Rosie the Riveter Tattoo

The first customers of the day were a couple of girls who wanted matching tattoos. Matching friends tattoos was also a theme last Sunday. They were down from Salem, Oregon some 680 miles away from home. They were actually on their way to Southern California to visit all the amusement parks over the next week. Yep, like Six Flags Magic Mountain, Universal Studios, Knotts Berry Farm, and Disneyland. That sounds like a pretty awesome vacation if you ask me. Although they already had some pretty cool permanent tattoos, they wanted some “weird friends” tattoos or is that “weird” tattoos. Just kidding, they actually selected the Chinese symbol for “weird”. Enjoy your whirlwind trip to the major theme parks ladies, especially Universal Studios on Halloween night.

Our next memorable customer was a kid by the name of Cristian who was here with his mom. He’s had many temporary tattoos before and knew exactly what he wanted. He selected a nautical star on his calf in Halloween colors, black and orange. It was very cool and he really liked it a lot. Now I am thinking of getting one in those colors. Then they walked around to do some more shopping and returned again a little while latter. I guess he was bit by the tattoo bug. This time he picked a swirly fiery sun design for his upper shoulder. He wanted it tucked away cause he goes to Catholic grade school. He hopes he doesn’t get in trouble, but doesn’t’ think so cause his own school principal has a real tattoo. Funny.

Then Jenny stopped by to find something small and cute for her daughter Shelby . Either a small flower or butterfly tattoo. Shelby, who is just 3 1/2 years old, pointed out the cute butterfly. Jenny is a vendor at The Flea who sells these pretty trendy t-shirts designed by tattoo artists among other things. While I was giving Shelby a cute pink and purple butterfly temporary tattoo with purple glitter, I enjoyed talking to Jenny about similar Flea Market business experiences. Thank you again for stopping by and don’t forget to find Shelby’s picture in our photo gallery.

I would also like to say hello to Fedra, also neighboring vendor who stopped by looking for a something a little unique. She was drawn to a tattoo design from our vintage banner of a woman in the red bandana, flexing her bicep in her blue factory uniform. It is a replica of the image depicted in the World War II poster featuring Rosie the Riveter. It was a little bit of a challenge, but the extra effort paid off as you can see by the photo inset. She was very happy with the results and enjoyed showing it off to all her friends. Thanks again Fedra!

Usually Sunday’s are much busier and I look forward to meeting even more people and making their day memorable. It’s going to be a beautiful day.