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Age: 101 years old
Sex: Female
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
Country: Australia Australia
BodyType: Slim / Slender
Last Login: May 7, 2009 (185 days back)
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About Me

http://www.kashgar.com.au


I source a hugely diverse and eclectic range of furniture, rugs, antiques, handicrafts and jewellery from over 25 different countries including India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Thailand, Burma, Laos, the Philippines, Vietnam, Mexico, Peru, Turkey, Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan and Turkmanistan. The collection includes contemporary and tribal jewellery, a range of headhunting curios, antique Buddhist relics, tribal artifacts, textiles and hand-knotted rugs. I also stock a exclusive collection of one-off hand-beaded necklaces that I design and create myself using the beads and jewellery making techniques of various ethnic minorities from around the globe.


Where can you find all of this? At Kashgar in Sydney, Australia. Kashgar is a philosophy as well as a store. We are committed to supporting traditional artisans and small village communities by selling authentic handcrafted goods which are all personally collected by us. By supporting traditional methods of design and production we aim to encourage local cottage industries which have a low impact on the environment and help ethnic minorities maintain their self-sufficiency into the 21st Century. I am particularly committed to assisting women around the world and to this end work with several organizations including the Hua Bin Women's Union of Vietnam and the East Timorese Women's Association. As people all over the world give up their traditional dress in favour of Levis and T-shirts, time-honored means of craftsmanship and traditional ways of life are also disappearing. I see our trade as a means of staving off the inevitable encroachment of the 21st century, assisting communities to decide for themselves which parts of the western world they wish to incorporate and which they wish to reject. I encourage our customers to think of the handicrafts and artifacts they buy from us as an investment: a piece of history and a way of life that may soon be gone forever.


Kashgar has one retail outlet in Sydney. Our pieces have appeared as props in movies such as Wolverine, Mission Impossible 2, Queen of the Damned, Scooby Doo and Moulin Rouge, and in series such as Farscape and Beastmaster, as well as a large number of plays, commercials and museum exhibitions. We are occasionally commissioned to find special pieces for individual customers as well as for film sets, event management companies, hotels, businesses, consulates and embassies. The uniqueness of our stock means that we are also very appealing to interior and fashion designers around the world. New stock arrives all the time, and most of our items are one-off specialties; other pieces we only stock in small quantities. We are also jam packed with ideas for the home and work premises, with ideas for decorating that will challenge established concepts of design and storage.

I also have a new website
http://www.kashgar.com.au .

It's designed to showcase some of my own jewellery pieces and also the obscure tribal pieces and artifacts we've collected over the years from the remotest corners of the globe. There's a magazine section which contains excerpts from our travel diaries, photographs from around the world and articles on diverse subjects such as headhunting (one of my favourite subjects) and tips for easy traveling. If you have any questions about our work you can contact me directly via the site.

About myself, if I had one wish it would be to have super powers so that I could right all the wrongs of the world. But I don't, so I try to make other people's lives better one person at a time. I'm also an aerobatic pilot, although I haven't had a fly for a while - I spend far too much time working and traveling for work. All my life I've had dreams in which I could breathe underwater, so it's no surprise I became a marine biologist or that I love scuba diving. What else? I'm scared of spiders (even little ones) but I love snakes. I cry in sad movies. I hate injustice and the suffering it can cause. I find it easy to choose between right and wrong and I expect other people to be able to do the same. My husband is the best thing that ever happened to me. I love discussing different points of view with other people and I love learning. I'm good at keeping other peoples' secrets. People tell me EVERYTHING because I want to know.

In summary, let me paraphrase Stephen King: I have the heart of a young girl and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Oh GOD that's right, I hate cockroaches too. Uggggg. And celery and marzipan, but not NEARLY as much as cockroaches.

So check out the website http://www.kashgar.com.au . I'll see you there!

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Sophia Loren, Stephen Hawking, Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie, Leonardo Da Vinci, Aristotle, Marie Antoinette, Madame de Pompadour, Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey (what was she thinking?), La Belle Otero (the greatest courtesan of the 19th Century), Hapshepsut (she ruled Egypt as a king, not as a queen, and her son erased all traces of her), Boudica (Romans, go home!), Ramses II, the person who plays Humphrey B Bear and my great grandmothers on both sides

On MySpace I just want to hang out with interesting people - you know who you are.

My Background and Lifestyle
MaritalStatus: In a Relationship
SexualOrientation: Not Sure
Hometown: Sydney
Religion: Other
Smoker: No
Drinker: Yes
Children: I don't want kids
Education: Post grad
Occupation: Owner of a retail store called Kashgar

My Blog

Travel Tips for the Comleat Traveller
Visit my webite for more: kashgar.com.au"On a long journey even a straw weighs heavy." - Spanish proverbThis is not designed to be the last word on travelling, just a few pointers that I've discovered...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:33:00 GMT

The Kashgar guide to Successful Christmas Shopping!
Every year I witness the Great Shopping Debacle that is Christmas and all the trauma it entails. What I've discovered after many years behind the Kashgar counter serving our customers is that most of...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:16:00 GMT

The Kashgar Travel Glossary of Really Important Words and Phrases
Kashgar This glossary is by no means complete, accurate or even very good.  Its just my take on travel in the modern world and some of the more interesting words, situations and things youll ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:12:00 GMT

The Inaugural Kashgar Photo Shoot
See the photos here!If you were going to do 10 amazing things before you die, I would say directing your own photo shoot would have to be at the top of the list. Wed been thinking of organising a p...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:12:00 GMT

Our Buying Trip to India 2008
Kashgar In March of this year it was time for us to make our way back to India and once again select a container's worth of knickknacks, jewellery, collectables and antique furniture for our st...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 21:09:00 GMT

Linda and Ian Visit the Countryside
This trip took place during a very trying time in our lives, in 2002, when we had decided to move from Sydney to Barcelona, Spain, and set up our retail business Kashgar there.  We had been ...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 12:53:00 GMT

The Homosexual Agenda
This isn't mine but I love it anyway:You've heard Fred Nile, George Pell and others speak of the "Homosexual Agenda," but no one has ever seen a copy of it. Well, I managed to sneak into Homosexual He...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 09:09:00 GMT

Operation Parental
We are entertaining Ian's parents for dinner tonight at home for the first time ever!  As we have now been together for almost 6 years and his parents are quite straight-laced, I am taking the ev...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:09:00 GMT

Lindas Hotel Classification System
Every year I travel a lot for work buying collectables, jewellery, antique furniture and artifacts for our store, and the available accomodation isn't always what one would like.  So ov...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:41:00 GMT

Linda's Definitive Guide to Squat Toilets
----- Original Message -----From:     Linda To:         RecipientsDate:     2003Subject: Latest obsession& I've become obsessed with squat toilets, Gentle Reader, and with good reason.  Like others be...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:59:00 GMT

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