Kelly Remembers her Grandmother

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ5784CmwDGDNBmVx6J32T6Z_oM427RIZO5AdT7MV1aO5pPKhrT5OqDGKPYKJ70S0IojHgimskaagU23Wu7Gq5DGRzytWynA7wnuhfd2JvyRJTSwioRyUWOYJcBj744kuB-Cs6wW0TlZpE/s1600-h/PICT0523.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237825871352783010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ5784CmwDGDNBmVx6J32T6Z_oM427RIZO5AdT7MV1aO5pPKhrT5OqDGKPYKJ70S0IojHgimskaagU23Wu7Gq5DGRzytWynA7wnuhfd2JvyRJTSwioRyUWOYJcBj744kuB-Cs6wW0TlZpE/s400/PICT0523.JPG" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br />This awesome portrait was jumping off of Kelly's right shoulder in Penn Plaza last Wednesday.<br /><br />Kelly has ten tattoos in all, but she chose this portrait for Tattoosday, inked six years ago by <a href="http://www.joeyortega.com/index.php">Joey Ortega</a> at <a href="http://killeen.com/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,637/Itemid,63/">Kingpin Tattoos</a> in Harker Heights, Texas.<br /><br />This was, according to Kelly, Ortega's first portrait, and he created for her a lasting memorial to her grandmother, who had meant the world to her.<br /><br />The portrait is accompanied by the phrase "may angels lead you in," a lyric from the song "<a href="http://www.google.com/musics?lid=arMPTX5shcJ&aid=K6_G3ZONx8B&sid=GAokJEl6B2C&sa=X&oi=music&ct=result">Hear You Me</a>" by the band <a href="http://www.jimmyeatworld.com/">Jimmy Eat World</a>:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">May angels lead you in </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hear you me my friends </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">On sleepless roads, the sleepless go </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">May angels lead you in </span></blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br />Kelly was in town visiting with her friend Amber. They have matching tattoos. See them below <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2008/08/texas-punx-two-friends-from-texas.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Kelly for sharing such a meaningful tattoo here with us on Tattoosday!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Bonus footage</span>- the video from "Hear You Me":<br /><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oH-T3V9EC5s&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oH-T3V9EC5s&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>

Kelly Remembers her Grandmother

This awesome portrait was jumping off of Kelly's right shoulder in Penn Plaza last Wednesday. Kelly has ten tattoos in all, but she chos...

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