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Meeting other bloggers and Supporting Palestine

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 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم السلام عليكم Fatima Peck, Me, Nurunisa Peck On the 24 January 2015 a wonderful group of people decided to put together a fashion show in order to raise funds for our brothers and sisters in Palestine in need of our help. Fatima and Nurunisa Peck are the founders of Sisters in Hijab and now creators of Sisters in Support. These two young ladies have seriously been making a splash in our Muslim community. Their website consists of selling beautiful scarves to exciting jewelry and elegant headbands( hand made by Aashiqah Gire). They even have a little section where they sell little badges and stickers in support of Palestine. As some of you might know I keep Palestine close to my heart, so when Fatima contacted me telling me about this event there was no way I could not be there. The fashion show was held in the Old Mutual building in Pinelands. As I made my way there I was rather nervous yet excited. I was told that I was going to have the op

Hello 2015...

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 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم السلام عليكم Shall I start by saying Happy New Year everyone, welcome to 2015 where flying cars and time travel still does not exist. This is not going to be a post about "new year, new me" because I think we've seen enough of that on tumblr and instagram. Now do not get me wrong I am not hating here I just think I am kinder over setting this long list of goals that, well never really work out.  Yes goals are very important and when we achieve it we feel good about ourselves, but when we pile them up so quickly we end up overwhelming ourselves.  I do not want to make this a long and sappy post. So I am just going to say that for 2015 I have one big goal for myself and that is to ' work harder'. Yes I know wow... that is so deep right, but if you think about it when I say 'work harder' I mean everything that I do, I am going to give it all that I got, hundred percent. So yes I am going to turn this into a