How We Came Together.

The first time I saw a vintage transit scroll used to decorate a home, I was smitten. I love public transit. I love bold, graphic text. It was a match made in heaven.

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Then, as these things go, transit scrolls started popping up in every interior design blog home tour, prompting Apartment Therapy to ask, "Are vintage transit scrolls the new Keep Calm?" No matter. I was still in love.

Though I have been on the lookout for a vintage transit scroll since I first fell, I have never seen anything in person that made me want to plunk down my hard-earned cash. Scrolls I found being sold online were outrageously expensive. And, though I grew up near New York City and have traveled to England and Boston and Richmond, I prefer to display more personal items in my home. Nothing I saw seemed to fit.

As I was writing the post about decorating with vintage maps of meaningful locations, I realized I should create a print based on a vintage transit scroll. Using a bold font (Bebas) in black and white, I made a print that chronicles all the cities in which I have lived. I also made one showing my husband's migration.

When I looked at the images side-by-side, it made me smile to see where our paths had converged.

So then I made this:

As you can see, we are back in the town where we met. And there is no place I would rather be.