Girl, you'll be a woman...

Tomorrow is the studio's 18th Birthday!!! What a woman she's grown into!!! It's been a classic Cinderella story, and now the new chapter begins.

We've been busting out hump to get her ready for the 17th, everything's almost done, we'll make a final push this weekend to get things perfect and in their proper place. Knowing me they're will be some final tweeks here and there until I'm 100% satisfied.  I will post pics probablt sometime in the next couple weeks.

My bestest friend in the entire universe is on her way down today with her awesome husband and kick ass son. Coming to celebrate with me with a Sushi dinner and some Saki probably. Can't wait to see her!! We've been chums since our learners permit in High School, not to many people have that kind of friend/sister/comrad. She owns a toy store in Doyelstown PA, and what a success she is, who would have thought two goth nerd chics from a small town would rock it so hard in their 40's now!!! LOL

"Rebirth" 11x17 Print for sale

I've been doing some painting and other outside art in the time we've been remodeling. I plan to do a serious of Shunga pieces, as well as tattoos. Shunga (春画^?) is a Japanese term for erotic art. Most shunga are a type of ukiyo-e, usually executed in woodblock print format. While rare, there are extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate the Ukiyo-e movement.^[1] Translated literally, the Japanese word shunga means picture of spring; "spring" is a common euphemism for sex.

As well as a series of Sepuka works. To the left is the first in the series.
Seppuku (切腹^?, "stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai bushido honor code, seppuku was either used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies (and likely suffer torture), or as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offenses, or performed for other reasons that had brought shame to them. They often committed seppuku when in danger of being killed by the enemy, or even sometimes it was voluntary as they thought it was honourable. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the abdomen and moving the blade from left to right in a slicing motion.

Well Chris I have to set up for my first appointment of the day. This blog post is dedicated to Chris Oliver who told me I needed to Blog more...LOL This is for you dude!!! Hope you have a safe flight back to the Middle East.

PEACE, LOVE & MOTHER FUCKIN' TATTOOS!!!!!!