05/14/2026
A few announcements, I know it's late at night but I'm also gonna pin it to my page and that's just when my brain operates.
It is no secret that I have been trying to operate business as usual despite being neck deep in greif and transition after transition for over a year and a half now. It feels like everytime I have found a rhythm, I lost it the next day. Some of my attempts to remedy it have worked, some haven't. Here's whats going to come from it:
Starting in June (if you have already booked an appt, this does NOT apply. Nothing is changing about your appt), I am going to be switching to exclusively working 3-10ish, Wed-Sunday.
⚫️ In the beginning of the year, anxiety hit me that my daughter would be starting school soon, and if I kept my evenings, I would be starting my day as she got off hers. That really bugged me, and I decided to trial run working mornings.
If you have been tattooed by me this year, you know for a fact this trial run has been a disaster. I am impossibly stuck in my ways as a night owl. Meaning I was getting 2-3 hours of sleep, constantly oversleeping or even missing alarms and appointments all together (only happened once but that's one too many). I ended up spending the entire day at the shop anyway after pushing stuff back, running around stressed constantly, etc. These past few months have felt like a nonstop cluster of stressful events and have flown by so fast.
I am fortunate enough to have a job where I can choose hours that actually works for me, and I decided I need to just honor that. Here lately I added 2 4-10 days to see how they felt, and they've been incredible. The day is slower, my time with Lily is filled with more quality and less fast paced nonsense.
I think this won't effect much except for me personally, but if you are one of my few clients who can only do mornings, I will always try to work with you there. Please don't think I won't.
⚫️ One of these days (I am thinking Friday) is going to be turned into an admin/walk in/reschedule filler day. I am going to dedicate this day every week to answering messages consistently, scheduling posts, etc. Showing up for my clients in the ways that matter outside of being directly in my booth.
I have dropped the ball hard in this. As I type this I am aware I am so painfully behind on messages. I pushed myself too hard on the weekend of my fundraiser flash and never recovered. While I have been struggling, I also acknowledge that I have allowed it to bleed too much into my professional life. I am accepting that both of those things can exist without being too harsh too myself about it. (A favorite quote: You cannot hate yourself into evolution).
It is a very unfortunate part of being your own boss. There is no one to check you, you just watch how it effects your business and sometimes it all feels too overwhelming. I know I have let clients and friends down in ways I won't recover from. I am taking a strictly no more excuses approach with myself here. I cannot sit in my greif forever and let it eat away at everything I am passionate for. Please take this as my promise to do better.
⚫️ When I created this page I intentionally made a name that did not limit me to tattoo posts. This is because I have a grand vision of combining all my hobbies here over time. In my pass time lately to keep my hands busy I have delved into so many hobbies from sewing, to mirror etching, photography (and as a result hiking lol), paintings that aren't meant to be tattooable designs, etc. I want to make a priority for the remainder of this year in talking about them, posting them, hopefully even selling a thing or two along the way. I think if I stopped treating them as seperate things, I could be more consistent in both.
I hope you will support the page the same way.
That's all I can think of for an already long post. So I just wanted to say thank you to those who have given me such an endless amount of patience. It took me a solidddd minute of being knocked down, but I feel like such a fire has been lit under me today after some much needed processing and rest. I am so excited for what the future holds for me and I feel so determined to make it a big one.
Here's your sign not to designate one day a year to resolutions. Meet yourself where you are at everytime life changes up for you and make new goals accordingly and shamelessly.
It goes without saying none of the effort would be worth it without everyone who follows and has supported me along the way. I appreciate you more than words can say. This job, the people I've met through it, it is second place only to my incredible daughter as my lifeline and push to be a better person every day. ❤️
