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West (Sacramento, San Diego, Lake Tahoe, Boulder and Aspen), staying with friends and family and Hayes tattooing along the way. They considered buying a tattoo shop in Maui, but then decided they wanted a fresh start.
"We thought that if we were going to open up our first shop, we would want it on our own terms,” Hayes said.
Calandrella and Hayes also had something else to consider — two children. Their oldest, Cody, is now almost 3, and his younger sister, Izabella, is now almost 1.
Remembering her own childhood spent swimming, camping and fishing in Rappahannock County, Calandrella thought she might want her kids to have the same experience. Also, Calandrella’s mother was still living in the area,, and a number of her old Mends were were still around as well, many of .them with children about as old as Cody and Izabella.
“I thought it was a lovely place to be raised,” she said.
She and Hayes looked into opening a tattoo shop in Culpeper or Front Royal, but when they saw commercial space available in a blue, twostory historic building on Main Street in Sperryville, they knew that was where they wanted their shop.
“When we got to this shop...,” Hayes said, trailing off, “it just spoke out,” said Calandrella, finishing bis sentence.
And Hayes believes the location between larger towns will bring in customers.
“We kinda realized that if we opened one right in the middle, it's a close enough drive between both of them,” he said.
They moved in with Calandrella’s mother on Spyder Mountain in Old Hollow, off of White Rose Road, and found the inspiration for the name of their shop, Spyder Rose Tattoo.
The couple is now looking to buy a place of their own.
“This is where we want to set up,” Calandrella said.
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