Childhood Memories: Random Photos

Assalamu Alaikum everyone!

Firstly, we have to admit that we have been very busy lately and have not had the time to craft or bake, unfortunately. However, we still really wanted to post something and so here it is. This quick post is just us sharing some random photos from our childhood and telling you a bit about them. We hope you enjoy it, insha'Allah!

These stones sat outside on our steps.

A shot of our backyard. The tree in the far corner is a Neem tree and it has lots of medicinal benefits.

Neem flowers are delicate and their sweet scent will always remind us of springtime.

Living in a desert, the one thing you learn to love and appreciate is rain!

Grey clouds, an empty washing line...

...and a photo of the airing rack, finally serving its purpose!

Baking and helping our mum in the kitchen.

Getting creative indoors...

...and outdoors too!

This photo is one of our favourites. It's of our rooster (tucked under Zainab's arm) patiently waiting to have his photo taken. There's just something so nostalgic about it.

Well, that is all! If you want to see more of our 'childhood memories' you can click here to read the post we did on our old garden.

Hopefully we will try to have a proper post ready for next week. Until then, insha'Allah.

Love and wassalam,



DIY Back-to-School Notebook Cover

Assalamu Alaikum!

It's Hanifah and today I'm going to show you how to make this pretty shaker notebook cover. So it's back to school for us, or rather back to home-schooling. I thought it would be fun to decorate this notebook and it only took me around 10-minutes to do.

For this craft you will need:-

a notebook

plastic jacket

double-sided tape

Stanley knife

scissors

ruler

pencil

sequins

First you will need to mark a border on the inside of the notebook cover. Mine was 1.5 cm thick.

Next, cut out the rectangle using the Stanley knife.

Don't worry; this beautiful patterned card won't go to waste! We will probably use it as a journaling card or something.

You can save yours too and use it to make a bookmark like the one pictured below. Click here to see how we made it.

Now you will need to cut the plastic jacket. It needs to be bigger than the cut-out piece of card.

You will need two plastic rectangles and you will need to attach them with the double-sided tape.

Attach a plastic sheet onto the inside of the cover.

Trim the excess and flip to the front cover. Place the sequins onto the plastic sheet and attach the second sheet over them.

Again, trim any excess and then your notebook cover is done!

If you would like to see more of our notebook cover designs you can click here.

We hope you recreate this craft and we will see you next Friday, insha'Allah.

Wassalam,

Hanifah



Our 2018 Summer Holiday (part 1)

Assalamu Alaikum!

Today we thought we would share with you some photos from our summer holiday. We spent five weeks in England and we really enjoyed ourselves, masha'Allah.

We celebrated Eid-ul-Adha with our family and fell in love with our Nani's new cat, Harith.

Harith was a little shy at first but he soon warmed to us.

We are already missing him and can't wait to see him again next year, insha'Allah.

We also spent a week with our Grandma (father's mother). We didn't take many photos but we do have some of our Grandma's garden.

This is a sweet cat we saw often during our visit. Her name is Millie. For some reason she looks a little grumpy in this photo!

During our stay in the West Midlands we visited the Botanical Gardens which was such a lovely trip, masha'Allah.

There were so many beautiful flowers...

...and some other interesting plants and things.

We saw many birds such as peacocks, lovebirds and parrots.

This cheeky cockatoo said hello to us!

Of course, we loved the butterfly room with all the pretty butterflies.

Well, that's all for this post but we will do another, insha'Allah. It was a long holiday, masha'Allah, and we have more photos to share! We hope you had a wonderful summer and we will see you in our next post.

Take care and Wassalam,