Trousseau Issues – Boutique Tricks Revealed

I am designing my cousin’s trousseau who lives in the US. I have been going shopping every day in search of the perfect dress. Though I haven’t been able to find that, I HAVE discovered a few boutique tricks :

- Place a brightly coloured dress between two dull dresses. It is sure to catch the customer’s eye

- Never put two nice dresses in the same row – the customer gets confused and ends up buying neither

- Every dress in the row should be a different colour else the customer simply overlooks them. Two dresses, same colour placed together – do not make sense to the customer!

- Always place Extra small (XL) size at the front – that’s what every customer aspires to be!

- Last but not the least, tell the customer she’ll look pretty in a particular dress

The colours of Spring in Karachi

Who says Karachi sees no spring?

My Change Management class is melodious with the cooing of lil birdies mating. We can see their happy outlines from our class window.

Slowly the first marigold has opened it’s yellow face. The bees have started work on their hive, inappropriately above my kitchen door. Multitudes of insects suddenly appear out of nowhere.

The Siberian winds have become a tender caress. The sun bursts out in joyful radiance, the first rain of summer yesterday was a refreshing drizzle.

Lawn exhibitions begin thronged by the female gender, all ages. Some uncles are bored onlookers. The vibrant billboards are all over the city.

And if you venture into a garden, you may even catch sight of a tiny butterfly prancing among the flowers.

All the world’s joyful. Spring does not bypass Karachi after all.

Let Allah be the guiding light

If you do not know the way,
Seek where His Footprints are…

- Rumi

A Slave’s Lament

I saw the glitterring wares of the marketplace
They were enticing, beckoning me to possess them
But I cannot serve two masters.

I have been His slave since the day I was born and will remain so till the day I die.

The only beauty, the only Truth

If you seek that, go to www.untiredwithloving.org. Let it rejuvenate you on your journey…

“Every morning wake up and seek a broken leg to be its cane or seek a blind eye to be its guide or seek a broken heart to be its solace. Know that the Beautiful One is amongst the broken hearts, not amongst the beautiful faces”

“This Voyage”, Dara O. Shayda, www.untiredwithloving.org

It has surely given me new life.