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Stop Watching All of those French-inspired Films: Go Wash Your Dishes

Following up on my Saturday-morning post about Valentine's Day, I kept hitting the remote and discovered the TCM channel was running a marathon of old French-inspired movies. I kept thinking, "Okay, watch this and then go find something to do... " The line-up was Casablanca, Midnight in Paris, GiGi, and Charade. I love all four of these movies for different reasons. Like, who else wants to stand up and sing La Marseillaise and drown out the tune of the Germans in Casablanca? This movie is more than Rick and Ilsa. I think the moments when Rick gives the band a nod to change the music and the French stand up to sing are the greatest scenes in cinematic history. It's a fun journey as screenwriter Gil Pender meets Hemingway, Cole Porter, Gertrude Stein, and Scott and Zelda in 21st-century Paris in Midnight in Paris. Gil is sitting at the steps of the Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont when an old Peugeot limo picks him up and whisks him away. I also sat on those same ste...
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Live, Laugh, Love: Not!

The message is all over and stamped on many shapes of paper, fabric, glass, metal, and plastic as seen in large hobby, craft, and decor department stores. It's on signs, coffee cups, pillows, bedspreads, and even greeting cards. And the message is all the same - just an alliteration of three words, "Live, Laugh, Love." 

The original source of this popular phrase of "Live, Laugh, Love" is from the 1904 poem, "Success" written by Bessie Anderson Stanley. 

Dr. Rick the “Parenta-Life” coach in the series of Progressive Insurance commercials who assists young homeowners to avoid becoming their parents, asks his class "Do we really need a sign to live, laugh, and love? The answer is no," as he tosses the sign in the garbage. 

The question is, do we need any of these decor signs in our home? Oh sure. I am just as guilty as anyone with my French metal sign on the guest bathroom door, "Toilette." And if you're living in the city or the 'burbs and buy your vegetables at the grocery store, how effective is the "Farmers Market" or "Farm Fresh Eggs" signage in your kitchen? 

The answer to adorning your walls with all of these chatty decor signs? 


 













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