Tag: "Eid"
7 Tips for Thoughtful and Creative Eid Gifts
Eid al-Adha is less than a week away, everyone! Make sure you have a great gift for every child on your list. Eid Shopping: Tips for Thoughtful Gifts Does shopping for Eid gifts stress you out? With the enormous amoung of choices out there, it can be challenging to pick out gifts. These tips will [...]
Let’s Celebrate a Modern Eid Event! An Eid Decoration Giveaway Party!
Now, I’ve been decorating my every single Eid all by myself. For years, the only way to force the girls into bed early is by reminding them we stay up after fajr to prepare for Eid prayer…so that’s not many hours for Mama to cook, bake and decorate a surprise fajr for you! They knew [...]
Touchnote Show You Care Eid2Eid Postcard Campaign & Challenge!
I’m so excited to share with you this really cool “Show You Care From Eid al-Fitr to Eid al-Adha orEid2Eid” campaign and challenge! Touchnote is an incredibly ingenious, highly-economical, convenient, traveler’s dream app. However, I believe it’s an awesome innovation for for high-tech Internet-connected people to stay in close touch in a very personal, special [...]
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 [...]
Tips to Celebrating the Full 3 Days of Eid
Alhamdulilah Ramadan came, we saw it through and now it is time for celebrations! There are three days in which we celebrate the concluding of Ramadan. It is known as Eid ul Fitr (not to be confused with the four days of Eid ul Adha). This is a blessed time where family and friends get [...]
How to Cleanse for Eid Prayer
Homemade Egyptian cookies, Eid decorations, Eid prayer, Adeyya (Eid money), and family—that pretty much summed up my Eid Al-Fitr holiday as I was growing up in the Midwest. Now however, it’s a tad bit different because us “kids” are each living in different states (brother isin NYC, I’m in South Carolina, sister is in Michigan, [...]
Frugal and Fabulous Eid Gift Ideas
Hard to think that Ramadan will quickly fly by and then it will be our time to celebrate. I have celebrated 4 Eids now. Last year I absolutely loved my Eid. I live in Toronto, Canada and every Eid about 20,000 Muslims gather together to celebrate. When I first saw that many Muslims under one [...]
Top 10 Islamic Gifts Chosen By You!
One of our big projects this summer was the launching of the first-ever online Eid Gift Guide. Read our post about it here. On the Guide, there are products and services highlighted for the convenience of the Muslim consumer looking for a halal shopping trip. In addition, there is something for everyone to make this [...]
Balancing School and Ramadan/Eid
Time truly is flying by, SubhanAllah- Glory be to God. I feel like just last week was my college freshman orientation, when in reality, it was over a year ago. I remember my first semester in September 2010, it was still Ramadan. In fact, it was the final third of the month, the fully-blessed last ten [...]
The 30 Days of Ramadan Crafty Challenge
How it all began… You can learn about how my 3 girls and I came up with the idea of the 30 Days of Ramadan Crafty Challenge here. You can craft, too! For each craft, we will have a supply list, take photos of the supplies and show the process step by step. This will [...]
