LIFESTYLE Archives - Mahnoor Farogh Naseem

13 Jun

I received a towel as my 20th birthday present. By now you know that the title of this blogpost oozes sarcasm. I will spare the detail of who sent it because that’s pretty much as irrelevant as the person themself. (Coming to the ^ picture shortly, read below) I was in London at the time and my mother was visiting so we had a full house of very sassy ladies-including my mother’s best friend and my flatmate. Now this so called present was the hype since it was being sent to me from Pakistan and the sender just would not stop talking to me about the contents, packaging and effort put into it all.

4 days after...

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26 Apr

JET SET CANDY

by Mahnoor Farogh

LIFESTYLE

I’ve always been someone who is attached to memories and sentiments and I wanted something, apart from a journal/scrapbook that commemorated my travels to new places. During my trip to New York, I went to the Bryant Park Christmas Market and came across Jet Set Candy’s pop-up shop. It was the cutest store I had ever seen. There were little charms all over the place, organized by make and countries and exactly what I wanted to fill up my Pandora bangle. Out of the little Empire State buildings and Statues of Liberty I had my heart set on the little sterling LaGuardia luggage tag for my first trip to New York. I’m not going to lie, I wanted to grab them all...

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26 Nov

HAPPINESS IS HANDMADE

by Mahnoor Farogh

LIFESTYLE

I distinctly remember the day my mother taught me how to colour. We were sprawled on the floor with my Cinderella colouring book and brand new Faber Castell colour pencils. We took a page each and began colouring. I was scribbling away on Cinderella’s face and enviously looking at Mama’s neat strokes. She noticed that I had paused and was observing her. Mama asked me if I wanted her to teach me and I nodded, flashing her my keen smile. I was 4 years old when I fell in love with art and just creating things that. I feel truly happy every time I am bent over my sketchbook, engrossed in my paintings or illustrations. I appreciate myself fully every time...

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3 Jun