A very nice weekend

Mashallah it was indeed very nice, I started it by going to my kids school on Wednesday for a parent/teacher meeting and I got to see her with her classmates and took a picture of her on her desk. She looks cute mashallah, although she is still clinging to either mom or me almost everyday.



Then on thursday morning I went for my second class of the second course for cake decorating, it was fun, we didn't even feel the time passing , after that we went to the resort on the beach that my uncle was having for the weekend, the whole family was there and it was great for the kids, they ran , they played with the sand and had lots of fun 7amdillah. And the weather was great.

I'll leave you with the pictures

















I have to make a comment about this last pictures, because I feel it's one of the worst moment any single mom can have in the world.. The look of sadness in the eye of your kid when she is looking at whole families from afar (mashallah may allah keep them together and whole forever).. I know it's not a big issue even for my little one, it was only a moment of sadness and went by, but for a mom, who has been an only child with a single mom herself, it was hard.

But life goes on, and we keep enjoying the good moments even more.. That's why I still think of this picture as a nice one, in a bit of a sad way.. :)



Hope you enjoyed you weekend too.

My first grader.. and other stuff :)

I can't believe my little baby is in her first grade mashallah.. It felt good and sad to see her in her class, sitting on a big kid table and chair.. sigh...what's next, college??

That's her on her first day, early in the morning.. very early.. VERY VERY early ( can u tell I am not a morning's person? lol )



And that's her third day with the old uniform.. she looks very thing in that :(



So my other stuff, a few days b4 school we went to Bahrain for two nights, stayed at the Frasier suites in seef mall , it was very nice and the view from the big window was marvelous.. ( just cuz I love big windows )









And my little princess turned pink ;) mommy's girl .



lol doesn't she look like a sleeping rag doll? :P

Good news and bad news

I will start with the bad news to get it over with , our rabbits died the day I posted their pictures.. After only 2 days at our house , they just suddenly dropped dead! it was so sad to us grown ups, we couldn't tell our little one so we told her we took them to the vet. Mom got another rabbit as if it is one of them.. The even more sad thing is that he died too after less than a day in our house! I saw him at 2 am sitting there looking at me and then at 5 am he was dead, the same way as the first two.. Something is so not right in here. I just don't know what. Thankfully the kiddo didn't ask about him.

Ok now to the good post. No news but a few things I want to share with you.

A few days ago I went to a garage sale, my first one in Aramco, I went with two good friends, it was fun driving around looking for the right house then spending a few minutes in front of it not knowing for sure.. We didn't find much stuff to buy, but then we went to another house where a lady there sells stuff for Halloween, nice good stuff actually, I found me a scrapbooking kit.. Travel theme.
Here are the things I got, plus a few candies and a hello kitty pen for my daughter.



And long before that I got a few nice things from the japanese shop daiso, and I never posted pictures , so here they are

Felt flowers, buttons and leaves..



A close up to the pins, I love those styles very much



small tins holding sewing kit, didn't care for the kits I fell in love with the tins lol



The little model with my stuff :P



Hope you have a good day, and no I am NOT going to get another rabbit ever!

Two rabbits, two hamsters and one six-year-old on vacation...

Equals headache lol
Or lot's of fun.. Depending on the way you look at it.!



So mom bought the little one ( or herself actually since mom is crazy about little animals ) the rabbits and hamsters. And boy did they make quite an impact..



First she wanted to touch and grab and hold them, they were moving of course so she got a bit scared and got to touch only..



Then we tried moving them from one cage to another and really, don't try to hold a squirming hamster..! they just slip right through your fingers it was like trying to catch water, one of them really ran away under the sofa and there were 4 of us trying to catch him, then when i finally did he jumped from my hand when i was standing up thankfully our maid caught him b4 he hit the floor.. :P



They are cute and sweet, but please, I only love cats ;)

Final class of the first course

I was still in pain from my neck and shoulders , I almost didn't go, but I am glad I did.
we were supposed to bring a cake to decorate but I couldn't, I only took the icing, which turned to be very soft for the roses we were supposed to learn, but in general the class went well.

Here are the things we did, the rose..





The sweet pea and ribbon..



The leaves..



And this is my certificate for the first course.. Very nice :)



Inshallah on Thursday we will start the second course, hope it goes as well and be as fun as this one was.

Cake class number 3

It was a fun day on Saturday we had the third class, a lot of tip training and cupcakes to decorate at the end. ( mine were light pink with a yellow flower on top)



I went there with a mildly stiff neck, with the work and the big bag carrying and the ac hitting me so cold I came back suffering from a great pain. I tried everything, hot pads, pain creams massaging, even more hot pads I feel my neck and back r roasted..! Nothing is working so far. But 7amdillah it's getting less painful a bit.

Anyways, another reason for Saturday to be great for me, is that I found out while talking to the ladies in the course about many different things and we discovered we both love scrapbooking.. We were really happy to hear that we had future dreams of crop sessions and maybe even classes for other future scrapboking lovers.. I can't wait for that :)

Ok so I'll leave you with the pictures , sorry about the quality of them they are from my mobile and the lighting there isn't the greatest ,







The scary/cute clown.. I don't like clowns..:S

Cake decorating

I started a course on cake decorating on Saturday, it is a two week course, 4 lessons each lesson for 3 hours. A short one but this is only the first course.

What we are learning now I already took in my last semester at college, but that was , ehem, 10 years ago and I felt I needed some refreshing to my memory.

So on Saturday I went there happy that I didnt have to bring anything with me but my enthusiasm, which I did.. the class had 11 other ladies and they all seemed nice, the instructer looked friendly and the kit they gave us made me feel excited, I love kits..lol



We started by learning how to make the icing, and then using the icing bags and different piping heads ( my terms for that stuff is very wrong I'm sure :P ) then moved on to leveling the cake and splitting it in half then spreading the icing and smoothing it, which happens to be my weakness in college.. But I did great well , trying to remember I am here to have fun not to be judged and put marks to like old days.



On teusday, we had to bring our own cake and icing, unlike the first class were it was all provided for us, which was a headache just thinking of having to do it. But then in the last minutes after I made everything with hte help of my dear friend, I thought to myself, why did I make such a big deal out of it??

We learned this time how to make the starts, writing and the heart of the rose shape. Then we went on to decorate our own cakes. Mine was a baby carriage which broke while I was tranferring it, but I did a good job hiding the big cracks if i may say so myself lol






I didn't have time to finish it (it is all piped stars) and by the time I was home I was dead tired and my kid and mom had their eyes on the cake anyways, so I just left it as it is.



In general it's a nice thing to do, meeting people who enjoys the same thing you do, talking , joking and doing something creative and artistic.. I love it.

Crafting

I haven't done much of that lately, but I did one thing that is somehow crafty while gift wrapping our eid presents.
I had this smallish gift that needed a package, and sine I visit a lot of creative blogs such as this one, I decided to try my hands at creating a box from scratch out of some scrapbooking paper .



I got my little one a lovely gift for eid, it's a crafty princess toy where you can make different dresses from patterned paper , very nice toy...
First tracing three layers on 3 different paper from the cute pink projector, slides provided with 6 different combinations to get 6 looks


Cutting all three layers carefully


Having fun embellishing the dresses with glitter and sequins


More details of her handicraft mashallah


I let her do almost everything on her own. Mashallah she is getting good at these things, and the best part is she really enjoys crafting , just like her mommy..

I can still recall when she was very young and trying to use the scissors with her little chubby baby fingers..
Here she was 2 years and 4 months old mashallah, already an addict with crafting materials.


Planning and making her first ever scrapbook.. God I miss those days and those cute chubby cheecks..


A few months older here, nearly 3 and her choices are more colorfull in papers..



Sigh, my baby is growing up too fast mashallah...