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I was thinking about the one on your back that you said is a tribute to your mother. I would like to see that if you are willing to share it. My husband has one for his dad as well. It was his first tattoo actually, will be 5 yrs he's gone in November. He never got to meet our last child, Frankie.

I’m going to respond to both of your comments here. Check me out being all resourceful with my cresourse redits.. resource credits, whatever they’re called. 👍🏿

Thank you so much! I’m really glad you liked this article, foxy, thank you for inspiring me. I just barely learned of this contest yesterday and was immediately draw to enter it—great idea, mama eggs and toast! 😉

I agree with the shading being much more intense than the outline. My opinion there’s a couple of factors. Outline is the start and, to me, it takes about an hour to start hurting. Well.. most outlines are done by then. But the shading, the 8-24 needle bundle in the machine packing in layer after layer of ink, then wiping the blood away, re-lubing it just to get drilled again. Yeah whatever, I’m a sissy then, it frikkin hurts!

God bless Danny’s dad. Eh, that’s the inside of his elbow, yeah? Oh mmaaannnnn!! Danny’s dad, what was his trade? A hard hat and boots, I’m assuming he had a specific trade. I could guess a miner with the light on his hard hat but I had a light on mine many times, too, I’m not a miner. Very nice tattoo, Danny! <—see he gets that, Por favor. It looks like a whole bunch of ouch. In my opinion, his dad knows Frankie. 😉

Oh man, yes, my whole entire back from my waist to just above my shirt line on my neck. 30 +/- hours.. ouch! I’d love to show you, too, maybe I’ll come show you on discord and then eventually work my way up to showing the community. It’s a big one! It would take so long to guide you through it, I think it would require a long post, each line has and dot has purpose. “Baby steps.” April, this year, she will have been gone 6 years, she’s the only parent I ever met. RIP Sheila Jo.

Happy Wednesday, foxy! Thank you for initiating this contest. We all know how difficult it is to talk about ourselves.

The tattoo is inside his elbow area/forearm. His dad was a miner but also a great gardener. The boot is the same boot at his cottage where he would grow flowers in, had moss on it and everything. The flowers are one of the types he grow and they bloomed beautifully. One of Danny's favorites. The boot lace has a fishing lure at the end as Danny has a lot of memories fishing with his dad when he was young. A lot of memories put it in. Even the writing 'Have a nice life' was something he always said. I remember the first time he told me that, I found it so weird as I was just stepping outside and told me that and I thought, I'm not taking off and leaving permanently. Why is he telling me that? But I grew to find out it was something he just said.

RIP to both these beautiful people, your mom and Danny's dad. Peaceful times are what they deserve :)

Happy wednesday to you as well! xx

What a great visual!

Eh, did you click on your Tattoo Shop/Contest on my page? For some reason, when I click on the one I linked, it brings me back to my own page. Weird, huh? Does it do that when you click it?

But the link I attached here works! Odd.

edit I fixed it. For some reason when I wanted the link to be the title of your post, it routed us back to my article, strange. But I named it “this” and now it works.

That's really weird. But glad yo fixed it. Small Steemit glitch?