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My first blog of the 2013! I was very over due, but I wanted to wait until I had enough blog worthy news. Prepare for massive photo dumping...

Life has been hectic and full of surprises. The biggest news is that I am engaged to my best friend and the love of my life It was a very spontaneous proposal made after a fun night with good friends (including the ever so lovely Acacia) good food, and probably the most amazing party game I've ever played; Cards Against Humanity. Has anyone played this yet? It was sold out everywhere online and isn't available in stores, but they have a free print out version! It cost us about $7 to get it printed on good cardstock over at Staples. The game is really similar to Apples to Apples, but very non PC.



our delicious meal consisting of fish tacos, and mussels in an amazing saffron broth. Thanks to the saffron score from elodyKat!! What a great surprise that was, her sending that to me. She is such a doll.



The holidays came and went like the wind!

Halloween was a blast! We had the Bullets Ink Halloween bash and then ended the night at my bar. Chris and I dressed as Jessica and Roger Rabbit. I also went all out on the pumpkins as usual. We ended up carving them during Hurricane Sandy. Frederick wasn't really effected much, not even as much as a trash can knocked over at my place. Didn't lose DirectTV signal. But it was good, basically all of downtown Frederick was closed so the whole family stayed in and did pumpkin carving. I made a big pot of Cincinnati chili and cornbread. it was scrumptious!

TMNT pumpkin!

Beetlejuice snake pumpkin!

Misfits pumpkin!

mmm, chili







Thanksgiving was delicious! We went to my aunts as usual and had a huge family dinner with my huge family. I was too busy stuffing my face followed by a long tantrum due to the horrific loss against the Redskins. Next season, boys!

My ex-husband had our son this year for Christmas/New Years down in Florida for nearly 2 weeks!! So we didn't do much. We had a very relaxing evening. I made a roasted goose though, for the first time! It was delicious. Also made a hazelnut-cranberry stuffing, a sweet gravy for the goose, and broccoli casserole. There were certainly no left overs!



New Years Eve was spent with our Black Label Tattoo shop family. The BLTC New Years party is usually at the shop, but this year New Years fell on a day that one of our good friends was bartending, so we brought the party to the bar! Chris and I stopped in for a bit, did our secret santa gift exchange, watched the ball drop and then retired home for a quiet night. We were both in bed by 2 am haha.

excuse my drunk faces...haha






New Years Day we made mimosas and a nice big brunch and then I worked all night! Pretty simple

I got some work done on my leg piece. I have sat for 4+ hours before, but god damn. I could only sit about 2 for the black shading to get this done. Inner thigh is a bitch and Clamore has a ridiculously heavy hand!!! But god damn, does the man do great work. I am looking forward to the last session and adding color!




Cla has done a lot of my work (my rose/domino rancid tribute piece , my darth vader cover up over my stars, the irish skull, my avocado, and this). I get a lot of comments about his stuff, and he has recently relocated to Austin, Texas. So anyone interested in getting work by him, he is currently filling in at Black Gold Tattoo Studio. He will also be at Amillion Tattoo full time after next week! He does incredible traditional pieces and his work is built to last!

He also featured me in his most recent magazine, had so much fun shooting it!



Annnnnnnnnd I got a hedgehog His name is Arnold. He's pretty incredible. So friendly!



My hair has gone from this:


to this:



to this:


to this (cut and colored by my darling Acacia:


which is currently where I am now Acacia actually moved MUCH closer to me and so I have been seeing her quite a bit! It's been awesome, she is such a mega babe and I love her dearly.

Also got to see my gorgeous SG wife Mnislahi a couple of weeks ago! She came to stay the night, and we drank a lot of fireball (go figure).




Speaking of Mnislahi....we have a steamy multi coming soon Member Review! March 6th, 10 am.


Also have a new set shot by the oober talented _MIKED_ coming to Member Review Feb 18th!


and Game Day (shot by DylanBorgman) is still in Member Review! I am so grateful for all the love it as gotten, please keep it coming! I would really love to see this go live for the Super Bowl. Born and raised in MD, football is no joke around these parts and is my favorite time of the year! I have wanted to do this set since I became a SuicideGirl back in '07 and was so happy to actually put it in motion.





boom.

There are so many sets in Member Review that deserve some lovings, here are a few of my favorites and ones shot at the Florida Shootfest!

Kurosune- Peal Lioness


Toxic- Satisfaction Redfined


Chrysis- Abyssus Abyssum Invocat


elodyKat- abc DF


Civil- St. Augustine


Elea- Born Free


Giant Multi (which I slept through like an ass!)- Lord of the Flies


Gunner- Like it Hot


Renesme- Southern Hospitality


Waikiki- Where Shall You Take Me


and last but certainly not least, Casshas- Casshas Clay



and now, for a massive photo dumb of my recent food creations and general nonsense

annnnd...bewbs....


How was your holiday season? New Years? Happy fun times?

cheers, kids.