The second theme is Hobby/Recreation: What do you do when you have free time? (hike, sail, write, paint, etc.) I picked Reading. During my Masters course, I did so much reading for my course that it kind of put me off reading anything for fun for a couple of months. I’ve recently come back to [...]
Today is the first day of Hijab Fashion Week! The first theme is Leaders in Hijab: what leadership roles do you have or want to try? (President, teacher, mother, Volunteer Leader, CEO etc.). I picked Employee/Business Owner. I’m hoping one day to A) Have a job again inshallah (god willing) and B) Have my own [...]
I must be crazy because I signed up to participate in Hijab Fashion Week. Argh! What was I thinking? If you haven’t guessed by now, I am a Muslim. I wear the Hijab or headscarf on a daily basis. And no I don’t shower in it (True story). I’d heard about Hijab Fashion week and [...]
I talked about the healthy eating/ exercising challenge I’m doing for the next 21 days in my last post. So, this is a little update. The first week has been HARD! I always find 1st weeks to be the weeks where you’re going to be a better person and everything will work out, but after [...]
I’ve accepted Sabrina of Sliceoflemon’s challenge to do something consistently for 21 days that you’d like to change about yourself. I picked two things, eat healthy and exercise more. So day 1, which was Tuesday and as I speak today is Thursday and Day 3, of the challenge. Well, after being inspired, I dusted off [...]
OK, I have finally given in and created a tumblr. I’m not sure exactly what to do with it or how it works, but if any of you have tumblrs, please either follow me, or leave a link in the comments explaining how this works. Mine is here. And I’ve also decided to update my [...]
I had heard about this book last year on The TV Bookclub, and hadn’t really paid that much attention to be honest. It was only when it was turned into a film with Emma Stone and Bryce Dallas Howard in it, I thought I’d give it a go. The film is definitely not as good [...]
