Oooooooh boy, oh boy! 2018. Phew!!! Am I glad that year is over! Hahaha! It was VERY stressful. There were challenges of all kinds; physical, emotional, and financial. The year started off fine, in fact it started off awesome as we ended a grand vacation in Orlando and returned home. During the year life brought some awesome things my way. I became Auntie 2.0 as Chunky arrived in my life, I hosted a super successful Instagram Challenge #PotterificJuly, my bathroom got remodeled, and I created some beautiful cakes and bakes. But as awesome as the year's 'ups' were, the 'downs' were just as devastatingly horrible. At the start of the new year today, as I look back at 2018 in picture highlights, I have chosen to omit out the bad. Why recall it, right? So here are highlights of my year 2018 in pictures!
Started the New Year 2018 at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
It was a beautiful vacation to Orlando Florida! Disney and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter were involved. I rang in the new year with bestie by my side at Cabana Bay Beach Resort. We got to spend the first day of 2018 at the Wizarding World, we even rid the new King Kong ride which was super fun, and finally enjoyed the Raptor experience. WHAT a fabulous start to 2018!
Sara's Baked Creations completed 7 years of baking!
This past year I officially completed SEVEN years being obsessively in love with baking and caking!
My Winter Board January Collage
I made a really warm and cozy feeling Winter board in January! Check out the details here!
Celebrated Bro's Birthday - Ate Out At Aldeerah Saudi Cuisine
Here's my restaurant review that I wrote for the place!
Presented The Gorgeous Little Beauties Cupcake Collection at a Ladies Lunch Party
Taking my beautiful creations to parties always fills my heart with joy because of the way people react to them. We were invited to a ladies thing one afternoon and I took along these gorgeous cupcakes for everybody. Women were going CRAZY over them! Hahaha! Loved watching their reactions. Here's a detailed blog post about them.
March Meetups With Friend at Her House Warming
My friend Sania moved into her new home and when she invited me over for the first time ever I took a collection of cupcakes for her to celebrate her new home! Here's a detailed post about them!
Got a Beautiful Winter Wonderland - at The Start of Spring
Some pictures need no explanations!
My Hippity Hoppity Bunny Bum Cake was featured on Wilton
They asked to post cakes with buttercream details and I posted this adorable little cake. Guess what? Wilton actually loved my cake so much they shared it for the world to see! It made me so happy!
Wrist Problems
My wrists decided to act crazy this year. They're a lot better now, though still not a hundred percent. Read all about them right here!
April Blogging from A To Z Challenge
Once again this year I took up the April Blogging from A to Z Challenge! Once again my theme was showing off all my bakes and cakes and it went super duper well! I enjoyed myself and my blog turned into a delicious display of master pieces! Check out the theme reveal here with links to all my posts for the challenge!
Chunky Arrives
THE GRAND HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR! Chunky decided to bless our lives with her fat cheeks and tiny feet! Life as Auntie 2.0 has become double fun!
Finally learnt how to take my niece for pee pee
And Gubby said, "See, Beeya? It wasn't so difficult! You did it!" Hahahaha!
Caught up with Qz over burgers and onion rings
Ooooooh it was a good catch up session. And of course, onion rings!
Celebrated Mothers Day
Our gorgeous Ramadan 2018 favors were a hit!
Our Ramadan favors were once again Spring themed and so beautiful! Check out the details here!
Hosted a Ramadan Iftar Dinner
Of course Abbie and I are the best hostesses! *laughs*
Eid Ul Fitr
This Eid ul Fitr 2018 I made the Googly Eyed Giraffe Eidee envelope for Gubb! You can find a full DIY entry here! Eid was actually good. We went to iHop after namaz for brunch and then Chinese for dinner! Sadly, Gubbzy fell a bit sick. But we all still managed to have a LOT of fun!
I was team Yanny
Chunky's Welcome Home Party
Chunky darling was welcomed home with a beautiful princessy, girly celebratory lunch! Gubby helped us host this time, now having become a big sister herself! Bless these babies <3 Lunch was delicious and our decor was gorgeous!
Fourth of July BBQ and Pool Party
We'd done it last year and we did it again this year! Find more deets here!
Potterific July Instagram Challenge
HIGHLIGHT of my year 2018 for me was my Potterific July Instagram Challenge! I hosted this picture challenge in Insta and got a HUGE response from Potterheads all over the world! It was such a success! Read all about it here and then find details on how awesome it went in this blog post! Also, I wrote many more entries for Potterific July 2018 which can be found here.
Back to Hogwarts With Target
Target hosted this cute little Harry Potter event to celebrate the Potterness in our lives and Abbie and I made our way one fine Sunday afternoon to photo opportunities, merchandise worth drooling over, and a bag full of freebies! It was such fun! Read all about it here!
Put together the Chauda August Board
It was Abbie's idea this year to put up a board for Pakistan's Independence Day this year so I did it in August and came up with this beautiful funky Desi board! Isn't it super funky? I loved it so much I let it stay up for longer than I would have. Check out detailed pictures here!
My Sheep Cake on Eid ul Adha
It is not often that your baby niece requests a SHEEP cake for Eid! Hahaha! So when Gubby requested one I decided to keep my aching wrists at the back of my mind and made her the adorable Baa-yoo-tiful Sheep Cake for Eid ul Adha. She loved it and I loved making it for her!
Dad Comes Over
Since this year Dad really did retire (finally no tricks! Haha!) we saw a lot more of him. He visited often and whenever he did it was busy busy with making everything perfect for his stay. The babies were very very excited to see more of Daadaa and it was a treat watching them bond together!
OctoPhoMo 2018
Tadaaaaaaaaaaa! This year too my October Photography Month went AWESOME! Check out all of my pictures right here!
Mama's Birthday and my Magnificent Mosaic Cake
*takes a bow* Yes yes, mmhmm ... I made this gorgeous cake to celebrate mama's birthday this year. Of course it was so stunning everybody loved it! I'd been so stressed because my wrists weren't in their best condition but this cake turned out so beautiful! What a success!
Saraallie turned TWENTY SEVEN!
I started the TWENTY SEVENTH chapter of my life with a Luna Lovegood themed birthday celebration thanks to Abbie! She baked me the Exceptionally Ordinary cake and Sania sent me Harry Potter themed cookies. I got surprises and presents and beautiful birthday cards and LOTS of love. It was another sweet celebration and another birthday to remember! Read all about the deets here!
Exceptionally Ordinary Birthday Board
An Exceptionally Ordinary Birthday called for an Exceptionally Ordinary Birthday Board display! My birthday board looked so crazy and so pretty! Check out the details here!
NoJoMo 2018
For the first time in my life EVER I took part in November Journaling Month 2018! It was actually such a great experience. Read all about my challenge and find all my entries in this big blog post!
My Abbie's Birthday and the cake I baked for her!
And presenting another one of my master pieces from 2018! I hosted a Deranged Lestrange birthday party for Abbie and this Bellatrix Lestrange themed cake was simply MIND BLOWINGLY awesome! I am so in love with this cake I just cannot get enough of it! I plan on blogging in detail about Abbie's Death Eater party and celebrations soon! It was one of my finest DIY works!
Gubby's Birthday! My Baby Turned FOUR!
The Fantastique Fancy Nancy Cake was my last cake for 2018! Gubby turned FOUR years old and I made this beautiful cake for her. We did a whole Fancy Nancy themed celebration and it was just too perfect. Again, I plan on doing a detailed blog feature on the birthday super soon!
Bathroom Remodel
This year bathroom remodeling was a HUGE event. Huge because of so many reasons. It took ages, it costed a lot, and it was such a world of a difference! It is finally finally finally done (with the last little bit of caulking done as I type today) and I can't wait to show off the pictures right here on my blog super soon!The bathroom’s starting to come together! My countertop is here! 😁#bathroomremodel #homerenovation #tlc #remodeling pic.twitter.com/TeSSZJ1xbi— Saraallie ✨ (@sara_allie) November 27, 2018
Watched The Crimes of Grindelwald
Okay HIGHLIGHT to be noted!!! ABBIE AND I GOT TO WATCH THIS AWESOME MOVIE ON THE BIG SCREEN!!!! Couldn't believe our luck!!!! This was the BEST! Read alllllll about our experience here!
Fall Board 2018
My last creative display for the year was this gorgeous Fall themed board! See pictures here!
GoodReads Challenge
Yessssssssssssssssss! I completed the Goodreads 2018 Reading Challenge! I did it literally in the last week of the year but I did it nevertheless! So proud of myself!
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