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Sci-Fi Pakistan+ Illustrations by a Pakistani Artist

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I measure the size of my #home in love per square feet using qualitative measures over quantitative.🤓 Number of #memories on the walls than number of walls itself. I prefer filling it up with candles and plants over shoes and bags - because lets face it I don't have any more #storage space haha.🙏🏻 But the space constraint (or i should just say limit) has actually changed me as a person since I moved in here after I got married. I learnt to find #happiness in every little corner I touch upon everyday, become a #minimalist, and above all spend more conciously.🧐 . This corner here was one first #walls we decorated after moving in as a couple.👫🏻 It had to be a combination of #art and #religion. So this is Ayat-al-Kursi (for those who aren't muslims ‐ it's a verse from Quran we believe to put us and our surrounding in the protection of God).🏡 My husband ordered it online through @iradaarts , all the way from USA, in #kufic script (the square-ish font) in form of a wall #decal! The font, size and form of art was all customised. . Putting up a decal is tricky and because we messed it up midway, it took us literally 3-4 hours, an argument and then a lot of sabr un-messing it up.🙃 . Like I said, we don't have many walls but we have a #story to tell for every wall at home. . Excuse the dragon ruining the picture, 4 years later we now use our son's toys as decoration pieces. Haha.👪 . . . Tagging everything else's brand in the picture. . . . . . . . #instaart #instablog #artbloggers #igerspakistan #homedecor #homedecor #lookbook #lifestylebloggers #myhome #mommyblogger #bloggersofuae #artindubai #dubaiwalls #wallart #islamicart #bloggersofdubai #homemaker

@tishtashtalks loves mums and mum here loves to pose and dreams of a day the child wouldn't want to hop into every photograph of hers ever. 🤦🏻‍♀️ . I may look calm here, but swipe through to see me go from posing to saying "jaldi kero yaldurum ara hai" to convincing him to not ruin a picture to giving up.🙃 #momlife . Despite that, I am glad there's work outside all the desk-jobs available for moms like me who have an appetite to remain #productive, stay connected to my chosen field of #marketing (love the world of brands and ads) and socialise, all the while staying as free-spirited as I want to be at the moment.🔆 . We #bloggers aren't always paid (sometimes yes) and sometimes paid in products and invites - but the motive behind #blogging (at least for me and many other moms i know) is to stay connected to our interests, brands, the market and like minded people, all the while feeling like we haven't lost ourselves to just #parenting!👩‍👧 . And the #agencies that understand that and enable mums be a step ahead of where they already stand are automatically our favorites! . Thank you @tishtashtots @tishtashtalks for inviting us mummies today, giving us so many #collaboration opportunities and being so accommodating. . Videos and pictures of our as-bright-as-my-top morning on my stories! . . 👚@zara 👖@outfitters_pk [Always wearing something from Pakistan haha] . . . . . . . . . . . . . #instablog #bloggersofpakistan #bloggersofuae #dubaibloggers #dubailife #mommyblogger #lifestylebloggers #fashiombloggers #fashionpakistan #yellow #brands #trends #sonshine #loveyourself #mumofdubai #tishtashtots #tishtashlovesmums

⚠️Unpopular opinions⚠️ . I don't like #Paris.🗼 . There I said it.🙈 Going through my mobile pictures because I really badly miss being on a #vacation, I came across this picture from 1.5 years ago at @disneyland and I realised it was the only AMAZING thing from our trip to Paris in my opinion. (It was called the #spectacular #fireworks show - do you see why?😍) . #Art, love, French food - Am i not totally meant for Paris? - I thought (like most other girls) before I visited the much fantasised city. . Maybe I had high expectations of the city, maybe because its definitely not child friend, maybe because the people there aren't generally friendly at all, and maybe because #Dubai has shown us enough of everything #fancy yet SO well maintained, we are spoiled to see only the best of metropolitan cities.🇦🇪 . This is an #opinion (not too uncommon to #travel groups btw) I would be judged on by many but its okay because its an "opinion" and we all have those.🙃 . WHATS YOUR UNPOPULAR OPINION? Would really want to hear some today!🔆 . . . . . . . . . . #travelling #traveldiaries #instablog #bloggersofuae #igerspakistan #bloggersofuae #bloggersofuae #dubaibloggers #mommyblogger #travelbloggers #instalife #disneyland #mommyblogger #parislife #wanderlust #lifestylebloggers #colorful

*Insert a bookish flower related qoute here* But all I wanna really say is: I love #flowers. Bas. Don't give ke gifts. Give me flowers.💐 I often hug my bouquets too hard and remember they too might choke on that kinda love. . Don't do that. Not good. Be #gentle. Let it be flowers. Animals. Or people.🔆 . Anyway please check out the flowery dress (quite old but rarely worn) I wore to a wedding last week and ended up camouflaging with the bouquets at the entrance of the @jwmarriottmarquisdubai lol! . Swipe through to check my little monkey ek toh zaberdasti photo mei ghustay hue, upar se cleaning his face with a white formal shirt.🐒 . Good for him I was too busy to notice that harkat while posing and when I did, I pretended hes not my production.🤣 Bad for me the picture came out blurry (so much for my unpaid photographer- Mr.Maha) and wo shirt bhi dhoni pari. . Wow the fancy life of an blogging mommy. . . . . . . . . . . . #mommyblogger #instablog #bloggersofpakistan #bloggersofuae #lifestylebloggers #fashion #fancy #photography #sonshine #expatlife #weddingfashion #mydubai #igerspakistan #womenofpakistan #kidsofinstagram #artbloggers #dubaibloggers #formaldress

Instagram vs Reality of my home.🏡 . My #home is filled with toys. Has fingerprints on everything. And is never quiet. My hair is usually a mess And I am always tired. But there's always love and laughter here. In twenty years from now. My child won't remember the house or the hair. But he'll #remember the time we spent and the #love he felt.👪 - -[Excerpt from an anonymous qoute found online] . . . If you too wonder how my home looks #tidy and the time. Well, that's Instagram for you my friends. This is #reality. 💁🏻‍♀️ . Also I often get asked about how I set up that wall with #frames in a perfect grid, so here's a step-by-step on how to do it: . 🔆Cut out a piece of a paper roll as big as the portion you want to cover. 🔆Take that to @ikeauae or your favorite frames store, spread it down on the floor shamelessly and start arranging random frames over it. 🔆Once you've formed a nice grid, draw outlines of all frames with a pencil. 🔆Buy the frames. Bring it all home. 🔆Stick the paper again to the wall and drill wherever the frames pin would be inside each outline. 🔆Take the paper off. Hang the frame. . . This is the most #effecient way to do it in my opinion. We initially did it the longer way. We randomly got a few frames then made the grid and realised we need more frames. 🙈 Thank God Mr.Maha was equally excited about it so he went to fetch some more. That's when you're OVER effecient. Don't be that. . If this triggers the #neatfreak in you, swipe left for a neater view.😍 . . . . . . . . . . . . . #homedecor #diy #tutorial #stepbystep #wallart #walldecor #ideas #myhome #homesweetome #lifestylebloggers #dubaibloggers #expatfamily #bloggersofuae #bloggersofpakistan #artbloggers #creativity #creative #ikea

Will I ever go back to work? If I do, will my child be neglected?👩‍👦 . My old friends have known me as a fairly #ambitious person always. My new friends are sometimes surprised by my educational background when they find out given the current #lifestyle I have chosen for myself.💁🏻‍ . I got married not much later after my graduation and so I had to leave my job for what i had 'planned' would be a small break. Little did I know that God had other plans. We decided to have our first kid soon after that. The plan to go back to work was then delayed. I got my first job interview offer in UAE right when Yaldurum turned 2 months. . He's too little to be detached from me, I thought. The plan was further delayed. Something or the other kept coming up and it was well delayed till 3 years. . I recently got a few more interview calls and even a #job offer. When Yaldurum turned 3. It sounded like a perfect time to go back to work and guess what became another reason of delay? Us being told during #school admissions that he had a slight #speech delay and might require some #intervention. . The plan is now yet again delayed. Till he's well settled in his school. Till then this mama needs to work on his #foundation years a little more consciously than she needs to work at a firm to earn. Because gotta be his teacher, driver, chef, caretaker and above all his company all day for some more time. #CIRCUMSTANCES. I love living alone but you see the #challenges of an #expat mom? At home we face the #guilt of not going to work, at work the guilt of leaving our child back to nannies/day cares. . I realized how much of a #taboo the word #therapy is when I saw people have a million question in their eyes and the mere mention of it. But if I need to be at #comfort with it, I need to first be comfortable talking about it. . #Talking about it helped me recently connect with SO MANY other parents going through it and I not only realised its pretty #common, I also found good resource material, tips and contacts to therapists through them. . More power to all the #moms specially the single-mom of 2 I mentioned on my story today. Go check my stories for my elaborated view on this #topic!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I am an art-enthusiast, a self-taught artist, a marketer and a blogger on a quest to spot and spread “Maharat” (مہارت – Urdu for skills)

You can find me hopping between UAE and Pakistan. Get in touch with me for collaborations and PRs or order one of my artworks.

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