Alma’s Eideya !
It’s Alma’s second Eid amongst us and en sha2 allah she will witness a thousand more may Allah protect her from all evil..
Her first eid was in Lebanon with my in-laws and it was fun to see all the family gathered around the tiny bundle of joy addition and have her dressed up and passing eideyyas to her and she likes money one could clearly see ;p This eid we are spending it with her grandparents here and hopefully we manage to take her out and enjoy this weather while it lasts.
I was thinking of eideyas – giveaways besides cash to hand to our neighbors’ kids because mashallah, they are a total of 10! @@ and I honestly don’t know how much to give to strangers then I suddenly had this crazy idea of making souvenirs that symbolize this eid – a sheep and have it filled with candy and I head to Bayya3 el Ward in Hawally to check if I could find something similar. I spent like an hour to bring together the items which made the cute giveaways which both my sister & I worked on for and have Alloumi’s name on :)
I first found the cute porcelain sheep then quickly snatched those boxes – Green meadows for the sheep to be glued on.
In the same building you could find chocolatiers and since I was in a hurry I got some Jordan almonds and crispy chocolates matching the theme of the giveaway
I then picked organza for wrapping the whole thing with matching labeled ribbons and separate daisies for the final touch
Got some ready made cards for the occasion and had them glued on with a darker colored ribbon on the side
And that’s the result of the hard filled with love labor !
The card with Alma’s name inside
Sheep which will not be slaughtered this eid ;)
Only downside to the whole thing was the having the text printed on the ribbons be upside down because we just suck at wrapping!
November 15th, 2011 at
awww that is really cute, happy eid to Alma
November 21st, 2011 at
That looks beautiful..