It’s that time of year again – the time when you count down the days, the hours, the minutes, when you can put the machines down and bugger off on holiday for a while.

This year the Sinner family headed off to the beautiful island of Crete. We’ve been to a fair few of the Greek islands, but never tried Crete and everyone told us how lovely it is.

So we’re up at 3.30am to get in a cab to the airport at 4.30am! Blimey, talk about early…! waste of time going to bed really… anyway, the little sinners take it all in their stride and are stuffing cake and biscuits in their faces at 5.30am at the cafe in the airport, while we’re downing extra strong cappucino’s just to stay vaguely awake!

The flight was on time and easy, then as usual when you get off the plane onto the tarmac in Greece, the heat just hits you, making you instantly relax and realise the holiday has actually begun – brilliant!

After a (longer than in the brochure) coach transfer to the hotel we rock up to the reception only to be told that our room wasn’t ready – ‘here we go’ I think, typical of our luck…

… but then… the (very nice) man at reception said ‘we apologise for the delay in getting your room ready, so we’re sending you off to the restaurant (one of four!) for a free lunch’ RESULT!

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Here in the Sinner household, in Sinnerville, me and little Sinner seem to have got the fishing bug lately and keep getting up really early to go fishing in the local lake. There’s something really good about simply  sitting by the water as the sun makes an appearance, waiting for the fish to take the bait.

Those of you who keep up to date with this happy little Sinner blog(!) will remember how upset the little Sinner was a while back when he nearly caught his first big fish, only to get snapped up and left slightly weepy and wondering what could have been…

Well I’m pleased and proud to report that he managed to land his first, very decent common carp the other day. Typically this was his first cast of the morning, before I’d even managed to assemble my own rod!… one itty bitty bit of sweet corn and ‘bingo’ he was into his first carp fight, and he did a sterling job, playing it well and getting it to the landing net all by himself. It was an exiting moment in our fishing world and one we’ll both remember for a long time – well done you little Sinner!

the one that didn't get away!

Been taking the little Sinner fishing for a while now and he absolutely loves it. Every weekend it’s ‘Can we go fishing Dad? can we, can we…?’

So the other day we went to our local lake which is really kid friendly. Basically you can drop your hook in anywhere and catch something! This particular day was lovely – really warm and sunny without burning the shit out of you, and the fish were really biting well. Little Sinner keeps on trying to catch bigger fish so we tried the method his grandad uses with much success – floating crust. And bugger me it was wicked! The big old carp all stay near the surface when it’s warm and like a bit of bread and you can just watch their big gobs pull the bread and your hook down into the water and ‘BANG’, you’re into a nice fighting fish!

My personal best by far was this nice mirror carp – what’s nice for me is I spend ages drawing and tattooing all kinds of carp so catching a big one it’s great to see all the detail and stuff that makes them such a great tattoo. Unfortunately, little Sinner didn’t catch his big fish…. he was so close to one but got his line properly snapped with a loud crack, so that was that. He’ll get there soon I’m sure.

Until next time…. happy fishing!

Had a few requests for a follow up from us to the blog below about the twats in the latest series of LA Ink, masquarading as tattooists etc.

Well, I’m pleased to tell you they’ve all been Fired! Sacked, Given The Elbow – about time too.

This is good news.

The bad news is the crumby network have obviously got contracts to honour and now we keep being subjected to ‘insights’ into their increasingly banale and tedious lives.

Look you tossers, the studio (American Electric) they now all work in is shit, they talk shit, the tattoos are shit,  so stop wasting our fucking viewing time okay! Just give us the luscious Kat Von D and her crew and leave out the shit.

POST FROM MARCH…

The Missing L(A)ink(s)

Is it just me or has the latest series of the (alleged) popular tattoo ‘reality’ TV show LA Ink become a total pile of steaming poo? Every episode now seems to focus solely on some air-head bimbo twat called Oooorbreeee, who hasn’t got a fuckin’ clue how to work in a tattoo shop. The rest of the crew, especially Cory Miller,  hate her guts and let her know it (like you would) and it’s all ‘drama’, ‘drama’, ‘drama’ – well if you call constantly bursting into tears all the time because you’re useless – ‘drama’ – It’s unbelievable!

And to make it worse they’ve got a tattooer who’s an untattooed ‘nu yawker’, called Pooorleee, who’s about as good at tattooing as I am at brain surgery! What a fuckin’ loser – Wanker.

And if that ain’t enough, there’s some freaky looking ‘make up’ artist, turned tattooer, Aaimmmeeee. Man you’ve got to see her – the make up is amazing – like your two year old daughter got let loose with nan’s make up bag, but not as good…

Each week it just gets worse – hardly any decent artwork any more – just scripted ‘drama’

FUCK OFF! We deserve better…

St George & Dragon - Gouache - A4 - framed - £60 (plus p+p)

St. Georges Day

Last saturday 24th March, was St. Georges Day in England. Here in sunny Sinnerville it was celebrated in the town with a festival. The high street was closed off and lined with stalls from local businesses, clubs and charities. Over 4000 people turned up on a gorgeous sunny day and had a great time! Blimey, even the Queen turned up! Us Sinners had a stand showing off our artwork and tattoos, all related to England and St. George.

We Brits are a patriotic bunch and here at the studio we do loads of tattoos of St. George and the dragon, bulldogs, Britannia and so on. And we’re proud to do them too. They can be really challenging and time consuming and always pretty spectacular.

We’re looking forward to the World Cup in a few weeks and doing loads more England badges and stuff. Come on boys!!

Check out some art – all for sale.

Bulldog artists pallette - acrylic - £40 (plus p+p)

Bulldog with flag artists pallette - acrylic - £40 (plus p+p)

Skull artists pallette - acrylic - £40 (plus p+p)

If you’re interested in buying anything drop us an email at info@sevensinstattoo.com

Got tickets to go see Steel Panther from Mr & Mrs V for christmas (cheers guys!), stuck ‘em on the magnetic board of reminders and stuff in the kitchen and forgot about them! Suddenly March is here and the date has arrived. Now I haven’t been to a ‘gig’ for years, so really wasn’t too bothered, had tons of stuff going on that I needed to do and almost blew it out. Thank god I didn’t! Me and Mrs Sinner set off to Brixton in search of the Academy and coming out of the tube station it was simple to follow all the geezers, old and young, wearing long blonde wigs, mirror shades and (shock horror!) spandex! Honestly I’ve never seen anything like it, it was absolutely hilarious! What was even more hilarious for us, was the amount of fake, stick on, and drawn on tattoos they were sporting! Tragic doesn’t even come close… Listen boys, it’s about time you bit the bullet and got some proper ink.

So into the venue and the usual scrum for the bar, all quite civilized and orderly, until a wig wearing, spandex clad old twat started getting lairy because he got a bit bumped about! Nearly the funniest thing ever! Listen mate, you can’t act the fuckin’ hard man wearing that get up. No-ones going to be intimidated or impressed if you look like a refugee from Twisted Sister! So everyone just laughed and called him a nob! More than he deserved quite frankly.

Into the auditorium and on they come… Steel Panther. Loud, american, mental! If you’ve never heard them, get a copy of the album, buy it, download it, steal it, whatever… just have a listen. Think Van Halen, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi and every 1980′s hair metal band, every over used riff, with the most hilarious, filthy, fantastic lyrics you’ve ever heard. Not only do they not take themselves overly seriously (like most rock cocks) they play so tight it’s ridiculous. Probably the most entertaining thing I’ve been to since… well for ages really. Totally brilliant!

They’re playing the Download festival so if you get the chance go see ‘em – and remember… DEATH TO ALL BUT METAL!!

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Billy ‘The Billboard’ Gibby is an amateur boxer with 19 company logos tattooed on him. The 29 year old is the first person in the world to have an advert for a website inked on his cheeks!

He got into it when he started to give blood, his attention grabbed by the plight of people waiting for transfusions and organ replacements. He gave blood every two weeks and signed up to be an organ donor after his death, but still wanted to do more. After surfing the web he found a profile of a woman that needed a kidney and went on to find he was a perfect match. But due to geography he couldn’t afford the flight, so inspired by Ricky Hatton’s temporary tattoo in a boxing match, he got GoldenPalace.com tattooed on his back and earned the money for the flight, donated the kidney and now continues to make money getting company logos tattooed on him.

You have to ask yourself, how much would you want to get the ‘Favourite Chicken’ logo tattooed on your forehead? What would be the stupidest or maybe the coolest logo to get on your face? Let us know how much you’d want for this kind of work. Go on, really it brightens up our day and makes us laugh!

After the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in January which claimed thousands of lives, the response to give aid is enormous. Two of the latest people to join the task of helping raise money are Dr David J Ores and Michelle Steckhert of Dare Devil Tattoo in New York who have formed Ink4Haiti. The duo are asking tattooists worldwide to help raise money be donating their earnings from one tattoo they create in 2010, anything from a small symbol to an entire backpiece, whatever the artist can afford to donate. So here at Seven Sins we’re more than willing to help this worthy cause, so get in touch of you want to get involved. The tattoos chosen to make the donations will be featured on the Ink4Haitiblogspot.com website.

Why does the Scum, sorry I mean the Sun newspaper always sensationalize tattoos and focus on the negatives? They always bang on about ‘regretting’ tattoos and how people should give it more thought etc. Yesterday’s paper had a piece on Cheryl Cole (yes I’m bloody sick of seeing her poxy face on every poxy tabloid and celeb wannabee rag too) and how she’s going to get her ‘Mrs C’ tattoo removed from the back of her neck and ‘oh she really shouldn’t have done it – we knew it wouldn’t last…’ Well I’m sure when Cheryl sat in the tattooists chair eager to get her ink and proclaim her love for her husband, she was looking forward to spending the rest of her life with the twat! Come on, who gets married and settles down with someone, all the while thinking ‘ooh this could all end tomorrow, we might break up soon?’ No-one of course! We all head down the alter with the blind faith required to make that total commitment and getting your partners name etc inked as a symbol of this love and commitment is par for the course. Everyone does shit they regret but if you don’t dip your toe in the water, you don’t get wet do you? The (lazy) journo also had a go at Leona Lewis for some dodgy rubbish tattoo on her back too – I mean how lame… the girls squeaky clean so it’s kind of reassuring to know she’s not completely processed!

Come on – give us your thoughts….

For the third year in succession Seven Sins worked at the Brighton Convention and had an awesome weekend. After the crew of Iva, Sarah, Chic and Ben put the booth together in the boxing arena, Saturday was mega busy with Chic and Ben flat out all day, doing some pretty hardcore tattoos – stars on faces, demons in the armpit! Pain city!

The Brighton Show is always rammed with punters and a brilliant show, with plenty of different stuff going on. One of the highlight attractions this year was the Sugar Project, a charity run by Lisa Bolton involving over 70 tattoo artists from around the world. Chic painted a skull (pic) for the event which was raffled off at the convention along with 9 others commissioned by Woody from Blackheart. The exhibition of skulls in the Art Gallery was breathtaking! The level of creativity from the artists simply amazing, from a skull cut in half to look like edam cheese, complete with little mouse(!) to one completely covered in diamontes! (link to sugar site)

Sunday started slower but built up to be incredibly busy, with eager tattoo fans crammed in to get a look at the art on display. Ben again did some different stuff, with a succession of inner lip tattoos!

By the end of the day we were all knackered but happy with the success of the show. A big thank you to all our customers who made the trip and supported us – see you again next year!

Seven Sins at the Brighton Tattoo Convention 2010 on You Tube

Dragon in the Armpit Tattoo Photo

Brighton Convention Tattoo Card

Inner Lip Tattoos Photo