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Bookstores are a really good place to get ideas. For a few years my kids and I went through hell with a wicked-stepmother situation, and I found a great picture of a wicked stepmother with her hair on fire in a Grimm's Fairytales book, which now takes up about a quarter of my arm. I have a heart full of pins with my first husband's name on my foot, and I got the idea for that design from a Tim Burton book. I have a sleeve that I mostly based on a children's book about Dia de los Muertos en espanol.
And other things I just came up with on my own. I've got a housewife with a giant rolling pin and a bunch of pills swirling around her head, which is from the "Oh god I am going to die if I spend one more minute as a housewife!" period of my life. I've got a big bubbling bottle of poison with my second husband's name on it. Got a big Medusa on my chest so men will stop leering at my cleavage for fear of turning to stone. Got some two-headed birds because I have a habit of bringing home unloved, deformed animals. And the list goes on and on. Really, inspiration is everywhere. You've just got to think of something that really means something to you. Something that has been very significant in your life, rather than something that you picked off of a tattoo shop wall.
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