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Living room love. I like the warm chocolatey-mocha colour of the focus-wall with its fireplace and Arabesque-built-in shelving. I like the thick beams, the brass-punched pendant, and relatively relaxed...
View ArticleMarella Agnelli's Marrakesh Home
Ever since I first saw that first iconic picture of her swan-like grace, captured by photographer Richard Avedon, I fell in love with the style of Marella Agnelli. I know her Marrakech home has been...
View ArticleWhat We [married to an Omani but considering I have to follow the same rules]...
Talking of what is forbidden in Omani society :) ;) ;)... I remember reading a post from an American Muslim woman living in Saudi { http://yankeedoodlesaudi.com/}:"[It] is obvious to me that the...
View ArticleNatural Arabian Buidling Materials---Moroccan Tadelakt Plaster
Tadelakt is a plaster traditionally used in Morocco as an alternative to plaster and paint. It is waterproof, can be tinted with colours, and I absolutely love it as a building material. Its history is...
View ArticleSo Yeah, about Yemen, and why extremist-Islam happens anywhere in the World
Dear family in the land-far-and-away, we in Oman are safe and fine. The war in Yemen doesn't really affect us, beyond both Saudi and UAE being a little mad that we won't be joining them in airstrikes....
View ArticleDESIGN IDEAS: Arabian Bathroom pt. 2
Arabian or Mediterranean influenced designs... I love a little something in each of them.
View ArticleOmani Men's Fashion (and women's gold) from a Bridal Mag.
I love bishts. And swords. Serriously, I wish men went around wearing their mussayrs, and bishts, and carrying swords and belted that whole look off with khanjars every day. Swords are awesome!So I got...
View ArticleBelated Ramadan Iftar Post: the Diwann Club for Iftar
So during Ramadan I went to the Diwann Club for iftar (and it was really good) but I broke my phone, and never got these photos back, but now I have my phone's memory or whatever technical thing it is,...
View ArticleNatural Arabian Building Materials: Date Palm Fronds & some DIY Decorating...
One of the most modern uses I thus far seen of date palm fronds is by interior designer Jessica Battaile (work pictured above and immediately below first two pictures down...
View ArticleBeautiful Villas
This is a compilation of some of my favourite villa designs from around the internet. Some of them are hotel villas, some of them are private homes I could never personally afford, or a designer's...
View ArticleLetter to a Lesser Leader
So when the door of the car that he drove wouldn't open (because admittedly it was a piece of crap that was just barely holding on to life) and he had to climb out of the passenger side, and he didn't...
View ArticleMommy & Baby+Neighborhoods I like to Walk---with a Stroller---in Al Hail/Al...
As much as I love to explore forts and castles and really remote places, such as mountains, wadis, and deserts, doing that with an under-five-months-old and a three year old gets scary sometimes. I...
View ArticleTales of Slavery from My Time in Oman, and Racism from the Weekend
Once upon a time there was a slave in Al Batinah, who had a little house that belonged to his owner, where he lived with his wife, who was also a slave and who had the same owner. This man related that...
View ArticleRESTAURANTS IN OMAN: Bait Al Bahr's Sustainable Menu at Shangri-La
The OPNO girls were invited by Shangri-la [ www.shangri-la.com/muscat ]to attend a media/bloggers event on sustainable elements the resort is trying to include in the food served in their restaurants....
View ArticleLetter to my Future Neighbors
Dear Feuding Omani Future Neighbors to be,Grow up. You are acting like children. In fact, some of your own children, don't know what they should say in excuse to your extreme---and immature---...
View ArticleTop Ten Things I Love About Oman-Top Ten Things I hate About Oman
10.) I love the silver scent of frankincense. I miss it when I leave Oman.9.) I love being able to hear the adhan (call to prayer) although this does happen anywhere in the world where Muslims are in...
View ArticleLetter to My Younger Self-by Pixie
Many bloggers I've read for years (and so I feel I have been on a journey a long with them) have recently written letters to their younger selves. I've thought about what I should say to myself, should...
View ArticleTWO OMANIS IN: Quin, Co. Clare, Craggaunowen, 2013
It was a wet, soggy day, the day we decided to drive to the other end of county Clare (ok, I decided, since I am the one who cares about museums and basically Iron Age and Bronze Age Ireland out of the...
View ArticleTWO OMANIS IN: Goodbye County Clare, 2013
I don't know, but whenever we decided to leave somewhere, it would get sunny. We were in the town of Doolin near the Cliffs of Moher. We had breakfast, went for a walk through town (I still did not buy...
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