Some people believe tattoos are criminal and not art or worth the money that people put into them because of what they will look like when we get older or when our bodies change. Well sometimes I do agree with them especially on the ones that look like a kid decided they wanted to play with a tattoo gun one day and you just happened to be the unfortunate canvas for them to draw on. I come from parents who have at least 2 tattoos so I don't think that me having two is a big or the fact that I want to get more. People try to tell me I won't get a job because I have one on my forearm so it's visible and potential employers won't hire someone that has tattoos. Well lucky for me it's nothing vulgar, it's the Chinese symbol for horse and 4 of my horse's names around it.

There really is a 4th name on it I am just pushing out the color that it was written in. (I can't hold orange, yellow or pink very well at all). This particular tattoo has it's own meeting, they are the first horses I actually got to call my own, so I thought I should have some kind of memorandum to them.

My second tattoos is on my shoulder and it's simply two horse shoes and a 4 leaf clover in them. The story behind this one: when I was younger I would go to motorcycle shows with my mom, dad and sister. There would be contests for best of show, best paint job etc., obviously my family and I would vote for a family friend Jack's motorcycle for best of show. No matter how many votes we would give him I was always the one to take up the ballots and every time I told the people that he was going to win and he always did so he gave me the nickname "Lucky". Horseshoes and 4 leaf clovers are lucky so I made it a tattoo.

(Photo Credit to the one and only Jack Morgan! ) That pretty motorcycle is the motorcycle that I helped always win!

Over the last couple of years I have lost a lot of people that have meant so much to me! Whether they were family or friends. There is a saying that goes something like: "If a cardinal comes into your yard, it's a visit from someone who has passed". I like to think that it's true and that all my family and friends I've lost have been checking up on me and making sure I'm succeeding in what I love to do. It's going to look something like this:

(My boyfriends friend Jason is helping me with the design and the artistic-ness behind it.)

My next tattoo is going to be the hardest one I get. Not because of what it is but what it stands for. About a year and a half ago we lost my Uncle Charlie and I think that was the hardest death I've had in awhile. I didn't talk to him at for 5 years because of something happened 5 years ago. I was so mad at him at the time and I had no right to hold a grudge against him for so long. I never got to apologize to him for being mad at him. After his death my parents bought one of his horses, the horse I "leased" and the horse I got to call mine until she had her baby, so she got to came home and home is where she'll stay! We then bought the colt she was pregnant with when I had her, he's six now and will never do anything than what my Uncle Charlie was training him, even if I wanted to he doesn't understand anything but barrels. I wanted a tattoo that represented those two horses and honor my Uncle Charlie at the same time. Finding a tattoo that did both of those things has been a little hard. It's going to look something like this:

I'm going to put both horse's names in the bars of the shoes and make the saddle look like my Uncle Charlie's saddle as the tribute to him.

I do intend to get two more tattoos one with my sister if she ever decides what she likes. I've decided but she hasn't. I'm also going to get one with my mom because why not! They'll have meaning to us and connect us no matter where we are in the country! I love my tattoos and your judgement will not be considered and your rash comments on how trashy tattoos make people look will be fully ignored and laughed at.