Artist Reply: Thanks! This one has a lot of personal significance for me! We actually did most of that in one sitting (thanks to the whole ordeal with endometriosis and adhesions, I don't seem to respond to pain the same way that others do). It actually didn't start to hurt until the very end...maybe I reached my pain tolerance level or maybe that's just because we were working around the elbow. *shrug* The poem was the only part that was done separately - I had it done...um...a year or so ago. We plan to finish my upper arm in November. I can't wait!