Melissa Galt: And welcome to Celebrate Your Life and Celebrate Your Home! I'm Melissa Galt and your host and Lifestyle Guide. I'm also the author of Celebrate Your Life! The Art of Celebrating Every Day. In this segment of Celebrate Your Home!, I'm going to talk about making your home more comfortable.
Our homes are really series of vignettes. They are little snippets of our lives and this is a great example. This vignette that I've created, actually started with a rolled up water color of these elephants that are brought back from a safari trip to Africa.
I got it framed and then started to keep an eye out for other objects and pieces that would coordinate with to really bring the memory alive for me. The lamp, I found in a little boutique and with the rafia pieces and a little stone emblems, it really has that sort of safari feel to it.
The table, handcrafted, I got in an Art and Crafts festival. Again, the grooves remind me of the water that's in the picture and the twit like feeling has a jungle feel to it. Again it reminds of a safari trip to Africa and a ceramic piece was actually something that I thought a client might like, but I was wrong. So instead, I decided to hang on to it, because it reminds me of the languages of the world and yet it's a movable vessel. So, it's all about travel and language and multicultural experiences.
This vignette reminds me of that trip to Africa. Look around your home and see how you too can create vignettes, little memory places that reminds you of events, people, travels, trips and adventures you may have had. Whether it's across the ocean to Africa, or maybe its just down the street to the kid's soccer field, whatever it is, create the vignette, create the memory-making process.
That's it with this episode of Celebrate Your Home, Celebrate Your Life; live well and beautifully.
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