This morning I met my friend Hannah for a coffee before going to an appt. ‘it’s like we’re at uni again when you’d just go off between lectures and having piercings and we’d wait outside!’ But instead of another piercing I was having a much considered tattoo. Whilst I was a piercing fanatic I only have one tattoo. And I always said I’d stop at one but when Archie died it was almost an immediate response - I needed to mark his presence permanently on me. He wasn’t able to stay but I didn’t want him forgotten either. But I waited... I didn’t know how or what to have. Then the girls came. And I wanted something for all of them. Finally I knew what I wanted: a little olive sprig, representing my roots, my family. 3 little olives, one for each of my babies. Plus a little star for the one that couldn’t stay. I burst into tears when Jade finished and let me see - it’s so much more beautiful than I could have ever imagined. But then again the artist herself is beautiful and I know the love that went into it. Thank you @jadechanelp. I am smitten. X