Hi, remember me..?

I'm the absent blogger.. :P
ok so I know that I've been doing that a lot lately, disappear for a long time and then come back with either a sad post or one that is filled with pictures..
This is the picture filled post time.. Even though I feel like making it a sad post.. But I will get over it.

So, we attended our friend's twin second birthday in fuds, mashallah they are so cute and the small kids had a fun time running around and harassing eaters..lol no kidding they were adorable

Some pics..

birthday boys..



some of the guests having fun





up



and down



Do you like my new living room? I love it..



And hope it is really my living room .. This was in a new furniture shop in Dhahran mall, they have some nice things but this room... God I just fell in love.. inshallah one day..

I wonder why...

I wonder why I am feeling lost..
I wonder why I can't find my way..
I wonder why my life seems to be running so fast..
And yet I find it hard to finish each day..

I wonder why I am confused..
I wonder why everything hurts me..
I wonder when I'll be ok..
I wonder if I'll ever be..

I wonder how I'll change myself..
I wonder , will I have the strength..

I wonder this I wonder that..
But one thing I don't have to wonder about..

Allah is with me in every step I take..
Even if I was standing in my place ,
he will show me the decisions I have to make..

Al 7amdulillah..

First day of kg3 and some ice cream..

Well to keep up with the tradition of taking a picture for the first day of school here are two from this year



my little one is in kg3 now and she was excited in her first day.. (in front of her school)



Until she discovered her teacher won't be there for her this year. She is having a new class and a new teacher and that freaked her out and she started crying.. Only for a while though because her new teacher seems very kind and good mashallah..

So we went to Macdonald's one day with my friend and her kids and they enjoyed some happy meals and playing , and then some ice cream ..







I enjoyed some of my kid's ice cream too lol
And can you believe how festive a glass of diet Pepsi can get? our waiter was in a good mood that day at Friday's I think , yummy yummy..



Anyways, sorry I've been absent a lot from my blog, but I am feeling so lost those days and hope to find my way soon inshallah, wish me luck .

long time no see..

It's been very long since I last posted anything, many things happened in that time, first of all I would like to wish everyone a Happy Eid.. very late I know.. It was a somehow hectic time for me, it being the first eid as a single person again.. It was a nice eid 7amdillah , I didn't feel bad or depressed but was hit with a wave of sadness in a couple of occasions.. Other than that all was good.

So since it was my first year in 7 years that I spend eid night in my house, I decided to make the most of it and decorate the way I always wanted to do, I wanted to have a place in the house dedicated for eid gifts, for my little girl to feel excited about like I used to be when they did that while I was a kid myself, so mom had an idea of getting this metal thing from the garden and I decorated it with golden strings and green silk flowers.



and here with the eid kids instead of the gifts.. After all they are gifts from Allah..



and some didn't want to sit there..



way before that we had a surprise birthday party for my friend's daughter who turned 14 mashallah, it was a very nice night and we really did our best to make it as fast and as surprising as possible, all under a froggy theme which she loves.. I'll leave you with the pictures... ( just forgive the bad lightings I lost my camera's charger and using my Mobile's camera )



Gifts and party favors.. One of the gifts was real frogs



The little frog on the cake is a candle



My gift basket, filled with froggies small and big..

Gerge3an.. and my 300 post

It's that time of the year again, the mid of ramadan and gerge3an..
So last year we did the gathering of friends and their kids and each mom did a box or basket filled with treats to each kid, it was tiring, and took a lot of money and the kids ended up eating the sweets and throwing away all the decorations and some of the nuts..

So this year it was decided to change that and do it the original traditional way.. It's somehow like trick or treat, kids go around the houses and the neighborhood singing a certain song to get treats, usually its a mix of nuts and maybe some sweets and some money..

Each mom got the candies and sweets kids love and put them in containers in front of her, and the kids arranged in a line by age from youngest to eldest, passed by each one with a bag in his/her hands trying to sing the song and taking the sweets.





I t was a hit, even the moms were happy after the kids finished cuz we got to fight for the leftovers and act silly with the candies.

My girl and my friend's kids were dressed in the Indian outfits she got them from India, they looked adorable mashallah especially the smallest one..







And other kids were in traditional Saudi outfits, but even those who were dressed casually had a great time.



We had about 30 kids mashallah, and it was a bit crazy.. but after a while we had a mom/kid dancing games and went childish with the kids..



And still had a mommies only time that was quiet and filled with nice talks.
So next year inshallah we will go with the traditional style again, it was more fun.





And now for the subject of the 300 post.. well I didn't plan anything yet for that occasion.. I had a somehow busy week and I wasn't feeling well for some time, but I will probably have a draw for some kind of a cool prize.. or something lol.. maybe on my next post..

till then have a nice time.

Another bag

This time I was aiming for a more masculine bag, but I don't know why it doesn't seem to me that way lol



It didn't take me a month to do this one, although I got the material for some time sitting there waiting for me to have a new idea. My new idea was the appliqué I designed, cut and hand sewed to the flap of the bag using blue leather pieces .. Twice..!



Well it was a little wrong the first time so I did it all over again and then I ended up with two identical flaps.. I used only one, I might save the other for another project.

As usual I am not quite happy with my finishes, I think I need to practice more, but over all I think I am liking it, and I hope the bag recipient will too.



By the way, my next post is going to be my 300th post, I can't believe it, I had too much to share all those months, so I will think of a some way to celebrate this fact inshallah.. Stay tuned.

Once upon a time..

In a not so far away land, lived two little princesses..
One had dark hair, the other had light hair, both were very lovely and cute (mashallah)

They enjoyed looking like twins..



And go picking apples in their best dresses... (they were playing dress up when we dragged them to the supermarket, I mean the apple tree farm :P)





And there was this little fairy, who dragged a seat to the center of the land and tried to sit over it, just for a few seconds before almost falling.. cute fairy with a pacifier..



And they lived happily ever after..

The end.. Till they do another lovely thing that is ;)

Big bite, small bite

I just loved the difference between the kids burger and the medium sized one in fudruker's.. very funny..

Froggy bag

I finally finished my friend's daughter froggy bag, we bought the material together maybe a month back and I cut it two weeks ago , and just finished it today..
It's taking me too long to make a bag these days..!



Anyways it's my first messenger style bag, filled with steps and things to sew which I got the detailed tutorial from this blog ,but the end result is something that I liked very much.. mashallah I think I did an ok job here..



I even tried my hand with an inner zippered pocket, wasn't that hard and it made the bag look more professionally made..
Of course I did a few wrong thing and redid some parts, but in the end I think the kid will like it inshallah.
Now for the next bag...! hopefully not another month for that ..

Something for Ramadan

My kid and I did some of those last year, and this year she reminded me of them, so I thought I could use some to help us remember the joy of this month..

So we did a few.. Of course these are mine..I put them downstairs in the family room.



hers are bigger and brighter, she took them immediately to her room. I think she felt happy crafting with me again, we should do that more often.