Moments of Wonder and Ponder

‏اَلسَلامُ عَلَيْكُم وَرَحْمَةُ اَللهِ وَبَرَكاتُهُ‎ It's Khadijah here! To keep my promise that I made in this  post , I'll be sharing with you my handmade mini school supplies, consisting of mainly books, that I store in a handmade panda organizer.  They range from mini books to fruit-shaped ones - all made from minimal and basic craft supplies, so stick around to enjoy them and get some inspiration! Here's all that I've made. This is where I store them.                                                                          Firstly, here is my favourite type of book. They are fruit-shaped notebooks that are fully functional and adorable as well. The strawberry notebook The avocado notebook And finally the pineapple notebook. These are my star notebooks. They are a sweet couple! You can see h...

  السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته It's Khadijah here! It's nearly a year ago since we last posted on this blog, S ubhanAllah, however, we haven't forgotten you! Alhamdulillah, we have been too occupied to sit and post the many exciting things that have been going on, and what we have been up to. InshaAllah, whenever we are untied from all the chores and commitments we will definitely make the time to keep our blog alive! In this post, I am going to share with you my handmade paper succulents that I crafted recently. They come in two groups: the 1st one consists of nearly all my handmade paper succulents while the other is simply a set of pots. The majority of these paper succulents went through various stages: from living in a lovely wooden box to living in a delicate circular wall decor piece. Finally, they have settled in this  beautiful transparent plastic box; the best part about this box is that dust is prevented from destroying their be...

Photo by Jorge Franganillo on Unsplash Assalamualykum everyone! Today, we are featuring 3 DIY budget-saving and creative crafts that require minimal supplies and a jar of your own creativity, let's jump in! 1. This simple art piece doesn't cost a dime. This broken clock was saved for a creative art piece to be done, after removing the paper inside it and flipping it to the plain side - we drew a silhouette of a peacock and added gold touches to it.  We collected a couple of ordinary duck feathers from our park, washed them well, and left them to dry.  Afterwards, we decided to blend in a bunch of radiant, beautiful colours on the feathers using TiTi crayons and added some silver polka-dots, swirls as well as stars using a gel pen. Once, they were done - we glued the feathers to the bottom area of the peacock.   We then screwed the clock together, and with that, we were done! We gifted this to our loving Ummi! 2.               ...