Tattoo

On Thursday 17 July 2014, at Westside Tatoo in Brisbane's West End, I shall meet with Tim Rix and get inked!

I've wanted a tattoo for years, but I'm a firm believer that a tattoo must be art, it must be significant and it must be something you will be happy to live with for the rest of your life.

My tattoo is going to be a patchwork pink ribbon and it's going to live on my inner right forearm.  I saw an image on the internet, of several large ribbons which had been decorated by different people with different messages.  I have no idea where these 'sculptures' were but they were all wonderful.  Naturally, the one that caught my imagination was the one which was decorated in a patchwork style called Flying Geese. 

Flying Geese are patchwork blocks where there is a centre triangle in each block, all the triangles are facing the same way, hence the name.
In the sculpture, all the triangles were varying shades of pink and the backgrounds were in blues, greys and black.  I immediately knew this would translate into a beautiful tattoo.

My sister and her husband, who are wonderful, loving and supportive people, decided this would be a perfect gift for my 50th birthday because, as my sister so lovingly explained, "It's something you really want, you'll have it for the rest of your life and I've always wanted to pay someone to hurt you!" 
I love my sister's sense of humour..... I think?! :\