We looked for 2 years for a new sofa. We couldn't find anything that we liked. One day we were in a furniture store looking again and he went off to the restroom. While he was gone, I found the PERFECT sofa. I went to go find him. I walked all around the store and when I got back to the sofa, he was sitting on it and said "this is the perfect sofa". So we bought it.
Yesterday we did it again. We took a rare day off and just ran around doing nothing in particular. We had a nice Cajun lunch and then it was off to find a birthday present for my sister. We went into a home decor store and we each went our separate ways. I didn't find anything in there that I wanted to buy Penny, so I met Paul at the front.
Paul: "Did you find anything"
Debbie: "No, just a painting back there that I really liked"
Paul: "I found one back there too that I liked"
So we walked back to see each other's painting and lo and behold.....it was the same painting. It was this one:
Well after looking at the price and it was 50% off.....guess what we did. Yep, we bought it. Here is where it's new home is going to be. I mean.....it was really so apparent that we were supposed to buy it.
So while I was taking pictures of our new painting, I thought I would just take pictures of our other paintings and share the story of them. They really each hold a little story as we have bought them one by one. Now the story about the one BEHIND the new one we are going to hang is that it was the very first one we ever bought for our house. My mom and dad sent us money for Christmas and we went to a Starving Artists sale to buy a painting for our new house. It first hung over the fireplace for several years. Now it is getting moved again and going into our guest bedroom.
This next picture took Paul YEARS and YEARS to find the perfect picture. It had to be BIG because it was going to hang on our huge blank wall in the living room. I think he picked rather nicely and he just LOVES this painting.
This last one now resides over our fireplace. Paul bought this one during an art auction on our cruise to Mexico many years ago. It's a numbered and signed lithograph and we have number 47/300. I didn't really care for it at first, but it has grown on me these last few years.
Well that is all from our art gallery tour for today. Maybe someday I'll take pictures of the art upstairs, because believe it or not -- there's a story behind each of those as well......but then again, those stories aren't as interesting.
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