GRATITUDE TUESDAY: LA-DI-DA

Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

I am grateful today because I have some new art in my living room, and especially grateful because it was painted by our lovely friend Jenny Matlock who blogs at . . . off on my tangent. Jenny paints and sells cool signs in her etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/OffonMyTangent?ref=em.

Here's an example of her work:

She has lots of interesting stuff, each piece unique, but I wanted something that was special to me. So I asked Jenny if she did custom work. She replied in the affirmative, and before long I had one of my favorite movie lines in white letters on a red background.

Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), in the eponymous movie, says, "la-di-da, la-di-da, la la." May not mean much to you, but it kind of expresses my philosophy about life; and I've said it many times. You can ask my kids.

Here's a closeup of my sign, custom painted especially for me by Jenny Matlock, hanging in my living room:

And here's the entire corner where it hangs:

You can see Favorite Young Man's little girl, Stella, down at the corner of this photo. She's been visiting me because FYM was on vacation.

Jenny sent the sign, which was very reasonably priced, wrapped in adorable paper. I felt as if I were receiving a gift. And I was! She also sent a cute card with a very sweet note, and a mint tea bag. I feel positively spoiled.

Jenny Matlock, blogger and artist extraordinaire, I AM GRATEFUL FOR YOU!


Infinities of love,

Janie Junebug