Little Lady is currently in the middle of her GCSE exams and thankfully focused on her studies. As usual, she is being cool, collected and somewhat aloof in the face of my worrying.  As usual I am anxious and want to take away her tiredness and burden.  When I started blogging she was about 5 and […]

I had planned to make this before Ramadan, but had found no spare time at all in which to attempt it. So when I invited my parents and siblings over for iftar yesterday, I decided to put this together after fajr (the dawn prayer). The letters were printed off on plain white paper and then […]

The quote for Day 5 of Ramadan from my box of things to think about is: “Never think that any request you have is too much for Allah. HE says “Be” and it becomes” I am not sure of the origin of this quote but it can be found on this page.  My first thought is that […]

Growing up, I used to listen to my school friends tell me about how they spent their holidays in towns far from London (Leicester, Preston, Blackburn, Manchester) spending weeks with cousins, at family wedding, having sleepovers. I felt like I missed out because we had such little family here and none my age, being the […]

Assalam-alaikam everyone and Ramadan Kareem, Alhamdulillah, we are so blessed to find ourselves at the start of another Ramadan filled with blessings, forgiveness and mercy. A chance to get rid of bad habits, start good habits and have our duas’ (supplications) answered. Even more, Allah (SWT) has blessed us with this opportunity to get closer […]

When both Long-Suffering Sister and my sister-in-law (hmm…will have to think of a name for her too) recommended this book, I was very keen to try it. Both are so very different that if they both liked it, I assumed it must be good.We Need to Talk About Kevin is written as a series of […]

Mother-in-law returned to Pakistan today, taking my youngest brother-in-law with her. She has been here for the last five months or so and helping us take care of the children and home. It can be challenging to have two strong-minded women in the same house, but over the course of the last few years we […]

It seems that the word Aunty has become a bit of a bad word in recent times. Being called an Aunty is offensive because it implies you are old and old-fashioned, in a world where being young an attractive is everything. Auntie’s get grouped like a pack of wolves, or hyena’s – upholding toxic traditions […]

I created these cards using old wedding invitations that were given to me, card stock and gems.  I like how the card creates a different feel with each colour – the green feels the most like an Eid card to me and is my favourite.

Mohammed M. Mahdi, Mohammed A. Mahdi, and Anthony Duncan are the Soapy Soap Guys, the entrepreneurs behind the artisanal soap business: the Soapy Soap Company. Their brand came about through a desire to create a more natural, functional bar of soap.  They have recently launched their new website: DesignMySoap.com, the world’s first online soap-making studio […]

I am always on the lookout for good books for my children, including interesting and inspiring Islamic children’s book. Jannah Jewels caught my eye because of the adventurous looking girls on the over and the idea of a group of young girls going through numerous adventures. I liked that the book cover shows that the […]

There is one part of Ramadan that always get’s me a little down, that is the part when we “take a rest” from fasting during our periods. I used to feel like I was missing out, that I would get behind in my Quran reading and worry about the fasts I would have to make […]

The quote for Day 18 of Ramadan from my box of things to think about is: “A person who acts without knowledge is like someone who travels without a guide, and it is known that a person like this is more likely to be destroyed than saved.” ~ Hassan Al-Basri (RA) Subhan’Allah, one of the things that […]

I just love it when I check my phone and find all sorts of random, blurry photo’s that I didn’t take. Despite being told to stay away from my phone, my kids seem to have a magnetic attraction to it. This time round I found a series of posed dinosaur battles with this lot on […]