SPRING THEME EID

The fragrant spring breeze gets me excited. The startlingly beautiful scents, sounds and sights that spring brings forth remind us of new beginnings and new life. 


The air is delicious with the scent of flowers all around.

OUTFIT OF THE DAY-EID LOOK

Being in October and during the most beautiful season, this year's eid ul adha theme had to be just that; Spring.

 
A simple royal blue abaya from here. The neck piece was gifted.

 
Dull gold glitter loafer from Call it Spring. Arm candy from Mr Price. The flowers on my wrist is actually a headband, ssshhh don't tell anyone.

Blue and white pashmina scarf.

 
I'd rather have flowers on my head than diamonds around my neck. Kidding!! Could I please have them both? 

The headband is a neck-piece-turned-headband. Talk about versatility!

A belated Eid Mubarak to all those that celebrated.

AN ASIAN AFFAIR

After a five week abstinence from the land of honey and sweetness, the Honeybird child is back. We recently celebrated our Eid. Here are a few pics from our Asian Eid.

TRIPPLE LAYER TRI COLOUR

When eid comes around the baking begins. A must every eid is our family tradition Triple Layer Tri-colour Coconut Cream Cake.

Cake:
Ingredients:
250g Margarine
2 cups Sugar
6 Eggs
8 level tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Vanilla essence
3 cup Flour
1 cup Milk (warm)

Pink and green food colouring.

Cream:
1 x 290g Nestlé Dessert cream
1/2 - 1/4 cup sugar
1-2 cup dessicated coconut

Method:
1. Beat butter and sugar on high for +/- 2mins on high, or until light and smooth.
2. Add eggs, baking powder, vanilla essence,flour & milk and beat on high for 8 mins.
3. Divide batter in 3 equal parts. Leave one part plain. Colour one part pink and the other green.
4. Empty batter in 3 heart/round greased pans.
5. Bake at 180 for 25-30 mins or until done and golden.
6. For the cream. Mix sugar and coconut into the cream. Set aside.
7. Once cakes are done and cooled completely layer cakes with the cream filling in between. Cover sides of the cake with cream filling as well.
8. Sprinkle fresh grated coconut on top. Add cherries or fresh fruit.

1 ADDITION, MANY WAYS- Chained It- "Body-Neck-Lace"

Here goes, as promised. The new feature!

This one adds an instant Glamification.
For this DIY you need to make a trip to a hardware store.

Things you need:
• Pliers
• 3m of chain
• Chain clasp
• Measuring tape (not shown in pic)
• Side cutter

I apologize if these descriptions are confusing, but in all honesty, I confused myself so many times while making this piece.

Steps:
1. Measure the length around your neck. Next measure the length from beneath your chest up over your shoulder, under your arm. Cut the pieces using a side cutter.
2. Neck piece: Using the pliers open the last hook and insert the chain clasp. This makes a necklace.
3. Place the neck piece and shoulder piece next to each other.
4. Find the mid-point on the neck piece. Attach a piece of chain from the midpoint of the neck piece to the bottom end of the shoulder piece.
5. I inserted a stud earring in the last ring of the shoulder piece, to ensure that I didn't loose my place and to lessen the confusion a bit.
6. This step is easiest done while wearing the piece. Put on the neck piece as you would any other necklace. Position the shoulder piece on your body. Throw the excess chain over your shoulder.
6.1. Mark off where the shoulder piece chain meets your shoulder.
6.2. Measure the length on your shoulder from the neck piece to the shoulder piece.
7. Now add in other pieces.
8. The last part. Again I would suggest wearing the piece for this step. Put on your almost complete Body-Neck-Lace. Take the hanging pieces over your shoulder, pull it out under your arm. Look at where it meets the front piece and attach! You now have an arm hoop.

Tada, there you go. Completed Body-Neck-Lace.

Phew! This took me a while but it was so worth it.

I highly recommend using pliers at all times!!! (I didn't and was left with aching fingers and chipped nails.)

*Hijabi's--- some eid inspo. The price and rate at which abaya's go out of style is just insane! So why not make your own?

Feast of the Sacrifice- Eid-ul Adha- 26 October

On Friday, 26 October 2012 most muslims across the globe celebrated Eid.

'Eid ul adha' is celebrated by muslims world wide to honour the willingness of the Prophet Ebrahim(Abraham) to sacrifice his young first born son Ismaeel(Ishmael) his sons acceptance to be sacrificed when God ordered them to do so, before God intervened to provide Abraham with a ram to sacrifice instead.

On this day Muslims sacrifice a cow, sheep, goat, buffalo or camel. One third of the meat is given away to neighbours and friends, and another third or more is donated to the poor and needy.


The story of Ibrahim's sacrifice

Eid-ul-Adha celebrates the occasion when Allah appeared to Ibrahim in a dream and asked him to sacrifice his son Ismaeel as an act of obedience to God.

The devil tempted Ibrahim by saying he should disobey Allah and spare his son. As Ibrahim was about to kill his son, Allah stopped him and gave him a lamb to sacrifice instead.

Note: This story is also found in the Jewish Torah and the Christian Old Testament (Genesis 22). Here God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, his son with Sarah. Ismaeel was his son with Hagar.
Via: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/religion/islam/eid_haj.shtml