Want a kit? Cool! I am open to trades. I want people to have a kit if they want one - because that means they will do a safer tattoo. Dirty sewing needle? Don't do it! Pen or printer ink? - No! So, yeah, if you have something to trade or barter, please send me an email with what you have.

Here are some things I've traded for:

-A box of collected skulls (cool!)

-A magical healing mixture box with essential oil, personalized journal, a precious stone necklace and kind words

-$38 worth at a local bar/restaurant

-Artwork (that I was interested in)

-Social networking promotions -  take like 6 good pictures of consenting people with hand poke tattoos. Add an interesting sentence about each and we call it an article. Send it over [...]

Sup y'all! Just some meaningless celebrity gossip to follow...

Miley Cyrus has 22 tattoooooss! Many of which are on her milky white paws. Maybe more  by now?! A day has passed, after all. No tattoo shaming going on here. I'm down with little permanent reminders of our crazy lives. You go grrl! I hope you are safe!

Here is the dish about all her tattoo meanings and shiiit. You can steal her style if you like. Or make your own!

If the huff post is talking about it, then it must be news, RIGHT?

Help! This guy has all Miley Cyrus themed tattoos! He hath no shame.

By Nickie Nick and Gabe Barnow

"Spring-time is the time of the liver,” says my acupuncturist as I sip on my liver detox tea. What does that even MEAN? I exclaim through my modern science teacher lens?  She replies calmly, as if a sheer fact, "the emotion tied to the liver is anger."

"Just as the sap of a tree reverses its directional flow upwards, our emotions also find their way to the surface and may explode forth more easily in the spring than at any other time of year." –Acupuncture.com

I'm angry just thinking about the possibility of being angrier. Here's the deal y'all: Yang energy is all up in everyone's business in the spring when flowers are popping and qi (pronounced: chee) is swirling like mad making everything and everyone want to do the nasty or beat something up.

Do you make your own calendula balms and take a weekly trip [...]

Forget the flowers

When doing anything, I think of the plastic. On days that I listen to NPR, I tend to avoid buying some favorite foods - like Seaweed Snacks - because those fragile sheets of salty heaven are wrapped up like gold in a plastic Fort Knox. And for what? Give me flattened low calorie snackables and save the plastic for peaches and newborns and other bruising fleshy stuff.

I have a friend who is really nice (really really). You will stay on her sweet side so easily  if you avoid two things: dreads on white people (cultural appropriation) and single-use plastics. Do not give this grrl a plastic fork with her pad thai. Do not give her a straw with her whisky soda. Do not offer her a plastic bag for her Homies. It is for her and the dolphins (and the sea turtles) that I make an effort to minimize the [...]

Finally got our instagram account going (I blame my side profession [teacher] for the delay)....follow us to see some SnPs from around the Bay Area. Also will be posting little helpful videos, etc.

@sticknpoketattookit

Lucky/Unlucky days during the holidays are good times to make permanent marks (on oneself).

Order on or before 12/13/13 and get $7.00 off using this link here!

Kits cost $38 plus $4.00 shipping. Here you pay $35 for the whole shabang!

A certain awesome community co-op and supportive arts space in Oakland, CA (called Rock Paper Scissors) has considered putting my product on the shelves - however they have a concern that I never considered until now. Of course! What to do with the dirty needle post tattoo?! Diabetics think of this after shooting up, as should we Stick and Pokers. After all, that is one super contaminated needle. There could be some live pathogens waiting to infect a perfectly healthy garbage collector or other waste materials intermediary. Health Care workers are on the front lines of Hepatitis C infection via accidental needle sticks. Eek. Don't be/cause a statistic.

Until I totally integrate a needle mail back program (difficult), please follow these instructions:

1. When done tattooing, replace needle into original needle package.

2. Wrap that up real [...]