ASOS Obsession

For the past couple of months, i've been completely obsessed with ASOS. I love their modern dresses, their on point outerwear collections, and most importantly their wide variety of structured handbags. I love love love structured bags these days and their Large Leather Vintage Frame Bag here is now on my wish list. The reason for that is because i've already gotten the other FOUR bags from ASOS that were on my wish list. All in super fun colors and designs with rich fancy leather. So for now, I will just stare at the beautiful green leather bag online and come up with outfits in my mind that could be enhanced by it's beauty. 

 

Keep a look out for a blog post on their fabulous coat collection. The best part about shopping on ASOS website is that they ship everything for FREE!!! And their prices are super cheap and reasonable. So for those of us that don't have stylists shopping for us and can't afford to pay $500 for a handbag this website is amazing. Thanks and don't forget to follow my blog!! xoxo

ASOS Leather Large Vintage Frame Bag



Photo of the week



Al Kazimiyah Shrine, Baghdad



You can see the original picture here.

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Flat is phat at Blik

(Source: Whatisblik.com)

A great way to enhance any wall in your home: Blik. This cool mint and grey pattern will surely be on my kitchen wall coming Sep ;-) or these Iron Vines in the bathroom!! Some of the headboard patterns are also pretty tempting if you don't have an actual headboard for your bed!

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Three Things

"everything will be ok." blanket by Keetra Dixon

Make belief home

Ramadan (source: vi.sualize.us)

Shining Gems

Lately, my life has been incredibly busy and i've not been putting much effort in my appearance. I've realized now that it just might have something to do with how disorganized my things are these days!! I just don't feel like spending 20 minutes to find something cute to wear. For example, my jewelry case looks like a HOT mess. My once delicate necklaces are now all jumbled into a tangled mess and the condition of the rest of my jewelry isn't pretty either. This calls for a major cleaning and reorganizing. I need to figure out  how I want to store my collection of gems!! I want a simple yet elegant storage system and i'm not too sure about the traditional jewelry boxes especially since this is only less than half of my jewelry and I might need more than one jewelry box:

Trying to sort through some of my jewelry

These pictures inspire me to get organized while keeping it looking extra gorgeous:

Keep a look out for a blog post about my new jewelry storage system!! I'll be sure to share some pictures so it might inspire you to get organized!! =) Thanks for reading and don't forget to follow my blog!! xoxo 

More Birthday lovin'

You always feel so special to get a surprise gift in the mail. I got a this fabulous "Beauty and the Bride" kit and some awesome samples from Sephora earlier today!! Samples are such a great way to try new products. Very excited to try all these goodies and maybe do a review in the near future. I know some of these products are going to be life-savers for the wedding!!! I especially love the pretty blue box and the black dust bag; both of which i'll be using for a long while for sure. 

Thank you Sadiya and Waheed!! 

Took the plastic insert out so I can use this OH SO PRETTY box to maybe store jewelry!!! 

Got this gold bag on sale at ALDO.  It looks much better in person! =)

I think Fiji bottles are so pretty. and this new organic fruit potion I got from Starbucks. 

Of course everyone loves Peter Rabbit. 

I got these on my Birthday and they are blooming so beautifully. 

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Chicken Samosa

I've been in the mood for some yummy samosas lately and especially since Ramadan is approaching I think it's time to make some. In case you want to enjoy the yummy goodness, you can read the recipe below! Happy Eating!!

The Filling:
500g minced Chicken
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic crushed
1teaspon curry powder
½ easpon chilli powder
1 teasmon ground tumeric
½ teaspon gorund roasted cumin seeds
1 fresh chilli finaly diced
1 tspn chopped mint or corriander
½ tspn fresh grated ginger
salt and ground pepper to taste
juice of half a lemon

Heat the oil in a frying pan, add the onion and garlic mix in the spices and seasoning and fry until soft. Add the mince, stirring until cooked. Remove from heat and stir in the mint and lemon juice.

Now for the pastry: You don't have to make your own pastry. You can simply buy some ready-made pastry from the shop. For samosas you want to fry, use Filo Pastry and for samosas you want to cook in the oven use Puff Pastry.

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Birthday cake makes me happy.

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What kind of Bride would you be?

Tis the season of weddings! Have you noticed how lately everyone and their mom is getting married?!?! Well, I have and it makes me all giddy and dreamy. I think each bride shows her personality through the kind of dress and accessories she picks for her big day. Some focus on glamour, some simplicity, and some are just simply elegant. So, what kind of Bride would YOU be? Here are some inspirations:

It's like a fairytale dress

Very bold. I love the underside design on the dress that's peaking through on purpose! Genius design.

So simple and elegant. This is my kinda dress!

Old Hollywood Glamour. 

So Chic. So Cute.

Love everything. The shoes, the Mehndi, the bottom of the dress

Such a delicate moment captured. Shoes are so important for all brides no matter which culture.

The silver in this picture screams Glitz and Glam.

Mehndi is a way to decorate your hands and feet for your big day!

Unusual Flowers for an Unusual Color

The simplicity of this picture is beautiful.

Ah. Such intense eyes. Love the black and white intensity.

Old Mughal Bride

New Indian Bride

A Master Piece

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4th of July Sales!!!

An early Happy 4th of July to everyone!!!! A lot of companies are having great sales this weekend and I wanted to share some of my favorite ones:

BH Cosmetics is having up to 40% off sale and adding in a free mini Kabuki brush if you spend more than $10!! I think that is a great sale and am thinking about buying the 88 matte palette or maybe the neutral matte palette!! Hope this helps those that were thinking about buying some their products. Here is the website: www.bhcosmetics.com. Some of you have showed interest in my BH Cosmetics palettes I bought a while ago. I will have to do a review on them soon so stay tuned!!

Another exclusive sale that is going on right now is from Sephora: Best of Fragrance Deluxe Sampler For Her. This sale is going online and in stores. This is a $100 value that you get for $50. The package comes with 10 different fragrant samples and a coupon for a full size bottle of the one you end up liking the most. Isn't that the best deal ever?!?! I have GOT to get my hands on this soon. Here is the link for your convenience: http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml;jsessionid=HZSBRSYDB1420CV0KRTQIGQ?categoryId=A17&id=P276315

Last but not least Sephora has another great limited addition product right now that i'm loving. It's the Feelin' Cheeky! Minis by Benefit. The package comes with the three of their very popular products: Benetint (red cheek or lip tint), Posietint (light pink cheek or lip tint), and High Beam (highlighter) and I don't know anyone who has ever finished these little potions because you use such a tiny little amount of the product it lasts forever. For $15 this is a steal and I will be buying it for sure. Here is the link for your convenience: http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml;jsessionid=MKKSHA2RLHBXKCV0KRTQIGQ?id=P281701&categoryId=C10339

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