I have been going through my boxes of beads one at a time with lots of ideas and colour combinations coming together.  One of my favourite things to make though are my rainbow tasbeeh’s (rosary) because they are one of the things I make that people really like to receive as a gift and that […]

I am coming to realise that I am facing one of the biggest challenges I will ever meet. I have always found progress very easy in my academic and working life and have enjoyed the feeling of sailing through these spheres most of the time. This leads a person to the feeling, especially when you […]

I am coming to realise that I am facing one of the biggest challenges I will ever meet. I have always found progress very easy in my academic and working life and have enjoyed the feeling of sailing through these spheres most of the time. This leads a person to the feeling, especially when you […]

I am coming to realise that I am facing one of the biggest challenges I will ever meet. I have always found progress very easy in my academic and working life and have enjoyed the feeling of sailing through these spheres most of the time. This leads a person to the feeling, especially when you […]

I am coming to realise that I am facing one of the biggest challenges I will ever meet. I have always found progress very easy in my academic and working life and have enjoyed the feeling of sailing through these spheres most of the time. This leads a person to the feeling, especially when you […]

I am coming to realise that I am facing one of the biggest challenges I will ever meet. I have always found progress very easy in my academic and working life and have enjoyed the feeling of sailing through these spheres most of the time. This leads a person to the feeling, especially when you […]

I am coming to realise that I am facing one of the biggest challenges I will ever meet. I have always found progress very easy in my academic and working life and have enjoyed the feeling of sailing through these spheres most of the time. This leads a person to the feeling, especially when you […]

I am coming to realise that I am facing one of the biggest challenges I will ever meet. I have always found progress very easy in my academic and working life and have enjoyed the feeling of sailing through these spheres most of the time. This leads a person to the feeling, especially when you […]

I am coming to realise that I am facing one of the biggest challenges I will ever meet. I have always found progress very easy in my academic and working life and have enjoyed the feeling of sailing through these spheres most of the time. This leads a person to the feeling, especially when you […]

I am coming to realise that I am facing one of the biggest challenges I will ever meet. I have always found progress very easy in my academic and working life and have enjoyed the feeling of sailing through these spheres most of the time. This leads a person to the feeling, especially when you […]

I have been getting regular Ramadan reminders and advice from a few websites.  The following one about the last days of Ramadan I found particularly useful: From Productive Muslim: I know it is tempting to relax in these last days of Ramadan and simply wait for Eid, but Ramadan is NOT over yet and you […]

One of the things I have been doing recently which I find quite therapeutic is making these bracelets. They are all 8mm glass crystal beads – some opaque, some very sparkly. I have been seeing these slightly flattened crystal-looking beads in a few shops (like this one) and really like the look of the beads […]

My in-laws have been here for about two weeks now. Usually one will come to stay with us for a few months in the summer and the other will stay behind in Lahore to keep an eye on the household there.  This time we thought it best they come together as it didn’t seem right […]

Cosmic Cook recently asked me where I buy my hijabs from as I have built up such a collection over the last 10 years or so. I have to say as the availability of scarves and pashmina’s has grown over the years, my sources have changed, and I have learned a few lessons over the […]