John’s Bee-Day Gift: a house log

Yesterday was my sweet hubby’s birthday so I figured I should share what Clara, Burger and I got him. John and I have lately been talking about how we’d enjoy to amass more “real art” to complement all the Hands-on stuff that we have framed on every wall. This goal is certainly inspired by our friends Matt and Kristin – who we House Crashed here and here. The cheerful original art that lights up their home consistently has us jonesing to add more color and lively to our walls. So consider this painting to be the beginning of an exciting little collection that will happily hang in the new house:

It is a 12 x 12″ original oil painting on canvas done by an remarkable Etsy artist named Roz (to the tune of $75). And the moment I laid eyes on it I knew it was ideal. See, John and I in fact worked bees into our wedding invitation (which you can check out here) so we have consistently considered them to be our animal- er, insect. And the fact that there are two of them galavanting around the canvas together makes it even easier to see as a symbol of our relationship. My man gives me a buzz, what can I say. Ok, sufficient cheese. Hubby loves it. So glad.