Home Sweet Home #3 :: The Canvases!

Last time I posted the teal wall and I have to say, I’m loving it! But, it needed something on it… badly. Alot of people had mentioned I should get a canvas made of one of my photos from my recent trips. I looked through them and found some gorgeous beach shots at the Phi Phi Islands, The Great Wall in China, amazing cherry blossoms in Beijing but I couldn’t decide. Then I realized, I wanted the wall to tell a story. I wanted it to be a conversation piece when people come over. And not just, “wow, those are pretty cherry blossoms” or “Did you go to the Great Wall?” I wanted it to be something more so I picked two photos that have a deeper story from two trips I will never forget! I put them into black and white so the two canvases wouldn’t compete with each other.

Here they are! Little sidenote…. I’m really impatient and hung these without measuring. So yeah, they are a little crooked and the top one is too high. =)

The photo on the top is from a village in Cambodia… probably my favorite day. The kids, although poor, were so happy! They loved me… probably because I gave them candy, but still, it was so fun! Everytime I look at this photo, it reminds me that living a simple life can be just as fulfilling (or even more fulfilling) than the crazy lives we have here in the states.

I love this shot Bobby captured of me with the kids. Oh, another sidenote… Bobby is leading the same trip again this December. If you loved following my blogs from the trip, you should go and do it yourself! I promise it will be an amazing trip! =)

The bottom photo is from Haiti. Most of my trip in March was spent in the Dominican Republic helping Haitian refugees but we did the long 10 hour drive to Port Au Prince. This photo was taken on the way to the city through the bus window. I love how much is going on here. You have the boy who randomly walked by and looked in the bus as I took the shot, the woman buying food on the left, kids in the back pushing a wheel barrel and another man just hanging out. It’s a typical day in Haiti and a reminder that not everyone lives like us.

So when I first got the loft, I did splurge and got a giant red chandelier. When you walk into the loft, you see the chandelier and the canvases. I love the contrast! This is the blog of sidenotes but here is another one. =) I was going to get the couch recovered (notice the lovely red sheets covering it) but it turns out I can buy a new couch for the amount it is to cover it! So yeah, that part isn’t done yet. And the chairs… they aren’t yellow. That is the foam waiting to be covered by the super fun fabric I ordered!