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

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.

It’s the easter holiday. This means that I got nothing I should be doing.
So I made stitch markers today, with the beads I found while reorganizing my workplace yesterday.

It’s the last day of january today, it seems like a good time to make this years resolutions regarding knitting, and especially one aspect of it has been on my mind the last couple of days.
Stash… (long pause)

In 2006 I had no money, bought next to no new yarn except on a couple of occasions and was really modest about taking in new stuff just because I had no choice.

In 2007 I got my economy somewhat on my feet, and vowed to build myself a stash, just so that I would have a backup plan if I was back in the position from the previous year. I also went vegan in october, and stopped buying animal fibers.

And now it’s 2008. I got my stash, some of it is pretty, some of it isn’t, and most of it isn’t vegan. It might be a little late to have resolutions for the new year now, but I do.

• I will continue to not buy animal fibers, and knit down a lot of what I have
• I will try to use more from the stash than I put into it
• I will learn to knit socks without wool that I can love as much as the ones with wool
• I will make at least one hoodie, that I will wear regularly
• I have joined a stash-turnover group at Ravelry and I will follow it’s lead. By adding new gorgeus yarn to it, and use up the old

Tags: knit, ravelry, socks, stash, vegan, yarn