Shelley Washington

What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My grandfather and grandmother were my inspire for last tattoo. Grandma always had beautiful flowers in her garden and grandpa always sat among them peeling a grannie smith or widdling a stick and watching the hummingbirds and butterflies. This became one of my favorite things to do also. They are both gone now but those memories are still there and near and dear to me so I am sleeving out in wild flowers and butterflies and hummingbirds for the very two I accredit for giving me my gypsy soul.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

It would say leave your worries and allow peace to flow as the wind blows. That nothing is forever but true beauty is found wild and spontaneously as long as we water ourselves correctly.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would be able to continue to nurture and grow a better future for my kids. I would buy land so that they would have a safe place in this crazy world. And I would grow a garden old garden of beauty just like my grandmother did. $25,000.00 would change our lives and grow roots for our future.