Most times when you feel like something is immense or significant, a little perspective can help you determine whether that really the case. Often we step back and see the bigger picture and realise that the thing is not as huge as we thought. But Ramadan is different. No matter how significant and special we […]
I finally got the chance to bring out my beads after what felt like a very long time. I had finished the housework, the kids were school, hubby was on a job and Darling was asleep. My afternoon was MINE!!! I love the glass crystals that are available right now and like mixing their sparkle […]
It is World Hijab Day today (thank you to my little sister for the reminder). On reflection a couple of things come to mind: how much animosity there is still in some parts of the world to the concept of hijab, how much easier it seems to wear hijab today than it did 18 years ago and […]
I had these chunky faceted brown beads for a little while and liked the way the different shdes of brown worked together. I mixed them with glass beads in different shapes, a few metal beads and some stone chips and tried to connect the strands together. It looked okay lying flat, but when I tried […]
To me henna is celebration itself and Eid feels incomplete without it. Three of the guests at our Eid party could apply henna, so we asked them nicely and they found themselves spending most of the evening decorating the hands of the rest of our guests. I mentioned earlier that my sister had afound a […]
A very nice colleague at work who gives me occassional advice about gardening, suggested I get the tomatoes in as the frost will spoil them as the weather gets colder. I got the kids to pick what they could find, the half shown below went to my mum who likes to freeze them whilst still […]
I did want to take a picture of my desk at work, but it was covered with confidential papers, plus my colleagues would have thought I was weird. I then thought of taking a picture of my workspace in the kitchen, but its covered in piles of dishes which I am pretending don’t exist, at […]
We took the whole family down to the Dunton boot fair this past bank Holiday Monday. We didn’t leave home until about 10am and the bargain hunters get the best things at about 7am, so I wasn’t expecting much. We didn’t end up getting much of anything useful, but I did find a few really nice things: […]
Alhamdulillah, I have had an eventful and challenging two weeks or so: My brother-in-law travelled to Pakistan to get married, meaning that for the first time in four or five years it is just me, hubby and kids in the house – not for more than a few days of course… • My dad travelled […]
I like some of the posters that appear around Ramadan, including the beautiful, sublime and the funny. image source image source image source image source image source image source image source
I spent the last weekend away from home with a ladies tablighi jamaat group. Tablighi jamaat advocate taking time away from your day to day business and spending time in worship and dawah (sharing Islam). They encourage you to start with improving yourself and stepping up your amal (good deeds) and then sharing what you […]
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This Friday we were invited to a sister’s lunch with other ladies from the area. The host was a sister who moved here from the other side of London about three months ago. I always love these occasions mainly because they involve good food and we get to wear something nice. Now that I have […]
I wanted to add something to the banners and balloons that we usually prepare for Eid and complement the colour scheme. The A4 sized posters below were designed by me on MS Word with art from the internet and printed onto white card. I added ribbons in coordinated colours. I also added bling where I could, although […]
