Wednesday, April 22, 2009

a surprise gift

our surprise gift

There is a eighty year old man at our church who is a master calligrapher.  He has gifted several of members of our church with calligraphy. 

We were his latest recipients.  He gave us this print that is 1 Corinthians 13.   

He told us that he gave us this artwork because (1) he sits behind us in church and enjoys seeing us arm and arm and (2) I have good English (I wonder why?? *smile*).

We've been told that this print is worth as much or more than our new fridge!!  And it (the calligraphy, not the fridge) was just given to us folded in a brown envelope!  WOW!!! :)

Lawrance and I got it framed last week, and then Law hung it up in our living room this week.  Law enjoys doing calligraphy himself; and, he absolutely loves our new living room art work.

We are SO blessed!

our new painting

Apr 22, 2009 7:00:00 AM | corners of my home, lawrance, life in taiwan, married life, my photos, newlyweds

10 Comments

Ashley

It's beautiful! What a gift!!

Posted by: Ashley | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 08:52 PM

Lisa H. Chang

Wow - this IS beautiful! I'm so wishing for one myself! But then I lucked out on having a master photographer (OK just a hobbyist, but her pics are amazing) be my "Taiwan mom" who loves to give them to me - framed. So in our living room hangs this huge amazing picture of dawn at Sun Moon Lake, in a hallway is a picture of these two beautiful white flowers, and my favorite, a picture of a pink peony against a black background (the peony seems so real it seams to pop out of the frame) above the master bed. The first one was a wedding gift, the second two were because she "felt like it."

Posted by: Lisa H. Chang | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 09:33 PM

amanda p. wu

Yep, I am now officially envious of you and your relationship with your
Taiwan mom! ;)

Those sound like awesome gifts! :)

Posted by: amanda p. wu | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 10:31 PM

lawrance

Hey,
I wanna see these pictures!!! :)

Posted by: lawrance | Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 01:04 AM

Susanna

That is awesome! Love teh frame too. How do you get your pictures onto that nice background?

Posted by: Susanna | Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 01:53 AM

amanda p. wu

If you mean the purple "paper" with string and flowers . . . I am starting
to play around with digital scrapbooking. I'm not doing anything major with
it yet; just trying to play around and learn the software better for now.

Posted by: amanda p. wu | Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 07:06 AM

Cindy

That is beautiful! I love it. . .I am going to email you soon to ask you a few questions about gifts and gift-giving in Taiwan.

Cindy
http://adopttaiwan.wordpress.com

Posted by: Cindy | Friday, April 24, 2009 at 12:36 AM

Tabetha

Wow! We are a bit familiar with calligraphy from our Chinese friends here in Rhode Island! And that truly is a nice gift! :)

Posted by: Tabetha | Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 10:21 PM

amanda p. wu

Cool!!

My husband told me that one of the reasons it was worth so much is that the
calligrapher puts all of his body into printing each character . . . that it
is in no way equivalent to "writing." Hard to imagine.

Posted by: amanda p. wu | Monday, April 27, 2009 at 07:18 AM

amanda p. wu

Ok!!! Send them on!! :) I'll try my best to give you some helpful answers.

amanda :)

Posted by: amanda p. wu | Monday, April 27, 2009 at 07:20 AM

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