After 3 days in Urfa we went to Ira and
Ali's house in Elazığ. Unfortunately on our first morning there we received a
sad news from Konya: my father in law's sudden death caused by heart attack :(
My husband rushed back to Konya by plane and left us in Ira's house. About a
week later he came by bus with his sister to pick us up and drove us back to
Konya. On our last day we went to several places Harput, a historic town nearby.
my family in Harput with my sis in law |
before separated in Malatya |
Even after I moved to Aleppo then to
Amman, once in a while we called each other, and talked regularly (almost
everyday!) on facebook and yahoo messenger. When we moved in Aleppo we thought
we could meet more often because Aleppo is much closer to Elazığ than Konya. In
safer and peace time in past it was very common for Aleppian to crossed the
border particularly every weekend and do their shopping in Hatay or Adana,
cities which are often visited by Ira's husband for his work. Unfortunately
situation got worse, not only we couldn't commute to Turkey but we even had to
leave Syria.
So when I saw this design in an online
shop in Indonesia, I bought it and asked my sister to send it to Turkey. The
kit was already waiting for me when we arrived in Konya so the next day I
started to stitch it :) I changed the fabric to aida glitter gold from Yeidam because the fabric provided is not enough if I want to put the wording underneath the pictures.
I also want to share some pictures from
Ira and Ali's wedding, so you may know some more about our Indonesian culture.
They were wearing Sundanese (West Java) wedding costume which is different than
my wedding costume that I have posted here :)
left: one of their pre wedding photos right: after their Islamic marriage vows (akad) |
left: their wedding reception in Bandung, Indonesia top right: wedding reception in Turkey |
***** many thanks, terima kasih, sağol, شُكْرًا
Thank you again for sharing this lovely friendship & beautiful photos!
ReplyDeleteThank you Shirlee for reading and commenting, I am glad you like the photos :)
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