Tattoomania....can you take it?!?!?!?!

Well I didnt realize what a tattoo adventure this trip was going to be!!! They were everywhere! The trip started out with a visit to Kat Von D's new shop, High Voltage. I must admit, i was a little disapointed when we first walked in and didnt see anyone from Kat's show, LA Ink.....then Kim walked in. So we took a few pics and went along our way. Still exciting.

Me & Kim

After Kat's shop, we headed to Dana Point to Leeayn's tattoo shop, Raygun. Her guy, Ryan I think, took at look at my old tat that was looking a little shabby and proceeded to draw me a new one. He had done great work on Leeayn, so I was comfortable with his work. I was a bit nervous, but after the outlining was done, it went really well. Here's a few shots from the day.

You can see the old tattoo under his outline work.

Hard at work.


Lookin a little ugly!


Wholly cow, he did a great job!!


I just love my ladybug.

After we got back to the hotel, our valet, who was a retired Marine (didnt look like a Marine) asked us what we had been up to and we told him about our tat adventures...he proceeded to tell us about his!!! Of course he had to take us into the back room so he could take his shirt off! He was fun and a cutie. He had some symbols on his right arm, which he called the "good arm", they meant Mother, Father, Brother & sister. Then his other arm was the evil arm and then his Grimreaper on his back.

E-VIL arm

The severed head represents his sisters old abusive boyfriend, which he went and "took care of things", as he said after the boyfriend hit her one night.

Here is the tat on my BFF Hillary's back....aka "Squishie" .
Her and her sister designed this tattoo. Note the center is a lady bug, which you will see more of on us gals with Tats.

This is Lizzie from my beauty shop....i just think it's a cool Tat.

Since I've totally gone off in space here.....here is a real Tat of Hollyann's that she got while visiting us last fall, and Kerri's...uhm, not so real tat!! She is such a Bears fan tho, if she got a real one, it would be a Chicago Bears one I'm sure of it!!! The next three are holly's too, the last being my fav.

This is my high school friend, Kirby's tattoo, it's in honor of his son.
More to come......

California Dreamin...

Stick a fork in it....Summer is done!!!!

Wow, what a great Mother/Daughter trip Kerri and I had. It's always great fun to get together with our friends out there....never a dull moment!!! Here we are with Holly as we first enter the park.

We were getting on the Pooh ride, Kerri was going to sit alone in the front to get some pics, when a man and his little girl jumped on with her.....we dubbed them "her new family" lol Of course we had to laugh at her.....and you can see her response.

Of course then we had to find her another family, one that had the same sports preferences!!!

Wow, it's the great pumpkin!!!Leeayn and I at Club 33....we were such good girls.
Me and Minnie
The infamous skyline of LA

Hollywood here we come!!
Kat Von D's shop from LA Ink....High Voltage with tattoo artist, Kim. She's such a doll.
Castle pic






Illinois!!!!!!!

(ya had to be there)

Dog Dayz of Summer...

Ok, so it doesnt have anything to do with the weather, but I just felt like posting, and what better subjects than my girls! Here's just a few (of many) of my favorite pics of them.

Smiling Cairns

Dori by the Azeleas

A Trip to Disneyland

Got to start them out right!

Just a cute shot of Dori

Is this the face of guilty???

Dont fence me in!!

Happy New Year my ass!

And the fun continues!

Leeayn visits the farm...

The last few days have went too fast. Leeayn got here Sunday evening and was here till Thursday morning. As usual, it was great fun. We decided we must be pretty good friends when we can just hang out in the living room sending links to goofy crap back and forth to each other across the room!!!! Lots of laughs over the dumb beauty contestant!!! John basically hid out in the motor home, he just pretended he was camping! I'm sure by time we were done with the ride home from picking her up his ears were bleeding from all the chatter. We did cook for him a couple of nights though and took him out to breakfast one morning. Then we'd run off and do our own thing. Here's a few things we did for the three days.

Well, ya start at what ya love to do..... so we went to eat!!! And we *heart* Subway! Sorry, I could'nt pass that one up!!!

Mmmmm, Subway...




Of course we must fill up on caffiene before we leave...

Heading to Walmart to stock up on craft paint.

We met a new friend....

Ok, so everyone was laughing at us....we dont care!!! We screwed with their minds by taking their pictures!

So many crafts, so little time.

I wanted to paint our project plaid!!!

But Leeayn had other ideas.

I guess nothing is out of bounds with us!!! Like my shoes though???

Well we have the paint, but now what do we put it on???? Off to Kerri's house and into the backyard to swipe a few stones.
Ahh, my precious!

And the finish product! Leeayn did the darling turtle and I did the rest, some from a while back and three while she was here.

Ok, off to lunch again at a darling tea room.... no pics of it, but look at what Leeayn dug out of her soup!!!!!


We went to a street dance in Rockton, this little boy was so cute, he just loved the fiddle player. He was a riot to watch all night, he was the real show.



And that was the end of our visit. We had so much fun we're going to do it again next month!!!! Hahaha! Next year I will go to Leeayn's house and I'm looking forward to that.