Thursday, June 18, 2015

Ink For Luna

I recently talked about how even though Luna has not been with us for almost a year that I still do not have my tattoo representing her (and it has been almost a year since she has left us). The ink for Solsey and Benny came pretty quickly after their passing. However, the ink for Luna had yet to be completed. Just like Luna in life, she was giving us troubles in her after life. (This is not in a bad way. But Luna was a spicy little girl with a feisty side a mile long! And oh did she give some attitude!) So, ink for Luna has been a long time coming. I emailed my tattoo artist and actually even had a family member attempt to complete some designs. (We had a family member sketch out the bone design we got for Benny.) But nothing was really still hitting home. We do not take this lightly since this is permanent.

Part of the struggle was that there were designs that I liked but it would be hard to incorporate her name with the design. I wanted to keep it simple but not understated. I wasn't sure if I had to have her name in addition to the moon to represent her. I agonized over this (obviously for a very long time). I still had not finally decided until up to the last moment. I emailed the artist, spoke to him on the phone but it was not until working with him during the appointment that I had finally come to my decision. Her name is not incorporated at this point. I can always add it later but for now I am keeping it simple. This was with much consideration and thought that I share the ink for our dearly departed Looney Toons.

For the curious, here is recap of the other inks for pugs past.