How does my garden grow..?

In small plastic pots.. I tried gardening after a very long time since I even had a plant in the house, all because I sow mom do it and it seemed very easy and enteresting.. It wasn't..! easy that is, I kept clumsily dropping soil and water everywhere and almost killing all the poor small flowers from forcing them into the pots. ofcourse if mom wasn't helping I think everything would be dead by now, but thanks to Allah they all look nice and blooming. I put all the plastic pots in the area where I look out the window more.. the kitchen. and it sure makes a difference to brighten a day.

In another area, after what seems like forever I finally started sewing again, and finished the last of the patchwork bags that my aunt ordered before Eid. It seemed like I forgot how to do everything and redid alot of the bag many times before I finished it, and even now I'm not very happy with it, but no way I'm gonna do it again..!
And I even did a nice cushion cover for my new crafts/morning living room.. the picture is dark, the colors are pinks ( dark and light) and blues..

Anyway it's the weekend and I think all we are going to do is try to bring some of our stuff from the old house, wish us luck it's starting to seem funny living without most of our things.

Long time.. lot's of news

Hi everyone at blog world, I missed you soo much, it's been a very long time since I last posted, and it feels even longer than it realy is.. lot's of things has happened since the last time I was here, making bags and blogging about my boring life..! first of all my almost three years old daughter was sick coughing all the time and having a fever, and when we took her to the doctor he sayed she had to check in the hospital for a few days to treat her, and it was a very scary and hurting experience for us seeing her just laying there in her bed after being so full of life. But thanks to Allah she is good now, after those few days in the hospital we went to Taif for the last two days of Ramadan ( by car , passing through Ryadh and spending a few hours there ) then to Jeddah for my family's Eid lunch and his family dinners.. then to Makkah for the rest of the vacation to spend with his family. We had lots of good times and some stressfull ones, but by the end of the vacation we had the most disturbing news, our house was drowning...! apparently a water hose from our sink just exploded and the house was soaking wet for a few days before the water started to go out and someone called us about it. We had to cut our vacation and went back to check the damage, luckily our furniture is mostly good, but the floors were damaged and the roof was leaking. So we thought it would be better to move houses ( we are renting ) than to try to fix everything up since it was an old house in the first place with many problems.

To make a long story short, we are now in our new house ( which is very near the old one and much better and much much expensive..! ) but most of our ( my ) stuff is in the old one, which is leaving me feeling disoriented and not really settled..

Wow..! how is that for a month? but atleast we are all well and happy together, and I get to redecorate..LOL.. Plus we celebrated our daughter's 3rd birthday at mom's house and was a very nice thing with strawberry shortcake themed decorations.. I can't believe she is 3 already..

So tonight mom and I went to buy some plants for the kind-of-walkway,garden thingy.. hopefully they will not die on me, we just started the rainy season of the year and that might take care of watering them. hehe

( the obove pictures are of my daughter's birthday which I decorated, and of her playing in a puddle of water in our new house for the first time )

Anyways sorry for the long post, next one will have better news and pictures hopefully.

The one with all the bags..!

This post is all about the bags I've been making for the gifts, I did two of the patchwork ones , three small kids sized reversable ones, and two simple ones to put colored pencils and coloring books in them ( I am really bad with the different names for bags, they are all "bags" to me )
Plus I had three very nice and sweet members of my family who ordered three patchwork bags and one from the small size. I already finished 3 out of 4, and I'm gonna save the money I get from anything I sell in a box far away till I reach my first million..! ( maybe if you are still around by the year 3000 you will read my post about that! ) I also made one for myself with animal prints and used an old necklace that I got loong time ago from disney world and almost gave away cuz I stopped wearing it. It turned out nice with the bag.. teaches me not to throw anything, might get useful someday.
Anyways, it's near the time we travel and I still haven't gift wrapped any of my 20 something gifts.. not even got the gift wrap.. I have a lot of work to do.
Other than that our days are still the same.. and my moods are travelling waaaaay down these days with all the thinking of all the things I still have to do..! and I'm still discovering lots and lots of great blogs out there after a month of surfing. I love the net.
So that's all folks for now, wish to hear from you all.. have a nice day/week/year.

I've been so busy..!

Hi it's been a very long time, i'm sure you missed me..! ( hehe I'm not even sure if anyone is reading my poor blog!) Anyways, it's ramadhan you know and we are busy with this month's activities, you know samboosa and reading quraan and Eid gifts.. which I am happy to announce that I'm almost done. Ofcourse I'm almost and not completely done because I keep being side tracked with other projects, some of which are being liked so much in my family circle that I'm selling them now..! Hopefully I want to start a hand made fabric thingies buisiness. above are some of the pin cushions I made with felt and sold all of them..! I started with wanting to make one for my first time owned pins, and grandma liked it so I gave it to her, then I made another one and mom wanted it, and so on with my aunt and cousin and great aunt and till now I don't have one to myself..! But I'm not complaining since they are selling well..! I also made some more bags, some for gifts and some for sale. pictures coming in a while inshallah. So if you are in the area and wanted one for urself, just let me know and I will home deliver ( I'm selling the bags for 100 SR just for the information )
So beside sewing my mom left to Jeddah on vacation for 10 days ( and just arrived last night) I felt soo lost without having her, you see she isn't just my mom , she is also my sister, my best friend, my shrink , my entertainer, my babysitter and the rock of my life. My daughter missed her soo much too we looked sad while she was gone and always on each other's throat..! sometimes I feel that my daughter is actually my sister and I have to babysit her..! strange feeling I know but maybe It's all because I was an only chile/kid/grownup daughter (on mom's side only I have two lovely half sisters) for soo long I'm not used to being responsible for another human being..!
So the month is almost half over, and in about two weeks we'll be leaving for Jeddah and Makkah for Eid vacation, I'm gonna miss my crafts room and internet. soo much.
So that's it for now, please keep reading and letting me know what you think of my work..:)

Happy Ramadhan

May this months brings everyone peace and happiness and many 7asanat.. ( this is a picture I took for my daughter when she was a year old as a ramadhan greeting.. and it's one of the set of pictures that someone took and posted on a newspaper last month)

A messy room..!

Look what a few hours of play by three active kids(mashallah) can do to a room.. This picture is of my daughter's room ( almost three) after a play day with her cousins ( two boys , three and one year old) , actualy I can't call what they were doing "play" mashallah they were shouting, running, fighting with kids broom "swords", hitting each other with books ( soft ones ofcourse ) and jumping all over the furniture..! And us poor mom's? we were screaming, threatening, picking up harmfull stuff or falling kids all over the place. But can you imagine me saying it was nice? actually just a few days back all the kids were having colds and very pathetic looking, so maybe seeing them active ( or hyperactive ) is better than seeing them sit in one place doing nothing wanting nothing . Besides I had a chance to talk crafts with the kid's mom ( who is actually my cousin's wife) and had a better than time handling active kids than being alone with one.

In another area, without kid's play I can't take a picture of my crafts room..! it's soo messy and filled with stuff I'm working on right now for the Eid gifts. And I got myself more fabrics and felts and just can't put them away in the closet, I enjoy the way they look together.
Oh yah, and I broke the nail of mom's sewing mashine while trying to sew the handles of a bag.
Well that's my news for now.. what's yours??

A t-shirt and a horrible headache.

I'm having the headache, and one of my cousin will be having the T-shirt on Eid inshallah. What do u think? I just baught it today plain and then I added the fabric and felt flowers and the stiching, I think it's cute but is it enough as a gift? I hope so. I got three more with different fabrics for each. I just love fabrics, and I love the fact that I'm using what I'm buying.

Today I went to another discounted home store, and I didn't find much that I like, but I found some nice cream colored with darker cream flowers print plates, I just loved them and I'm thinking of changing my whole plates to match. I have three different sets, one for two persons, one for three( I accidently smashed a plate while cleaning it) and the third for 8. I want to replace all of them with a matching cream colored set for 12 in case I had company ( which is as rare as rain in this city !) well maybe after all the months of ramadhan and eid are finished .

My husband is having cold, and looks like we are getting too, actually every one around is having a cold, I think it's cuz of the seasons changing, although it is still hot and humid in here.
That's all for now my head hurts!

Nothing new!

As usual nothing is new, or maybe there are lots of new things but still I can seem to recognise them..?
since last week I have been working on my Eid gifts, so far I finished four wallets with different color combinations (the picture above shows the outside of the wallet with each lining behind ) I am excited that everyone who sees my works like it, maybe I can do something good with that.!
The weekend was busy, on wednesday we had dinner at my uncle" s house with mom and my gradparents and my other uncle, it was very nice. On thursday my dad and step mom and baby sis( I found out she will turn 20 soon! scary I always think of her as baby sis) came to Bahrain cuz dad has a meeting, we met him there and watched cars for our daughter( who slept through half of the movie but we liked it anyway) then had lunch at chilis and spent the next three hours in the hotel lobey catching up. nice day. Friday was the official family gathering, we went shopping after that with mom and her cousin for clothes and I got a very cute pink bubblegum nail clipper ( me and pink..!)
Sturday we went shopping for anything nice we could find in a discounted place, I got a footstool that goes very well with our decor along with many little things.
So is there anything new in what you just read? or is it the same things we do all the time? maybe a mix of both considering that what I might call new has to be VERY exciting such as a sudden trip to London or finding the house of my drems or waking up to find myself someone different..!
Well until any of these things happens, I am happy with the "old" things we have.

Project finished

I finished the project of the eye mask I'm supposed to give to my family in two weeks, it was very nice working on this project although I don't like it when I have to do many pieces of the same thing. But the colors were different and I had fun choosing differnt fabrics for the front and the back of each ons. Most are monogrammed and some aren't I guess I ran out of ideas.
I'm still not sure what to do for the Eid gifts . It's hard for me to pick gifts or think of ideas. Maybe if money wasn't an object I would find it easier to give gifts. Not that we don't have enough money, but there are many to give to..!
Anyway I have to think of things fast.
It's a bit boring here , nothing new and nothing to blog about or share, our days are almost the same every day, we wake up, we eat , we craft ( I craft!) , we go out sometimes ( mostly shopping or eating out) , we watch boring tv , we work on the net ( reading blogs..I'm addicted..!) then we sleep. Nothing interesting, or healthy.. what can we do, that's life.

What we did the past two days

Another week is begening, and another week has ended. We went to Bahrain for the movies this weekend, we watched three movies in one day! well it's not the first time we did that but the funny thing is that the three movies seemed to be for one life in three different stages, meaning the first we watched ( love wrecked) was for teenagers loving each other, the second ( the break -up) was for adults living in together having problems, the third ( click) was about a family with two kids and the family life. well three stages of life. The movies were nice , we had lunch at johny rockets( which I keep calling johny bullets dunno why ) we did some shopping and alot of walking we came home exhausted. on friday my husband was having a chess tournament, he did well he still have a second day next friday.
I made myself a wallet from felt, rikrak and fabric to go with my bag, it looks a bit funny I made some mistakes with it, but hey it's my first one I'm learning things with every project, and I'm seriously thinking of making the Eid gifts myself, I should start right away Eid is only one and a half month away and I have lots of gifts to make. ( btw Eid is the muslim's holidays in case you never heard of it)
We are thinking of re painting the living/dining area on the ground floor. After we go and visit the furnishing store ( the one ) we always end up hating our house, we love color and the modern style that is a mix of colors and textures with old stuff and some ethnic accecories. This particular store makes us want to change our decor everytime we go there, it's all us.. our style with a price tag that's not ours!! but we like to go there for inspiration, and this time we are inspired we should re paint, buy new sofas and chairs, and maybe live somewhere else..! no really we love our home but the colors could need some changing. maybe one of these days after the months of ramadhan and eid are finished with all the travelling and visiting we'll be doing.