So if you read my birthday blog you would of seen that I got started on a new tattoo for my birthday this year.
Well I had it finished a couple of days ago. The lining and shading had all been done, it just needed colour!
Here it is!
It's really hard to get a good photo because of where it is and the angle and everything but I'm super happy with it!
This tattoo has a lot of meaning for me, probably one of my most meaningful tattoos to date.
This tattoo is about my grandparents and my love for travel.
When I was little my grandparents traveled heaps. They've always traveled a lot all through their lives. They always came back with awesome presents and we had an awesome collection of things from other countries which as kids we thought made us super kool! haha
Anyway, they use to always send us postcards and we stuck them up on our wall in the dinning room/ kitchen. Of all these amazing fascinating places over the world. I know that it is because of these postcodes that grew this crazy desire to travel in me. It was my first and only goal after leaving high school. Get a job and travel! Which I did!
So there are lots of flying postcards around the balloon. The hot air balloon just signifies travelling and adventure!
The post card with "Itchy Feet" written on it is because my grandma when talking about her desire to travel referred to is as having itchy feet. Which I think is super cute and awesome. A little more unique than this wonderlust thing.
Now you may of already noticed that the basket of this hot air balloon is a dog house! Snoopy's dog house with woodstock sitting on top, with Snoopy sitting on top of the hot air balloon. This is for my Grampy. He LOVES snoopy and peanuts. I always remember this snoopy toy that hung from his bedside light as a kid when we snuck into their rooms of a morning when we visited.
SO I guess over all this tattoo shows my love for travel, and those special people in my life who encouraged and grew that love for travel within me.
This is for them. They are still alive. I don't think you need to wait for a grandparent to die to get a meaningful tattoo for them. Plus now I get to share it with them!
