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A couple of months ago I got my earlobes scalpelled. They were already stretched to 10mm (known as 000g or maybe 00g in non-metric places). Not just because I wanted them bigger, but because how the original holes were shot forever ago. Apparently it’s pretty common not to have the original holes placed properly, this doesn’t show up too much at a small gauge, like regular little studs in the ears, but at a larger size it shows up.

You can probably see what I mean in the photo above. On the one side (the one without a tragus piercing) it’s just too much flesh… and as it says on the BMEzine wiki “…it may also allow for a slight relocation of a piercing.”

That was one reason, the other was that I wanted to try something new. I had a tattoo, some piercings… why not try something new?

The scalpelling itself wasn’t to bad, not as painful as my nose piercings but worse than getting tattooed, it bled a little and hurt a bit for a couple of days. The aftercare sucked, my piercer recommended a spray that contained chicken fat. Instead of going with the H2Ocean yuck I did regular salt water soaks. A bit messy but better than having dead animal fat on my wounds.

After a week they stopped bleeding completely and ended up a lot like this:

and to make myself invest a little bit in this size, so that I don’t keep on stretching up even more, the way I want to… I now am the proud owner of lots of funky plugs and tunnels. I love how the dollar is worth shit these days, makes shopping online a lot more fun Olivewood plugs for the same price as two packs of cigarettes, that’s good especially since you don’t get them at all over here.

Tags: bodymod, ear, piercing, vegan

Among my favourite comics (although I hesitate to use that word, it doesn’t convey how beautiful this work is) I now have to count the free online one Bird and Moon. It’s a poetic cartoon/picture series about birds.

When you’ve read it (you should) check out her (the artist: Rosemary Mosco) other works as well. Especially “Parts of the bird” and “Ruffed grouse love“. The latter is exactly what I’ve always imagined that birds really sing to each other, well, that and in the case of the small songbirds outside my window in the spring “central apartment, two bedrooms, close to public transits!” in a typical newspaper style

Tags: art, bird, cartoon, comic

Usually I don’t name my socks. But this is the exception. Sergei Rachmaninoff was a composer of classical music. And the one that wrote the piece I spent some time knitting to indoors on a fine saturday afternoon, KIP’ing away. It’s not a great story, but I liked the name (russian and french names always make tongue tie itself into a know when I try to say them, it’s fun )

The special thing about them is that they are, in fact, my first pair of completly vegan socks! made in panda cotton. A yarn so lovely that I’m considering buying enough for 5 more pairs of socks…

For the rest of the details, check them out at ravelry.

As a ps. I’m not knitting as much as I used to these days, I don’t know why, I just dont. So these socks have been with me for a long time, and I’m still not finished with them.

Tags: kip, knitting in public, ravelry, socks, toe-up sock, vegan, yarn

A week ago I wen to a studio, as a nerveous little wreck, and made an appoitment.
This monday, in the evening, I lay on a bench with a bunch of small needles quickly piercing my skin, putting in colour.

And now… I’m itching a little (but not scratching, that would only make it worse). And while I’m itching I’m thinking about what my next tattoo will be, where it will be. Planning my second before the first has fully healed. A sign of a new obsession?

It’s a sparrow-hawk. I’m not able to get a picture of the entire tattoo at once as it curls around my arm a little. It’s located on my upper left arm, almost at the elbow, and at the back.
I’m looking forward to it being completly healed though as well.

Tags: bodymod, tattoo

I don’t have a good picture of you Medusa, as you never stood still long enough for me to take one.

You will be missed.