8 legged freaks

so, today i tattooed.... you guessed it! another octopus. yup. not sure whats going on here.... but clearly i am out of the loop. anyways, it was on Kyle. A rather special young lad, who pulls a good pint.... we are gonna add a little shading at a later date, and maybe some sepia tones, but not too much.... anyways, here's what we got done today.....

he had an awful lot of faith in me, seeing as when i drew it on.... it didn't look anything like this really. 

in other news, i'll be tattooing the delightful Traycee again, and she popped in with gifts! 

behold!!!

amazing!

in other, non related or "my friends are awesome" news.... i went to go see Kylesa and Circle Takes the Square last night with Layla. Rad gig, all round....

yup. After which, i got chatting to Circle Takes the Square, and got them to pose for my mate Arthur, who is in Hong Kong... and likes them very very much... it was hard going, what with only my phone, an eyebrow pencil... and shoddy lighting....

take 1....

take 2...

take 3 had to suffice ... even though i look like a spastic. ah well.

Arthur was very pleased... i think his reaction was along the lines of "Holy Mother of DICK!"

brilliant. haven't done that for him since THIS... a few years ago....

might make a habit of it. 

busy as a bee

been busy of late. in face, verging on stressed.... but anyways.... tuesday was my day off, and it was glorious. the sun was shining, got everything i needed to do done, got everything i wanted to do done... and baked another vegan banana cake for kirsty too.

so in the evening, i met up with kerry for some drinks in a blues bar, dinner in an awesome (seriously, AWESOME) restaurant...

best fish finger sandwich EVER

and tasty ass mussels!

Also bought some jam from their larder... which is adorable. everywhere should have a larder selling jam.

after which, we went to the glorious screen on the green, settled down with a bottle of wine, ready for some psychology and sex. 

we watched THIS

so back to work.... 

Yesterday, Chester who was one of my favourite customers from Hong Kong came in to try to finish off his sleeve.... we did a whole days work, but alas.... we didn't manage it all. He'd flown in from australia that same day, and must have really been feeling it, but he sat like a rock. He flies to HK for a week then back to Oz, so he's gonna try to get it finished off by the guys at Star Crossed. There the cycle ends.

Heres what we got done...

in other news, kerry bought me a friggin' WICKED present! 

BEHOLD....

a limited edition box set of the Star Trek movies on VHS! 

fuck yeah!

and Traycee sent me some rad glasses as a surprise!

my friends spoil me rotten. love them long time. <3

St(r)and by me

So, hello there. Cant remember the last time i posted anything, but simultaneously am pretty sure it wasn't too long ago. Odd.

Anyways, had a fun robot to do on Saturday... here it is...

also did some more mini octopuses on lulu.... but didn't get pics... so maybe is she sends some... if not.... it aint the end of the world, but one has the BEST FACE EVER. Also, was great to see how smooth the ones i did at Brighton healed up. Lovely.

So yesterday, Simon, Rory (moist), and myself were going to go for a Sunday roast at the Blackfriar... in ... you guessed it u clever nelly... Blackfriars. Anyways, turns out it was closed for refurbishment, which will explain why they failed to answer their phone all morning whilst i haplessly attempted to find out if they were dog friendly. 

So, along the Thames we walked...

anyways, found a nice little pub doing an incredible roast... "The George" it was.

i tried my hardest, but lost at the 'eating all your food' game...

(sorry starving children in Africa) :(

so, then we headed to the Cheshire Cheese for an apres-roast beverage...

it too was closed... and i was starting to worry i was sensing a trend occurring. a terrible trend... which surely would never catch on...

It didn't.

Went here next...

Glorious little find. 

Then we contemplated going in here....

but got distracted by this...

*drool*

So then we moseyed on down to Covent Garden, where i saw this guy...

Contemplated this place...

Chose not to (what can i say, we have standards, even on a pub crawl)...

Instead went in here...

where i had a delightful strawberry beer, and tried some oyster stout... (yeah, u read that right)

after this, my phone ran outta battery... so no more photos... but we went to a few other nice little pubs, and ended up in the toucan, which is utterly adorable, and where my phone clinched onto it's last remnants of juice to take these pics...

all in all a splendid day, good ales, good company, good food, good weather ..... good all round really!

good times.

southwest

so, super fun 1-shot today on a lad from the SW...

also got a super awesome surprise from Kaye, who sent THIS!!!

me leaning desperately trying to keep my head outta shot and i only got and get harry's anyways. amaze balls. (that word needs to be accredited to Scotty.) true story... which worries me seeing as i'll be challenging him at scrabble on wednesday :/

in other news, had some free time so sketched this out at work too...

productive day. 

gifts and hatred

so, Alex popped in today to get a piece off my Valentines flash set... glorious. He's been after an accordion for a good while now, and hasn't had as much luck obtaining a nice one as i did... so i thought i'd get him a stop gap. It's adorable.

i can only hope he's making ears bleed in the pub as i type.

Anyways, he got the "viva hate" piece bang on his sternum. 

It hurt.

that's all for now.

roses are red...unless you have to get a rail replacement bus to work and end up late through no fault of your own...

so, tell me. how does your garden grow *snigger*...

so, woke up today, got dressed... as i often do... walked the dog, ate some dried mango... chilled a little... headed to work and DOOM! no Tube from Camden to Barnet, so needless to say, i was late. pretty late.
Had a really nice piece booked in to start the day with, and unfortunately, even after pushing my second customer back, didn't get further than lining it. Ah well. These things can't be helped. Well, maybe i could obsessively check the transport news, but i would never stoop to that level... so these things can't be helped...

these beauties are on the glorious Claire, who designs Dr Marten's (shoes... not the pretty poor tv show Martin Clunes starred in) and can get me epic discounts. SCORE!

Next up was a guy who wanted ivy... to end in 3 specific points on his body. So out came the sharpies, got him to point to these super specific ivy ending body parts and got doodling. Came out pretty nice considering he was on a crazy tight budget and i wasn't sure if i could cut corners without looking like i'd cut corners. God bless some swooshy no outline black n grey vines, They cut a good hour off the overall piece and will heal nice n ... swooshy.

that's what i did today. 

yup.

now if u don't mind... i'm gonna go look at some shoes online :)

i feel loved.

ok so 1st up... valentines flash is finished... i'll be doing all of these designs at discounted rates next week... so if u r keen, call the studio to book in...

in other news...wow, more cakes from customers. 

i'm starting to wonder if they just want me to be fat.

i'd imagine not. 

i'd like to think not.... 

from the glorious Cat, master bowler even with a stinking hangover...

from Kaye, master cleaner even with a granny being nosey over her shoulder.

totally pimped out with my heart rings... who doesn't love baked goods that come with jewellery?! 

so... tattoos i suppose...

Kaye got some filler the other day that was a fun lil 1 shot...

and today Cat n Mina got "BFF" tattoos...

coz they're like...

best friends forever!

and Mina got her lil' tootsies tattooed too...

sat like a champ. 

i went to go watch "clap your hands say yeah" on tuesday and was utterly blown away. so friggin tight, amazing. the singer is too adorable, and i've never been so mesmerised by someones feet before. awkwardly stunning. 

here's some pics of the show...

and finally, this fly decided to settle down in a pretty silly spot...

right next to my footswitch.

silly sausage.