Blogless

So, i just haven't had much to post about recently....not since i tattooed my brother...which also coincided with an interview for an online journalist, so i cant say too much, coz i said i'd link to her piece when it comes out.... so zzzzzp. (that's the noise that me zipping up my big fat gob makes)...

I guess posting the pic of Dave's tattoo can't hurt though, right? 

so here it is. it was way smaller than i thought we were gonna do it, tucked up under his arm, but came out nice and he sat well. I aint got diddly squat booked in anytime soon (that i can think of) that i'm gonna be blogging bout, so i will warn you now, if nothing interesting happens, and i don't get any painting done, it's gonna be a whole lotta new shoes pics.....and new necklace....

ooh, almost forgot, looks like 3 out of 5 guest artists to be can't make it, Daveee from Kult in Poland can't come, but he will be in Singapore in Jan for anyone interested.

Also, Lee and Rich from One shot charlie's are now moving shops next year, so money allowances are limited. BOO :(

Wha-Huh?

So i was checking my stats counter, and found this..... what does this even mean? what in God's name were they looking for? I don't get it! Thought i'd share....

So i started looking online....I even wikipedia'd "ink monkey, and nada, zilch....

So i looked a little longer, and found this here page, which just so happens to be talking about Hong Kong! Too coincidental....weird. Can't be true. I dont believe it. Hmmmmmm............

I'm gonna trawl through every antique shop looking through all their desk drawers and see if i can't find myself my very own ink monkey! Oh, and I also found this pretty sweet website, selling awesome art,posters and prints for some not too shabby bands! Not too shabby at all....

diamond geezer

so ross has a habit of getting tattooed exactly when i wanna get tattooed, then i end up angry, and it's never a good idea to piss off the person who is about to tattoo your face!

long story short, i wanted to get something right about where he got his a few weeks back in london, but i didnt, coz he wouldnt answer his phone and i kinda felt like maybe i should inform the man i am married to that i'm about to get my face tattooed. so alas, nothing for me...... and now i'm back in hong kong, the "baron land of tattoos for julia ", and i've gotta wait til next time. damn me for being a stupid, considerate, worried wife! bah! (maybe i'll get lucky and fall asleep, and wake up with 57 or whatever stars all over my face! no, i take that back already!)

oh well, i'm digressing, lets get back to today......

i cant remember the last time i was so nervous doing a tattoo! dude...... this could have gone horribly horribly wrong. luckily it came out super clean, let's hope it heals up nice!

so here's ross' thug-adized-face.



in progress.....



p.s how nice n bright did his throat turn out? chuffed i am, well chuffed!

sweetness, sweetness i was only joking when i said...

sweetness i was only joking when i said...i'd like to smash every tooth in your head.

Ahh, Morrissey! cant go wrong!

So here's that sweet tattoo i was talking bout a few days back! Had fun with this one. He got it to surprise his wife for her 30th b'day. sweet, right?!



It's only just dawned on me how little time i have before i head off to the UK, and how little i have managed to get organized! Our spanking new t shirts got delivered yesterday, which was sweet, they look great! My new banner for the convention is done, but i still need to get prints sorted out. Tomorrow is my last day tattooing then its pack pack n pack!

ross' roses and the unamed irish neighbor

ok so finally, finally finally! after far too long, and ross trying to figure out what would be easier, not getting this piece finished and getting it lasered off, or just dealing with it. in the end he did neither, he had panic attacks, bitched and moaned, and drove me close to slitting his throat just to get it over and done with.
anyway, after a very limited time scale, i got this finished before he tapped out. (got it all coloured in 1 and a half hours. world record anyone?) i think so.



earlier today, i owed a friend and my next door neighbor a favor for helping out with walking my dogs back in .... god i dunno. last time i went away. singapore convention in january? i cant think of a better present than a free tattoo. well, maybe a house. that would be cool, or a motorbike, or an island.......

you can read him like a book.

So yesterday i had to do this. not fun. not fun at all.



i pray to god i never ever ever ever have to do another one like this! not only ribs, which i hate working on, but all these itty bitty chinese symbols that i had to double check as i worked, coz i cant read chinese, plus the huge difficulty of not wiping off the stencil (which also was a huge pain in the ass to apply!) bah!

after this, we went out on the piss with this guy, and his friends (one who also got tattooed but all my pics came out blurry :( .)
we ended up in none other than AMAZONIA, or as i like to call it, the TEMPLE OF ROCK! or AMA-FUCKIN-ZONIA!!!!
anyways, i got the pleasure of seeing a guy play jimmy hendrix on the guitar with his feet!

of course, i didnt have my camera.

oh, and on the way to work today, i saw a dude wizzing round in an electric wheelchair, giving a chick a ride on the back. very strange, and of course, again, lack of equiptment which captures pictures at the touch of a button :(

just finished work today, bout to take a pic, then i'm off to Ned Kelly's! AWESOME!

hopefully i'll blog todays doings later on tonight, if i dont get too drunk........

pills for the pills for the pils

So, Milo came back in the early hours of the morning, he has a slight infection, apparently nothing that a few pills and regular hot/cold compress' cant fix. he's on 3 different antibiotics at the moment, as well as his pain meds. it's not easy getting a dog as small as him to eat so many pills i tell ya! it's a week to the day since all this shit happened and the vet was shocked to see that he's actually put ON weight! we've been having to feed him so much more, coz he'll keep leaving his pills/picking them out/getting them stuck to the cone round his head etc etc!

Anyways, i've been so lax with uploading pics of recent work, and to be honest i haven't got much to post at the mo, got some nice pieces coming up, but for now, here's this lil' guy.



Hopefully tomorrow i will have a new print to post, i actually finished it last week, but then i got caught up in all this hoo-ha and havent had a minute to get it sorted on the computer.

ok, bed time, it's half four in the morning, and even though we r in the middle of a typhoon signal 9, looks like i'll be going to work tomorrow!