I love shopping, but I hate spending money. In the states that puts me in a hard position-here it puts me in the best position. My favorite purchase is a wooden lamp that a man named Nit made. He was super friendly and we were able to have a short conversation about the lamp and how much I love it. I really hope I get to go back to Chiang Rai. I keep asking myself why I didn’t buy all his lamps. Maybe because my bag wasn’t big enough or maybe I wasn’t thinking clearly. It is so unique and earthly yet elegant. If I had to define my interior design style with one item it would be this lamp. Dark wood, flowing lines, simplicity… can you tell how much I love the lamp? I LOVE LAMP! (<That was a movie reference, I’m not crazy) Guess what movie and I’ll buy you a lamp if I return to Kit’s stand.
Like I said, everything is so cheap, which makes it so much fun to shop for yourself, but mostly others. I don’t feel guilty when I’m spending money on other people so I tend to do a lot of that here. I can’t wait to go back home and act like Santa for a day. Most things are shown above, but some aren’t because they’re gifts. I might be a little vague on the description because I don’t want to give away any Christmas surprises. Some of the items pictured are gifts too, so keep your fingers crossed that one is for you.
Here’s a run down of everything I bought this weekend. It cost me a total of 1,943B which is $64. Twenty dollars was spent on artwork. I wish I could show them here, but again they’re surprises. I will post them in about a month, so hold onto your seats. So twenty bucks on artwork, ten on a lamp, which I’ve now deemed priceless and six on a snow leopard hat that saved my life. You’ll hear about that in tomorrow’s post. The rest is chump change and in total I bought 28 items, 18 of which are gifts. I’d say I did pretty well.
Prints of Buddha, elephants and other fun stuff 620B
Two pairs of shoelaces 40B
Hammock (the blue thing under the shoe laces) 159B
Cloth calendar 90B
Three hand-dyed tank tops 100B
Little handmade purse 25B
Hand decorated fanny pack 100B
Handmade clay incense holder 49B
12 unique notebooks 120B
Snow leopard hat 190B
Handmade picture frame 170B
Lamp made by Nit 280B
