A Gift Idea For The Expat

Or the serial mover.

Or the traveller.

Expats make some pretty big moves, often traversing the globe where they set up life in foreign countries.  No matter the experience, those locations will inevitably become 'home' even if it is temporary.

Joe and I have now lived on 3 different continents and when we made the move from Gabon to Norway, I really wanted to find some way to showcase our 'homes.'  Enter Carrie and her Here & There Etsy shop.

Carrie creates maps of all sorts from world to continent to country to province/state and they are fully customizable.  I chose a style, size & colours and emailed off our locations to Carrie and she came back with this lovely design.

I think it's the perfect way to map our moves and I can't wait to showcase this in our Norwegian home.  I pre-purchased a frame so that I'd be ready when it arrived but the size isn't quite right so I have to find a different mat to make it work.

I think this would make a fantastic gift for the expat in your life but with all of the options on Here & There, it's possible to make it work for anyone.  {It would be really neat to map the countries you've visited too.}

Carrie also sent me the image in order for me to use it on my About page - the perfect graphic to introduce our life abroad!