While browsing for new ideas on how to craft some garlands with the kids for the schools-end party, I found some lovely blogs.
I wish you a week full of colorful inspiration, love and simple happiness! Salam aleikoum!
http://miekewillems.blogspot.com
http://bettermebetterworld.blogspot.com
http://salmashabbyblog.blogspot.com
http://lenasjoberg.blogspot.com
http://annamariahorner.blogspot.com
Mashaallah, I have so much to do and therefore no time for blogging. Just wanting to share a lovely poem and sending greetings of peace to all of you !
Time Tested Beauty Tips
by Sam LevensonFor attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you’ll never walk alone…
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows, and the beauty of a woman whith passing years only grows!
We’re going into the final run towards the summer holidays, inchaallah.
It’s calm on the blogging side but busy in real life. There’s a lot to do with schoolwork and exams to prepare.
It’s incredible; almost a year is gone since we’ve opened the school, mashaallah.
I think soon it is time for an update about the project, but until then, I am working piles, and enjoying signs of an early summer in spare little moments of peace.
Wishing you a happy week, inchaallah!
Life up here, where we live, is mostly still unplugged. A lot of work is still done by hand and you seldom hear machines or motors; the air is still clean, children mostly play together in nature and people gather outside. That’s a blessing, subhanallah, and it was one of the main reasons why we choose to live here, alhamdulillah.
But here as well as elsewhere, in many areas of everyday life, it demands a conscious choice to choose “unplugged” as a lifestyle.
Unplugging means to me to avoid technical stuff; to avoid mechanic sound; to use desktops and screens fewer; to switch off often CD-players, TV, computers, mobile phones, i-pods, blackberries, kitchen helpers and all the other things that promise us to make live funnier, easier and quicker; to me it means to avoid everything processed in general.
Living unplugged means to allow silence and quiet; to listen to the sound of our souls and nature; it means to slow down; to choose a conscious state of mind; to look at and connect with the people and the beauty around us; to work by hand; trying to live as much natural-sustainable-eco-green as possible.
It is a choice everyone can make in her own life. It isn’t easy sometimes and courage and some effort are needed. But it is definitely worth it.
It brings us closer to the essentials of life; to our own self; to the people we love; it restores and fine-tunes all our senses; it heals and it draws us closer to our pure fitra (pure, good and innocent state of every human being).
And in the end it draws us closer to nature and to our Creator.
I wish you well, I wish you moments in “acoustic style” and may Allah bless your life with as much “unplugged” as possible!
Post inspired by nature and “Beauty that moves”.
