Morning everyone! :D
Ok so I woke up really early today for the meeting, at first I woke up at 9:30ish and then realised I could sleep in. So I did. But then I woke up about 10mins till 11 and just freshened up. I didn't do anything much I played a little with Aston and that's about it. Other than that I went back to my room to get changed when phone received a text and of course it was from the lady I was supposed to meet today saying that something's come up and she has to rearrange the date.
I thought that was it I don't think I would ever get a job because I become to hopeful and then I thought...well honestly she did say to rearrange so lets make it early then usual shall we? So I decided it for tomorrow at 12 and it's set!! I'll meet her up tomorrow at 12 and we'll go over everything then :D I hopeful and excited but not too much as the result always becomes like what just happened.
Anyways I plan to read the Qur'an in a bit for a couple of hours and then I'll probably take a nap and then after Iftaar and my last prayer I would do my Ramadan Diary entry for today!! :D
I was just about to say bye when my phone just rang and guess where it's from? The Internship programme!!! :D I'm telling you this is a sign from Allah telling me to move forward with this...I think I would too as the prospects sounds very good. First I'll speak to my dad about it and then I'll go from there. Anyways I'll speak to you all in a bit.
Take care a stay positive xoxox
Monday, 15 July 2013
Ramadan Diary Day 5 (Sunday 14th July 2013)
Hey hi lo! :D
I am finally updated!!! I am now on schedule with my blog and would definitely be blogging regularly again!!! :D So today was an interesting day! I woke up from a text from JSA saying my interview is on Wednesday! :O Made me really nervous...from that I woke up...I freshened up a bit and then I prayed and sat down and read the Qur'an for 3 and half hours!! I got a lot done!! :D I am taking the advantage of not being employed so I thought I might as well make full use of it and set myself a really good target!! :D
After that I read a little bit of manga (still so crazy about it but not addicted anymore lol) and it made me laugh. I also searched up the place I need to be for tomorrow and I was pretty surprised that it was in the nice ends of London! :D I'm happy...from that I started to fantasize about working in a place that looked so nice and fancy of course it was just a fantasy and nothing more :P
I made a note of it and later on after Iftar I showed it to my dad and told him of the possibility of a job but it may not be one. After a while a calls me and says to me not to belittle myself of I don't get the job as long as I'm trying and that he knows that I am and because of that I shouldn't belittle myself for not finding a job. I felt that he was being very understanding and made me appreciate myself...of course I wasn't belittling meself at all here :)
Anyways overall it was a great fasting day today - even though today was just as hot as yesterday - also I am pretty excited about tomorrow! Really nervous that it's finally here!! :D
Ok now that I'm up to date I just finished writing this post on 1:34am and would write the next Ramadan entry after my last Prayer of tomorrow of course I will update you all of the news on my interview tomorrow!! Wish me good fortune!! :D
Take care and think positive :D xoxox
I am finally updated!!! I am now on schedule with my blog and would definitely be blogging regularly again!!! :D So today was an interesting day! I woke up from a text from JSA saying my interview is on Wednesday! :O Made me really nervous...from that I woke up...I freshened up a bit and then I prayed and sat down and read the Qur'an for 3 and half hours!! I got a lot done!! :D I am taking the advantage of not being employed so I thought I might as well make full use of it and set myself a really good target!! :D
After that I read a little bit of manga (still so crazy about it but not addicted anymore lol) and it made me laugh. I also searched up the place I need to be for tomorrow and I was pretty surprised that it was in the nice ends of London! :D I'm happy...from that I started to fantasize about working in a place that looked so nice and fancy of course it was just a fantasy and nothing more :P
I made a note of it and later on after Iftar I showed it to my dad and told him of the possibility of a job but it may not be one. After a while a calls me and says to me not to belittle myself of I don't get the job as long as I'm trying and that he knows that I am and because of that I shouldn't belittle myself for not finding a job. I felt that he was being very understanding and made me appreciate myself...of course I wasn't belittling meself at all here :)
Anyways overall it was a great fasting day today - even though today was just as hot as yesterday - also I am pretty excited about tomorrow! Really nervous that it's finally here!! :D
Ok now that I'm up to date I just finished writing this post on 1:34am and would write the next Ramadan entry after my last Prayer of tomorrow of course I will update you all of the news on my interview tomorrow!! Wish me good fortune!! :D
Take care and think positive :D xoxox
Ramadan Diary Day 4 (Saturaday 13th July) and update
Hey Hey people! :D
Ok so day 4 is here and I just have to say one thing: IT'S SO HOT!! :O
Ok I'm not really one to complain about the weather because I actually don't find it a problem but today was really hot but fortunately I was at home so I didn't feel the full wrath of the heat wave :)
As for Sehri it was as usual the same as ever full of food and my family enjoying it while talking very nice as always :D
As for the the rest of the day I was actually thinking a lot about the meeting on Monday!! I'm really nervous but excited at the same time I guess...but I think more then anything I feel confident that I might get the job but because of that I think it will effect my chances of getting a job because everytime I get my hope up about something I always end up losing it. So I tried really hard not to think about it.
I did focus on something else though and that's the update!! :D I have now officially purchased a new laptop from my uni and it should arrive within 10 days!!!!! :D Finally!! :D I am soooo looking forward it!!! There's so many things I want to do!! :D Sooo excited!!! :D
Anyways during Iftar it was a nice meal this time we had pilau rice and nicely cooked chicken! Yummy!! :D Really nice meal and again I made sure not to stuff myself. Another thing that I thought of was that the whole day I was thinking about Monday and I was actually kind of looking forward to it!! so I hope that I can get the job and I hope it's a permanent job too!! :D Pray for me!! :D
That's all for now take care and think positive xoxox
Ok so day 4 is here and I just have to say one thing: IT'S SO HOT!! :O
Ok I'm not really one to complain about the weather because I actually don't find it a problem but today was really hot but fortunately I was at home so I didn't feel the full wrath of the heat wave :)
As for Sehri it was as usual the same as ever full of food and my family enjoying it while talking very nice as always :D
As for the the rest of the day I was actually thinking a lot about the meeting on Monday!! I'm really nervous but excited at the same time I guess...but I think more then anything I feel confident that I might get the job but because of that I think it will effect my chances of getting a job because everytime I get my hope up about something I always end up losing it. So I tried really hard not to think about it.
I did focus on something else though and that's the update!! :D I have now officially purchased a new laptop from my uni and it should arrive within 10 days!!!!! :D Finally!! :D I am soooo looking forward it!!! There's so many things I want to do!! :D Sooo excited!!! :D
Anyways during Iftar it was a nice meal this time we had pilau rice and nicely cooked chicken! Yummy!! :D Really nice meal and again I made sure not to stuff myself. Another thing that I thought of was that the whole day I was thinking about Monday and I was actually kind of looking forward to it!! so I hope that I can get the job and I hope it's a permanent job too!! :D Pray for me!! :D
That's all for now take care and think positive xoxox
Ramadan Diary Day 3 (Friday 12th July 2013)
Hello Hello :D
Day 3 was quite interesting, I have been praying the special prayer at night before the Fajr prayer and honestly saying it's such a miracle! Before I got into detail I'll tell you how Sehri was, firstly I didn't eat because I was soooo stuffed from Iftar that I wasn't able to eat...not a good idea hence why I said in my last post that you don't really eat like that only occasionally. Anyways, because of the stuffing I paid for it by not eating during Sehri! :O That was not good because during the day I was really REALLY hungry! :O
Anyways the miracle I was talking about kicks in right now....I was helping in the kitchen when my younger sister brings my phone...ringing I pick and guess who it was?! It was the lady I was trying to get a hold of from the Summer fete!! How crazy cool is that?! :D She called me telling me that she was busy which is why everytime I called it was unavailable. So then she told me to come in on Monday at 1pm so we can talk!! :D I'm soo happy although I'm trying not to get my hopes up because as usual I have the worst fate when it comes to finding employment.
So yeah I've just been thinking about that the whole day (even though I know I said I wouldn't get my hopes up...but you know it's something to think about right?) Anyways I went on my e-mail and guess what?! I got accepted onto the graduate Internship!!!!!!! :D This is great now all I have to do is send them my CV and they would match it with the right internship vacancy and then I would get a paid training!!! :D But again I don't want to get my hopes up so I'm leaving it for now.
I actually found out about the acceptance because I applied for JSA and I needed to check my e-mails so yeah that's how I've out about it!! Woohoo!! :D But I hope the JSA goes well too as I had a little incident with it previously.
Anyways during Iftar I stuffed myself but moderately of course (I learnt my lesson from the day before don't worry lol) it was a nice simple meal and I really enjoyed it. One thing I like about Ramadan is that the whole family gets together and enjoys each others' company - So nice! :D
Ok well that's it for now until the next day everyone!! :D Take care and think positive :D xoxox
Day 3 was quite interesting, I have been praying the special prayer at night before the Fajr prayer and honestly saying it's such a miracle! Before I got into detail I'll tell you how Sehri was, firstly I didn't eat because I was soooo stuffed from Iftar that I wasn't able to eat...not a good idea hence why I said in my last post that you don't really eat like that only occasionally. Anyways, because of the stuffing I paid for it by not eating during Sehri! :O That was not good because during the day I was really REALLY hungry! :O
Anyways the miracle I was talking about kicks in right now....I was helping in the kitchen when my younger sister brings my phone...ringing I pick and guess who it was?! It was the lady I was trying to get a hold of from the Summer fete!! How crazy cool is that?! :D She called me telling me that she was busy which is why everytime I called it was unavailable. So then she told me to come in on Monday at 1pm so we can talk!! :D I'm soo happy although I'm trying not to get my hopes up because as usual I have the worst fate when it comes to finding employment.
So yeah I've just been thinking about that the whole day (even though I know I said I wouldn't get my hopes up...but you know it's something to think about right?) Anyways I went on my e-mail and guess what?! I got accepted onto the graduate Internship!!!!!!! :D This is great now all I have to do is send them my CV and they would match it with the right internship vacancy and then I would get a paid training!!! :D But again I don't want to get my hopes up so I'm leaving it for now.
I actually found out about the acceptance because I applied for JSA and I needed to check my e-mails so yeah that's how I've out about it!! Woohoo!! :D But I hope the JSA goes well too as I had a little incident with it previously.
Anyways during Iftar I stuffed myself but moderately of course (I learnt my lesson from the day before don't worry lol) it was a nice simple meal and I really enjoyed it. One thing I like about Ramadan is that the whole family gets together and enjoys each others' company - So nice! :D
Ok well that's it for now until the next day everyone!! :D Take care and think positive :D xoxox
Ramadan Diary - Day 1 (Wednesday 10th July 2013)
Hello everyone! :D
Like I said to you all I would make a special Ramadan Diary everyday but because there was too many things happening and I didn't write a daily post however I won't make he same mistake with this post. So lets get started with this before I delay it any longer :P
What is Ramadan?
Ok so as you know during the moth of Ramadan Muslims fast for the whole day eating before dawn and breaking their fast during the sunset. It is done to help become less greedy and build good characteristics. It's also to support those in need by paying your zakat (a certain amount of money spent on charity). It helps Muslims to understand the sufferings of the poor and how to survive.
Also during this blessed month Muslims become awarded with good deeds two folds then in any other month. During the fast Muslims are not to drink or eat anything for the rest of the day until sunset and to pray to their Lord and recite the Qur'an. This will help them in this life and the afterlife.
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Ok so now that we got the basics out of the way let just say how my day went. Firstly it's the first day of Ramadan so it's bound to be difficult but every individual struggles one way or another right? Honestly I felt that my day was actually pretty ok with a little struggle here and there. Honestly saying I think it went really fast, only because of the things I helped out with such as the cooking and preparation of Iftar (The name given to when we break our fast). I also helped out with the preparation of Sehri (the name given to when we eat before the sun rises), I would just reheat everything and then put the plates down and wake everyone up for Sehri. Which is very nice because we all eat together and share a few stories and comments here and there.
Anyways in the we pray our Isha Salah (the name of the last Salah (prayer) of the day) and do 20 Rakat (each Rakah is the completion of standing up in the Salah prostrating and standing up again) So you can imagine how long it but its a blessing to be able to do all of it as you are always rewarded one way or another.
Anyways that marks the end of the first day of Ramadan and this post on Ramadan Diary I shall post the rest of the days next :) Salam for now and take care and be positive xoxox
Like I said to you all I would make a special Ramadan Diary everyday but because there was too many things happening and I didn't write a daily post however I won't make he same mistake with this post. So lets get started with this before I delay it any longer :P
What is Ramadan?
Ok so as you know during the moth of Ramadan Muslims fast for the whole day eating before dawn and breaking their fast during the sunset. It is done to help become less greedy and build good characteristics. It's also to support those in need by paying your zakat (a certain amount of money spent on charity). It helps Muslims to understand the sufferings of the poor and how to survive.
Also during this blessed month Muslims become awarded with good deeds two folds then in any other month. During the fast Muslims are not to drink or eat anything for the rest of the day until sunset and to pray to their Lord and recite the Qur'an. This will help them in this life and the afterlife.
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Ok so now that we got the basics out of the way let just say how my day went. Firstly it's the first day of Ramadan so it's bound to be difficult but every individual struggles one way or another right? Honestly I felt that my day was actually pretty ok with a little struggle here and there. Honestly saying I think it went really fast, only because of the things I helped out with such as the cooking and preparation of Iftar (The name given to when we break our fast). I also helped out with the preparation of Sehri (the name given to when we eat before the sun rises), I would just reheat everything and then put the plates down and wake everyone up for Sehri. Which is very nice because we all eat together and share a few stories and comments here and there.
Anyways in the we pray our Isha Salah (the name of the last Salah (prayer) of the day) and do 20 Rakat (each Rakah is the completion of standing up in the Salah prostrating and standing up again) So you can imagine how long it but its a blessing to be able to do all of it as you are always rewarded one way or another.
Anyways that marks the end of the first day of Ramadan and this post on Ramadan Diary I shall post the rest of the days next :) Salam for now and take care and be positive xoxox
Ramadan Diary Day 2 (Thursday 11th July 2013)
Hello everyone! ;)
Ok so this was the second day of Ramadan and honestly saying I felt hungry. Firstly, during Sehri time I prepared the food again around 2:10ish so everyone can come and eat, of course I didn't go sleep and then wake up for Sehri because there wouldn't be any point in doing so.
Anyways after Sehri, I prayed and then went to sleep, this time around I felt hungry and felt the day being long but I made sure to keep myself busy which is why I was working on my other blog (note the mega post update) which was dragging by the day.
However other than that I did call up my uni and asked them if I can have an appointment with a careers guidance councilor on Monday and they gave me an appointment for Thursday 11th July (Today) so I went in and I spoke to her about by situation in terms of employment. I did mention that I applied for the graduate internship - For those who don't know, it's scheme for graduates who are unemployed to support them looking for a job through internship vacancies and you get to do paid training and most likely end up with a job in that sector. I told her that I applied to it on Monday (or Tuesday I think) and told her that I am still waiting to hear back from them.
At the end of this meeting she told me that she will speak to her colleague who is in charge of the graduate interns and recommend me!! :D What a booster to getting a chance at the internship. I really thought that was nice of her and she told me that I made a positive impression on her especially if I can get past the application process and I'm able to get an interview. She really boosted my confidence! So now I'm hoping that I get accepted onto the internship scheme! :D
Anyways after I came back I was pretty relaxed as most of the I was pretty tired but happy!! At home there wasn't much for me to do in terms of helping out so I starting to read the Qur'an - my target is to finish the whole thing in Ramadan!! I hope I do though because I really want to.
Time flew by and then it came to Iftar and I must admit this was the most satisfying and fulfilling meal I ever had. It was all thanks to my younger sister who carefully made the whole meal and it turned out fantastic! MashaAllah!! :D We all took pictures of it too so don't worry I will share it with you:
So filling and I ate the whole thing and my mum's half burger because she didn't want it and my little bro wanted half so I gave it to him and had the other half. However I didn't have one thing from this big meal and it was just 1 kebab.
Normally during Ramadan it's not a must to have a feast like this, but occasionally it's nice to eat something like this, so it was really nice :)
Anyways that was pretty much the end of that day :D Take care and think positive :D xoxox
Ok so this was the second day of Ramadan and honestly saying I felt hungry. Firstly, during Sehri time I prepared the food again around 2:10ish so everyone can come and eat, of course I didn't go sleep and then wake up for Sehri because there wouldn't be any point in doing so.
Anyways after Sehri, I prayed and then went to sleep, this time around I felt hungry and felt the day being long but I made sure to keep myself busy which is why I was working on my other blog (note the mega post update) which was dragging by the day.
However other than that I did call up my uni and asked them if I can have an appointment with a careers guidance councilor on Monday and they gave me an appointment for Thursday 11th July (Today) so I went in and I spoke to her about by situation in terms of employment. I did mention that I applied for the graduate internship - For those who don't know, it's scheme for graduates who are unemployed to support them looking for a job through internship vacancies and you get to do paid training and most likely end up with a job in that sector. I told her that I applied to it on Monday (or Tuesday I think) and told her that I am still waiting to hear back from them.
At the end of this meeting she told me that she will speak to her colleague who is in charge of the graduate interns and recommend me!! :D What a booster to getting a chance at the internship. I really thought that was nice of her and she told me that I made a positive impression on her especially if I can get past the application process and I'm able to get an interview. She really boosted my confidence! So now I'm hoping that I get accepted onto the internship scheme! :D
Anyways after I came back I was pretty relaxed as most of the I was pretty tired but happy!! At home there wasn't much for me to do in terms of helping out so I starting to read the Qur'an - my target is to finish the whole thing in Ramadan!! I hope I do though because I really want to.
Time flew by and then it came to Iftar and I must admit this was the most satisfying and fulfilling meal I ever had. It was all thanks to my younger sister who carefully made the whole meal and it turned out fantastic! MashaAllah!! :D We all took pictures of it too so don't worry I will share it with you:
So filling and I ate the whole thing and my mum's half burger because she didn't want it and my little bro wanted half so I gave it to him and had the other half. However I didn't have one thing from this big meal and it was just 1 kebab.
Normally during Ramadan it's not a must to have a feast like this, but occasionally it's nice to eat something like this, so it was really nice :)
Anyways that was pretty much the end of that day :D Take care and think positive :D xoxox
Sunday, 14 July 2013
Mega update finally!! Monthly special and more!! :D
Hey everyone!! :D
WARNING: Going to be a very VERY long post! Also this is the first post where I am posting a picture of myself :D Monthly special or what lol :P
Ok I know it's been a long time since I've posted but it's only because there's a lot of things that's been happening for the past few weeks (hence the title). I always want to write about it but I ended up procrastinating so I thought I need to write it either now or never. I also did say that I would try to write everyday so I will definitely try again...so...I wanted to apologise big time - I'm really really sorry!!! However I have A LOT to share and make up for it!! :) So first lets make a list of things to discuss in this blog:
1) My Creative crafts Special & Monthly Special
2) Summer Fete
3) Employment Stuff
4) Updates
~~~ Creative Craft Special ~~~
Ok as you all know I talked about something special that would happen that's related to crafts well here it is! Basically let me start off from Saturday 22nd June. That week I was speaking to someone in my local community about running a workshop, as I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I registered to this time bank system in my local community (check out my post entitled: Morning breakfast Yummy! :) ); well from that I've finally been able to give something back which is.....JEWELLERY MAKING!!! Oh yeah!!! Well honestly there was going to be more - like polymer clay works - but my pitch (lets call it) was half successful...so they decided to start it off with a jewellery making workshop and if it is very successful then I can start working with polymer clay in the future - when they have more funds of course.
So anyway lets get back to Saturday 22nd June, I started watching some Youtube videos on basic jewellery making and found one that's really simple and great!!! :D I watched it once and I know how to make it :) it was the perfect way to start off with something simple. Because on Friday 21st June I spoke to the person in my community centre and she told me that I have a budget of £50 which is a really GREAT start for the workshop. So anyways I spoke to a girl that is also doing some time sharing stuff and told her if she wouldn't mind coming to Oxford street with me and have a look at a craft shop that my friend told me about, fortunately she said yes and we arranged to meet on Monday at 10:30am so we don't get caught in any rush hour.
However before that day let me just squeeze in my monthly special (well the creative craft is the extra part in here). On Satuday 22nd June I finally met up with my Undergraduate friends and we went to Nando's to eat. Of course it was just us girls - with one left over!! I really missed my other friend who wasn't there :( Well anyways I meet with my friends and it just made me think that after nearly 1 year we all have changed. For instance now my friend has a 6 month baby boy soo cute he loves my toy (yay) I was happy when I saw him playing with it. He was also really well behaved when I was feeding him, he was soo cute but then he realises that his mum is not around and then starts to cry. My other friend just finished her degree and is sorted and lastly my other friend got married and I wasn't able to go to her wedding because we lost contact somehow :( but the good thing is that we are in contact again :D
The meal was very nice and we all enjoyed it so much!! It felt great going and meeting my friends after such a long time. But it also made me think about my position. I felt like I was in a standstill not going anywhere after dropping the PGCE Primary. Honestly saying I felt I wasn't going anywhere with my life but I didn't feel upset by their achievements or success but just feel a little regretful for not continuing with my programme. However all things happen for a reason right?
Here's some pictures of the event I'd like to share with you guys:
This is a picture of Kirsty and Damien together - So sweet!! Really made me want a baby Oh and that's the toy that I got for him! See? I told you he loves it!! :D
This is picture of Me, Kirsty, Roseanne and of course Baby Damien all in one at Nando's!! :D
That's a picture of me and Roseanne, who I haven't seen in a long time! It was really nice seeing her again!! :D
Oh this was a gift from my friend Kirsty, It's an American sweet that's available now in UK! It's really nice!! Makes you really thirsty but sooo goooood!!! :D Thanks Kirsty!! :)
~~~Back to creative craft special~~~
Well anyways that was my Saturday which then lead to me looking at jewellery videos on YouTube later that evening hence where I found myself the perfect video.
Then Monday 24th June 2013 came and I met up with the girl I said I would meet up with for the little journey to Oxford Street. We met at Mile End station and here is where the problem started. My friend told me that the craft shop HobbyCraft does not exist in Oxford Street to which I then told her that my other friend told me on Facebook she said that there isn't any and I had to make the decision of either not going to Oxford Street or to forget about it - I decided to head to Oxford Street regardless and hopefully find any other crafty type shops for jewellery making.
It's a good thing I said yes because we in fact found really good stores for the jewellery making and found that they would give a lot of stuff I found this really great beading shop calling beads creative craft (or something like that) and it was great!! It was not only a wholesaler but a retailer so we managed to get some good stuff and ended up getting some great stuff from it.I bought some beads, chains, jump rings, head pins and so on. I was happy I felt that I bought a lot of stuff and that this was actually happening, that thought made me feel a little scared - I guess you can say my self esteem was being shaken.
Anyways all this good stuff came afterwards. By that I mean that when we did arrive we checked online to find out if there was HobbyCraft and found out that there actually wasn't a HobbyCraft there and I misunderstood because I checked on my Facebook and my friend actually meant Oxford!! :O Really really far!! Thus began our journey through the different other stores where the results were great.
After we got back I went to my local community centre (I just realised that I never mentioned what the name of it is - It's called Bromley By Bow Centre) and spoke to Rose - who is in charge of the Time Bank as is another girl named Hajirah - I told her if it was ok for me to take the stuff home so I could make a bracelet for demonstration and said yes.
So when I went home with the stuff I was really happy but then in the next couple of days I was losing confidence to start on the bracelet, if your thinking why....I was thinking the same thing and then I thought there's no point in delaying it because I need to present them something on Thursday so then on Wednesday 26th June in the night I made myself a bracelet and the result is below:
This is the bracelet that I made! :) What do you guys think? This bracelet also became my big sisters birthday present because it was her birthday on Monday I forgot to get her something. She liked it which was nice :) There's seven beads on this representing each of us siblings :)
The next day the jewellery making workshop taster day was a success!! There was a great turn out and although there wasn't enough pliers going around but it still worked out and then I had a number of people sign up for the next session on Thursday. Oh I forgot to mention the session was held on the coffee session that the time bank provide!! :) Anyways at the end of it all it worked out perfectly!! A couple of days later I got a call from them telling me that I can't do the workshop during the coffee session because obviously it's their coffee session so I thought ok, I can do another day or time and so we arranged it at 3-4:30pm every Thursday!! How cool is that!! I had my second session on Thursday 4th of July and it was a great success I was so happy of the end result where EVERYONE made themselves a bracelet!! and to top it off I did too!!
After doing the first bracelet the second one became even easier! Now all I have to do is order for the next session and I'm officially a businesswomen!! :) Well sort of lol
~~~Summer Fete~~~
Ok this is something that's been happening every year at the back of my house!! They always have a fete, kind of like a garage sale but in a more festive and community base way! It was great fun!! I went with my mum to check out the things and we found some very great stuff. I wore my creamish brown coloured scarf that my big bro bought when he went for Saudi Arabia!! Here's a picture of it:
Nice right? I really like it hence the smile :P Just realised this is the first post where I am posting a picture of myself! :D
The event was always very festive and it happens every summer!!! Anyways here's some more pictures have look at them hopefully you can tell the festivities that I mean:
From the fruit of all this browsing the results where very great as well we bought many things for me and my sisters:
These were for my sister, starting with the youngest: My mum truly shows her love for her when we go shopping - we bought her the colourful hairbands, the 50p floral bracelet and the Sundae desert necklace (which we bought from my neighbor). For my younger sister we bought her the chain heart necklace with the first letter of her name on it - and fortunately she loved it! (Honestly, it's very hard to shop for an ex tomboy lol) and lastly for my big sister I bought her the bracelet on the far left which she loved.
As for myself I bought:
Some lovely Chains and a Selwar Kameez (For those who don't know a Selwar Kameez is a Traditional Asian clothing worn at home or on special occasions depending on the type of Selwar Kameez it is)
For my mum she just loved the food and didn't really liked anything for herself, as for my brother there wasn't anything for them so we couldn't get it unfortunately.
~~~Employment Stuff~~~
Ok during the summer fete I spoke to a lady who said that her daughter ran her own beauty salon I asked if she was hiring and told her I make jewellery she told me that she would definitely call me!! So I'm looking forward to that...but when the day came she didn't call I tried calling back but it was unavailable and I tried the post code it didn't work and it still didn't work so I gave up on that I thought it was dodgy...so in ther end I started applying to many other jobs still waiting to hear from them!! Hopefully I'l get some good news!! :D
~~~Updates~~~
Ok the final thing to mention is that I had an Idea that since it is a Ramadan that I would make like a Ramadan Diary letting everyone know what it's like for the Muslims on this blessed month!! :D So as soon as I post this I would make a start because it's nearly becoming the 5th Ramadan already and I haven't even made a start on it!!
Wow finally made it through and got to the point where I can start blogging regularly...I swear I won't pile it up like this ever again.
Anyways hope you all enjoyed this long post and thanks to those who read it all the way, until next time take care and stay positive!! xxx
WARNING: Going to be a very VERY long post! Also this is the first post where I am posting a picture of myself :D Monthly special or what lol :P
Ok I know it's been a long time since I've posted but it's only because there's a lot of things that's been happening for the past few weeks (hence the title). I always want to write about it but I ended up procrastinating so I thought I need to write it either now or never. I also did say that I would try to write everyday so I will definitely try again...so...I wanted to apologise big time - I'm really really sorry!!! However I have A LOT to share and make up for it!! :) So first lets make a list of things to discuss in this blog:
1) My Creative crafts Special & Monthly Special
2) Summer Fete
3) Employment Stuff
4) Updates
~~~ Creative Craft Special ~~~
Ok as you all know I talked about something special that would happen that's related to crafts well here it is! Basically let me start off from Saturday 22nd June. That week I was speaking to someone in my local community about running a workshop, as I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I registered to this time bank system in my local community (check out my post entitled: Morning breakfast Yummy! :) ); well from that I've finally been able to give something back which is.....JEWELLERY MAKING!!! Oh yeah!!! Well honestly there was going to be more - like polymer clay works - but my pitch (lets call it) was half successful...so they decided to start it off with a jewellery making workshop and if it is very successful then I can start working with polymer clay in the future - when they have more funds of course.
So anyway lets get back to Saturday 22nd June, I started watching some Youtube videos on basic jewellery making and found one that's really simple and great!!! :D I watched it once and I know how to make it :) it was the perfect way to start off with something simple. Because on Friday 21st June I spoke to the person in my community centre and she told me that I have a budget of £50 which is a really GREAT start for the workshop. So anyways I spoke to a girl that is also doing some time sharing stuff and told her if she wouldn't mind coming to Oxford street with me and have a look at a craft shop that my friend told me about, fortunately she said yes and we arranged to meet on Monday at 10:30am so we don't get caught in any rush hour.
However before that day let me just squeeze in my monthly special (well the creative craft is the extra part in here). On Satuday 22nd June I finally met up with my Undergraduate friends and we went to Nando's to eat. Of course it was just us girls - with one left over!! I really missed my other friend who wasn't there :( Well anyways I meet with my friends and it just made me think that after nearly 1 year we all have changed. For instance now my friend has a 6 month baby boy soo cute he loves my toy (yay) I was happy when I saw him playing with it. He was also really well behaved when I was feeding him, he was soo cute but then he realises that his mum is not around and then starts to cry. My other friend just finished her degree and is sorted and lastly my other friend got married and I wasn't able to go to her wedding because we lost contact somehow :( but the good thing is that we are in contact again :D
The meal was very nice and we all enjoyed it so much!! It felt great going and meeting my friends after such a long time. But it also made me think about my position. I felt like I was in a standstill not going anywhere after dropping the PGCE Primary. Honestly saying I felt I wasn't going anywhere with my life but I didn't feel upset by their achievements or success but just feel a little regretful for not continuing with my programme. However all things happen for a reason right?
Here's some pictures of the event I'd like to share with you guys:
This is a picture of Kirsty and Damien together - So sweet!! Really made me want a baby Oh and that's the toy that I got for him! See? I told you he loves it!! :D
This is picture of Me, Kirsty, Roseanne and of course Baby Damien all in one at Nando's!! :D
That's a picture of me and Roseanne, who I haven't seen in a long time! It was really nice seeing her again!! :D
Oh this was a gift from my friend Kirsty, It's an American sweet that's available now in UK! It's really nice!! Makes you really thirsty but sooo goooood!!! :D Thanks Kirsty!! :)
~~~Back to creative craft special~~~
Well anyways that was my Saturday which then lead to me looking at jewellery videos on YouTube later that evening hence where I found myself the perfect video.
Then Monday 24th June 2013 came and I met up with the girl I said I would meet up with for the little journey to Oxford Street. We met at Mile End station and here is where the problem started. My friend told me that the craft shop HobbyCraft does not exist in Oxford Street to which I then told her that my other friend told me on Facebook she said that there isn't any and I had to make the decision of either not going to Oxford Street or to forget about it - I decided to head to Oxford Street regardless and hopefully find any other crafty type shops for jewellery making.
It's a good thing I said yes because we in fact found really good stores for the jewellery making and found that they would give a lot of stuff I found this really great beading shop calling beads creative craft (or something like that) and it was great!! It was not only a wholesaler but a retailer so we managed to get some good stuff and ended up getting some great stuff from it.I bought some beads, chains, jump rings, head pins and so on. I was happy I felt that I bought a lot of stuff and that this was actually happening, that thought made me feel a little scared - I guess you can say my self esteem was being shaken.
Anyways all this good stuff came afterwards. By that I mean that when we did arrive we checked online to find out if there was HobbyCraft and found out that there actually wasn't a HobbyCraft there and I misunderstood because I checked on my Facebook and my friend actually meant Oxford!! :O Really really far!! Thus began our journey through the different other stores where the results were great.
After we got back I went to my local community centre (I just realised that I never mentioned what the name of it is - It's called Bromley By Bow Centre) and spoke to Rose - who is in charge of the Time Bank as is another girl named Hajirah - I told her if it was ok for me to take the stuff home so I could make a bracelet for demonstration and said yes.
So when I went home with the stuff I was really happy but then in the next couple of days I was losing confidence to start on the bracelet, if your thinking why....I was thinking the same thing and then I thought there's no point in delaying it because I need to present them something on Thursday so then on Wednesday 26th June in the night I made myself a bracelet and the result is below:
This is the bracelet that I made! :) What do you guys think? This bracelet also became my big sisters birthday present because it was her birthday on Monday I forgot to get her something. She liked it which was nice :) There's seven beads on this representing each of us siblings :)
The next day the jewellery making workshop taster day was a success!! There was a great turn out and although there wasn't enough pliers going around but it still worked out and then I had a number of people sign up for the next session on Thursday. Oh I forgot to mention the session was held on the coffee session that the time bank provide!! :) Anyways at the end of it all it worked out perfectly!! A couple of days later I got a call from them telling me that I can't do the workshop during the coffee session because obviously it's their coffee session so I thought ok, I can do another day or time and so we arranged it at 3-4:30pm every Thursday!! How cool is that!! I had my second session on Thursday 4th of July and it was a great success I was so happy of the end result where EVERYONE made themselves a bracelet!! and to top it off I did too!!
After doing the first bracelet the second one became even easier! Now all I have to do is order for the next session and I'm officially a businesswomen!! :) Well sort of lol
~~~Summer Fete~~~
Ok this is something that's been happening every year at the back of my house!! They always have a fete, kind of like a garage sale but in a more festive and community base way! It was great fun!! I went with my mum to check out the things and we found some very great stuff. I wore my creamish brown coloured scarf that my big bro bought when he went for Saudi Arabia!! Here's a picture of it:
Nice right? I really like it hence the smile :P Just realised this is the first post where I am posting a picture of myself! :D
The event was always very festive and it happens every summer!!! Anyways here's some more pictures have look at them hopefully you can tell the festivities that I mean:
From the fruit of all this browsing the results where very great as well we bought many things for me and my sisters:
These were for my sister, starting with the youngest: My mum truly shows her love for her when we go shopping - we bought her the colourful hairbands, the 50p floral bracelet and the Sundae desert necklace (which we bought from my neighbor). For my younger sister we bought her the chain heart necklace with the first letter of her name on it - and fortunately she loved it! (Honestly, it's very hard to shop for an ex tomboy lol) and lastly for my big sister I bought her the bracelet on the far left which she loved.
As for myself I bought:
Some lovely Chains and a Selwar Kameez (For those who don't know a Selwar Kameez is a Traditional Asian clothing worn at home or on special occasions depending on the type of Selwar Kameez it is)
For my mum she just loved the food and didn't really liked anything for herself, as for my brother there wasn't anything for them so we couldn't get it unfortunately.
~~~Employment Stuff~~~
Ok during the summer fete I spoke to a lady who said that her daughter ran her own beauty salon I asked if she was hiring and told her I make jewellery she told me that she would definitely call me!! So I'm looking forward to that...but when the day came she didn't call I tried calling back but it was unavailable and I tried the post code it didn't work and it still didn't work so I gave up on that I thought it was dodgy...so in ther end I started applying to many other jobs still waiting to hear from them!! Hopefully I'l get some good news!! :D
~~~Updates~~~
Ok the final thing to mention is that I had an Idea that since it is a Ramadan that I would make like a Ramadan Diary letting everyone know what it's like for the Muslims on this blessed month!! :D So as soon as I post this I would make a start because it's nearly becoming the 5th Ramadan already and I haven't even made a start on it!!
Wow finally made it through and got to the point where I can start blogging regularly...I swear I won't pile it up like this ever again.
Anyways hope you all enjoyed this long post and thanks to those who read it all the way, until next time take care and stay positive!! xxx
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