You Can Not Know How Happy My Heart Is With These Two Prints Hanging

Lara, the Lazy Organizer, is hosting Talk About Tuesday today. It's similar to a show and tell, and I've been trying to think of something to come up with that I could contribute.

And I came up with nothing.

But then, my husband K finally got around to hanging some pictures for me. After I just wrote about how he is rather lacking in the picture hanging department, leaving me to lean photos against my wall, he went and hung something.

Since he actually made the effort, I thought I should share his accomplishment with you. Guess I should not have been so quick to criticize his lack of level-ness in the area of wall decor.

Because this time, he even used a level.

Nothing makes my heart go pitter-patter quite like a man using a level.

Because I love LEVEL.

Look at all that beautiful, LEVEL, gloriousness.

So here they are. Two prints that I bought on my recent trip to Hawaii. I love them. I have been looking for something for 4 years to fill this long, empty, red wall that I have running thru the WHOLE LENGTH OF MY HOUSE.

It has given me many years of anxiety. It has caused my OCD to kick into overdrive whenever I have seen something that might, maybe, possibly, could be considered as a candidate for THE EMPTY RED WALL.

I really think my friends and family members are probably more happy than I am that these prints are finally up because they are sick and tired of hearing about THE EMPTY RED WALL, Every. Single. Time. they come over.

Because I can be obsessive like that.

Anyway, the prints are perfect because they are paintings of signs pointing in all different directions to places we visited during a recent trip to Oahu. Some places are well known, some are hidden gems, but we saw almost all of them. We stumbled upon these prints in a small shop in Kailua, the town we were staying in, and knew they were the perfect souvenir of our trip. Because, we had visited every place but one on the little signs. AND THEY WERE PERFECT FOR THE RED WALL.

So really, even if we had only been to one, or none, of the locations featured on the print, we still would've bought them anyway.

Because I will make sacrifices like that in the name of home decor.

I am not much of a souvenir-y person. I would rather have some shells or a rock or a photo, even a napkin from a trip than, say, a shot glass.

Or a little spoon. Or a T Shirt from a place that sells 4 t-shirts for JUST 20 DOLLARS.

Those things don't look quiet as nice displayed under my bell jars.

So yes, I bring home some different things from my travels. The last time I was in Mexico, I brought home a whole family of ivory and fish bone elephants. And I display them proudly. Indeed.

But this post is about my new prints. Hung by my husband. With a LEVEL.

Here's a close up of the actual prints.

And here they are, side by side. And yes, they are even illuminated. Because we have had lights on that wall installed and ready to go for FOUR YEARS while we have been looking for something to actually, Illuminate.

And I think we've finally found them.

Because did I mention that the EMPTINESS of the RED WALL was driving me crazy?

(Please ignore the unpainted electrical socket, I've just realized upon seeing this picture just how bad that really looks.)