Category: Green Home
Teaching Your Child About Sustainability
We live very simple, green, as-natural-as-possible lives, and I’m happy to share more articles about sustainability for all of us to learn from. Tom’s tips below are designed to get you and your kids to enjoy the process as a way of life, rather than a drudgery. I’m so happy to read, that my family [...]
Daily Tips for Saving on Electricity
After spending nearly 6-months in oppressed land, no dedicated electricity, and hardships beyond acceptable limits, we returned home determined to keep our habits of living without electricity and apply it to the consumer-driven lives here in America. Conservation goes FAR beyond saving dollars on the electricity bill, or saving the Earth; it’s about appreciating Allah’s [...]
Flowers that Help to Control Garden Pests
In an effort to avoid dependence on chemical and synthetic pesticides, more and more gardeners these days are looking to natural and biological solutions for help in reducing the damage that pests cause to their gardens. There are many plants that can be utilized in this manner, and doing so will not only save you [...]
10 Tips to Utilize Baskets In Your Home
Natural Storage Baskets are a great opportunity to introduce a natural storage element into your home. Storage doesn’t need to be ugly and hidden. Baskets come in a variety of shapes and sizes and are available in nearly every home store, so you’re bound to find one that suits your budget and style. Here are some [...]
10 Tips for Decorating a Rental Home or Apartment
Renting an apartment or home can sometimes weigh heavy on a person dreaming of home ownership. With today’s economy and housing market the way it is, owning a home is a very distant reality for many of us. Here are some tips to make our rentals feel more personal, even if it is only temporarily [...]
Paper for Later: 10 Great Ways to Reuse Newspaper at Home
Old News? If you live in a household that still likes to get its 411 the old-fashioned way, chances are you’ve got a pile of newspaper ready and waiting to rendezvous with the blue box by the end of every week. Before you relinquish it, consider reusing the newspaper in your home. Here are 10 [...]
Frugal Scarf and Pin Storage Solutions
If you are a Muslim woman, it is likely that you are like me and have many scarves, underscarves and pins. Whether you are a hijabi or not many of us have amassed quite the collection for all the seasons. I know for me I have beautiful scarves and some days I can’t find the [...]
Small Changes that Add Up to Losing Weight
As we introduced NoorVitamins to the American Muslim Mom community during Ramadan, we’re excited to debut their monthly health column today by their esteemed doctors, mashaAllah. A wonderful introduction to their column is sharing quick little tips for you to make small little changes in your daily lifestyle so these small new habits in your [...]
Mabel’s Labels for Kids’ Clothes & Belongings – Review & Giveaway
Perfect for our family travels, these machine washable, waterproof, dishwasher-safe, sturdy kid labels are so great! My girls were having fun, so they took the one metal label and put it around her stud earring just because “I can!” my daughter replied. Well, okay then…the girls insist that no one else would have this picture, [...]
Great Games Trade-In Hasbro & Recyclebank Partner Up
Wednesday night is National Family Game Night, and in preparation for the event, Hasbro & RecycleBank partnered up for this cool Trade-In Opportunity! Details made available from Hasbro below, and check out Alison Deyette’s Game Closet Organizational Tips here. GREAT GAMES TRADE-IN Is your game of Sorry! looking, well, a little sorry? Or maybe the [...]
Eid Dessert Recipe: Wishing your Eid is filled with sweet memories
Eid-ul-fitr, one of the two major Muslim festivals, marks the completion of fasting from dawn to dusk during the month of Ramadan. It is a time to rejoice and celebrate by wearing brand new clothes, attending the Eid prayer and wishing each other “Eid Mubarak” or “Have a blessed Eid.” Eid is a sweet time [...]
Dannon Oikos – The First Greek Yogurt We Actually Liked!
I wrote this post while participating in a blog tour conducted by Clever Girls on behalf of Dannon. I have been compensated for my time commitment to the program but my opinions are my own. For more information and recipe ideas, visit www.oikosyogurt.com or www.Facebook.com/oikos. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls [...]
Ramadan and Moroccan American Cuisine
Blogging has brought me a lot of new opportunities that had never crossed my mind in “life before blogging”. One of these ideas was publishing a cookbook. On my website I blog about food, specifically but not limited to Moroccan food. All of my recipes are halal though I do not market the site as [...]
Ramadan and Indian Cuisine
Although I was born and raised in America, my parents (and all three of my siblings, actually) were born in India, and lived there for some time in their lives. I’ve been to the country only once, when I was three, so the memories are quite blurred. However, I do have a taste of my [...]
Ramadan and Southern Cuisine
Before Ramadan began, I sorted through my recipes looking for quick and easy, yet healthful, recipes; as I’m looking for ways to shake up the line up. I find that a lot of the recipes I find online for Ramadan are Middle Eastern or Indian and while there is nothing wrong with that, I am [...]
