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Happy New Year my beautiful readers, inshallah your years ahead be filled with love, happiness, health, and blessings!

My new year celebration was quite cosy, we spent it at home with the family and loved ones. We had an Italian buffet followed by two yummy cakes, it was soo good. Then my aunte was giving all of us out these christmas crackers to add up some fun to the night, and guess what; me and my hubby got the exact goodies, good sign I hope... =D 

We all had a wonderful time, we all shared our new year's wishes. Out of all our positive and optimistic wishes, we all had this one special mutual wish; that this year onward hopefully be better for our lovely Bahrain and be filled with peace and prosperity, and the whole world too inshallah.

Is there a sight more heartwarming than a family gathering enjoying the new years eve together? I don't think so... ;) How did you guys spent your new year's? Hope you had a blast...

Happy New Year...

Love, Alla <3

I Don't Wanna Grow Up

This friday is the best friday EVER, not only we get to have a full house family gathering; my dad and beautiful sisters and little brother came to Bahrain -They live in Kuwait; Incase you are wondering-.

After lunch, me and my sisters went shopping in City Center. I bought 2 things only which shows in the pics below...

  From Sephora...

Sephora Colorful Eye Shadow Palette called Cocktail on the Beach 12. I will be using it for the New Year tommorrow inshallah along with the Primer that is mentioned below -woowhoo- =D

I finally bought eye shadow primer from Sephora, I've always wanted the Urban Decay's primer, sadly we don't have it here in Bahrain. Anyways, I thought to myself, why not buy a good primer from Bahrain!!? so I got this one from Sephora it's called 'Shadow Insurance -Lemon Drop-' from the brand 'Too Faced'... Will try it on tommorrow for the New Year's eve inshallah -Soo Excited- and will let you know in my coming post wether it's good or not ;)... The sales lady said it's one of the fast moving primers, it has a lemon tone to banish discoloration and ensures that the shadow won’t crease or fade.

Anyways, after the long shopping day, we went back to the hotel for dinner. And while I was checking out their rooms there, I saw this beautiful view in their balcony and had to take some pix...

I like blurring out the lights =D

Me... Looking at the lovely view, we can see almost all of Manama city's buildings and some of Muharraq's, very beautiful...

Last but not least, my hubby took my little bro Yaqoob to Toys"R"Us and bought him some of his favorite toys, and this is the one yaqoobii fell in love with.

He is soo excited, lol...  

I love him, soo adorable... <3

What we wore:

Well, only one of my sisters agreed to take a pic to be added in my blog, so it's only me and shosho... =D

First, my younger sis Shosho:

Burberry Jacket

Pull & Bear boots

Marc by Marc Jacobs Laptop case

Now, me...

H&M top

Zara pants

Louis Vuitton Speedy

American Eagle uggs

Hope you guys are having a wonderful weekend and a happy new year in advance... =D

Love,

Alla

Fruit & Yogurt For Dinner

My lightest and easiest dinner that I'm having tonight is; Fruit & Yogurt. What I normally do is Fruit Parfait, but since I'm out of granola, I made myself a parfait excluding the yummy granola part...

Here's what you'll need:

- I used 1 banana, and 1 small flat peach. -You can add berries and pineapple or any of your favorite fruit-
- Yogurt.
- Sweetener (Ex: Splenda)
- Optional: raisins + almonds + jam
- And ofcourse the granola, but I am out of it... =(

Directions:

- Cut the fruit to small pieces.
- While you open the yogurt's lid, add to it the sweetener and mix very well.

- In a small bowl, Add the first layer; half the amount of the (fruits + raisins + almonds + jam + granola) followed by half of the yogurt.

- Then add the second batch of the same that you added in the first layer followed by the second half of the yogurt.

- Serve immediately to keep the granola crunchy...


And Happy Weekend my beautiful people... <3

Imagine Life Sweeter

In reply to one of my favorite bloggers "Fionka" in her latest blog post, here. I went through all of my Splenda sweetener packets in my kitchen to read what's written behind them, and this is my favorite one...

And thanks to you Fionka, now I'm pretty much obsessed with it; everytime anyone wants sugar, I let them pick one and read it as if it was a fortune cookie, LOOOL... I love it... =D

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas my beautiful people. Hope you enjoy your time with your family, friends, and the people you love.

Lots of love,
Alla

My Wish List

I have put together a little wish list with the products and stuff I am wishing for this Christmas/New Year.

Check out what's in my little wish list:

1. Morrocan Oil
2. Sigma Brush Set
3. Miss Pucci Perfume
4. Surf Spray by Bumble and Bumble
5. NARS Blush/ Bronzer Trio Orgasm/ Albatros/ Laguna
6. Revlon 'Facets of Fuchsia' Nail polish

What are you wishing for this Christmas or new year? =)

Love,
Alla

My Purchase From Arabulous

Finally I got myself THE Arabulous gold necklace T-shirt that I wanted.... I have seen these T-shirts in some of the blogs that I am following, and I was wondering from where can I get my hands on these babies. One day I was browsing through the Overdressed's blog for some inspirations, I spotted a blogpost about Arabulous Here , and found out where their location's at; it's at Bon Bon Store in Al Aali Mall -yaaay-... =D

 Yep, I got it =D

 Happy with my little purchase... <3 Can't wait to show it off...

The display of the T-shirts in the store's window...

You can find out more about Arabulous collection and more in their blog Here.

Happy 40th Birthday Bahrain

As I'm changing my polish to deep red, preparing my red & white clothes, and putting my Bahrain pins in my lovely red top for our lovely Kingdom's 40th birthday (16-December-1971). I wish you all a lovely and safe happy holiday with your family and friends... <3

Oh and check out Google's web page... Awsome isn't it??? =D 

Happy Holiday everyone... <3

Love,

Alla

Got a Secret, Can You Keep It?

Tell your friend a lie. If he/she keeps it secret, then tell him/her the truth... ;)

My Favorite Mug

 

I don't know about you, but I have this thing for mugs. Every once in a while I fall for a different mug, or I add a new one to my collection of mugs -Crazy huh??-. Recently, I went to Starbucks and saw this beautiful red and white mug with Starbucks logo in the middle, it kinda reminded me of christmas candy cane, which also adds a christmasy and wintery feeling to it. The mug is soo cuddly that fits perfectly in my hands, and just by the look of it, I make any excuse to myself to prepare any kind of cold/warm beverage to use the mug... Heheheh I don't know if this is a normal thing or not, but I'm madly in looove with it... <3

(Candy Cane photo taken from Tumblr)

Playground In My Mind

After the lovely carnival -Previous post-, we directly went to this little garden in Riffa Town. It was totally empty, cause we were kinda late -at around 8pm-. Soooo, we went all crazy playing around like kids and taking some pictures, check them out...

Me... =)

My freind Mahati...  

And we ended it with a little walk in their neighbourhood... =)

Carnival

A semi-carnival/exhibition was held in the Riffa Sports Club today, so I went with my friends to check it out... It was soo much fun, kinda reminded me of schools carnivals... They were selling lots of wonderful Bahraini accessorise, Jalabya, fashionable clothing & accessories, bukhoor, food, cotton candy, crepes, and much moooore. Additionaly, it had kids activities like face painting, jumping castle, little train, trampoline, and more.

I bought Oud for my granny... 



Bahrain Oath bracelet, and Bahrain flag pins and rings...

We also spotted Al Heraat Boutique in the exhibition, they have a wonderful collection of colorful Turbans and accessories. Here's some of their showcased stuff... I bought 2 Turbans... =D

Bahrain Turbans 

Ega'al bracelet...

To check out more of Al Heraat collection, Click Here.

 Yummy blue milk Sagow...

 Marshmallow and chocolate...

Cotton Candyyyy =)

Meee =p

Kids jumping =p

  The devil =p

What I wore:

Turban from Al Heraat Boutique

Zara top

Top Shop Jeans - 'Baxter'

American Eagle Ugg Boots

Elie Tahari Bag

Bahrain National Day Decorations

Bahrain's National Day is celebrated on the 16th of December, and the preparations for this day have been prepared almost two weeks ago. And whenever I pass by Riffa Town, the streets were always busy and filled with people parking their cars on the side of the streets to take pictures near the lovely emblems of The Kingdom of Bahrain and the colorful decorating lights, so I couldn't help but asking my lovely friends to come with me and take some photos and share this beautiful scene and atmosphere together -Thank God it's winter, lol-.

 

 Me =p

May Allah bless our Kingdom and bring peace and joy inshallah... <3