Treasury Feature: The Little Globetrotter

'the little globetrotter' by KikiLaRu

Description: Inspired by oksaniko's marvelous ooak polar bear doll! Many of these are wonderful new shops with less than 20 sales.

Thanks so much for the feature, KikiLaRu!

OOAK Doll Polar Bea... oksaniko $61.00	Vintage Map Covered... mrYen $	Postage virginiakralje... $10.00	Around the World in... bebeandalicego... $5.00
French Yes and No v... majaintheshop $17.00	Vintage Pretty Blue... thevintagetree... $20.00	ARTWORK. Wooden Blo... apfelstrudel $75.00	Camera Brooch whitesquare $20.00
Paper Airplanes ove... rachelaustin $18.00	VINTAGE Peruvian Ho... FreshyFig $25.00	Panoramic, Fine Art... bomobob $35.00	Little Baby Blue Sk... SpookyAction $18.00
Saltwater Breeze (S... rememberdecemb... $7.00	I love you from all... rebeccaplotnic... $140.00	Camera Hand Carved ... cupcaketree $5.00	passport pocket cov... jackandbeedesi... $18.00

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Can a girl have too much stationery?

It isn't a little known fact that ladies love collecting shoes, handbags, clothes, etc.

I, however, don't quite fit that bill.

Not that I don't have an appreciation for the above mentioned items,

but my money is divided between fashion & stationery (... and food.. and books!).

You must therefore surely understand why I couldn't resist these when I saw them.

Being the kind person that I am, *cough* I just had to list some on Etsy too,

for those who share the same stationery/paper/letter writing fetish as me.

Yup, this is what was in the teaser picture in my last post!

I'll be listing a few items everyday, so keep checking back if you like what you see :)

So tell me, are you a lover of paper and stationery too?

Do you make any of your own?

Beijing, Part.1

To those lovely people who participated in the blog hop yesterday,

thank you so much!

To those wonderful people who have started following me,

thank you so very much!

I'm mentioned that I've been delaying China pictures because I can be a crazy idealist who wants to go through all her pictures and edit them before posting. Today I decided that I won't be that way. I'll post my pictures in parts instead - that way, neither of us gets too overwhelmed :)

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Beijing, Part 1

Can words describe the feeling of visiting one of the oldest civilizations in world history?

How does one even begin to tell of all the sights and memories that raced through my eyes, heart and mind from the moment the taxi picked us up from the Beijing South Station? I don’t know why I allowed my camera to remain in my bag throughout that taxi ride where I had my first glimpses of Beijing. Perhaps half my mind was too concerned with communicating with our taxi driver using the meager command of Mandarin I possessed. The other half of my mind was probably completely engaged in taking in the sights themselves to remember that memories are best shared by photographs.

Were I an eloquent writer, I would go into a narration of that first taxi ride in Beijing. But I am not, so pictures will have to suffice. If you like what you see, you have to visit China sometime in your life. China simply oozes with character and charm, these pictures don't do it justice. It's a pretty incredible country.

Entering the Forbidden City

Did you know that most of the tourist in China are from China itself?

The Forbidden City is pretty huge.

Beautiful parks... almost surreal.

Wouldn't have guessed I was in China :)

Temple of Heaven grounds

A fun and simple way of learning calligraphy!

Part 2 to follow :)