OFFICIAL MOVE

Today is the 15th of July and i will no longer be posting on this blog.
Please visit me at my new website
Sew Chic and Unique
See you there
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Busy bee, busy me

First of all i would like to thank everyone who read my post about helping Hawraa.  I really hope that this messages reaches many and that Hawraa gets the help she needs it to live a life she deserves.

I get asked lots of questions by friends and family such as what am i upto these days? well i have [...]

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Help Hawraa

Hawraa Al Bahri needs our help. This 13 year old girl may not live to celebrate her 14th birthday. Since the age of 6 months old she has been suffering a rare form of sickle cell disease.
She has gone through lots of treatment but nothing seems to be working anymore and she is in lots of pain. She [...]

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My love for Books

Apart from sewing another hobby of mine is reading. I love reading just ask my mum and she will tell you how strong my relationship with books is. My earliest memory of reading books is bedtime stories with my mum. She used to read me stories before going to sleep and when i learnt how to read [...]

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A Friend and a Happy Customer

Earlier this year i participated in a blog party hosted by 5 Minutes for Mom and whilst blog hoping i came across Sandier Pastures you might remember seeing her blog button in my previous blog daily dose of me.
So Grace and i were really glad we met cause we were so close as she currently lives in Dubai so only 4 [...]

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Crafty Ladies Meet up

Mirage from Sew 2 be happy arranged a ladies crafty morning yesterday at her place. I got to meet  Laila from Time for tea and Alia from Coffeebean’s Dailies.
These ladies are crafty they all brought projects that they were currently working on which all happened to  be quilts!  I on the other hand went with nothing [...]

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My tissue box cover

It has been more than 2 weeks since i have made something until yesterday.
I finally made the tissue box cover which was intended for the last Sew IT tutorial which i missed because i was in Dubai.
This is how mine turned out

The tutorial was easy to follow however, this was not perfect. I think i [...]

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Your Machine is your best friend

It dawned on me when Magnolia one of my readers asked if i could send her the contact info for Aunty S (the lady i used to go for sewing lessons) that i had not covered the basics of using a sewing machine!
I know how could i have forgot to cover blog about such an [...]

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My Niece’s Room

In May i decided to renovate my niece’s room who lives with us. I will refer to her as R. Ever since we moved into the house which was this time last year, i havent really decorated it. I like to take it nice and slow so its one room at a time.
So this is [...]

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I WON!

Sew Mama Sew which i am sure you have heard of, if not head over there now as its a great site filled with lots of projects and how tos.
Last month they hosted a great giveaway which was called the May Giveaway day. Which is where Crafty Mamas would giveaway handcrafted items, or sewing/knitting supplies.
So [...]

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