Macro Monday Me

Do you know how hard it is for a right-handed person to take a photo of their own right wrist? lol So, this is my butterfly number 5, representing surviving the first 5 years after cancer treatment. My friend Leanne designed it for me, she's awesome! There is a "5" in it, see it? Before taking this photo I didn't realize it's still peeling, lol. Macros are fun!



This is my survivor's tattoo. The Chinese symbol stands for "to live" or "to survive", to do "survivor" would have been three symbols. From there I'm adding a butterfly for each year of survival, and a little blue star for each year of marriage. I'm now up to 5 butterflies and 8 stars - these 2 anniversaries are 1 day apart so it makes it easy to do.



See that's how it's all together. I think I need some dots from the little butterfly to the big one to help tie them together more, and I'm thinking about a little scrolly thing at the head of the big one to kinda finish it off. From now on the small butterflies will be added to the other side, spiraling up my arm. Heck, even if I live to 90 I don't think it'll reach my elbow. Can you imagine a 90 year old lady going into a tattoo parlor!? lol

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. :) MM started on Sept 29, 2008 - THANX to all of you for helping make it such a fun start to the week!

I think I see a heart in this rock, and that's one of my favorite shapes!

cold feet

Be daring!

~ You can see the explanation behind this project by going here or see the all posts in this category by going here.

Yes those are my feet and yes I got cold feet trying to get this shot.  Also, the snow has started melting a little and I kept sinking in, lol.  But it was fun. :0)

I did it!

I confessed last August that I really wanted to get a tattoo to celebrate surviving cancer.  Well, it took me three years to figure out what I wanted and where I wanted it but I did it!

So here is the beginning of it.  It will grow each year.  the Chinese symbol means 'to live' or 'to survive' - survivor would have been three symbols - more than I wanted.  The butterflies count the years.  This May will be three years so I went ahead and did three butterflies.

Reader Question

I'm hosting this week's Fun Monday, welcome aboard!

I know, I know, I was the one who came up with this question thing, but boy it was hard!  See, hubby suggested ‘20 Questions’ and I told him that would be too much work for the people coming over to comment, so maybe 5 would work, but wow, we have so many players that that would still be a lot of work, so I cut it down to one question.

‘Only one?’  I whine!  I have a bunch of things I would like to know about my readers but since I gave the limitation of one question I guess I need to abide by my own rules.  Maybe I’ll ask a question periodically until I’m all questioned out, but for today:

Question: If you were going to get a tattoo, what would you get, and would it have some significance?  Feel free to tell about any tattoos you do already have. (Notice how that isn’t a second question - I’m good! *wink*)

My Answer: I have been wanting to get a tattoo for a few years and I think it would be really neat to have something small, that I could add onto each year on the anniversary of my cancer survivorship. I just can’t figure out what to get, nor where to put it.  I would welcome any ideas.  PS - I’m really scared it will hurt.

Since my question wouldn’t be complete without a photo, here’s my step-daughter, Marissa, and her friend showing of their tattoos. (I have shown this photo in the past).  Marissa got her tattoo to honor some of her friends who have died.  She’s currently very pregnant with our second grandson and I wonder what her tattoo looks like right now. :)

Let's go see what everyone wants to know and try to give some answers.  Or maybe we'll get to learn about a new bird, guess we'll find out when we get there.

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• did I miss anyone? :)

Min, Stephanie and Margaret over at Mama Drama have eagerly volunteered to boss us around next week.

Thanx for playing!