Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland comes out in theatres today!

This is Slithy Toves’ Jabberwocky tattoo:

I’ve been an Alice fan since my grandmother bought me the complete works of Carroll when I was 11. Something from Alice seemed like a natural choice for my tat, and being a voracious reader, I loved the idea of using a line of text rather than an image.

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

- Excerpt from the nonsense poem ‘Jabberwocky‘ from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.

Have a great weekend!

(24 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

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This is Kerry’s tattoo:

This quote specifically holds a place in my heart because I think it represents the constant struggle to find yourself, and to hold on to it when you do. I’ve been asking myself this question my whole life and I don’t know if I’ll ever have a full answer.

“Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, THAT’S the great puzzle!”

And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them.

- Chapter 2 of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

(23 votes, average: 3.70 out of 5)

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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you’re at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle little bat!
How I wonder what you’re at!

- “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat” as recited by the Mad Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

This is Katie’s tattoo:

Why did I pick that line?  I knew I wanted some sort of bat tattoo that wasn’t too goth and I knew I wanted to get an Alice in Wonderland quote on my two feet so voila.  Since Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is one of my absolute all time favorites I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t think of this for months and months!

(33 votes, average: 4.12 out of 5)

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This is Eva’s Alice in Wonderland tattoo.

(38 votes, average: 4.42 out of 5)

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This is Tim’s tattoo:

My tattoo is of the Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carol’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (original art by John Tenniel 1865). The Cheshire Cat is the only creature in Wonderland who uses logic. Though his words often seem mocking and bizarre, his process is always logical. To me the Cheshire Cat symbolizes the fragility of the border between genius and insanity.

Alice: Would you please tell me which way I ought to walk from here?
Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
Alice: I don’t much care where –
Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you walk.
Alice: — so long as I get somewhere.
Cat: Oh, you’re sure to do that, if you only walk long enough.

(28 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)

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“The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.”

- From “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel.

This is Jennifer C.’s tattoo:

When I was young, I would lose myself in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. It was the most imaginative story I had ever heard. This illustration comes from the amazing John Tenniel – his images were always my favorite.

(31 votes, average: 4.61 out of 5)

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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll are 2 of my favourite books of all time.  Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland film comes out on March 5th, so it’s a perfect time for an Alice theme week!

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the cat: “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the cat, “Or you wouldn’t have come here.”

This is Jessica’s tattoo.  She says:

(39 votes, average: 4.51 out of 5)

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This is Miss B’s tattoo, inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

B says the tattoo was done by Edgar Sick Clown at Old London Road Studios in Kingston Upon Thames, London.

(65 votes, average: 4.23 out of 5)

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The lady with the lovely Theodore Isaac Rubin tattoo has submitted an addition to her back.

Victoria says:

It’s a slightly morphed image of Alice from “Alice in Wonderland”.

Despite the modern “druggy-hippie” view of Alice in Wonderland, I have always seen it as a story of girl going through life’s journey encountering both the + and – aspects. Hence why I chose. As for the Rabbit, being half-Taiwanese, my family follows the Chinese Animal years and I was born in the year of the Rabbit. Furthermore, the characters in my Chinese name means Rose-Apple.

When that one heals, I’m planning on getting a book bind, pages, ribbon bookmark, and a curved page added as a border.

(50 votes, average: 3.38 out of 5)

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This tattoo was submited by Sara:

`Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); `now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!’ (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off). `Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I’m sure I shan’t be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can; –but I must be kind to them,’ thought Alice, `or perhaps they won’t walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I’ll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.’

And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. `They must go by the carrier,’ she thought; `and how funny it’ll seem, sending presents to one’s own feet! And how odd the directions will look!

Alice’s Right Foot, Esq.
Heartrug,
Near the Fender,
(with Alice’s Love).

Oh dear, what nonsense I’m talking!’

- Excerpt from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

(36 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)

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