I have now moved onward and upwards...if you want to find me, i'm now here
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Moonbathe
I wish I had ordered one of these....now the solar plum colour I wanted it in has sold out :-(
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Leaving an oddmality tag for a more creative one...
Got tagged to list my oddmalities but seeing as i'm not odd ;) I thought instead I'd introduce my old but now new again hobby - jewellery making. The tagger bought me a home jewellery making kit for my birthday and I've been hooked since (no pun intended).
Was going to post this after I'd given it to you but I can't sleep and want to reply to your tag so her goes....
I made you this necklace using jewellery wire (any wire thin enough to thread beads or even thread itself can be used)
A close up of the design. I only used one piece of wire and twisted and knotted it at certain places to make the design.
A close up of my signature tag. The pendant thing says 'made for you'. Bought these when we went on a craft shopping trip.
One side of the necklace clasp needs to threaded and tied on to the wire before you start adding beads.
Hope you like it :-) oh and remember to acted all shocked and surprised when I give it you ;-)
PS: I'm hoping to add more things i've made, the good, the bad and the ugly things. Really can't seem to enable the comments section, so I might just move elsewhere....catch me if you can!
Was going to post this after I'd given it to you but I can't sleep and want to reply to your tag so her goes....
I made you this necklace using jewellery wire (any wire thin enough to thread beads or even thread itself can be used)
A close up of the design. I only used one piece of wire and twisted and knotted it at certain places to make the design.
A close up of my signature tag. The pendant thing says 'made for you'. Bought these when we went on a craft shopping trip.
One side of the necklace clasp needs to threaded and tied on to the wire before you start adding beads.
Hope you like it :-) oh and remember to acted all shocked and surprised when I give it you ;-)
PS: I'm hoping to add more things i've made, the good, the bad and the ugly things. Really can't seem to enable the comments section, so I might just move elsewhere....catch me if you can!
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
I saw this and thought of you...
Brooches......
.....more brooches
and MORE brochees
ALL for you Hema, I did try and buy you one but appranty they exchange money for brooches and I didn't have any at the time. JTM can back me up here my intentions were there....
.....more brooches
and MORE brochees
ALL for you Hema, I did try and buy you one but appranty they exchange money for brooches and I didn't have any at the time. JTM can back me up here my intentions were there....
The dawn of a new horizon...
From what happened during placement, new ideas I had back in April and speaking to several people about the lack of activities for Muslim youth,I decided to go ahead and organise a Quran circle at my house. After all what is there to lose?
With the blessing of my Dad and the help of a dear friend I know have book of Quran stories for children and lots of ideas for activities to do with them. I plan on starting it during the summer maybe a day or 2 every week at my house. SO if you have any siblings, cousins, kids loitering around your street send them to me.
For further information email me : email add has now disappeared you were too late DOH!
Edit post: Just received this email:
.... got a phone call today from a sister whose looking for soemone local to teach mosque kids at ***** masjid in rochdale the basics about islam in english... if anyones intrested in doing this over summer (in the evenings around 5-7 for as many days as they can spare) then please InshAlah Ta'ala let me know... or if u know of any sisters that might want to volunteer for such a task..much appreciated :)
Hmmmm do I go with my own idea or jump on the band wagon of this idea? With my own idea I'll be fully responsible (which kind of scares me) and I've already planned which stories to use and what activities to do. The other one will mean that all the responsibility won't be on my shoulders which is a mega plus and there will be more kids at a mosque then in my living room. However I know there is controversy about the mosques in Rochdale. I don't understand it but I do know it exits. Would that mean children who might come to my house might not go the mosque in question? its times like these I really wish my comments section was working....
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Laziness told me not to blog
Last Monday I walked in to school worrying about lesson plans what I should have been worrying about was alot worst then kids popping balloons or drawing on themselves.
The school I was in was a catholic primary school which took on children from all faiths. No other religion (that I know of) was taught. On that Monday I sat through assembly. Started off pretty normal until they started reciting the lords prayer and a girl sat next to me obviously a muslim starts reciting it too.
This was then followed by a teacher asking all the children who had made their first holy communion to come to the front. She then went on to congratulating them - fair enough it is a Catholic school after all. Then she said something which shocked me more then the Muslim girl reciting the lords prayer, more then realising that said girl had not been told about her own faith no this was shocking. This teacher prayed that those who had done their holy communion would follow the in the footsteps of Jesus for the rest of their lives and those who were not yet believing in the holy trinity would find the light and start to follow Jesus. At this point I just looked around to see if anyone else was as shocked as me. Why was this teacher encouraging children from a different faith to join her faith? My eyes fell on the little Muslim girl again and I watched as she nodded her head at the teacher with so much sincerity I thought she would convert there and then.
The whole issue played on my mind for most of the day. A sad fact of life had surfaced and made me realise how many parents are ignorant about the schools they send their children to and exactly what is going on in schools. It's saddening to know that people are willing to send their children to a school without caring about what is being taught. The only thing that seems to be a priority is the distance between their home and the school.
After doing some research on the net I came across this its an article about Compulsory Christian Collective Worship and Christian Religious Education (RE) and what Muslims can do about it. The article has a letter which can be printed of and sent to the school asking them to withdraw their child from this worship.
Sometimes parents don't have a choice as to where to send their children due to finances or lack of transport BUT that is not an excuse to sit back and allow your children to know and to a certain extent follow a faith you don't want them to. We as Muslims seem to leave education at the front step of schools next to nothing is taught at home by the parents. Its about time we took responsibility for what we're doing to the youth. If you know of anyone who might not know about the rights concerning collective worship make sure you pass this on.
The school I was in was a catholic primary school which took on children from all faiths. No other religion (that I know of) was taught. On that Monday I sat through assembly. Started off pretty normal until they started reciting the lords prayer and a girl sat next to me obviously a muslim starts reciting it too.
This was then followed by a teacher asking all the children who had made their first holy communion to come to the front. She then went on to congratulating them - fair enough it is a Catholic school after all. Then she said something which shocked me more then the Muslim girl reciting the lords prayer, more then realising that said girl had not been told about her own faith no this was shocking. This teacher prayed that those who had done their holy communion would follow the in the footsteps of Jesus for the rest of their lives and those who were not yet believing in the holy trinity would find the light and start to follow Jesus. At this point I just looked around to see if anyone else was as shocked as me. Why was this teacher encouraging children from a different faith to join her faith? My eyes fell on the little Muslim girl again and I watched as she nodded her head at the teacher with so much sincerity I thought she would convert there and then.
The whole issue played on my mind for most of the day. A sad fact of life had surfaced and made me realise how many parents are ignorant about the schools they send their children to and exactly what is going on in schools. It's saddening to know that people are willing to send their children to a school without caring about what is being taught. The only thing that seems to be a priority is the distance between their home and the school.
After doing some research on the net I came across this its an article about Compulsory Christian Collective Worship and Christian Religious Education (RE) and what Muslims can do about it. The article has a letter which can be printed of and sent to the school asking them to withdraw their child from this worship.
Sometimes parents don't have a choice as to where to send their children due to finances or lack of transport BUT that is not an excuse to sit back and allow your children to know and to a certain extent follow a faith you don't want them to. We as Muslims seem to leave education at the front step of schools next to nothing is taught at home by the parents. Its about time we took responsibility for what we're doing to the youth. If you know of anyone who might not know about the rights concerning collective worship make sure you pass this on.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Final placement
Kept waking up, looking at the time and realising I had another few hours before I needed to be up. Finally it was time. The week has begun.
I'm a little nervous i'm team teaching three lessons today. The pre-visit lesson went well aside from a random photographer coming in who wouldn't stop taking pictures of me whilst I was teaching. This really threw me and I ended up letting the class out 10mins early! Hmm actually maybe it didn't go to well.
Today I'm team teaching drama, art and D&T. In drama it will be all about hot seating and freeze frames. In Art we're recreating Elmer the elephant but her patches will have drawings of zoo animals. and in D&T it's making paper mache masks well actually they'll just be putting the paper mache on to the balloons then letting them dry for thursday.
It's time for me to go please pray that the class take part in the drama, that they draw on the fabric and not each other and finally that they don't pop all the balloons.....now do you see why im nervous?
I'm a little nervous i'm team teaching three lessons today. The pre-visit lesson went well aside from a random photographer coming in who wouldn't stop taking pictures of me whilst I was teaching. This really threw me and I ended up letting the class out 10mins early! Hmm actually maybe it didn't go to well.
Today I'm team teaching drama, art and D&T. In drama it will be all about hot seating and freeze frames. In Art we're recreating Elmer the elephant but her patches will have drawings of zoo animals. and in D&T it's making paper mache masks well actually they'll just be putting the paper mache on to the balloons then letting them dry for thursday.
It's time for me to go please pray that the class take part in the drama, that they draw on the fabric and not each other and finally that they don't pop all the balloons.....now do you see why im nervous?
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