Help needed (fairly quickly!) to compose a Thank You letter.

Personally designed for me, I meant to say! Am I shady and murky, was the thought that came to mind... Also the picture looks very angry. Maybe it's more how she feels about me.

My daughter and son-in-law were given a particularly hideous sort of carved wooden African warrior thing a few years ago by son-in-law's brother and his wife. My daughter hated it and rang them and said 'thank you for the thought, and I'm sure it cost a lot of money but it is really not to our taste. Perhaps you could return it to the shop and get us a voucher'. She is SO brave. She doesn't get it from me.

How about something like "I have just taken up pottery and as you sent me one of your lovely paintings for my birthday I felt it only fair that I should send my first ever attempt at a full dinner service to you for Christmas. I also have a matching tea set ready and packed for when you send your next offering

Just looked at the picture you posted. Are you sure you have it the right way up?

It does look better not so bad sideways on (green powder-puff to the right)

Oh dear - I quite like it!!! Sorry!

Solution Jane give it to Mishap

Just had a really belly laugh at the picture janerowena. DH asked me what was so funny and I showed him the picture, to which he replied "it's as good as that fried egg cr@p that we have on the landing" ! It's a daisy for god sake !!

I like it too, Mishap!

(Although that's not the actual painting janerowena was given, apparently, just a similar one...)

That one is better than the one I have. Mine is far muddier and murkier. DBH has been gazing at it bemusedly and trying to find its best side. He says it looks like a bad copy of an old master that someone has left in a cellar to get mouldy and dusty, and it should have stayed there!

Mishap what you can't see is that it looks just like school poster paints. Water splodges, brush marks and all.

How about. "The plaster on our house walls cannot bear the weight of such a big painting"?

Oh Jane Sorry but it made me laugh as well. The colour combination might make a nice floaty scarf but it would never look good on a wall.

Anya

Well we propped it up last night and gazed at it and decided to wait and see if it grew on us. We really did try. It didn't. It was like a baby-poo-coloured black hole sucking us into a whirlpool of despair. So it's been banished to the back of a double wardrobe.

Just say thanks for the picture, that the blend of colours is inspirational and you think she has great talent, and the picture will look fantastic hanging in the loft......
Well it's one idea..

My grandmother used to send out calendars every Christmas with a religious tract for each day of the year. She was a member of The Brethren. One day my parents took her to visit some church acquaintances without prior warning and Grandma was obliged at a certain moment to visit the (outside) lavatory. There she found her gift of a calendar strung on a nail next to the Izal. She returned in high dudgeon and not only did she never visit those people again, but she stopped sending the calendars!

Result!

I do remember seeing that sort of thing as a small child, and they always struck fear and dread into me! If I had found one in the loo, I think my innards would have seized up.