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A couple more of my embroidery projects, especially in light of schufflerbot's Koi.

danpaw wrote:What?? jimlongley don't know the Prince of Darkness?

Sounds like a novel I once read.

speedsix wrote:

jimlongley wrote:BTW, I DO embroider (with a machine) which gives me LOTS of temporary "body art."

Just two examples, a vest I did for a friend, the rest are on another computer.

...cool...how long do those take??? betcha the local bikers keep you busy...do you do it for money???

I do a lot of other stuff, that was just the pics I had on hand - yes, for money, but not much, and we stay busy, but not enough to make a business out of it.

glbedd53 wrote:Pay attention. I said Ozzy. Not Ozzie.

Then I have no idea who you are talking about.

glbedd53 wrote:Ozzy said it best. "When I got all these tattoos I was tryin to be the outlaw with tattoos. If I had known everybody and their grandmother was gonna get tattoos, I would have just been the outlaw without tattoos".

Man, I never knew Ozzie had tattoos, I wonder what Harriet thought of them.

BTW, I DO embroider (with a machine) which gives me LOTS of temporary "body art."

Just two examples, a vest I did for a friend, the rest are on another computer.

canvasbck wrote:

jimlongley wrote:

canvasbck wrote:I have four tats, tribal art on my right leg, a cobra wrapped around my left leg with his hood spread on the calf, a leather arm band with feathers on my left arm, and a zipper on my right shoulder. The only one with a real "story" is my zipper tattoo. Following my third major shoulder surgery, I had a pretty ugly scar down the back of my shoulder. I got the artist to cover the scar with a zipper, hopefully that will make it easier for the next surgery.

For those of you asking about the cost of a tat.............NEVER budget shop for tattoos or a taxidermist, it's supposed to last forever.

I will admit to considering a zipper over my knee scar, or a choo choo train.

I don't recommend the zipper.......the artist did too good a job of covering the scar, now I have to explain it to anyone who looks close enough to recognize that it's a zipper.

Part of my reasoning has to do with two knee surgeries in five months.

But not really all that interested, I might have to do the same for ALL of my scars, which could be expensive, and the ones on my face . . .

canvasbck wrote:I have four tats, tribal art on my right leg, a cobra wrapped around my left leg with his hood spread on the calf, a leather arm band with feathers on my left arm, and a zipper on my right shoulder. The only one with a real "story" is my zipper tattoo. Following my third major shoulder surgery, I had a pretty ugly scar down the back of my shoulder. I got the artist to cover the scar with a zipper, hopefully that will make it easier for the next surgery.

For those of you asking about the cost of a tat.............NEVER budget shop for tattoos or a taxidermist, it's supposed to last forever.

I will admit to considering a zipper over my knee scar, or a choo choo train.

karder wrote:commented that I wear long sleeves in the summer and am probably hiding tattoos.

Several years ago I was working as a technical trainer and conducting some on site training at a telephone garage on Long Island. I arrived every morning wearing a sport coat, slacks, and long sleeve shirt with a tie. In recognition of the weather, a hazy Long Island summer, the jacket came off as soon as class started, but I never even unbuttoned the sleeves of the shirt - something about being raised the way I was, ties are for long sleeved shirts, and long sleeved dress shirts only have buttons at the cuffs to ease getting them on and off, never to be rolled up - at ;least that's what my grandpappy taught me.

I found out that there was a rumor going around among my students that the reason I wore the long sleeves was to hide a collection of tattoos, I did wear an earring and there was also speculation about that. I did nothing during the week to disabuse them of their misapprehension.

On Friday we had "Dress Down" day, and I showed up in Jeans and a t-shirt. Boy were there some astonished people in my class, and the ones that had money on tattoos were mad at me for betraying them.

I told them that I had gone to a tattoo parlor once, but they had refused to try to tattoo me because they couldn't find my arm under all the hair. They believed me.

I was going to respond that I do not have any, but that I had taken other sailors to get tattooed while I was in the Navy, but I would have been lying, I actually have three tattoos, and I even have pictures of them around here somewhere. The last time I had a colonoscopy the doctor removed three polyps and tattooed their locations. I'll see if I can find the pictures if you really want to see them.