Brides who DIY workshop recap

As you may have seen on my social platforms, I led a really fun workshop at the Salam Shop in collaboration with Nikah.ca in Mississauga about a week ago. We had a great group of brides come out to learn fun DIYs that you could incorporate into your wedding while staying on a budget.

This was a great workshop where we shared fun stories, had yummy snacks, learnt about one another and everyone's upcoming wedding plans. It was a a great time meeting new people and learning new crafts and I would highly recommend coming out to our next workshop we have.

If you are getting married soon, I would highly recommend reaching out with any DIY questions or better yet, host a private DIY session for your bridesmaids and you. It would be a really fun bonding activity for your bridal party and you'd also be getting quite a bit of work done at the same time. I have worked with many bridal parties to organize their DIY wedding favours or wedding card sessions.

Email me for more info!

I have shared some photos below from the event.

Enjoy!

Ramadan is coming (+ free printable!)

We've all heard it before - Winter is coming. Well, maybe only those who watch the Game of Thrones, but for Muslims around the world, Ramadan is coming.

With Ramadan right around the corner, Muslim households worldwide are starting to prepare for the auspicious month, preparing to make it the better than the last. This includes a variety of things including food prep, iftaar parties, weekend post-iftaar plans and even preparation for Eid-ul-Fitr - oh of course, increased prayers(!).

While I start preparing on my end, one of the things that I kept in mind was to keep a 2015 Ramadan calendar on my desk at work. Now, I am not sure about everyone else, but we usually get ours from the local masjid (mosque) and keep it on our fridge to count down follow along to eating and prayer times. At our house, we race to cross the day off so we can get closer and closer to the Eid celebrations. You will always see thick black permanent marker lines across the calendar in our house and my cousins always know that this is a thing we ALWAYS do!

What I wanted to do this year, was keep a calendar with my at work, on my desk, so I could quickly reference it for iftaar salah times. The Ramadan Calendar that the mosques provide are usually quite large and don't really match the artsy theme I have going on on my desk at work. Because of this, I decided to make a fun printable Ramadan calendar that was pretty and could fit perfectly into a space that's been carefully curated to look beautiful.

I have shared this for download.

If you live in the Toronto region and would like to pick up a printed copy, please email me or message me via my Facebook page and I can arrange a pickup or mail out to you.

I would love to know any fun family Ramadan traditions that happen in your household. Comment below!

Happy Ramadan!

xo

DIY - Re-purposed Roses

In the last few weeks, I've had roses, bouquets and potted plants hanging around all over the house as a result of a series of events. I love having fresh flowers on the house and think it should be on everyone's grocery list at least every other week.

Flowers and greenery bring out a fresh and energized feeling in the home - especially in the spring when the weather in Toronto hasn't decided what it wants to be yet!

Having so many roses in the house, I knew they would all eventually dry up and die at the same time. Now usually, I let flowers run their course, let them die and then toss them out. I am not one to hang the bouquet upside down while my flowers are looking the best that they'll be just to get a perfectly dried bouquet. If you feed your flowers with the water and food they need, they can last up-to two full weeks looking pretty decent!

What I did this time around was repurpose my dead roses to get one more use before getting rid of them. Because these were sentimental roses, I wanted to be sure to keep them for a little longer.

Here's a quick DIY for your dried-up roses:

Get a vase that you think will fill to the top with the roses.

Snip the roses right at the top so there is hardly a stem left.

Pile them nicely on the vase with the tops showering along the sides of the glass.

That's it!

 Would you try this DIY? What other vase shapes could this work in? Let me know in the comments below! 

Bridesmaid proposal

You read that right. I got engaged! 

I am so excited to share the first part of my engagement process and a preview to one of the many DIY Tutorials that are to follow leading up to the wedding. Details on how I make all these items will be shared with a series of blog posts over the next year as there will be quite a few elements. I will also share details on the fonts and templates!

If you see below, I have shared ideas for a bridesmaid proposal kit based on things I liked as well as the colours I want to incorporate into my wedding. I used mint, navy, peach and white with hints of purple. If you're wondering what to put into a bridesmaid proposal box, see below for photos and inspiration. I have also listed out what I had in each box!

My boxes included:

• Mint EOS lip balm
• Essence peach glitter/pink nail polish
• Hand-stamped cotton drawstring bag with my bridesmaid's initials on them to personalize. Each bag was filled with lavender for them to keep in a their drawers.
• Cards with instructions and details about the bridal party, wedding day, the dress and their role.
• A personalized library card note from me to each one of my girls.
• Paint chips with the colour scheme and range the girls can choose for their dresses
• Photos to inspire dress ideas, wedding feel and the look I am going for (Couldn't let myself out - Too much FOMO!)