matching summer meadows

In 1993, I bought a cheerful, framed flowery print one time I was at Ikea with my parents, and have had it in the main living room of every place I have lived since then. 

But after seventeen years, I thought it was time for a change. :)

Our Shelley L. introduced me to the artist Kim Parker a long time ago, and I had bought a little Kim Parker print for Claire's room a few years back, but hadn't found quite what I wanted for the living room.

Then, while I was mulling over her posters at Art.com, my sister (who didn't know I was mullling, because I mull in silence :D) got "Summer Meadow," a Kim Parker stretched canvas, to put over her fireplace.  I just swooned over it. :) 

How weird would it be, I wondered, if I bought the same one? I thought about it off and on for a long time (a year, I think . . . it wasn't the kind of thing I was in a big hurry about, because I was still kind of attached to the flower poster I'd been with for a decade and a half). 

Then, just last week, I asked my sister if she'd mind if we had matching artwork. :)

Of course she didn't mind, because she is not a petty fool.  But I still wanted to ask, because that would have been weird if she'd come over and noticed her picture in my living room. Actually, that would have been a fun joke. I should have done that! :D 

Not only did she not mind, but she and my brother-in-law called from the store where the canvas came from the other night to ask if they could save me the trip and pick one up then!

I know it's a little thing, but I am just so happy about this picture. It makes me happy every time I look at it.

And doubly happy that my sister has it, too.