One of the benefits (or disadvantages, depending on your opinion) of living overseas is automatically being a member of a community of expats. Depending on the size of the city you live in, there may be just on small expat community, or, like here in KL, there may be so many expats that there are different small communities all around the city based around where people live.
Working in a school, you always have that instant community of students, parents and teachers, but overseas the boundaries are much more gray than the black and white “no socializing with parents” attitude of working in your home country.
Personally, I always have a little trouble with those blurry boundries. I know many teachers that spend time in parents homes, go out to dinner with students and their families, some even go on vacation with their students. Although I think it’s great that those teachers and families enjoy spending so much time together, I usually try to keep work and social life as seperate as possible (keeping in mind, of course, that the only people I socialize with here are other teachers, so they’re not that seperate).
Most of the time, I shy away from social time with parents or students, but over the last two weeks, I’ve actually spent several hours in the absolutely beautiful homes of two of our families.
What could make me do this, you ask…
Jewelry. Beautiful, colorful, handmade jewelry.
But, before I show you the jewelry, I have to show you the cute, colorful, bags that come with each piece:
Inside each one of those shiny, colorful, bags is an equally colorful peice of jewelry. Here is a selection of my favorites:
The best part about these two extended shopping trips is that I didn’t really have any jewelry before I went with my fellow jewelry-loving friends, Tammy, Ann, Jana, Maria, Darby and Mairin. In high school and college I used to wear pendants and I ended up buying lots from the various cities I visited in Europe while living in Italy and Germany. But, recently I haven’t been feeling the pendant vibe. So, thanks to the advice of my personal jewelry consultants (read: friends with great taste), I now have a whole selection of awesome, colorful, jewelry I can wear with anything!
What kind of colorful things do you own?
The bags and the jewelries are both so colorful. Splendid!
These are so amazingly, elegantly, beautiful! What do you teach? How does one become a teacher in a different country?
Those are beautiful! I have wanted to learn to make jewelry… it would be so fun to have pieces like that! 🙂
Gorgeous jewels. Actually, you could have used the heading on your blog for this post. Most colorful lanterns!
Cool! Fun jewelry! FUN TRIP!
i guess the most colorful things that i own are the pictures that i take! or do they count at all? 😀
colorful bags, and contents!!!
happy weekend!
Very pretty and colorful.
The bags are so awesome. I wouldn’t mind having one of those bags to put things in. I don’t wear much colorful jewelry.
Perfect photos for this week’s hunt theme of colorful.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Those are really beautiful!!!
Oh, I love the jewelry. And the colorful bags are great!!!
Happy Weekend!
What gorgeous photos. I just love those little bags and the jewelry is quite colorful!
Ohhh…they have such unique bags and jewelry there….it is nice to see their customs through your eyes on your blog.
The bags are just as pretty as the jewelry! Very colorful indeed!
Thanks for visiting me! I love your photos, too, especially the bags.
I relly enjoyed reading about your mother and you! 😉 I don’t want to go there yet—but I am turning into my mother, too!
Great shots
I think think the bags are most beautiful, just ahead of the jewlery! lol..Great photos for the hunt! My photo is up, come visit
Well I don’t know if I agree with the boundries issue, but I do agree that women should own jewerly. lots of it. he he. Very nice and colorful pictures.
You mean they MADE hose bags and jewelery? By hand??! I’m amazed.. I don’t wear a lot of stuff on myself, but I do love collecting smaller pieces of pretty earrings and pendants 🙂
Fun jewelry it is really great
What else? Shoes! I think I have one pair in every colour now……….62 pairs at last count!
Those are nice jewelry bags. The jewelry are a lovely mixture of colors. Great entry.
I have a small collection of fragrances and it’s so nice to see them togethter because of the various sizes of bottles and different colors.
Those beads are so pretty! I only have a few pendant that I enjoy wearing but I thing I need to branch out and try something different. There are so many gorgeous glasses and stones that are fashioned into bead necklaces…maybe I’ll throw a HUGE hint to my dear hubby ;~)
Thanks so much for visiting my PH this weekend!