Still not finished

As you can see the craft room is not quite ready yet. It is currently filled with boxes waiting to be assembled, all we need is an electrical screwdriver and drill. Apparently you can rent those for the day, but didnt manage to do that yet as we had guests over for lunch over the weekend.
Here [...]

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Kumma Tutorial Omani Cap

As promised in one of my previous post, here is a tutorial on how a Omani cap is made. Its a  sewing techinque called tanjeem which is dervied from the word nijma in arabic, which means star but the what we  are sewing ends up being a circle!!
The cap i am sewing is intended for my husband but the [...]

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Thank you Hubby

My darling husband created me a header! and together afterI decided exactly what i wanted lol (that took the longest time ehehe) we came up with what you see (above)
Although designing and developing websites are his passions, he is stuck in a job which he hates and doesnt have much time to do what he loves, which is [...]

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IKEA – I LOVE YOU

 
 OH my isnt IKEA the best?! I mean even if you have no interior desining sense you can easily find inspirations in IKEA. Each time i visit i spend hours and hours and dont get bored. I wish i could live in IKEA, its just so cosy and homey.
I mean whats not to love?
What i love [...]

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Free Tutorials anyone?

I just got back from IKEA very happy with what i purcahsed will tell you all about it after i get a good night’s rest.
I wanted to share with you one of my obessions TUTORIALS i am so glad to know that my habit of collecting sewing/crafting tutorials is normal I have a folder saved in my favorites and in [...]

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Painting almost done

I have been painting the craftroom since yesterday the first coat is on one more coat to be applied and i am done!
 
Normally we would pay someone to paint, but i was inspired by my crafty mamas and as its craft room  i thought i might as well take this opportunity to get crafty, so i decided to do it myself. I [...]

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Work in Progress

I have officially started working on my craft room, which i hope will end up looking like Megan’s craft room.
So i first made a list of the furniture which i plan to get from IKEA Dubai, as we dont have one in Oman i am hoping that my darling husband is going to take me [...]

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Waldorf Salad

Last friday i was invited to my mum for lunch. Growing up mum didnt have much time to spend in the kitchen due to her full time job. But now that she is retired she does! and on friday she made a Waldorf salad which was finger licking good, and i made it last night for my hubby.
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Meet Miss JD

I would like to introduce you to my soon to be best friend my Miss Jay Dee aka JD

My mum lent me her sewing machine to use until i got my own, isnt she a darling? (mum, just in case you read this i love you) Its one that she bought several years ago so an [...]

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Housekeeping Update

A few posts ago in my its all about me post , i blogged about starting to FLY. Unfortunately i didnt do anything more than shine my sink, because well i am not the only one who has control of the kitchen. As the maid is here, so she is used to doing things her way and [...]

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