Tattoo flash art and cake decorating DO mix!

[Faerygirl]

So I walk into the bakery department at my local grocery store. My mission? To get the birthday cake my daughter wants for her 12th birthday.
I'm in my Avenged Sevenfold black T with the red winged skull motif on the front, and I begin describing my special cake order to the bakery girl.
Its not too hard an order...my daughter wanted vanilla cake, with chocolate frosting, and a dragon on top.
Ummm.....they don't have dragons.
BUT WAIT! They have SONYA!
Sonya, the girl assures me, can draw ANYTHING on a cake. She can even make it 3-D!
So Sonya is busy doing another cake, and she looks over and says, "Oh wow nice shirt. I could even do THAT on a cake!" and I go on to describe that we need a blue and green dragon, flames, the whole nine yards. No problem, she says.
I go to get the cake today, and it was better than I could have EVER imagined! I was so very pleased! I told her, "You should be a tattoo flash artist!" to which she replied, "Well, I used to be until I came to work here".
I knew after I saw the cake she was into tattoos. Just call it intuition. I myself have a large seadragon tattooed on my left shoulder. He has neat horns and he's holding out a pearl to his love, the mermaid tattooed on my right shoulder.
But enuff of that, here's the cake:

[cb977]

Very, very cool!!!


Happy Birthday to your little girl

[Ross]

Forget the cake I want to see the tats

[L I Jane]

A beauty-too good to eat!Oh wait--I can't eat it anyway with diabetes

[cb977]

So, just get a tattoo instead, Janie

[L I Jane]

Now that's the ticket Sue!

[Faerygirl]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with tattoos, that's for sure. I have, well, its hard to say...I got my first one in 1979. All told, I have been tattooed perhaps 20 or more times. I have a full shirtback from top of shoulder to slightly below waist, and the front half of a halfsleeve on one arm, and something on my chest.

WHat's really a lot of fun is Henna tattoos. You can apply small bracelets, anklets, facial and bellybutton designs, etc and they wear off after a few weeks so you can change the designs often.

Its true that tattooing yourself has become quite the rage, largely I think having to do with young people imitating rock and heavy metal bands, but there are also folks (like me) who were getting quietly tattooed for many years before the "revolution"

[Ross]

OK! So show us a picture

[Faerygirl]

I'd have to get someone to take some updated photos. All the ones I have are really old. I can post a photo of the one that gives me my screenname, but its an old photo...I'll have to look up the image

[Faerygirl]

Lets see if this works. This is a lower back piece but its completely enclosed now with tribal scrollwork