This is not my first tattoo. But no one knows I have the other - it was just for myself.

My ideas that are just running around in my head are these:

First of all, I want to somehow include a little rabbit in the image. I had a pet rabbit for 8 years and she was my whole world when I was little. I was SO devoted and obsessed with her. My mom bought her for me shortly before she died so she was all the more meaningful to me. The rabbit had a long and unpleasant death, despite my frequent trips to the vet. I came home one night and just knew that that night was the last one. So I slept with her on the floor in a little bed that I made and woke up several times during the night. She was with me all through the night but when I woke up she'd passed away. I carried her little body around for an hour just sobbing. It was so traumatic. I loved her so much, and I want her to be included in my memorial tattoo.

As for my mom, she was very interested in angels and believed that we all had a guardian angel so I had considered including an angel in the tattoo. The issue is that all the angels I've ever seen are very stylized and detailed - very religious. I would like more of a suggestive outline of a body and then perhaps a clearly defined set of wings.

I thought of an angel holding a rabbit, looking to the distance as if waiting.

I thought of a rabbit playing with a spool of thread (my mom loved to sew and it's what I remember her doing the most. The night she died she stayed up late working on the sewing machine, just like any other night.)

I thought of a rabbit holding a blue rose (a flower she particularly liked)

I also considered dolphins, hummingbirds, random little things that remind me of her, but the above ideas I feel have more meaning.

Also, my mom and I collected beanie babies together. It was the highlight of my childhood and I still have them sitting around everywhere. Even my mom's mom got into it with us. They have a bear that is an angel bear and I considered just having an image of that bear done. But then decided it might be too childish or ... I don't know that right word. Plain or simple I guess. People might not realize how much meaning it had behind it.