Monday, February 15th, 2010 at
7:48 am
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
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In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society. She became an instant celebrity, but the price of fame was high and the pain of her ruptured childhood lasted a lifetime.
Based on historical records, including letters and diaries of Oatman’s friends and relatives, The Blue Tattoo is the first book to examine her life from her childhood in Illinois—including the massacre, her captivity, and her return to white society—to her later years as a wealthy banker’s wife in Texas.
Oatman’s story has since become legend, inspiring artworks, fiction, film, radio plays, and even an episode of Death Valley Days starring Ronald Reagan. Its themes, from the perils of religious utopianism to the permeable border between civilization and savagery, are deeply rooted in the American psyche. Oatman’s blue tattoo was a cultural symbol that evoked both the imprint of her Mohave past and the lingering scars of westward expansion. It also served as a reminder of her deepest secret, fully explored here for the first time: she never wanted to go home.
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
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Friday, February 12th, 2010 at
12:46 pm
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at
5:50 pm
Totally Stylin’ Tattoos Barbie
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This trendy Barbie doll comes with over 40 tattoos! Using the enclosed tattoo stamper and stickers, girls can wear the designs or use them to decorate Barbie and her fab fashions. Its hours of temporary tattooing fun! (Ages 5 and up.)
Totally Stylin’ Tattoos Barbie
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at
3:50 am
Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady
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After being forced to leave HMS Dolphin and Jaimy, her true love, Jacky Faber is making a new start at the elite Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston. But growing up on the streets of London and fighting pirates never prepared Jacky for her toughest battle yet: learning how to be a fine lady.
Everything she does is wrong. Her embroidery is deplorable, her French is atrocious, and her table manners–disgusting! Then there’s the small matter of her blue anchor tattoo. . . .
Despite her best efforts, Jacky can’t seem to stay out of trouble long enough to dedicate herself to being ladylike. But what fun would that be, anyway?
Amazon.com ReviewShiver me timbers! Bloody Jack is back and this time, she’s facing a situation far worse than a ship full of murderous pirates.
Curse of the Blue Tattoo, L.A. Meyer’s sequel to the enormously popular
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy is just as bawdy and entertaining as the original. Left in Boston by the H.M.S. Dolphin crew when they discover her true sex, Jacky Faber finds herself navigating entirely new waters. It turns out that bloodthirsty buccaneers have nothing on the young ladies at the Lawson Peabody School! As Jacky observes, “…they’re like any bunch of thirty or so cats thrown in a sack and shaken up good. They’re mean in ways that boys never even thought of being.” It isn’t long before Jacky shows her true colors by being arrested for “exposing a Female Part” (her knee) while jigging in the streets and is “busted down” to serving girl instead of student. Jacky soldiers on, getting herself into scrapes that her darling beau midshipman Jaimy Fletcher couldn’t even begin to imagine, including uncovering a shady minister’s evil secret and fixing a horse race with voodoo. And where in the world is seafaring Jaimy? As her letters to him continue to go unanswered, Jacky grows more and more worried. Still, at book’s end she takes an assignment as “lady’s companion” to the captain’s wife aboard a whaler headed for London. Astute readers will notice that the whaler’s crabby captain has a peg leg and won’t be surprised if in the next Bloody Jack Adventure, Jacky ends up hunting the great white whale!
Utterly engaging and incredibly well-paced,Curse of the Blue Tattoo is the very best kind of historical fiction: the kind that won’t leave teens snoring. Meyer effortlessly maintains Jacky’s sassy voice and conflicted conscience in what is shaping up to be a great series. While many readers will groan with despair as Jacky sets off yet again at the end of the book, they will also sigh with relief that they will most likely be meeting her again! –Jennifer Hubert
Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady
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Monday, February 1st, 2010 at
9:05 am
Bettie Page – Back Tattoo 30” x 40” Textile/Fabric Poster
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Bettie Page – Back Tattoo 30” x 40” Textile/Fabric Poster
Bettie Page – Back Tattoo 30” x 40” Textile/Fabric Poster
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Friday, January 29th, 2010 at
2:19 pm
Mini Butterflies Tattoos
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Nineteen different dazzling tattoos appear here: the long-tailed slipper, red admiral (or buckeye), giant sulphur, zebra, tortoise, piperine swallowtail, Colorado hair-streak, checker-spot, and more. Instructions.
Mini Butterflies Tattoos
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at
2:27 am
Suicide Kings Tattoo Long Sleeve Shirt, Tattoo Body Suit, X-Large
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This full body tattoo shirt emulates traditional Dermagraphic chest plates. Depicted amidst these Poker card images is the King of Suicide and Queen of Diamonds which represents sincerity of bad karma, reflecting the fleeting nature of youth and beauty. These cool Full Body Tattoo Shirts give the illusion of having your upper body fully tattooed and gives you the realistic illusion of tattoos!
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