One of the many friends I've met via blogging, facebook and general interwebs is Jessica. She blogs about her life as a newlywed chef's wife and culinary student. What a combo! Check her out at Chef in Training.
I saw her clever tattoo on Facebook and I had to share. For someone who will never get a tattoo I have a strange fascination with those relating to cooking.
I just love the wooden spoon and whisk "cross bones". I asked Jessica about her tattoo....
When did you get your pastry skull tattoo?
I got my "cupcake skull" tattoo (as we call it) October 21st 2009
Do you have a name for it?
Not necessarily a name, just my cupcake skull
How did you think of it? Had you seen that design somewhere?
We (my chef and I) thought it up when he offered to do a sleeve or half sleeve, or something for me for going to culinary school. I wanted to do a skull and crossbones in honor of him. He is always pushing me to be better than I am, thus making me a great person. We decided to look around online a bunch for a "cupcake skull", however, a lot that we found were with a skull just sitting in the frosting, not what I envisioned. I have a friend who works at a reputable Tattoo place here in Omaha, so I came to him with the idea. His name is Seth and he works at Big Brain. I love how it turned out. I just went in with ideas of how I wanted the frosting to look, the bottom, and the whisk. I told him "just go home and look at your own wooden spoon" HA! Turned out better than I imagined, he is a talented artist.
Does your husband have any cooking related tattoos?
Ohh yea. He has many, I can ask him if I can photograph them for you, if you are interested.
Do you have any other tattoos?
The cupcake skull is my third. I have my sign (cancer) on my back between my shoulder blades and my daughter's name on my back also.
Do you get a lot of comments on it? I find it fascinating!
I do. This summer was the first time I was able to really show it off. I got tons of compliments on it. I had one guy at a fair call it a "bunny thing" which he was trying to get me to come to his booth. I ignored him, he is ignorant. I went to Branson over my birthday and I got tons of compliments down there. Mostly people tell me they have never seen anything like it. Which was really why I wanted it the way it is. Oh, and my husband's family loves it! Its funny to hear his grandma compliment it!
Any plans for more?
I have plans on finishing the sleeve however far we decide to go with it. I get ideas and pass them by my artist. He is very excited to do the next one. He is very glad that the whisk in my "skull and crossbones" is the only one that I want, he said it was very hard to make it thin enough and still fill it in with the gray. My next tattoo is one that my chef found, its a memorial tattoo for the baby we lost, it will be a matching tattoo for us. Trust me, I will post pictures of the work I have done as its done. Also, its funny that I like tattoos so much, I hate needles but the end result is very worth it. It just feels like a bad sunburn.
In the vague future I'd like to share Jessica's chef's tattoos but this post is all about her!
Other tattoo posts:
Tattoo Chefs
Marks of a Chef
Food is Love,
Hilary
1 comment:
Thanks so much!! It was fun and I definately feel honored. Its funny because I have a friend who's boyfriend can't remember my name so they refer to me as "cupcake" simply because of my tattoo. So, when the chef and I got married we got a photo album from my friend inscribed with "Cupcake & Chef" with our wedding date on it. I just read this post and looked over and saw it.
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