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Tokyo Fashion Has Stolen My Heart

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.  There’s something about the Japanese women that causes me to have one giant girl crush on them.  It’s not really one thing in particular, but a hundred different things that come together to create a petite, pastel-colored, fringed with lace and tied in a beautiful bow package of Japanese […]

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Fashionable And Functionable Recycling in Cambodia

It’s been a long time coming, but I have finally found the perfect travel wallet! Not only is it functionable, but it’s cheap, fashionable, and down right environmentally friendly. Cambodia’s got a massive monopoly going on manufacturing bags, wallets, and purses out of used cement bags, and the prices couldn’t be better. My new elephant […]

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Dress Shopping Greatness in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Through word of mouth from the entire female staff at CIS, my dreams came true after an afternoon in the infamous dress shop Ambre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Even though I had originally promised Thomas just a quick browse, I ended up submitting (quite happily no less) to the luxurious fabric and the divine details. […]

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Bangkok’s Chinatown – Don’t Miss It!

Bangkok’s Chinatown can easily be described as a sensory overload not worth missing, and is an absolute must experience for both old and new tourists to the Thai capital.  Packed with shops selling anything from bathtub plugs to Angry Birds backpacks, it’s gold and food that’s Chinatown’s specialty.  The streets here are jam packed with people, […]

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Shopping in Bangkok? Try our top 6!

6. Siam Paragon This fabulous mall got shafted to sixth place only because of its tenacity for being completely out of our price range.  As much as we would like to be able to afford the 2nd floor filled with Lamborghinis and Ferraris, or the Main floor of Hermes scarves, or the 3rd floor with […]

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