Celebrating Your Travels with Home Decor

You can share and celebrate all the places you have been and seen in unique ways. I like to use wall art and creative home decor. There are so many options and ways to get creative, but here are a few of my favorite.

I love my grouping of vintage postcard prints for all the states we have lived in. Still need to add a California print, but then that would mess up the symmetry. Some say "Greetings from" and some are the states with interesting landmarks marked. I ordered the foam backed prints from art.com and framed them myself.

One of my dear friends in Alaska had a map that she put different colored pins in marking their travels. You could have a different color pin for each person in your family. It was a great conversation piece and one that everyone talked about. I love, love, love this one from Frontgate. It is magnetic and even has an engravable magnetic plaque. I would rather my kids use the magnets to mark the places we have been.

Speaking of magnets, buying state magnets and arranging them on the fridge is a wonderful thing for the kids to do. It would be fun to search for and collect them on each trip.

There are some really great pillow options out there too! The felt state shaped ones on the end are customizable. You can get different colors and have the heart placed anywhere you want. I bought one of these for my Sis-in-law from http://www.alwaysfits.com/, but you can purchase them from a seller on etsy as well. Better yet, make your own! The first pillow is the cheapest of the three, and has a vintage feel, and the middle pillow is hand embroidered and can be found at http://www.uncommongoods.com/. All of these would make great gifts!

Another different home decor idea are lampshades. Below are two that I found online while shopping around. The first shade is covered with vintage California postcards. The second ones from uncommon goods have the "greetings from" motif. Not sure if these would go in my house, but they interesting none the less.

I try to pick things up as I go. If I can make a sled work in California, I am sure anyone can make any treasure work in their home.

I think the best home decor ideas to help me celebrate and remember all the places I have been are the ones I pick up on my travels. Oftentimes they are the most inexpensive (or free) but precious things I have. So I will try not to be afraid to display those things that help me remember and see where I have been and where I am going.

Just saying and praying!