I rushed home from work on Thursday grabbing shopping on the way and found myself straight in the kitchen. Usually I like to cook for guests on a weekend so I can take my time and enjoy watching things come together (also all the chopping, dicing and throwing things in the pot can be quite […]

Up until now I have used mostly ready-made motifs and lettering in my cards, banners and projects.  I’ve found this expensive and have been trying to create simple ones of my own on MS Word and via free graphics on the internet with mixed success.  So I have been looking for something a little more professional to […]

I was closing up the house for bed time – check the doors and windows, put down the oven lid and switch off all of the lights, when I caught a strong whiff of attar, the scent my husband uses.  I don’t know if the kids had been messing around with his things or if […]

Up until now I have used mostly ready-made motifs and lettering in my cards, banners and projects.  I’ve found this expensive and have been trying to create simple ones of my own on MS Word and via free graphics on the internet with mixed success.  So I have been looking for something a little more professional to […]

I rushed home from work on Thursday grabbing shopping on the way and found myself straight in the kitchen. Usually I like to cook for guests on a weekend so I can take my time and enjoy watching things come together (also all the chopping, dicing and throwing things in the pot can be quite […]

Up until now I have used mostly ready-made motifs and lettering in my cards, banners and projects.  I’ve found this expensive and have been trying to create simple ones of my own on MS Word and via free graphics on the internet with mixed success.  So I have been looking for something a little more professional to […]

I rushed home from work on Thursday grabbing shopping on the way and found myself straight in the kitchen. Usually I like to cook for guests on a weekend so I can take my time and enjoy watching things come together (also all the chopping, dicing and throwing things in the pot can be quite […]

I rushed home from work on Thursday grabbing shopping on the way and found myself straight in the kitchen. Usually I like to cook for guests on a weekend so I can take my time and enjoy watching things come together (also all the chopping, dicing and throwing things in the pot can be quite […]

I was closing up the house for bed time – check the doors and windows, put down the oven lid and switch off all of the lights, when I caught a strong whiff of attar, the scent my husband uses.  I don’t know if the kids had been messing around with his things or if […]

Up until now I have used mostly ready-made motifs and lettering in my cards, banners and projects.  I’ve found this expensive and have been trying to create simple ones of my own on MS Word and via free graphics on the internet with mixed success.  So I have been looking for something a little more professional to […]

I am finding that as I get older (into my grand old late 20’s) rather than doing the things I should do dutifully, I am having a hard time doing things I don’t want to do. As a teenager and young adult, I always thought about what others want and I assumed that as I […]

Yesterday morning I had a miserable time, made worse by an argument with a Dr’s receptionist that pushed me right to the edge.  I am a very honest and open person, I blog about how my real life is  – both the good times and the hard ones. I am by nature upbeat, positive and […]

One of the toughest aspects of modern life for Muslimah’s right now is marriage – or lack thereof.  I know so many sisters who are looking to marry and are struggling for so many reasons. We seem to be a generation caught between the old way of doing things where our parents found someone vaguely […]

I have always tried to be gentle in the way I manage my children.  I prefer not to hit them and to use time-out methods or to make clear I am upset about something which also works fairly well (especially with Little Man who hates me to be disappointed in him). But as it’s the […]