Home Is Where Your Heart Is

I have a sweet friend named Emily. She's amazing. She has this intellectual and supernatural ability to know when I need my favorite coffee. And she delivers! She has kids the same ages as mine. She has an addiction to espresso, apple cider, and all things crafty. I steal ideas when I'm at her house. Literally, I'll whip out my phone and start snapping different styles or decor that she's done to inspire myself later. And she just laughs and then gives me MORE ideas!

I watched her and her hubs over the last seven years turn their home into truly their home. They did many projects along the way to make it THEIRS. The entryway redo was amazing. I'm eternally jealous of her dark, deep hardwood floors. They built a beautiful new great room with stone fireplace. They poured so much love and energy into those walls.

And then this year, they decided to move. Not because they didn't like their current digs or were unhappy there. No, they LOVED it. But their family has grown and so has their company and dreams and future, so they upgraded and moved across town a bit. Precisely 7 minutes further from me than the were. I still have yet to get to see all of the new place, but I knew my friend's heart was still carved into the floors and heart of her old home.

I wanted to give her a new house-warming gift, but didn't have time or energy to run to the store and pick something out. So instead, I designed this...

Something to remember their old home. I designed their old address with W monogram so that they could frame a bit of their old home and bring the memories there into their new home. And a warm home welcome is usually with a wreath on the front door, hence the wreath theme here. 

She wrote me back a few days ago asking for the file again to use for something else...to put on the cover of her house selling binder to show to the perspective new homeowners. She had wanted something personal to show how much they loved their old home, and this was just the touch to show how much this house could be a home, now for someone new. 

Do you remember an address growing up where it truly was a home and not just four walls? This design can be customized. Email jodiegerling@gmail.com for more info on a custom address design to hang in your current home.