fabric options for a baby boy

If the baby is going to be a boy, these are my fabric options for the DIY projects:

The following 4 fabrics are options for the diaper bag and if there will be extra time also for the nursing cover, "plush pad" and the car seat cover.
If i'am going to use only one fabric or a mix of several of these is not clear yet.

The following 2 fabrics are options for a baby blanket. On one side cotton flanell and on the other side satin.

I am going to order fabric examples of all of these fabrics to see them in real life and to see how they match.

DIY baby projects

Since i am four months pregnant i spend a lot of time thinking about the baby that inshallah will come to us after just 5 months.

As you all probably know, i love sewing and also think it is the best way to save money and get exactly the things you imagined.

So here are some of the projects i plan to do when going back to germany. We plan to deliver the baby in germany and because of that ill fly back to germany in the beginning of may inshallah. so if everythings goes like planned i should have two months to realise these projects.

The first and for me most important project is a diaper bag. I don't want to invest big money in buying one and also i haven't yet founda diaper bag i liked. so ill make one myself inshallah!

Second project will be a baby blanket. If i don't get to realise this project it won't be very bad since i asked my grandmother to knit a baby blanket for us and she was more than happy to do so. she is now only waiting to hear about the gender so that she can start knitting.

A nursing cover is a very important and hopefully easy to make project. Like this you can nurse your baby where ever you are without compromising your modesty.

If i have extra time and energy - which i am actually doubting already now :) - i would like to sew a "plush pad" where i can change babies diapers on, be it at home or anywere outside.

Another of these "extra time" projects would be a car seat cover which is totally not needed but cute.

I am pretty sure that i won't be able to realise all these projects, but at least the diaper bag and the nursing cover are essential.

ages ago...

long long time ago there used to be a girl who was very active on her blog and her husband (fiancé back then) was very happy to check her updates almost every day...
then many new things happened in her life and she was busy with other things rather than updating her blog.
But alhamdoulilah she has returned, at least for now ;)

So, many things happened during the last months:
i moved to istanbul as you all know, and after i felt really boring in the first six weeks i started to learn turkish. so for the last four months i had daily 4 hours class and that kept me really busy!

For christmas i went to germany for 5 days, after that my mother came to visit me with her husband in istanbul for one week and than i bekame really sick right after that..

what are my plans now?
well i am 16 weeks pregnant al hamdoulilah and because the courses made me really tired and exhausted we decided to take a break. So i plan to stay home, relax, meet my friends and do some nice things.
on one side i am looking forward to that but at the same time i am afraid i will feel as horrible as before my turkish course...
but we will se how it goes and if i feel bad i can always go back to my classes... inshallah kheir!

so inshallah i will keep bombarding you with new posts...

Dogs of Istanbul

Dogs of Istanbul

The House Café in Ortaköy

Yesterday was my first day out alone. I went out with my cousine and some of her friends. We met in besiktas and then took the bus to ortaköy were she had found a very very lovely place to have breakfast at. All the staff had excellent english skills, maybe 90% of the guests were tourists and the food was really expensive. But the location was absolutely amazing and the food was really really good!!!

I would love to come back to that place again!!!

After spending about three hours at The House Café we went to kadiköy to spend the rest of the afternoon there at it was all in all a very lovely day!

Banana Ice Cream.. Yummy

This ice cream recipie is just amazing!!!
It only consists of frozen banana and i love love love it!!!
Just try it and you will love it too ;)