Word to the Decorator


All I know is the LIVE LOVE LAUGH Factory has made a lot of money. I do not wish to donate to the cause cuz THEY are the ones LIVIN, LOVIN, and LAUGHIN off the dollar amount some people spend on this paraphernalia. So please no letters on my wall trying to motivate me to do great things while I’m folding my laundry. Live Love Laugh is not profound. It’s alliteration. And because I don’t want roosters and geese in my kitchen doesn’t mean I’m cold and modern. I really am nice even though I haven’t painted that anywhere in my house.
It’s just that having my wall tell me to DANCE LIKE NO ONE IS WATCHING– is going to make it less fun because I already do. But there are some who need these reminders. Wall chatter gives them endorphins. And you have that right, but you don’t want people taking your idea in vain repetition do you?
When someone calls your wall “cute” and then calls you “cute” do you find it oddly condescending? (Condescending is talking down and in which telling you what that means might qualify as such). If you read Friday’s post, you’d know that “cute” is not the word I’m looking for these days.
Writing my favorite thoughts on my walls would be a mess. I prefer well thought out and not written on my wall. SEE IT. DREAM IT. DO IT. Who wants to read this while they’re vacuuming? It makes me feel like a failure.
The mantle was once a prestigious place in the home. In pride and prejudice as Elizabeth, Caroline, and Mr. Darcy walk by the mantle reciting intelligent banter, we don’t see thoughts like, I LOVE CHOCOLATE or LIVE TODAY LIKE YOU’LL DIE TOMORROW (that’s nice) plastered with odds and ends of figurines.
Block letters? Weren’t they first invented for babies to chew on and now they’re suitable for the family mantle? We like to arrange words like, BELIEVE or SPRING up there with blocks so we can switch the spelling to -? Predictive text had no other options for me so I have no idea. But at least we’ve covered all of our future word décor desires. Check.
Now, when we see these phrases in a home, we think, ‘These are nice people.’ But be careful! Spelling this out has become a trend, all in the name of style. And now the deep meaning they may have once portrayed is possibly fading. Since Lucifer seems to follow the crowd, I’m pretty sure he would have adopted the stencil, HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS by now while still rooting for Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs. I’m just sayin, ya gotta be careful making judgments by what people put on their walls these days because the sake of style and fashion has taken over the point... FOR SOME!
Wall sermons are a brave religion, second only to Bible body art.


Like, you can’t be yelling at each other when you’ve got BLESS OUR HAPPY HOME above every flipping door way. Or GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD right above the plasma TV – IN THE KITCHEN! Geez, life is rough.
It’s like the time that my roommate (and I love this girl) was about to lose her temper with someone ready to enter the front door and she looked down at the EFY shirt she was wearing with the scriptures and temple spires painted as the background; she ended up running down stairs to change and prepare for her premeditated sin. I mean, what a hassle right? And what shirt was she saving for this moment anyways? A Tim McGraw concert shirt. Now that’s better, country music is the devil. I agree.
What does your decorating bible say?

“That these things might not be written upon our hearts, but rather upon our walls.” 1 (footnote)

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1. SMATCHOO?

To all word chatter and country music loving friends and family. May all my quirks come to my own remembrance. I’m glad you’re different than me and I never want you to change. Refer to If we Bloggers have Offended post in September’s archive. I too have a block that reads BELIEVE and I use it as a bookshelf holder. AND we bought my parents some word art that says, ALL BECAUSE TWO PEOPLE FELL IN LOVE to put above the wall of family pictures. I’m in on this too. I hope you LIS'd – Laughed InSide.