A Work of Art!

I have been working on getting a tattoo that represents each one of my children through Chinese symbols. I started with Jercie's 6 years ago and finally completed it with Blaze and Kaia last night. I absolutely love it.

We went over Wednesday night and told Steve what symbols I wanted. He is a perfectionist to say the least. He wanted to make sure we were putting the right symbols on. We went back last night, after Steve had quadruple checked the symbols and changed one a little, we put the stencil on. I have never had a tattoo artist use a ruler to make sure the stencil is even and sized right. I am so glad he did. He also did the names freehand.

Mike was there to hold my hand, thank goodness. I think I may have broken a couple fingers when Steve was tattooing my spine. Holy Cow that was painful!! I was finally able to concentrate and relax past the pain. It still hurt but not as bad as when I was tense.

I have to say that it was definitely worth the pain. I love how it turned out even if it is a little bigger than I had anticipated.

In case you are wondering the symbols are as follows: Jercie Little Treasure, Blaze Warrior, Kaia Angel, and the one in the center means Mother.

After the outline was done. I had to take a little break because my legs were shaking so bad :)

The tattoo all finished. I am going to have him touch Jercie's up so that they are all the same shade of black.