I am a sewing-babe now, too!

 

Yes, I am proud to join the crafty blogging-community and to introduce my new friend: a Bernina Record sewing machine.
Wow, what a great ebay-find, subhan’allah!
I own a very cheap machine that never works well, so I nearly never sewed over the last five years. But now, I am so lucky to have found this perfect running, old-style and high quality machine which gives me the chance to return to sewing, alhamdulillah.
I am so looking forward to do things for the kids, for the house and for me… inchaallah.

So here you see my very first try of the machine, just a little purse for my sketchbook…

Have a nice weekend friends!

first snow and some wisdom

 

Allah says:
« I treat My servant as he hopes that I would treat him. I am with him wherever he remembers Me: if he remembers Me in his heart, I remember him in “My heart”; if he remembers Me in a gathering, I remember him in gathering far better than that gathering; if he draws near to Me a hand’s span, I draw near to him an arm’s length; if he draws near to Me an arm’s length, I draw near to him a fathom’s length; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.” (Bukhari, Muslim)

Blessed Friday

 
 
Some more Marrakech Inspiration

 

Yesterday I was lucky to assist my sister in laws first childbirth. Subhan’allah! What joy to see the new life, to look into the happy released eyes of the mother, to smell the baby’s skin and to hold this tiny little thing in my arms.

Thanks God, everything went well even though that I really didn’t like the treatment and the atmosphere in our little hospital here (I don’t want to go into details, it wasn’t nice at all and I had to think about it the whole night long, mashaallah). How much better homebirth is…
But thanks God too, there are doctors and professional help around if complications appear. So, I do not want to complain, I am just thankful now that everything went well and alhamdulillah, so grateful about the two peaceful childbirths at home I was blessed with.

We are heading to visit the new born again now, so I wish you a blessed Friday friends!
Assalamou alaikoum oua rahmatullah oua barakatuh!

On the fire site

 
 

This time of the year is great: we collect wood, we fire on the chimney, peel off some corn and wrap up some sweet potatoes into baking foil; we put it all into the heat and sit in front of the warm oven, watching the flames going high. We enjoy eating while thinking about the day and being grateful for our lives.
It’s a peaceful atmosphere and a nice end of a long day.
Subhan’allah, it makes me feeling so thankful for all we have, it makes me feeling lucky about all the gifts in my life, about my two sons and the new baby to come, and it makes me feeling just very very grateful for every minute we share as a little family.

And I still pray and keep praying for my family in Germany. My thoughts are always with them. May Allah give them strength, faith and ease. Ameen.

Colour Workshop

 
 

Since a while I didn’t gave report about our felting project here. Weather is too cold now to work because our working room has no heating and fingers and feet feel uncomfortable very quick while working with water in an icy environment.
So we decided to go into hibernation and just to pre-work the wool instead of felting.

Two weeks ago we had a meeting with some American Peace-Corps-Volunteers who helped me to organise a workshop about wool dyeing.
First we gave a whole session about colour mixing and schemes and about the basic knowledge how colours develop out of the three main colours red, blue and yellow.

The Berber-girls had much fun in mixing coloured waters, finding out the results and learning about Goethe’s colour-circle.

Afterwards we tried to dye the wool with some red cabbage which gave a really nice steel blue colour.

The Peace-Corps-people also gave us some books about dyeing which we will read and try out in the upcoming months now, incha’allah…

 

Autumn Day – Herbsttag

 
 

Subhan’allah, I love autumn, all the signs of the end of a year, they fit so well with my mood at the moment: the rich colours, the clear skies, the fresh air and the sadness of fading and dieing but also the hope for a new beginning.

Have a blessed weekend friends!

 

Autumn Day  - Herbsttag

Lord: it is time. The summer was immense.
Lay your shadow on the sundials
and let loose the wind in the fields.

Bid the last fruits to be full;
give them another two more southerly days,
press them to ripeness, and chase
the last sweetness into the heavy wine.

 

Whoever has no house now will not build one
anymore.
Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long
time,
will stay up, read, write long letters,
and wander the avenues, up and down,
restlessly, while the leaves are blowing.

———

Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr gross.
Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren,
und auf den Fluren lass die Winde los.

Befiehl den letzten Früchten voll zu sein;
gib ihnen noch zwei südlichere Tage,
dränge sie zur Vollendung hin und jage
die letzte Süsse in den schweren Wein.

Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr.
Wer jetzt allein ist, wird es lange bleiben,
wird wachen, lesen, lange Briefe schreiben
und wird in den Alleen hin und her
unruhig wandern, wenn die Blatter treiben.

 

– Rainer Maria Rilke –

 

tristesse and happiness

 

I don’t feel very well at the moment, to much things in my head, all mixed up.

Happiness and sadness come and go and there is so much to think about and to pray for.
Good news and bad news go hand in hand and show how life really is: a test in patience, hardship and sorrow, mercy and joy.

Here is new life to come, subhan’allah – there is the call to death very near.

We’re living both now, in every single moment: fleeting and everlasting, completely in submission to the will of Allah.
We all belong to God and to Him we return. Life is a passage and we have to make our best out of it, to prove our faith and to worship Him alone, for this is the only meaning of our being.

I pray for patience, I pray for guidance, I pray for cure and for a wonder. I pray for health and for His mercy, but most of all I pray for Taqwa and strong trust in His will. Ameen.

Congratulations America!

No, I am not at all interested in politics. I know how to spend better my time with more important stuff than to follow political discussions and I do not like to be influenced by the Medias or by some bad news about this world. I do not like to follow a preconceived idea. Probably sometimes I even close my eyes to some horrible realities, but since I live here in the mountains far away from all this stuff, far away from all the news and influence around, I feel much better.

I do not neglect all the harsh realities some people have to live, I do not neglect the bad things existing in this world, masha’allah, but I try to do and to give my best in my local area and not to be manipulated or pushed down by the all day changing news about people fighting for power and money. That’s not for me.

The most important news I get nearly every day through the front page of my internet provider by logging into my web account, such as the news about Obama’s victory.
And even though that I am not at all informed about what was going on in America the last few months, I feel good about these news.

I want to thank all the American’s having voted for Barack and I wish your country a fresh new direction, I wish the world (especially the Muslim world) a better relationship with the US, good luck and may the new upcoming president be a blessing to all of us!!!

Congratulations to Obama, Congratulations to America!