Originally Posted by Hyacinthe

Directly across from the entrance to the rest of the house we have numerous embroidery hangings done by myself and my mother they consist of things such as:

"boring people have immaculate houses"

"Housework is the pits"

"Due to illness I'm sick of cooking"

"you can touch my dust but please don't write in it"

etc etc

I like to think of them as warning signs - we're pretty neat people but the house is lived in - there's always shoes that are on the hearth instead of in bedrooms or books scattered about.