Nowruz Preparations

Our Nowruz preparations have started. Today we sown our wheatgrass seeds in the soil and warmed the earth with candles (and tried to catch the smoke see the little sweet video). A little late as I forgot over the weekend with work and Mother’s Day but we will still see it grow somewhat for Nowruz. 🌱

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Nowruz is the Persian New Year Celebrated around the time of the Spring Equinox, (my husband is half Iranian for those wondering why we are celebrating) this year it’s the 20th March. For the new year we will be setting up a traditional ‘Haft Sin’.

“Haft-sin or Haft-seen (Persian: هفت‌سین‎) is an arrangement of seven symbolic items whose names start with the letter "س" pronounced as "seen" the 15th letter in the Persian alphabet; haft (هفت) is Persian for seven. (Wikipedia)

I have a few crafts what we will be getting on with this week for our little Nowruz celebration - all whilst we watch the wheatgrass or Sabzeh grow - our Sabzeh (one of the seven items) for the table.

Our beautiful wheatgrass which will then remain on the table will form part of our beautiful butterfly garden as we approach Easter. Two beautiful celebrations united by nature and growth!

I can’t wait to share more about our Haft Sin and our lovely crafts which you can adapt for your home this spring.

Peace and love

Edit: I forgot to add our beautiful butterfly garden is the beautiful kit from @my____fable 🦋