the things that you put the tattoo needle in and hold onto when you are actually tattooing, kind of like a really heavy pencil.

Here are mine, nice and shiny and new:


And I did this tattoo last night... ouch:

Two Tattoos Today

Rocking along... did a tattoo for ACTUAL money this weekend... made $60, but forgot to take a picture of it. I apologize. But here are two that I did today.

Rice and bacon bits for dinner for the first time in a few weeks...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

Chugga chugga chugga--

Have three tattoo appointments today. Have two tomorrow. Have two next Monday. One next Tuesday.

Pictures to come!

Wooo!

This Monday went very well! The first tattoo I did was pretty bad... but it was the first time I had ever tattooed someone with a Neuma machine. After a lot of trial and error (and a doll of a client) I finished up the linework.


(traditional tattoo machines are run by electric coils, they are heavy and I had a hard time holding one.... Neumas are powered by a turbine and a clean air compressor. They weigh virtually nothing by comparison and thats the machines that I bought.)

The next tattoo gave was a gemini symbol that two friends are getting. We made it look like brushstrokes as opposed to just black boring kanji (chinese symbols) Turned out great... and I am tattooing his friend on this coming Monday.


Third was a wilting rose on a regular client of the shop... I actually have a picture of that one:



Also... dyed my hair to look like flames... this is a terrible picture, but here ya go!