Our New Home Away from Home

It takes a while to unpack your life.  but little did i realize that I had not packed AT ALL what I thought it did!  Its ok, totally my fault and I am hoping that all the things that I am missing are in storage!  Alas, we have to make due with what we have...and I have some photos to show you how we make any home we get ours.  We had a significant weight limit on our shipment, so we got rid of our big furniture.  Mostly we brought the entire kitchen, some linens, knick knacks, shelving and some clothes.  Knox got about half of his books, and ryan and I realized we didn't pack any of ours.  I guess that is what the kindle is for!! Lots of crafting supplies made it.  And its all unorganized, so that will be for another day.  Anyway, as I said before...here are the photos of our home away from home!

This is what you see when you walk in the front door.  The wooden door is from Mali, and the two bird are Burkinabe.  Ryan sent me a photo of one on his TDY at the beginning of the year and I feel in love.  When we saw them at an artisanal market we grabbed them!

Of course we found a prominent spot for our 1954 German Africa map! 

My fox wall is FINALLY up, though obviously not finished!  Two are from a great friend in germany.  One is a water color from a great friend in germany.  Some are thrift shop finds!  And the two large prints are from a boutique in Helsinki! 

 Random photos and stuff.  Dont mind the lamp on the floor!  Work in progress!!

Our beloved antique wood world map!  Awesome guys from the Netherlands make these, along with an epic selection of AWESOME furniture.  I swear they will furnish my forever home!  

Ah, the dining room.  We already took two leaves out of the table!  Its so funny when just the three of us sit there.  

 Still dreaming of fall in the 100 degree heat!

My make shift closet.  All of our Xmas deco is back there!!  

Hall way.  Self explanatory. 

 One guest room. I guess I forgot to upload the other one. Whoops. 

 Main Bathroom

Knoxers room.  He loves it, so he says.  He sure can destroy in in three seconds flat!!

Master bedroom.  Keep in mind, we do live here.  

And my oasis.  The back veranda.  I am always back here.  Usually yelling at Frank. 

It seems that I have once again neglected the kitchen.  ::le sigh:: Some day yall will get to see it!

Well, that is our new home.  You can compare them to earlier posts to see how we changed it.  Its fun making a house your home.  Even if we do have to do it so very often!