Tattoo Part Two

So for those of you who read this and keep up with me I thought I would add some more.

More musing on my tattoos I don’t have and my never get.

I have been toying with the idea of getting part of my family crest tattooed on my side rib cage. I have seen a couple recently on females I think are very attractive. That being said also completely coverable. So–anyways I was thinking a lion in heraldry as a throw back to our Irish side and due to the fact I am a Leo (lion here too) and he has a crown which is also a throw back to Leo and semi religious undertones thought I don’t consider myself religious. Then he is holding a scepter of a fleur-de-lis which is very important to me because I am VERY fond of the fleur-de-lis idea due to the fact I have lived and will probably live in St. Louis then I will anywhere else in my entire life. Then on a scroll underneath him i want written in Latin my family’s coat of arms motto. “Palmam qui meruit ferat’ Let him who has earned it bear the palm. In other words almost a sign of identification, achievement and prestige. Such as they gave palm leaves in historical times to victors. I feel that my last name is a very significant and powerful thing. Although I also exclude that to my immediate family and people we choose to bring into it through birth or marriage. Such as, my daughter she was born in. I was born in. My mom married in and anyone me, my sister or my brothers chooses is a right that if we have taken the time and looked and chosen you it is a great honor to be apart of our clan. And while I may be a feminist, I am not so far out, I do want to take my husbands name and I want my children to have his name but they will forever be apart of our family- starting with my dad. They have earned the palm to be one of us.

Also going on that tangent–i have a fairly common last name–thousands of us–from all over very doubtful were all related so I was thinking about like trying to have heraldry make a comeback and I thought it would be funny if everyone with the same last name no matter how old or where they came from repped it. The idea amuses me!

So that lion sorta and with the banner that reads something else….otherwise just script down my side. I dunno probabaly won’t happen but i like ot think about it.