I had never heard of House2Home before. There's a House2Home Store website: http://www.house2homestore.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=33. It looks pretty cool, but it says House2Homestore.com; not sure if it's the right store. They have a FB page too: https://www.facebook.com/House2Homestore
This website: Seattle 2nd Hand: http://hongqiaomarket.jimdo.com/buy/collectibles/framed-art/
is selling them for $15.00 each.
Anyway, it occurred to me that since I don't know Chinese, this artwork may be saying something other than its English translation. Lucky for me, my sis-in-law speaks Mandarin and was able to satisfy my suspicions of possible American-Artwork-Monolingual-Ignorance, you know (AAMI). The last thing I would want would be someone to frequent my powder room with mocking or obscene statements bearing down on them, unsuspecting, thinking they're absorbing positive vibes, when really they're just being insulted for not knowing Chinese!
I think I've defensively stated this before but, usually I don't like artwork with simple, cliche-like sayings, but this smallish, bilingual pair, with plastic bamboo frame-outline-thing won me over, as an exception to the rule. Usually when people, or inanimate objects tell me common-sense, generic, sayings, my initial response is "YOU LISTEN TO YOUR HEART!!!!!" and "LOVE DOES NOT HEAL ALL, WHATEVER." Maybe it's all in the way it's stated. For some reason, I don't feel patronized by these two, humble, statements and patronizing word-art is nothing to laugh about.
They've found a home on my bathroom wall, which, by the way, needs a major paint job. What color goes well with gray? Anyway, someday in the next two years, they will go smashingly with their new background, and that background will NOT be taupe or tan or beige...I don't know if I can wait two years. Of course I would design a room with my Savers art as the foundation...what else would it be, the vanity? I rest my case.
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