Tattoo Wednesday. BAD VILLE

With last week being my birthday I missed out on Tattoo Wednesday, but to make up for it this week, I have a really good one to share with you.
Today's tattoo is my Bad Ville tattoo I got a few weeks ago. There were 19 people that have that tattoo at the time, I believe number 19 was just getting hers as Adam was talking me to about getting one. I would be number 20. So Adam gets a hold of me and I just walked down to the tattoo shop and had Johannes bang out Bad Ville number 20.



While I was at the shop, there was a photographer from Stuff taking pictures. He wandered into the bar and some how there were about 10 of us at The Behan that had a Bad Ville tattoo. We all hoped over to the tattoo shop and had a group photo taken. The issue of Stuff Magazine finally came out last week and our photo is awesome!



If you havent picked up a copy yet, get on it! Its a really cool issue in general. Photos taken all through out Boston. There are now 21 Bad Ville tattoos.

**Note. I found out tonight, September 1st, that there are 27 people with the Bad Ville tattoo now**

Rainy day greys

So I ended up getting th day off somehow... on a day I work a double. Its quite unheard of. After I found out I didnt have to go anywhere I just decided to lounge around today. I felt bad about not blogging if I was just sitting around. Today's rainy day grey outfit consists of an over size grey shirt/t-shirt dress, with a flowy cardigan, and cozy over the knee socks. I thew on my long eye glass necklace for a gold pop of color.











There is no need to sit around at home and not look some what stylish. I love all different shades of one color. On rainy days like this I like to wear lose flowy things and just relax. No need to wear high wasted shorts and be uncomfortable while sitting around. I might go up to the Behan later, all Ill throw on are my rain boots and grab my purse. Enjoy my lovely readers! Xoxo!

Birthday Dress: #23

Thursday the 11th I turned 23. Its not like 23 is a big deal year or anything but I am getting older. I talked to all my family, I got birthday packages from Florida! Ended up having the day off from work so I just took my time and went shopping and slowly got ready for my evening. I have always been a fan of really dressing up for your birthday.

This was my birthday dress when I was 4.


Well, its been 19 years since that. This was my birthday dress at 23.


Needless to say Ive totally toned it down from princess crowns and pink. I was originally going to wear my electric blue all sequins dress, but it was just to flashy for 10 Tables. I ended up going with my back up plan dress I bought at Revolve Clothing Exchange in Tampa, FL. I paid $60 for it which I know is ridiculous and I would never really do that all the time. Its the prefect 1960's mod dress.


I felt the need to buy new shoes for the evening and I went out and bought these high babies from Forever21.


I also bought these amazing fringe earrings that was $3.60. Im all about Forever21's cheap jewelry.




John took me to 10 Tables, for my first dinner there. I have been dieing to go for months. My friend Peter was so kind to make my birthday experience there ever so lovely. Dinner was delicious and John looked very handsome. I had a very lovely birthday dinner with him. At midnight before all that I was hanging out at the Behan with my friends and that was a lot of fun. Exactly what I wanted to do. I did miss having a birthday cake with my family, but Im a big girl now haha.
Xoxo.

Back to the Secret Garden.

I have been very busy lately with work I really havent had much time to blog. I am making a lovely come back with these beautiful photos taken today in the secret garden. I bought this amazing vintage cream lace dress and knew I just had to go back to take photos in it. I was ready to hop the fence... but I found another entrance! My birthday was Thursday and with some of my birthday money I finally went and bought a wireless remote for my camera. Um... makes taking photos way more easy!!! I dont know why I havent bought one sooner. This dress was $6 at Goodwill.









I didnt want to wear a lot jewelry, my great grandmother Kay's necklace was the perfect piece for the dress. My mom has held on to it for years, but I convinced her to let me hold on to it, and I have proven to her I get much use out of it. I wear it a lot.






August has been flying by! I have been hanging out at The Behan a lot lately, enjoying the company of my friend in Jamaica Plain. Work has been crazy lately. I get out so late, then its such a trip back home, I dont get home till 12/12:30 some nights. The last thing I want to do it sit on my computer for hours. I just want to sit and relax and listen to my records. With that being said... I am not happy with myself for going this long with out a blog post. John and I have been having a really good time together. For my birthday dinner he took me to 10 Tables, and it was just ever so amazing. I have been painting again and working on other things I have on the side. I hope everyone else has been doing well! Ill be updating more later this weekend! Xoxo!

Tattoo Wednesday!

Today Im going to share with you my David Bruehl tattoo. I completely consider myself a collector of tattoos. I look for artist I want to get tattooed by and try to get a sweet tattoo by them. When I heard David was going to be coming to Tampa and tattooing at Redletter1 in Ybor, I jumped on the chance to get something by him. I have been a big admirer of his work, his color is really awesome. His paintings are always sharp looking. David was kind enough to fit me in and he was a really cool guy too! Very chill, very comfortable to get tattooed by, funny, and did a damn good tattoo on me.

At the time he came, I hadn't thought about the next tattoo I wanted and I was getting tattooed by him fairly quickly. I decided on a rose, because I really liked a lot of the flowers I had seen him do. I love the sharp contrast of black and yellow, so I got a sweet black and yellow rose.


*Photo taken by David Bruehl*

I am very happy with my tattoo, David again did a great job. He is now part of my collection of tattoo artist Ive wanted to get tattooed by.

Tattoo Wednesday!

Today Im going to talk about one of my very special tattoos. Today would be my Uncle John's 41st birthday, but sadly he passed away a few years ago. My Aunt Alicia also passed away a bit before him. So I was just starting to get into tattoos when he passed, I maybe had 2 or 3 at the time. Well I told Lucky I really wanted to get memorial tattoos for my family and after a full day of looking at things, Lucky finally came up with something simple, bold and lovely. Roses with sparrows. In the tattoo world, sailors used to get swallows or sparrows because they carried the souls of their loved ones with them, so I got one for Alicia and John, so I will always have them close to my heart.

This was when it was first done! It was my 3rd or 4th tattoo at the time.


It is one of my favorites and its very special to me. Over the few years my chest has expanded into a great collection of work by Lucky Mathews.

With the spider webs being my latest addition.

I still want to see your tattoos! Send them to me! xoxo!

(Love you Uncle John)

My amazig trip to York, Maine!

Over the weekend, I took a little trip up to York, Maine! Before I get more into that, you should know who I went with. For the last week or so Ive been seeing this gentleman by the name of John, and he is just my cup of tea. A perfect gentleman to the core, he has been a great new addition to my everyday life. We've gone out a couple of times and one night over dinner I had mentioned I wanted to check out York's Wild Kingdom! Well, John being as awesome as he is (and having a car!) said we should go! Saturdays are my full day off, so the date was set and the trip was a go! I took the train out to Lowell and he picked me up, then we drove out to Maine. It was about a 2 hour drive, we had a nice time, I could talk to him for hours, or sit in silence and enjoy his company.

We got to the zoo and lets just say it was adorably goofy. I loved it. I actually couldnt believe I had actually gone either lol.



Lion!


John paid for my ticket, bought lunch, showed me around. It was a really fun time. The zoo itself was a bit small so we finished it pretty quickly. Afterwords, the plan was to go to the coast and check out the beach. That was mega cool! Being from Florida going to the beach is a big deal for me up here. It was awesome!





Knowing that I had a blog, John was oh so kind enough to take my photo, and did a good job of it as well.


*This was his favorite


I snapped this one of him looking dashing against the coast.


After the beach we went and got food then made the ride back home. John ended up staying with me over the night, we hung out, bought a ton of beer and just relaxed for the rest of the time. My first trip to Maine was a huge success! I had great company. I do believe John is a keeper lol. I cant wait to go back, Maine was such a lovely place with tons of antiques and the freshest air ever haha.
Thanks for checkin in my lovely readers! Xoxo!