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It's Inspiration Monday!
When the ladies of Two Birds Boutique chose an outfit to inspire a personal look.  

Here's my version.

My black netted overlay is thrifted.
Notice my guy's reflection in the window on the left. ;)

..."You know one me.
Just like I know one you.
 But you can't know every me...
 And I can't know every you"...
Every You, Every Me by David Levithan

Today's outfit inspiration is:

Eva Mendes
To see what others wore look here .

...If you zoom close-if you really get close to someone,
if you get really close to yourself-


then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore...
Every You, Every Me by David Levithan

Some of you have asked to see my tattoo.
That's why my blouse is pulled like that.

...Instead I thought of the word profile and what a weird double meaning. it had. 

We say we're looking at a person's profile online, or say a newspaper is writing,
 a profile on someone,

and we assume it's the whole them we're seeing.
But when a photographer takes a picture of a profile, you're only seeing half the face...
Every You, Every Me by David Levithan 

...it was like every picture brought out a slight variation. I wondered if it was just because it was a different moment, 

or maybe each photographer brought out a different you -you could not be who you were without  taking into account who was watching...Every You, Every Me by David Levithan

my tattoo

the tattoo convention was this weekend, but it was expensive so we didn't attend. we walked by this shop, and i had to go inside.

i unknowingly chose a shop owned by a vegetarian.

the girl's name is jamie. she's a real artist. i saw photos of tattoos she has copied of masterpieces onto other's bodies like salvador dali and vincent van gogh's starry night. she's shown her art work at a gallery in deep ellum. she's been tatooing for 3 years. on her purse is a picture of the beatles. her fiance' plays in a punk band called specter 45 that was voted one of the best bands by dallas observer. she gets into shows for free at the house of blues cause his dad created the paintings on the walls there.

i knew exactly what i wanted because i've been planning it for years. i wanted a tattoo since the age of 17, but my aunt told me to wait a year to be certain. it's based on the picasso dove, but i wanted jamie to make it her own.

it's on my upper right shoulder. this time i chose the scar that would be on the right side of my body. the love is on the wing. it means peace within.