Does your home décor read like a map of the places where you have lived? What mementos have followed you from one location to the next?

Do you gravitate toward beautiful objects that you can display in your home, such as artwork, decorative pillows, rugs or throws?

Are your shelves full of tongue-in-cheek souvenirs and little knickknacks?
Do you have a specific collection that you keep adding to when you change locations? I particularly liked the suggestion of this Apartment Therapy reader who buys a Christmas ornament every time she travels. I love simple traditions such as this.

As I left behind pretty much everything I owned when I moved to Canada, I do not have that many keepsakes in my home: a small sculpture of a cedar tree from Lebanon, a few Egyptian statuettes, half a dozen books I bought in Paris the week before I arrived in Vancouver.
I thought I had packed my little Dala horse from Sweden for the transatlantic move, but it is probably stored with my childhood toys somewhere in my mother’s garage in the South of France.

These are my little treasures. They have been packed and unpacked many a time over the years. I just cannot imagine leaving them behind. The memories they evoke give me a sense of belonging, a sense of home.

What are your treasures? How do you give them a place of honour in your home?

Emmanuelle