2011: Year in Review

I can't believe we've gone through an entire year again. Alhamdulillah I survived, it was a rough year. I'm very optimistic that 2012 will be much better for me inshaAllah. I don't usually make new years resolutions because it's futile, I only make changes when I have the spontaneous urge to do so.

This year has seen quite a long of changes and struggles, for me and for millions of others.

I graduated from my undergraduate university. I started graduate school to get my masters. My desires for the future have completely changed and now include a PhD. I moved myself from Florida to Indiana and from Indiana to Delaware two months later. I've spent the majority of the year living absolutely alone. I've gained numerous friends all while losing my closest. I've had a couple broken hearts. I've gained and lost some weight. I discovered yet another failing organ.

And yet all these trials for me seem minuscule compared to what the citizens of other nations have had to endure. Arabs have fought and died for their freedom. Natural disasters have destroyed entire cities and livelihoods. Old leaders have been replaced with a glimmer of hope for the respective nation. What keeps me sane, however, is that for every bad, there seems to be some good that follows. Allah (swt) is just.

Anywho, here are my favorite outfit posts from each month throughout the year. This is my first full year of blogging, since I started halfway into 2010.





Thank you for all the support throughout the year!

{HFW Day 7: Friend Time}

Wow! It just occurred to me I never posted day 7! I'm a silly girl. So this is something similar to what I'd wear if I was hanging out with friends. Laid back, colorful, with blue jeans.





It's cold outside!

{HFW Day 6: Date Night}

Gosh I can't believe how slow I've been this HFW. Anywho, this is what I'd wear if I was married and were to go on a date with my hubby. Sometime I worry that I will never find anyone compatible for me. Then I remind myself that I need to be enjoying this time in my life.

If I ever get married inshaAllah, I may never have a moment like this again. I only have to worry about myself. I pick my schedule (relatively), I go where I want, when I want, and if I want complete silence, it's extremely easy to find. Not many people, even those single ladies out there, can say this. I should be grateful, yet, as usual, not grateful enough. Sometimes it's hard to appreciate what you have when you're extremely lonely.

The reason I picked this outfit is because I wanted something with girly materials and prints. Silks, pearls, animal print…. very girly indeed!





Picking out my jewelry for the evening


Got to smell good for the hubby

{HFW Day 5 - Eid}

I realized after I took these photos that this is the shirt I wore for my last formal outfit during HFW. I can't help it, I don't have much formal attire. I don't really have a cultural outfit, which makes me really sad. I love salwar kameez but the one I had wasn't actually mine so I had to eventually return it.

Anywho, so this is normally something along the lines that I'd wear for Eid. Nothing too wild, just a pop of the orange color. I love these flats so much, I wish they were broken in so I could wear them more often.