To all the tattooed ladies.....

Meryl and I had a late night letterpressing at MCBA this evening. 

After I tattooed all day, 

we went and made these sexy little bookmarks. 

They are part of a larger book arts project we're making 

with Meryl's tattooed lady poem and my illustrations.  

I really enjoy doing letterpress,

which is good,

because it's going to take a million years and a million dollars, 

but I'm super excited about it all. 

The bookmark paper (and the book's actual pages)

are a soft pink, but it's hard to see that here. 

More soon. 

black and grey and red all over.

I tattooed poor Spencer for 7 hours yesterday.

He only has one other tattoo,

and that one took less than 2 hours,

so this was a whole new kind of fun.

A creepy skull tree sitting on a ravine tattoo.

(con mushrooms)

Immediately following his tattoo,

tornado sirens started going off,

and the sky was so apocalyptic looking.

I didn't get a good photo of the weird greenish clouds happening

since I was trying to avoid hail stone marks on my camera (and face),

but by the time I got to MCBA,

things were looking pretty different.

I then helped Meryl finish up our latest mail art,

which you'll either receive in your mailbox,

or be able to check out here in a week or so.

This is also the very last photo ever taken of Meryl in her 20's.

She's officially 30 years old today!