Friends don't let friends decorate badly.

So we were at our friend Kristyn's the other day for a playdate and noticed a sign in her front room that made us look twice... but not in a good way:

 How do you tell a dear friend, who is also the author of a popular craft blog, that a sign hanging in her home is not-so-cute?  Do you bluntly tell her and beg her to let you redo it OR wait until she gets sick of hearing you hint at it and finally says "Well redo it then, Lolly Jane!"

Fine!
So that's just what we did :)

We're nice like that...

friends don't let friends decorate badly! 

Note: The rest of Kristyn's house is plain CUTE... just for the record :)

After snagging this sign from its beloved home, we coated it in white {left the edges black} freehanded a more modern sun {the words are lyrics from a Beetles song that Kristyn ♥'s so we kept the sun theme} cut a stencil from our vinyl machine painted the sign in whites, yellows and blacks and sanded it down for the same look as her old sun art:

Ah, much more refreshing, 
wouldn't you say?

We had to laugh when her husband, as we were walking back to our car with the original sign in hand, admitted to his cute wife he didn't like the decor either! Ha ha.

Sorry that you were outnumbered Kristyn ;)

Speaking of her sweet husband, he treated us to dinner this week and we did some shopping afterwards... 

Cruddy iPhone pic but gotta ♥ the cute Halloween masks in Kirkland Home :)
And that Kristyn entertains our kiddos on Skype:

Anyway, you can tell us... are we wrong?

Or would you let your friend keep decor that doesn't go with the rest of her cute house?
xoxo

Disclaimer: This post was NOT to tell everyone Kristyn had an ugly sign {lol} BUT simply to demonstrate an easy fix! ;)

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