Plans

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
- John Lennon

This is the exact reason why I try not to plan things more than 6 months into the future. I never know where I’m going to be or what I’m going to be doing after that and that is exactly the way I like to live my life. Stagnation frustrates me and change refreshes me.
Maybe I should try and improve my patience but being patient has never actually got me anywhere in life. If I want something I work for it and 9 times out of 10 I get it. When I don’t get it I accept defeat and just assume it was never meant to be.

I’m having to be patient now, I hate it.

So what are my plans until the new year? For the next 6 months?

• Clear the clutter and try to make some money whilst doing so. More can be found out about this on my blog “She Covets The Precious Things“.
• Build up a portfolio for whichever art and design based course I decide to apply for in January (if I decide to apply for one at all).
• And more mods of course but that goes without saying really.

I think I may have expressed these plans in my blog before and in the first 6 months of this year I have achieved these goals up to a point (more tattoos etc) but I really need to work hard at all my plans before 2009 because I haven’t really done so yet. I suppose that refers back to the John Lennon quote at the beginning of this entry.
I’ve had real life to live in the meantime and those plans have gone onto the back burners for a while. I believe though that if I concentrate on the clutter clearance it’ll help everything become a little bit easier. I’ll be clearing the physical and mental clutter. Then I can truly move on to the next phase of my life.

Mermaid Hair Growth

As part of my mermaid transformation I am growing my hair long. My eventual goal will be hair long enough to cover my genital area, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as an example. I will probably keep a fringe throughout and will have a style in it but it is the main bulk that I want to grow really long.

19-20-21

Saturday 19^th April

I had a truly excellent birthday! The morning of my birthday I spent with Kester. He woke me up all excited and pulled my present out of its hiding place. He got me an 8 gig MP4 Walkman player and a new set of headphones. Kester had already put my music onto it so I could play with it immediately! Also on there is an amazing video that Kester and Thlayli had made with a birthday message on it.

Then, unfortunately, Kester had to go to work. Then I spent the rest of the day with my family. Most of my cards etc were at my parent’s house so I got to open those when I got there. I got some gorgeous cards featuring bunnies, kittens and handbags. I also received an amazing card by a fab girlie! It was hand made and featured a mermaid at the beach!!! So cool!!!

Then I went over to my Nan’s and had a great chat with her (I don’t do this enough!). Then two of my sisters came round with a gorgeous little boy in tow. I’m a very proud aunty!

For my birthday dinner we ordered in a curry, they made me a chicken-free tikka masala to order and it was lurvely! Although in typical Kirsty fashion I managed to spill loads of rice all over the floor, oops!

After dinner was time for my cake. It had ladybirds on it hooray! My Mum said she tried everywhere for a cake with mermaids, fish or rabbits on but couldn’t find one anywhere. But my ladybird cake was great!

Sunday 20^th April

Kester and I stayed in bed being lazy until early afternoon until we finally decided to get up and go out for a Sunday lunch so we could spend the time together that we missed on my birthday. Then we searched several garages to find the recently released St. Trinians DVD. I loved the film when I saw it at the cinema and already bought the soundtrack so I had to buy it. I used some of my birthday money to pay for it.

Monday 21^st April

Today I had my most recent tattoo appointment. First of all my oscar was finished and, wow, he looks just gorgeous! When he was all finished a start was made on my anchor which is on my chest, between my boobs. Definitely the most painful session to date. When I next go back I’ll get it finished but I can already see how amazing the final result will be!

Also there is now a piercer at Midnight Tattoo so I spent some of my birthday money and got my conch pierced. It ached for a period of time afterwards but it’s a piercing I’ve been waiting several years to finally get!

An excellent 3 days!

My Mr. Oscar

Yesterday was my tattoo appointment.

Firstly I think I should explain the nervousness I expressed in my video more thoroughly as to avoid confusion. With almost every single part of the development of my tattoo designs and modification projects I am a complete control freak. Due to this I’ve always loved the idea of coming across a custom drawn tattoo design that I think is gorgeous but not necessarily part of my overall project. It is this that I see as a sort of therapy; a temporary release from my anal retention and controlling side. This excellent design that I am going to get is an anchor that Alex drew and what is even better is that an anchor connects beautifully with my mermaid project. So while I love the design I was nervous because that little bit of control was taken away. I was nervous but they were positive nerves.

I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to get the anchor yesterday or an Oscar (fish). I have a list made up of the order I want to get my tattoos in and these two images are tied so I asked which one Alex would rather do that day and we went with the Oscar.

And my oh my is it gorgeous! Currently unfinished but it already looks absolutely amazing! Oscars almost look like fire is smoldering under their scales and this comes though in my tattoo. Once again I just couldn’t be happier!

First Try At A Video Blog

Busy Busy

So I’ve had a busy few days…

Wednesday night Thlayli and I stayed the night at my Mum’s house because Kester was working very late that night and if I was to stay at home I wouldn’t have been able to make it into work on Thursday. I wasn’t prepared to leave Thlayli on his own for that amount of time so he stayed the night as well.

On Friday Kester and I went to see “Thriller Live” at the teatre where he works. It was a brilliant show, it wasn’t just an impersonator it was a group of singers with a set of dancers. It was a really enjoyable evening and I loved the show!

Yesterday I had a hair appointment, the guy I had last time had left which I thought was a shame but the lady who I had to do it this time was brilliant. My hair really is improving… I wont talk about my hair in this post thouh I’ll go into more detail in another post. Then Kester took me shopping in town. I managed to spend about £140 in there but got some amazing clothes. Skins tight jeans, a size 4 top and two excellent jackets.

Today Kester treated me to a lovely meal at the Gallery Restaurant in Hawkhurst, I came out of there nicely full! It’s been great to be able to spend so much quality time with my Kester.

More holiday time

Well I had two weeks off work as holiday, returned Tuesday just gone… and now I’ve got another 4 days off in a row! Woo! Thanks Easter The 3 days I have been at work this week I have been clay sculpting. YEY. I love it when a customer wants something that means I can fulfill my job title haha! I like all parts of my job but the sculpting will always be my favourite.

And just so this isn’t a text only post the image below is something I’m drawing from for a near future tattoo I may get it April time, well hopefully anyway. If you know this sculpture congratulations. This sculpture is in the Tate Britain, my Uni was across the road from there so I would go visit this on a regular basis.

I love you BodyMod!

I became a featured member on my favourite website! BodyMod.org I’m truely over the moon! I would never have expected it.

Click image to enlarge

I love BodyMod before but now I love it even more!

A Fishie Day

So yesterday was my long awaited next appointment with Alex at Midnight Tattoo. Hooray! I was hoping to maybe get just one fish (and was having great difficulty whether to have my shark or carp done first) but I was able to stay prettymuch all day from 11 until 6 and now I have both my shark and my carp. Goodness me they just look so gorgeous!

At about lunchtime a lady came in to get a tattoo (special place, haha!) so Kester and I took that time to eat something for lunch. We both had vegetable lasagne which I thoroughly enjoyed.

 I could not be happier with my fishies and I’m over the moon with the progress that was made.

All in all I had a thoroughly brilliant day!

Today I’m no where near as swollen as it seemed I was going to be but getting undressed to go to the toilet is difficult. Luckily though I don’t go back to work until Tuesday so it isn’t too much of a bother to take 10 minutes just to go to the toilet.

BodyMod Meet

This Saturday was the UK meet up of BodyMod.org members.

I had a great evening with a group of beautiful people; beautiful inside and out.

We all went for a meal at Zizzi along the Strand and I throughly enjoyed my meal and my dinner company.

Then when the evening was over I spent the night in the Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel in a wonderful 4 star room.

I really wish I could have stayed longer then I did, maybe next time.

This is a video of the evening made by iamthepinkprincess

This is a video of the tube Elvis impersonator taken by bodymodvideo