Birthday wish-list

Hello people of the bog world !

How have y'all been?

Hi blog i missed you.

The idea of gifting someone something or receiving gifts makes me happy. So much thought goes into what to get the person and you wrap it up, add a bow here and make it look perfect and all. Then you write a nice card and stuff, it's cute. In my world, people sometimes gift you stupid things, because they dont think of gifts as "GIFTS". They think of them as presents, something that has to be presented or otherwise the other person will feel "not important"and get mad or something or they simply dont want to waste money so they go and get you the cheapest most disgusting perfume in the existence of mankind. If you dont want to waste your money on me then dont, if you dont want to waste too much of your money on me then just get me a flower, and if you want to spend your money wholeheartedly on me then...Thank you <3

This year i decided to put up a birthday wish-list on my blog and if you plan of gifting me something but dont know what to get me, then this is supposed to be your guide. 

Starting off;

1- This year, I asked my parents for a rainbow Quran. They are so pretty and cute.

2- I've been wanting a FILOFAX since last year but for some reason decided to get a Lilly Puitzer one in the end because it started from August 2013 through December 2014 which was just what i needed for my first year at uni. And besides, filofax was a bit off budget for me and I didnt know that i would last. I though it only lasted a year then you have to get rid of it and get a new one, but it doesnt work that way. You basically buy the filofax once, then every year you get a new set of pages to put in them. Did i make sence?

and people make really awesome stuff with these things it's too cute.

3- Books!! i have an entire list of books i wanna read and buy. Gifting me books would be perfect.

I've actually been eyeing the hard cover of "Alice's adventures in wonderland and other stories" for quite some time now but havent found a copy in the bookstore i go to.

I also love the new penguin hard cover classics. They look so fancy and posh. 

I also like fancy notebooks because i love making lists,as some of you may know and sometimes i just write my daily thoughts in them.

Anyway, that was it for my birthday wish-list. I'm not asking you to go get me one of these things. I just felt like blogging about my birthday wish-list this year. 

oh and my birthday is on 3rd of September. Turning 19 this year Insha'Allah 

Okay buh-bye ;)

Major freakout?

Good afternoon, or morning...or night? whatever Hi.

Salamz 

Remember last year at this time i was talking about uni and choosing my major and all that important stuff. Yeah well, i finally got a scholarship from the ministry of education to study accounting in university of Bahrain. And so i accepted the scholarship and started in September and Opps.. what happened? i had to stop a month later. As i said in my previous post I was diagnosed with a brain tumor somewhere in October 2013 and had to urgently stop school and everything and leave the country to start treatment. 

And here I am a year later, I still am not ready to go back to uni. I still have a couple of months of chemo-therapy left which will again hold me back an entire semester. And to be honest i am relieved that i have a break, but I still wanna go back and start studying again.

Now, the question here is... Should i go back and do boring old accounting or do what I've always wanted to do which is study English Literature?

so i'll leave you here and let you know what exactly goes on. i mean if my uni accepts my random and sudden change of choice.

 

ok bye love you 

xoxo

Where Have I Been?

Hello people of the world? How's everything? I hope you're all doing great. oh God I just realized I missed my blog so much.
This Blogpost is going to be the most random post ever, bear with me.
I stopped blogging for many reasons. mainly because.....
well, I'm not sure where to start and what should I mention and what I shouldn't. After all bloggers do have a personal life, don't they.
On October 19th I was diagnosed with a brain tumour that's very rare, and so I had to leave the country as soon as possible to start my treatment in the US. Now I'm back and done with half of the treatment and feeling much better alhamdilla. second half of the treatment will be here in Bahrain Insha'Allah and hoping Insha'Allah it all goes well.
I hope I made everything clear and if I didn't then I'm sorry. This post is very weird might get deleted anytime soon. just posted it to tell you that I'm back and where I have been.
Keep me in your prayers and I'll see you soon.

WIP Wednesday

crochet is my hobby, my interest, the thing I turn to when I'm not feeling good. When I have a yarn and hook between my hands, the world becomes 10 x better. I haven't been crocheting much lately, I cross stitched a little and uni started this week so I've been busy a little and didnt have much time to crochet. Last night I was home alone and grabbed a yarn and hook and searched "crochet Japanese flower tutorial". Never made one but I love how Japanese crochet flowers look and the projects that can be made with them. I followed these instructions and changed a little to get the perfect Japanese crochet flower.

 

 Not really sure where i'm going with this. just making some Japanese flowers here and there. will either choose all the colors or just green, pink, yellow and blue. I'm actually thinking of joining them and make a little table mat for my night stand. what do you guys think? any ideas ?



work-in-progress Wednesday

Every Wednesday, in the blogging world of crafters and crocheters, readers are updated on the latest projects the blogger has been working on. And I'm that person who waits until Wednesday is here to check my dashboard for 'work-in-progress Wednesdays'. They are one of my favorite posts <3.

This week I decided to join and post my 'work-in-progress' project.

As some of you may know I've been crocheting since I was 7 and never really stopped, 2 years back I decided to try something new and took on knitting, I loved it. So last year, again, decided to go for something new and tried cross stitching. I was told that with cross-stitching you first have to start with the ones that already have the picture printed on the fabric and you just have to cross-stitch over the printed picture. So I went ahead and bought one and started to cross-stitch, I liked the idea of cross-stitching but didn't like that I was just copying the picture. with crochet and knitting, you kinda have to count how many stitches you make here, add 2 there, decrease 7 over here (use your brain) but with the cross-stitching it wasn't like that (which got a little tiny bit boring). My friend who is an expert at cross-stitching got me one of the cross-stitching kits that have everything in it (the fabric, the pattern on a separate paper, and the yarn or whatever they're called)

last week I started cross-stitching and OMG I cant stop. I'm loving it. I'm a bit slow though.
Here's a picture:

 

 

will post the final picture once i'm done.

Follow my crafting account on instagram: @crocheta_bh

 

 See you soon x





Clean eating

Hello there, hope you’re all well :D

My last post was the epitome of FAIL. I promised to put up 2 to 3 recipes every week during Ramadhan, and created this series which will encourage you all to go into kitchen and experiment and improve your cooking skills. But I realized that the food I was cooking and baking was so unhealthy. I was following @officialfooddiary at that time and I saw how healthy she ate and it suddenly hit me, “I WANT to eait healthy”!!

For the past couple of years my eating habits have been really bad, I don’t eat well when it comes to main meals, but rather concentrate on the snacks more to fill my stomach. And that’s not really healthy. I am not doing this to lose weight or to lose fat, I’m not saying that I’m 100% happy with the way my body looks and is shaped. I currently weigh 48.3 Kg and my goal is not to change that, but I will be recording my weigh throughout my healthy eating diet.

As a Persian living in an Arabic world this is going to be hard, my grandma is not going to like this. My diet normally is;

-         Breakfast: I don’t like to spend much time making breakfast I’m usually half asleep when I wake up so it’s either cereal or cheese sandwich and milk and tea (I can never skip breakfast, if I do I get severe headaches and energy levels get so low)

-         Lunch: because I’m a Persian living in an Arab country rice has to be included in my lunch, if it’s not rice then it’s pasta (and that only happens like once a month or something). Lunch is the heaviest of the 3 meals.

-         Snack: fruits, biscuits, chocolate, EREEETING

-         Dinner: I try to keep it simple when I’m at home but when I’m out it’s fast food, or just whatever dinner is.

You should know that:

1.      I never eat banana’s (I can’t stand the smell nor the taste of banana’s) I know how healthy they are but I just can’t.

2.     I don’t drink soft drinks or whatever you call them (pepsi, 7up, Canada dry…etc)

3.     I’m not a big fan of sea food. I do eat it when that’s what our lunch is, but if I’m at a restaurant I don’t order sea food. I prefer chicken and beef.

I am trying to improve my diet and balance it out. My skin needs this, my hair needs this and my body needs this. Most importantly I want to feel healthy I know it is going to make me a happier person.

If you wanna see my food diary I am posting whatever I eat on my instagram which is @maryamsamii

If you want to start eating healthy or a food diary on instagram please leave ur instagram account in the comments, I’d love to follow you.

Ramadhan kareem

Hello there, hope you're all well :D

A bit late but I'd like to wish all my muslim readers and followers a ramdhan mubarak. May this month be filled with joy, happiness and positivity.

If ur wondering why I'm late with this post, it's because I havent been feeling well lately. Headaches, soar throat, cold and flu, which lead to me being voice-less. And above all that I was feeling a bit low, I was bored with my daily routine that consisted of me waking up every morning, having the same breakfast, doing the same thing over and over again. If you know anything about me, it's that I dont like to complain, especially to people I'm not too close with. But I just felt like getting this off my chest. I'm also participating in an exihibition where I'm going to be selling some of my crochet items. (Will talk about it more in anothet post probably)
Okay, so now that we have that out of the way. Remember I said I'll be doing a series this ramadhan? Welllllll, I will be posting some fun recipes every week. Like 2 or 3 recipes every week. I'm not saying that I'm a professional chef or anything. But I love cooking and I'd like to share some recipes with y'all. I'll be posting desserts or soups or finger food. I'll be very happy if you joined me and posted some recipes and it could be a thing, you know ?
Anyway, I'll be starting this tomorrow insha'Allaah.

I'm blogging from my phone for the first time. It is now 2:02 and I'll be up until shoor and so I thought why not blog? This post was a bit random but I just wanted to talk to y'all and give u a little update. Battery low. Okay. Once again. Ramadhan mubarak♡
See you soon x