DEAR DIARY 23rd march, 2006...........
7.15am. get up and have a shower. I have been waking up before my alarm more and more recently, and it is light now in the mornings. I can't wait for the summer. I love having a shower in the morning; I never want to get out!
7.30am. put on make-up, get dressed and do hair in that order. Complicated business!
8.30am. so I am showered, dressed and gathering all my stuff together for work, get some money to go to the warehouse after work, don't forget my drawings for customers, oh and get my breakfast together.
9am. I get driven into work (lucky me) while I eat my breakfast, today its a raw pepper, some chicken, sugar snap peas, a plum, a carrot and half a packet of ryvita minis. Yummy.
9.30am. coffee, coffee, coffee. my first tattoo will be in at 10 so I have half an hour to tidy round, fill up the coffee machine, set up for my first tattoo, check my stencils, put all my homework away from the night before, make sure the floor has been cleaned, put all my equipment in to soak, check for messages.
10am. matt- black and grey swallow on chest. This is the second session, last time I got all the outline and powerline done so today we will shade the swallows and star which will leave the background for next time, in may. He is a nice guy and we chatted quite a lot this time, I think the outline hurt a lot last time so he didn't have much to say then.
11.30am. this is my lunch break, its a bit early but thats how the tattoos have fallen today. Fish with tomato and mushroom, microwave dinner, very very nice. I have a bit of a thing for fish at the moment. Rich called, my next appointment, he is traveling up from Brighton and there are loads of roadworks so he will be a bit late. He was due in at 12 so I get an extended lunch today. 2 new customers came in to get designs done by me this morning so I take a look at them and read a new tattoo magazine that we received today. I also ordered some stuff I had been meaning to do for ages and helped out on reception a bit. Its quite nice getting to chat to people about ideas and stuff, although you do get some Wallys asking the most ridiculous questions!
1pm. Richie6Fingers arrives. Its great to see him; its been about 6 months since I started his sleeve in Brighton. we managed to get started on some shading today and I think its going really well, I can't wait to do some more. Its a shame we only got to do 2 hours but I had a booking in at 3 so I had to stop. He is booked in at temple in May so I will see him again then.
3pm. Vicky with a snowflake half sleeve. This is a very colourful tattoo on a very colourful girl. Each snowflake was taken from a photograph book that alwaysbeingblue bought me for Xmas. In vivid pinks, blues and purples. We have done 4 hours so far and we have 2 more hours to finish the snowflakes then about another 2 for the background.
alwaysbeingblue, kogii and another friend mish came in to see us. Its ABBs day off and she cant stay away!
5pm. my friend jordy was booked in at 5 but I needed a quick snackajack snack and he doesn't mind waiting, he just chats, he could talk the hind legs off a donkey! Its good to catch up with him though. He is a school teacher and he has full sleeves and a tattoo on his thumb, it surprises me that he gets away with the visible tattoo but he does.
We chat mostly about all the people this week that have been panicking about getting tattooed to the point that one girl today cancelled her appointment for Saturday because she was so worried. It seems weird that so many people have become so worried, I don't know why. I think that tattoos have become so popular recently; they are a fashion accessory to a lot of people. its not something they are really driven to do, they want to pick it as if they were picking a new top and are not prepared to go through what it takes to get it, they don't really really really want it. But lets face it, it can't be that bad, you come in our shop and see everyone getting tattooed and chatting, not screaming and crying! How bad can it be!
6.30pm. finish tattooing jordy and gather all my stuff together; I have a lot of new homework from today so I can't forget that. Then off to the cash and carry warehouse, we need to get stocked up on the pop, water and chocolate that we sell in the shop. Its open late on Thursdays so we have to do that tonight.
7.15pm. home sweet home. feed my doggies, frank is always so excited to see us and he normally bounds around like a complete lunatic, in his water bowl, water and fur everywhere, while betty just looks at him in embarrassment.
So I settle down to check my e-mails, answer comments on SG and do my update. I dont feel that I dedicate as much time to SG as I would like but I have a lot of work to do. So here we are.. Answering e-mails and writing my journal
8.45pm. oh, my tea has been cooked for me; I am a very lucky lady, its chicken schezuan, yummy. And a big glass of diet cherry coke.. Yes the best discovery of the week thanks to alwaysbeingblue. Still on the internet!
Left to do for the evening.
Save 2 messages from stockists on my desktop so I can pay them tomorrow.
Tattoo designs for customers. None are urgent but I cant leave them all to pile up and I want to get on top of it so I can do some more of my own flash designs over the weekend.
Washing needs doing!
Cuddle frank and Betty!
Bed about 11.30-12, hopefully!
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PLANS FOR THE WEEKEND:
FRI: work, yoga, then my friend chrissy is doing a gig so I will definitely be there but to bed early because its an extra early start on a Saturday morning, in work for 8.15am.
SAT: work, homework, maybe a little whiskey and an Indian takeaway!
SUN: I hope to draw some of my own designs today, go and see family for a birthday and a friend who is having a bit of a hard time at the moment, I will be taking his new tattoo design to cheer him up I hope.
MON: hahaha, an extra day off, hopefully I should have got my entire homework dome by now so some more of my flash.
TUES: I am spending the day with my mommy for mothers day instead of Sunday. I will take her for dinner and a bit of shopping!
WED-SAT: Work as normal, no special plans.
SUN: ink and iron tattoo convention. I am looking forward to this; its the first show we will work as a shop with all the artists working. I think they will all be very nervous, I know I was on my first convention.
7.15am. get up and have a shower. I have been waking up before my alarm more and more recently, and it is light now in the mornings. I can't wait for the summer. I love having a shower in the morning; I never want to get out!
7.30am. put on make-up, get dressed and do hair in that order. Complicated business!
8.30am. so I am showered, dressed and gathering all my stuff together for work, get some money to go to the warehouse after work, don't forget my drawings for customers, oh and get my breakfast together.
9am. I get driven into work (lucky me) while I eat my breakfast, today its a raw pepper, some chicken, sugar snap peas, a plum, a carrot and half a packet of ryvita minis. Yummy.
9.30am. coffee, coffee, coffee. my first tattoo will be in at 10 so I have half an hour to tidy round, fill up the coffee machine, set up for my first tattoo, check my stencils, put all my homework away from the night before, make sure the floor has been cleaned, put all my equipment in to soak, check for messages.
10am. matt- black and grey swallow on chest. This is the second session, last time I got all the outline and powerline done so today we will shade the swallows and star which will leave the background for next time, in may. He is a nice guy and we chatted quite a lot this time, I think the outline hurt a lot last time so he didn't have much to say then.
11.30am. this is my lunch break, its a bit early but thats how the tattoos have fallen today. Fish with tomato and mushroom, microwave dinner, very very nice. I have a bit of a thing for fish at the moment. Rich called, my next appointment, he is traveling up from Brighton and there are loads of roadworks so he will be a bit late. He was due in at 12 so I get an extended lunch today. 2 new customers came in to get designs done by me this morning so I take a look at them and read a new tattoo magazine that we received today. I also ordered some stuff I had been meaning to do for ages and helped out on reception a bit. Its quite nice getting to chat to people about ideas and stuff, although you do get some Wallys asking the most ridiculous questions!
1pm. Richie6Fingers arrives. Its great to see him; its been about 6 months since I started his sleeve in Brighton. we managed to get started on some shading today and I think its going really well, I can't wait to do some more. Its a shame we only got to do 2 hours but I had a booking in at 3 so I had to stop. He is booked in at temple in May so I will see him again then.
3pm. Vicky with a snowflake half sleeve. This is a very colourful tattoo on a very colourful girl. Each snowflake was taken from a photograph book that alwaysbeingblue bought me for Xmas. In vivid pinks, blues and purples. We have done 4 hours so far and we have 2 more hours to finish the snowflakes then about another 2 for the background.
alwaysbeingblue, kogii and another friend mish came in to see us. Its ABBs day off and she cant stay away!
5pm. my friend jordy was booked in at 5 but I needed a quick snackajack snack and he doesn't mind waiting, he just chats, he could talk the hind legs off a donkey! Its good to catch up with him though. He is a school teacher and he has full sleeves and a tattoo on his thumb, it surprises me that he gets away with the visible tattoo but he does.
We chat mostly about all the people this week that have been panicking about getting tattooed to the point that one girl today cancelled her appointment for Saturday because she was so worried. It seems weird that so many people have become so worried, I don't know why. I think that tattoos have become so popular recently; they are a fashion accessory to a lot of people. its not something they are really driven to do, they want to pick it as if they were picking a new top and are not prepared to go through what it takes to get it, they don't really really really want it. But lets face it, it can't be that bad, you come in our shop and see everyone getting tattooed and chatting, not screaming and crying! How bad can it be!
6.30pm. finish tattooing jordy and gather all my stuff together; I have a lot of new homework from today so I can't forget that. Then off to the cash and carry warehouse, we need to get stocked up on the pop, water and chocolate that we sell in the shop. Its open late on Thursdays so we have to do that tonight.
7.15pm. home sweet home. feed my doggies, frank is always so excited to see us and he normally bounds around like a complete lunatic, in his water bowl, water and fur everywhere, while betty just looks at him in embarrassment.
So I settle down to check my e-mails, answer comments on SG and do my update. I dont feel that I dedicate as much time to SG as I would like but I have a lot of work to do. So here we are.. Answering e-mails and writing my journal
8.45pm. oh, my tea has been cooked for me; I am a very lucky lady, its chicken schezuan, yummy. And a big glass of diet cherry coke.. Yes the best discovery of the week thanks to alwaysbeingblue. Still on the internet!
Left to do for the evening.
Save 2 messages from stockists on my desktop so I can pay them tomorrow.
Tattoo designs for customers. None are urgent but I cant leave them all to pile up and I want to get on top of it so I can do some more of my own flash designs over the weekend.
Washing needs doing!
Cuddle frank and Betty!
Bed about 11.30-12, hopefully!
..
PLANS FOR THE WEEKEND:
FRI: work, yoga, then my friend chrissy is doing a gig so I will definitely be there but to bed early because its an extra early start on a Saturday morning, in work for 8.15am.
SAT: work, homework, maybe a little whiskey and an Indian takeaway!
SUN: I hope to draw some of my own designs today, go and see family for a birthday and a friend who is having a bit of a hard time at the moment, I will be taking his new tattoo design to cheer him up I hope.
MON: hahaha, an extra day off, hopefully I should have got my entire homework dome by now so some more of my flash.
TUES: I am spending the day with my mommy for mothers day instead of Sunday. I will take her for dinner and a bit of shopping!
WED-SAT: Work as normal, no special plans.
SUN: ink and iron tattoo convention. I am looking forward to this; its the first show we will work as a shop with all the artists working. I think they will all be very nervous, I know I was on my first convention.
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And just one of your days seems more productive than most weeks for me. I hope you're having a wonderful weekend.
take care xx (chris's tummy looks real nice too! )