A woman discovered 30-year-old childhood artwork on the walls of her home while redecorating and managed to track down the original artist - who just happened to be living 20 miles away.
Shellie Dormand-Bean decided to strip the walls of her new home and when doing so she found they had been plastered with artwork, including paintings of a cowboy, a rabbit, and flowers.
She then found the initials 'RJS' and the date 7/8/81 and concluded that must be the previous owner, Raymond Shaw, so she reached out to his daughter, Virginia Offiah, nee Shaw, on Facebook.
But it turned out that Virginia, 46, was the artist - and had painted on the walls with her brother-in-law, Roger Stephenson - the illusive RJS.
Virginia, a wellness coach and mother of two, said: "I couldn't believe it when I got a message on Facebook Messenger saying, 'Hi, I moved into the house your parents used to live in 12 years ago.
"'We're finally redecorating the spare room and just found this when we scraped the wallpaper off'.
"She attached three photos of my brother-in-law's initials, RJS, and the date 7/8/81 - although she thought they were my dad's initials, as he was Raymond Shaw. But it was my brother-in-law Roger Stephenson, who did the decorating."
Virginia lived just 20 miles away in Ealing, West London, with her husband - former international rugby league and union player Martin Offiah, 54, - and their children - Tyler, 14, and Phoenix, 11.
She continued: "Funnily enough, only a few days before I got the message out of the blue, I'd been thinking about my art and doodles all over the kitchen wall - so I was completely blown away by the coincidence. I was so happy and amazed.
"My parents had all my painting wallpapered over and I never thought I would see any of it again.
"But I remember painting that wall and thinking it was a bit of fun and wondering, if the house was ever sold, what would it be like if the next owners peeled the paper back and discovered this kind of time capsule.
"Even if it remained intact somehow, though, at no point did I think I would ever get to see it again myself decades later."
Alongside the paintings, there were lyrics from Virginia's favourite songs painted on the walls.
There were words from hits like Love Cats, Tainted Love, Higher Love, Sit Down, Hotel California and Stairway to Heaven.
Virginia added: "Shellie thought my dad had written RJS as his initials for Raymond Shaw, as it was his house, so she started her search on that basis, but his middle name is actually Stanley.
"It's really remarkable that she has gone to so much trouble to find me and let me know she is now living in my old house. She did some super sleuthing work.
"I think it's remarkable that Shellie hadn't done any decorating for 12 years, as that wallpaper was already 18 years old before she thought to replace it!
"When she contacted me and said she was redecorating other rooms I said, 'There might be a lot more to uncover when you get to the kitchen.'
"She said she was planning to do that in February this year, which she did. Then I was amazed when she sent me the photos of all my childhood work all over the kitchen wall.
"She said it was good that I'd made her aware of the kitchen, as otherwise she might have damaged it ripping off the old paper. She wrote to me saying that she was glad she didn't hack away at it because she could have destroyed my family's memories.
"Instead, she spent extra time taking care not to disturb it, which was very kind of her."
While Virginia's brother-in-law had scrawled his initials in her bedroom back in 1981, it was not until 1991 that the kitchen re-decorating started and she was given a free rein to paint all over the walls for about two weeks before her efforts were papered over.
She said: "I remember it was a real buzz doing it all. As well as the songs, for some reason, one of the other things I painted was a cowboy leaning on something.
"There was even a typical 16-year-old's doodle saying 'Cinda 'n Pete' about one of my friends Lucinda, and another message about teenage love."
Virginia's parents went on to sell the property in 2009, to downsize to a smaller home in nearby Cobham, Surrey, after Virginia, her brother and two sisters had all grown up and moved out.
When she showed Shellie's photos from their old family home to her mother, she said she was also flabbergasted.
Virginia concluded: "She was completely blown away.
"She was so glad to know our doodles were still there and, hopefully, remain preserved under Shellie's new decorating to go on and become like some sort of ancient hieroglyphics!
"I was quite arty at school but now I'm a wellness coach, as is my husband. And this has certainly made all of us happy. It's made my year."
