I will be getting an image of Geoffrey Chaucer (as a pilgrim from the Ellesmere manuscript) on my left forearm next week when we go to Portland, OR for the library conference. I will be going to the Sea Tramp Tattoo Co., the oldest shop in Portland, which I found through the recently published book by a co-owner of the business. Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink by Jeff Johnson was also just nominated for an Alex Award by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association. I left a comment on the author's blog congratulating him and asking if I could get my own copy of the book signed while I was in town and he emailed me back to say he'd be glad to do it! Yay!
While in Portland, we'll be going on a variety of fun adventures including a tour of Mt. Hood, a Portland Highlights tour, and I'm dragging KT to a Cherie Priest booksigning at a bookstore in nearby Beaverton. So I'll be taking 5 books with me at the outset: Tattoo Machine, Boneshaker, and Chelsea Cain's Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell series (Heartsick, Sweatheart, and Evil at Heart).
Basically, I am too excited for words!
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That will be the coolest tattoo ever!
well, I didn't end up having the time for the Chaucer tattoo and I knew that was a possibility going in so I took another, equally desired, image of Picasso's Don Quixote and that was the image I ended up choosing...it is v.v. cool! I'll post pics here and at FB when I get home from Portland!
Did you do it???
I did do it, look at my facebook pics! i was waiting until it wasn't so scabby to take pictures and then I got a little ingrown hair from where he shaved my arm to tattoo it...the little obstacles no one thinks of :-) as soon as these two items are cleared up, i'll take some kick ass pictures!
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