I am a laid back, goofy, girl next door. Art is a passion of mine and love baseball. The smaller things in life is what I am most excited by. I live my life one day at a time with some long term goals in mind. Currently I am going to school to get my BA public administration at Texas State University and will be eventually going back afterwards to work on my masters in PhD. I am planning on going in to influence educational reform, something we all know needs improvement. I live in Austin, TX [Hook'em!!] and my heart now belongs to this city and everything that it has to offer. Austin is where I found my tattoo artist, Pete Gilcrease. All of the tattoos that I have are my ode to the egyptians in the sense that they are the treasures and stories of my life that I want to be buried with. I have chosen to take everything near and dear to my heart and illustrate it on this canvas I was born with. I have many plans for what is going to be portrayed, and as I live my life the story will unfold through my tattoos.

My favorite tattoo is my chest piece. It is a cameo center framed by two flying hummingbirds and backed by victorian filigree. My great grandmother [born in 1918] passed away my junior year in high school and growing up, after she'd been diagnosed with alzheimers, we shared a room for two years. She never forgot my name or who I was and we formed a very close bond. After she passed, me and my grandmother went through her jewelry and I had seen a cameo necklace she'd owned. My grandmother felt that I was too young to have it and in my senior year in high school I decided that I wanted to have it tattooed as the centerpiece of my chest. My tattoo artist used a belt buckle that I'd found [which later ended up being an exact match to the original necklace] to draw my chest piece. The hummingbirds surrounding the cameo are for my papop [grandfather]. My papop and I were very close and he passed away a while back. I get my humorous sarcasm from him. The filigree I am obsessed with due to my grandmother on my father's side. We used to have victorian tea parties and her whole house embodied the era. My chest piece is a beautiful work of art that captures some of the most influential people of my adolescence.