Bags For Freedom

“For Freedom” is printed on my new bag. One might think that this is just an ornament like the buttons, but this is not the case. “For Freedom” bags and accessories are created by people (mostly women) at Sak Saum in Cambodia who have escaped human trafficking or other abuse and poverty.

I had read about Sak Saum in the German Christian woman’s magazine Lydia and immediately thought that it was a wonderful cause to support. I browsed their website and fell in love with a bag which wasn’t offered in the German online shop where a smaller range of their items is being sold. So I started the order procedure directly on the Sak Saum website, but got stuck when it came to entering my home address – it didn’t accept any addresses outside the USA. However, with a bit of patience (from my first e-mail until I got the bag it took 27 days), a PayPal account and the kind help of Sak Saum staff mainly in the USA the beautiful bag is now mine :)

Shortly after this first order I bought a messenger bag for Hermann at the German online shop. Both bags are of excellent quality and certainly worth their price! If you would like to buy bags or accessories from them you find the list of (online) shops on the “Where to buy” page on their website. Unfortunately there are not many shops outside the USA yet, but I hope for all bag lovers around the world that this will change by and by!

Another Week...

… has gone by – time goes too fast sometimes. I have been busy with several things, particularly with a new website I’m creating for an elementary school. The principal is a member of my former church, and as obviously none of the teachers or parents at the school is able or willing to create a site and I have also created the church’s website he asked me if I was willing to do it. Of course I said yes! I don’t know what I will get for it (not much to be sure, schools in Germany usually do not have a very high budget, and they’d rather spend it for the children), but that is not something I care about. I enjoy creating websites, especially when it is for a good cause :)

Hyper Creativity

Sometimes I have got so many ideas on my mind that I have got the feeling that my brain will burst. Ideas of topics I could write about, of new blogs or new websites, etc. The problem is, however, that the ideas are all confused in my head and I find no way to put them into a structure. I have to wait until the structure comes by itself – I cannot force it. This is the phase I’m currently in and therefore I’m writing this confused post *lol*

Japanese, Anyone?

Yesterday I found out that the link to our Armenia travel report has actually made it to a Japanese blog :) Okay, this is not a mere coincidence – the blog belongs to one of my old friends from my time in London who I notified by e-mail about the site. Sayori and I had been flat mates for a while. She is in the fashion business. Sometimes she publishes lovely photos on her blog, that’s why I visit there occasionally, even though I don’t understand a word of what she writes ;) Anyway, I have added her blog to my blogroll now – maybe one of you happens to speak or at least understand Japanese and is able to read it :)