Lori Shares Some Peonies, and a Fairy Mermaid

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal">When I post here at Tattoosday, there is no definite chronological order. I tend to follow a variety of factors, which can often result in older encounters waiting in the wings for a very long time.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Take Lori, for example. At the beginning of May, while my wife was at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, fighting a bout of appendicitis, I walked over to a pizzeria on 50^th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway for a quick bite for lunch. On my way out, I noticed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>two women at a table, one of whom, Lori, had some pretty nice ink. Generally, one of my unwritten rules is not to bother people while they are eating, so I handed the woman my card and asked her to contact me if she was interested in contributing to Tattoosday.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Lori e-mailed me shortly thereafter, and a few weeks later, she sent me some photos. Since then, she has been patiently waiting for the post. E-mailed submissions tend to get a little lost in the shuffle but, finally, thanks to a little nudge on our Facebook page, we’re finally seeing them here on the site.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I’ll let Lori explain what we’re seeing: </div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaQVWkB7-IRK9L7YYQu7f9LO20586mTRGZVA4PygvXAGNAsMpmneY7CW1jtHCja5w6ATVjLB4TDQ2tPT-r7AzM4hGziP73WH6LaWfxPY0pZCbWSssAEecJOs_YdYN6RyUnrTwOwR2teQ8/s1600/peony+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaQVWkB7-IRK9L7YYQu7f9LO20586mTRGZVA4PygvXAGNAsMpmneY7CW1jtHCja5w6ATVjLB4TDQ2tPT-r7AzM4hGziP73WH6LaWfxPY0pZCbWSssAEecJOs_YdYN6RyUnrTwOwR2teQ8/s400/peony+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiovGsHLCRhnCJFRdZdX2FzIbvyZoWruK_FC4yz8xRDps93bbuFe0cd2bFxzxWmoYjA7iUNBxGKVmKn6U36n6clwTJ6d6dr9sFI8PbKZW9HPleiwVshnZ-HTF9ipdh9VaGerXSM2yunAts/s1600/peony+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiovGsHLCRhnCJFRdZdX2FzIbvyZoWruK_FC4yz8xRDps93bbuFe0cd2bFxzxWmoYjA7iUNBxGKVmKn6U36n6clwTJ6d6dr9sFI8PbKZW9HPleiwVshnZ-HTF9ipdh9VaGerXSM2yunAts/s400/peony+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">“Here are 2 peonies, one is a flash stencil, done by Mike B. at <a href="http://www.studioenigma.com/">Studio Enigma</a> on Avenue U [in Brooklyn] .... the other peony (my favorite), was hand drawn by <a href="http://www.baradastattoos.com/artista_pablo.html">Pablo Barada</a>, who is from Argentina [also at Studio Enigma] …</div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Drh539g2uxs53uO8DYWr8zcgModxOke_eHPLXrak3E8dWu0HUnzLV0ADTX_Xjsj_F7UsmiCLoLhhwRH74UcjXN8eYYa1XI8gHpwhqFSub4EG4kIgG48M1CbNLDT8v0VwzLxUE0eMgB0/s1600/mermaid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Drh539g2uxs53uO8DYWr8zcgModxOke_eHPLXrak3E8dWu0HUnzLV0ADTX_Xjsj_F7UsmiCLoLhhwRH74UcjXN8eYYa1XI8gHpwhqFSub4EG4kIgG48M1CbNLDT8v0VwzLxUE0eMgB0/s640/mermaid.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><br /><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOh42MIxAEgbBPiqY2MwW1ti6aCOPEvQuvEvf_bnt8Da8kqqmkiBAQUbOYfwGcI7wdz8Y0JPgps0rClpRn3CaDoqIQB9PYLaADwvnP0_nX2SX2IhuBomaMS7WUe_DQEoiYGQQj7X_Up_g/s1600/mermaid+closeup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOh42MIxAEgbBPiqY2MwW1ti6aCOPEvQuvEvf_bnt8Da8kqqmkiBAQUbOYfwGcI7wdz8Y0JPgps0rClpRn3CaDoqIQB9PYLaADwvnP0_nX2SX2IhuBomaMS7WUe_DQEoiYGQQj7X_Up_g/s200/mermaid+closeup.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">The Fairy mermaid was a picture I found just surfing the internet,  so I printed it out. I wish I still had the black and white photo before Mike B. colored it in. Now that I look at it, I think the B&W was much prettier. By the way, she took 18 hours to do, six three-hour sittings.” </div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal">Thanks to Lori for sharing some of her tattoos with us here on Tattoosday!</div><div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</a> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span></div>

Lori Shares Some Peonies, and a Fairy Mermaid

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The Tattooed Poets Project: Joy Leftow

Today's tattooed poet is <a href="http://joyleftowsblog.blogspot.com/">Joy Leftow</a>, who offers up this tattoo on her upper right arm (and part of her shoulder):<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6CNHD8HiYSQllVdM-kvv-06j5gN18fzNUAeFEgIx-ncfitevpfsyqHXhg3knxwe7_a0KobDeDkiWJw4dECaphI4Os-DjzUODVLYW4m_UlW7x3SF79E23JNnxvDnYhm4N5TmAKn_eyvh4/s1600/violet+writes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6CNHD8HiYSQllVdM-kvv-06j5gN18fzNUAeFEgIx-ncfitevpfsyqHXhg3knxwe7_a0KobDeDkiWJw4dECaphI4Os-DjzUODVLYW4m_UlW7x3SF79E23JNnxvDnYhm4N5TmAKn_eyvh4/s400/violet+writes.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />Joy explains the story behind this tattoo:<br /><br /><blockquote><div>The tattoo is my alter ego - not only <a href="http://www.eminem.com/">Eminem</a> has one. I had a very tumultuous and crazy childhood, so that I ended up dropping out of high school is no surprise. What is a surprise is that I now have 2 masters degrees, 1 in social work from Columbia, where I also attended undergrad for free in a special program geared towards helping the educationally and financially disadvantaged....out of the 11 people I began the program with, only me and one other gal made it through to graduation. Thus the importance of books in the tattoo, which represent knowledge and learning. I was always an avid reader and this turned to be my saving grace. But Columbia is a bitch and very competitive and wasn't exactly easy for a high school dropout. My other masters is in creative writing and is from CCNY, because once you're a working person, nothing is free, and CCNY is affordable. I'm very sorry to see the days of opportunities for the disadvantaged pass by and now one must work hard to find any remaining ones.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.dreamlandcreations.net/">Myke Maldonado</a> from <a href="http://dreamlandcreations.com/" target="_blank">Dreamland Creations</a> [in Stroudsburg, PA] is my inker. Myke is famous for torturing people so that your ink will last forever. He also has some fame as a comic book illustrator and for his erotic art comics. I chose him because my son is totally inked by Myke. I know that Myke sits and takes his time to make the creation a by product of dialogue and collaboration. If he wouldn't have moved his ass around the country so much, he'd be a lot more famous. You can't find a better or more responsive inker. Love Myke!</blockquote><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joy offers us this poem:</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6058251288236499429" name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6058251288236499429" name="OLE_LINK1"> </a><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Ramblings Of A Dead Poet Revived</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I’m your dream that drama queen you wanna be because you’re too damn scared on your own</div></div><div class="MsoNormal">so you talk about me – </div><div class="MsoNormal">My life shot and framed at every angle, a show and tell story of gory glory </div><div class="MsoNormal">A fit of reality TV evening drama </div><div class="MsoNormal">Me, an item to be discussed while you pine away</div><div class="MsoNormal">dismay pitted against your boring display of ridicule and scorn</div><div class="MsoNormal">a fine young thing wasted by the sideline of fate </div><div class="MsoNormal">a doorstep away</div><div class="MsoNormal">from where I stand </div><div class="MsoNormal">another miserable life invites me in</div><div class="MsoNormal">inciting an indictment in flight with a slight itch on the right side</div><div class="MsoNormal">another spiteful blight, pitiful, truly a fight to recite in the red light district of my mind</div><div class="MsoNormal">be polite do a rewrite be an anchor of light at first sight, sit tight</div><div class="MsoNormal">stay upright, only a bit contrite that my</div><div class="MsoNormal">knight in shining armor is all in my head</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have a legal right so join me in breaking bread maybe</div><div class="MsoNormal">Tempt you to try a</div><div class="MsoNormal">glass of organic Oregon Chardonnay instead</div><div class="MsoNormal">my life can’t be that exciting that you spend your time wondering when I do what I do and how I do it why do you care about my theatre life on the big screen </div><div class="MsoNormal">my life’s a Sartre amphitheatre</div><div class="MsoNormal">play and I am the spectre at the center of the fuss</div><div class="MsoNormal">I reminisce I exist</div><div class="MsoNormal">the bliss a swiss-chocolate kiss amiss to a soul kiss</div><div class="MsoNormal">the calypso discussion</div><div class="MsoNormal">I disinvite you to an airtight conclusion</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">~  ~ ~</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">In addition, we have an additional vision of Joy performing one of her poems:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9nIQmkeCVKk" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe><br /><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joy Leftow is a double alumna from Columbia U with a second Master’s from CCNY in creative writing. Her blog </span><span style="font-size: small;">has over 27000 facebook followers and </span><span style="font-size: small;">can be relished at:<i> <a href="http://joyleftowsblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #003ea0;">http://joyleftowsblog.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com</span></a></i></span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">She’s been featured on <a href="http://www.rocklandworldradio.com/">Rockland Internet Radio</a>, <a href="http://www.indiefeedpp.libsyn.com/">Indie Feed</a>, <a href="http://www.jazzpoetrycafe.net/">Jazz Poetry Café</a> and Everything Goes. Leftow’s honesty and openness may astonish you or embarrass you, but she promises not to bore you.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Her book, <i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0917455509/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=bill03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0917455509%22%3ESpot%20of%20Bleach%20&%20Other%20Poems%20and%20Prose%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=0917455509%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20%21important;%20margin:0px%20%21important;%22%20/%3E">A Spot of Bleach</a>,</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> is available at Amazon.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=bill03-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=0917455509" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></div><br />Thanks to Joy for sharing her tattoo and her words with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This entry is ©2011 Tattoosday. The poem is reprinted here with the permission of the author.<br /><br />If you are reading this on another web site other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. Please feel free to visit </span><a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">http://tattoosday.blogspot.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> and read our original content. Please let me know if you saw this elsewhere so I contact the webmaster of the offending site and advise them of this violation in their Terms of Use Agreement.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>

The Tattooed Poets Project: Joy Leftow

Today's tattooed poet is Joy Leftow , who offers up this tattoo on her upper right arm (and part of her shoulder): Joy explains the stor...

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Tammy's Earth Fairy

Tammy says that, within an hour of meeting her, Steve Gagliano of <a href="http://www.tormentedsoulstattoo.com/main.html">Tormented Souls</a> in Kings Park, New York, knew exactly what to do with the tattoo she wanted covered up. He began freehanding a design over the existing tattoo, and the end result made her very happy:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgxOdsWd2wqgyHFt0PbhZq2NhIafwNCmfloN_bsl1F2qKHBl6gHEebteExfSvBegVSiQLxm0LFCgIBHVubjXxA9SBQVZ4cI2Sxrofj6W2CHRM5twNisRRnna9XUyfAPtYJkQEBzxK/s1600/Earth+Fairy+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgxOdsWd2wqgyHFt0PbhZq2NhIafwNCmfloN_bsl1F2qKHBl6gHEebteExfSvBegVSiQLxm0LFCgIBHVubjXxA9SBQVZ4cI2Sxrofj6W2CHRM5twNisRRnna9XUyfAPtYJkQEBzxK/s400/Earth+Fairy+collage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The artist utilized the tribal butterfly that already existed and expanded it into an earth fairy, with a dragon protector.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyVk_JOHntv1E4_9JGEFrzL8a4sdxdHrv_2WWMXkCSuEXhELl7GRJTbCOZl_r0bTs0UxpR0s8xX69bwyVuBWWgMEkLLCEM5EdDllojKC2I01cSUY7_kgELFNTqBAgS1sY5qA6s7Mf/s1600/Earth+Fairy+C.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyVk_JOHntv1E4_9JGEFrzL8a4sdxdHrv_2WWMXkCSuEXhELl7GRJTbCOZl_r0bTs0UxpR0s8xX69bwyVuBWWgMEkLLCEM5EdDllojKC2I01cSUY7_kgELFNTqBAgS1sY5qA6s7Mf/s640/Earth+Fairy+C.jpg" width="402" /></a></div><br />Thanks to Tammy for sharing this, one of her seven tattoos, here on Tattoosday!<br /><br />Be sure to click on the <a href="http://www.tormentedsoulstattoo.com/main.html">Tormented Souls link</a> to explore their site. It's one of the more creative tattoo shop websites.

Tammy's Earth Fairy

Tammy says that, within an hour of meeting her, Steve Gagliano of Tormented Souls in Kings Park, New York, knew exactly what to do with the...

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Lady Miscue of Delight

This was almost an orphan post, but I have enough to make it work.<br /><br />Last month, I boarded the 2 train, downtown, and was standing next to a young lady with a colorful fairy on her upper right arm:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNIb6cnEfTJPWJrz2wXP-sOVSVE_Q-nl5QHlQ-ZHiChF2hQCH-byTUoxt9PFybLceLPcHNLAs94f6pTar2QwzIB2JOEO8i_ld1xDGgtxi5n5MeMXI57hY7cIceinbRMSyRxxqsLQzq/s1600-h/Lady+Miscue.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389051319844792738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNIb6cnEfTJPWJrz2wXP-sOVSVE_Q-nl5QHlQ-ZHiChF2hQCH-byTUoxt9PFybLceLPcHNLAs94f6pTar2QwzIB2JOEO8i_ld1xDGgtxi5n5MeMXI57hY7cIceinbRMSyRxxqsLQzq/s400/Lady+Miscue.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" /></a><br />The woman's name was Elura, and she had this done at <a href="http://www.daredeviltattoo.com/">Daredevil Tattoo</a> in Manhattan. Other work from Daredevil has appeared on Tattoosday previously <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/search/label/Dare%20Devil%20Tattoo">here</a>.<br /><br />Alas, the train was noisy, and Elura was getting off at 14th Street, one station away. I asked her what the fairy was about, and she said, "She's Lady Miscue of Delight".<br /><br />I scribbled that down and Elura said she would e-mail me with more detail. She never did and, try as I might, I couldn't figure out what looks like a fairy, and sounds like "Lady Miscue of Delight".<br /><br />So that is what I will call her, until I have been corrected.<br /><br />Regardless, thanks to Elura for sharing her tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><br />UPDATE:<br /><br />Jeremy, below, in the comments, suggested that perhaps Elura meant, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Miss_Kier">Lady Miss Kier</a>, of the musical group <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deee-Lite">Deee-lite</a>:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ64zFWN1mDq24tUG2-TJN8pMyK042FQE7P-7or-KU0jbiTfbAHp_WHTF_d7IAN0Yhjn5Qfw3Vnjy95B_nbbKCQ7ukySSLGhJ5WZNQJK0i2boLGdCL-L4xiP6bBkmkQ2vMOgT4L-K6/s1600-h/lasy+miss+kier.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395376238034052034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ64zFWN1mDq24tUG2-TJN8pMyK042FQE7P-7or-KU0jbiTfbAHp_WHTF_d7IAN0Yhjn5Qfw3Vnjy95B_nbbKCQ7ukySSLGhJ5WZNQJK0i2boLGdCL-L4xiP6bBkmkQ2vMOgT4L-K6/s400/lasy+miss+kier.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 400px;" /></a><br /><br />The photo indicates that may be correct. Thanks Jeremy!

Lady Miscue of Delight

This was almost an orphan post, but I have enough to make it work. Last month, I boarded the 2 train, downtown, and was standing next to a y...

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xGoboBeanx's Fairy Tattoo

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0sQztFwc9OwoBb89dRywZlcam6gdIxQ11Kx6S7YITTENmawk25AstW79dKMiBn1WnNGcKPWjOyO8oMwV64aYsN6JLx3WvXk651EAfA1INv0CG0KCm_Vysi8870NW94T1rVpBpOMrABAX9/s1600-h/100_7678.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214556663481881634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0sQztFwc9OwoBb89dRywZlcam6gdIxQ11Kx6S7YITTENmawk25AstW79dKMiBn1WnNGcKPWjOyO8oMwV64aYsN6JLx3WvXk651EAfA1INv0CG0KCm_Vysi8870NW94T1rVpBpOMrABAX9/s400/100_7678.JPG" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a>I met Jill outside of Penn Station last week and she had this interesting creature on her left calf. I guessed it was a fairy, and noted (to myself) that it looked like one of the creatures in <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwTXT4EF3sC&dq=lady+cottington%27s+pressed+fairies&pg=PP1&ots=YsKUsRiHma&sig=Pd78ZQPZ_adhna79od5uGJD0AS4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result">Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkjPKEy-tL5fN8Q72qsuEj08mirI5q-ygciV7-0b88B0K5P0-y-xj0K4WtOS4UxA8juN4Uf6kUM_JkH5nGpVab2nV2tMJl-_mccqoJOXd3EHR1QMMfShy1wNHhhgIHZ_0hO9637iUBPVBD/s1600-h/faeie+detail.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214556418513181922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkjPKEy-tL5fN8Q72qsuEj08mirI5q-ygciV7-0b88B0K5P0-y-xj0K4WtOS4UxA8juN4Uf6kUM_JkH5nGpVab2nV2tMJl-_mccqoJOXd3EHR1QMMfShy1wNHhhgIHZ_0hO9637iUBPVBD/s400/faeie+detail.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a>I later learned that this was no coincidence, as the illustrator of said book is <a href="http://www.worldoffroud.com/www/main.cfm">Brian Froud</a>, upon whose work this tattoo was based.<br /><br />Jill identified it as a cat fairy, which is supposed to grant protection while one sleeps. She had this inked at a tattoo shop in the Corona section of Queens about 6 years ago. Jill doesn't recall the name of the shop, nor the artist that inked this, one of her six tattoos.<br /><br />Jill deserves a little cross promotion here, as she is a video blogger over at <a href="http://www.xgobobeanx.com/">www.xgobobeanx.com</a>. Some of her other tattoos, along with this one, make fleeting appearances in her video posts. Her YouTube channel is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/xgobobeanx">here</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Jill for sharing her fairy here on Tattoosday!

xGoboBeanx's Fairy Tattoo

I met Jill outside of Penn Station last week and she had this interesting creature on her left calf. I guessed it was a fairy, and noted (to...

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