Tattoo for a Symbolic Year/Accomplishment

[Aggie_Ama]

Last year when I decided to do the marathon race series I told myself I would allow myself a third tattoo if I made it through it with no DNF. I not only made it through the season I won a race, made the podium in two, top five in the ultra length race and to cap it off was crowned Texas State Champion for women 30-39. So it was a major milestone, it also introduced me to a type of racing that I now realize is my favorite.

Throughout the season I often fell back to an expression my mother always used "can't never could". She said she got this from her grandma, a tough woman with a hard head and thick skin. I definitely inherited this hard head! Towards the end of the season my beloved Mammaw (mom's mom) took a turn for the worse in her health and ultimately passed away 3/23/12. She was another iron willed woman who in my mind could do anything she set her sights on. My mother has that same passion and as I am getting older I see a little of that in me, although I never will believe I am as strong as those women.

All the ladies are named Pansy. My great-grandma was Pansy Ellen, my Mammaw Pansy Lorine, my mother Pansy Jean. My mom decided the name was far too dated in 1981 to saddle me with it, thus I am not a Pansy. So here are my ideas for a tattoo to symbolize my accomplishment and those amazing ladies who I feel like by being in my life made me a little tougher. I want a tattoo of a bike chain, it needs to have a pansy in it somehow, it needs purple and I want it to say "can't never could" around it. My thought is to put it on my right wrist, I would like to be able to see it when I am pushing myself for another season and I have a pesky scar there from clipping a tree in a race in the spring of 2011 which reminds me how far I have come (that course was one of my podiums and the final race of marathon in January of this year).

Finally my question, where can I find some ideas or should I just find a good artist to tattoo it? My other two tattoos I picked off the wall, this time I want it more personal and more me! The below chain ring are a couple I have found as a starting point. Although the flower would obviously be a pansy and since my favorite pansies are purple (coincidentally Mammaw loved them too) it will be a purple one. I like yellow too, so right now I am drawn to the one below.