Doha Event: Summer Market 2012

We've done good selling Turkish Evil Eye the last bazaar we have joined. Now, we will participate in another entrepreneurship initiative - this time, for the Doha Mums Summer Market.

This is the 3rd Summer Market hosted by Doha Mums but our very first time to participate, we are so psyched!


Hope to see you all there! Please stop by our table and say hello to us - or  better yet, buy our products!

Doha Mums 2012 Summer Market  

Venue: Ramada Plaza Doha (ballroom) 

Saturday - 26th May, 2012 @ 11.00 AM

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School Fair and Evil Eye Bazaar in Doha

It's never too early to teach entrepreneurship to kids. Entrepreneurship, by definition, is the act of being an entrepreneur or "one who undertakes innovations to transform something into economic goods. After all, we should teach kids how to survive in life and one can't survive without having the ability to have "money." We might not be giving the kids such thorough lesson just yet but just the same, we are all enjoying and saving money, if not earning for the things we sell in the bazaar we participate.

This fair is our 3rd in Kylie's school and so far the best! The first school fair came as a big shock for my wallet. I was surprised by how much cost could sum up with all the activities and at QR10 per activity!   The second school fair, last year, was less costly, more vanity. Kylie joined the modeling contest and didn't win.  It gave her a valuable lesson too. The courage to face her fear of the audience and judges and being actually "judged" through her wit and physical appearance. As much as it was interesting , it's something that we decided not to push any further. Unless she decides later on.

And this school fair, instead of spending money, we actually earn money break even the cost. Kylie get herself a henna which is something she always like. This time she had a proud face telling everyone that she earned the money she used for henna. And we even had spare to buy us fast food dinner.

And hoops, if you are still looking for Turkish Evil Eye, we still have some stocks left. Not so many designs to choose from anymore though. Do contact us through our contact form.

The Turk and the Princess manning the table and discussing prices in front of customers (HA!) 

our entrepreneur princess!

she actually sold a lot of evil eyes to her classmates! She's Ms. Chatterbox alright. 

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Top Ten Tuesdays: Ten Things Turkish!

Top Ten Things Turkish on Top Ten Tuesdays! Gotta love all those Ts and the topic of this post (I hope!)

Guess what, in less than 24 hours, me and my husband are flying again to Istanbul, Turkey. Like what was noted by my colleague, this is my 4th trip to Turkey in less than six months, so I must really love the place!

Well, that is true - I love the place but most importantly the people in it. I love the tradition and the things that are distinctly Turkish! And here are my Top Ten Things Turkish (almost!)

Evil Eye and Turkish Tea

1. Turkish Evil Eye: Of course, the strong belief in the ability to refrain from bad luck is VERY VERY obvious among Turks. You will see all sorts and types of evil eyes and evil eye decor almost EVERYWHERE in Turkey. The most weird thing I've seen (so far) is evil eye underwear design (in a kinky store - and don't ask what I was doing there, still in tourist mode!)

Some of the evil eyes we have are bracelets, rings, earrings (a real jewelry), pot holder, car holder, wall decor, door decor, towels, pots - you get the picture! We even sold evil eyes to our colleagues (still selling!) so we can share its awesome power.

2. Turkish Tea: My husband used to tell me that Turks drink more tea than Brits. I didn't believe him until I was there the first time. They even have street vendors for Turkish Tea in parks, for crying out loud. They serve Turkish Tea in ferry boats, bus and all public places! We went to bazaars and we are offered to have Turkish Tea just by window shopping. And with all biased opinion - Turkish Tea are the best tea I've ever tasted, way better than Earl Tea. (I did say, biased opinion!)

Turkish Viagra

Turkish Delight 

3.  Turkish Delight. Or locally known as LOKUM, Turkish delight is pure and authentic Turkish candy. It comes in a lot of different flavor and sizes. Walk through the Grand Bazaar and you'll be treated with free tastes of Turkish delight. It is mostly sugar so caution with the fat accumulation in your body. I should know. Arrghhh!

4.  Turkish Viagra. Okay to be quite honest, I've only known about this during my last visit three weeks ago. Apparently, it is as popular as Turkish Delight. It's simply a concoction of dried nuts, dried fruit and sugar - well, who knew that Turkish people need viagra? I think it's that Vitamin E content in all those ingredients that can give its aphrodisiac appetite. (Honey, go easy on that dried apricot mixed almond!) 

5. Turkish Coffee. It is popularly known around the world as Turkish Coffee! What the world is missing is the tradition after drinking the Turkish Coffee. You can actually read your fate in your Turkish coffee cup. Yeah, like predicting your future from tea leaves, only in this case, shredded and diluted Turkish coffee beans. I always drink Turkish coffee for this purpose. My in-laws know how to make me feel good with my future. They always make out FISH from my coffee cup which apparently is very lucky! 

6. Turkish Simit. It is a light and flaky bread, baked to a golden brown colored and topped with sesame streets. Most of the time, it is formed into rings but there are braided breads as well. It think it goes well with Turkish Tea especially if you are starving going all around Istanbul or any touristic spots in Turkey. It usually costs 1TL, very cheap, to feed growling stomachs. It tastes like no fast food bread even though it is.

Eating Turkish simit 

7. Turkish Shawarma. Sharwarma did originate from Turkey. And Turkish people know how it should taste like. Any Turk would complain how badly a sharwarma taste like if it is not "Turkish." Sharwarma actually originally came from a Turkish world, çevirme , means "turning." Shawarma is prepared by "turning" the meat a spit while it is being slow-grilled. 

posing beside Turk and Turkish shawarma 

8. Turkish Pie or Pide and Turkish Pizza or Lahmajun. Okay, these are two Turkish dishes but equally popularly in Turkey. In my Pinoy culture, these are they equivalent for a full meal. They can survive without eating rice because of these carbo-loaded meals. Turkish pie is great with (you've guessed it - Turkish Tea) and could be  a stand alone snack or dinner. What Turks normally do is to pre-baked the dough and just bake dough with toppings, - cheese, meat or greens and it is instant meal. 

As for Turkish Pizza, it is like any thin crust-pizza with the toppings, except that it is normally served with parsley and lemon, placed as toppings and rolled before eating. It gives that "healthy" feel since it has veggies. 

Turkish Pie or Pide

Turkish Pizza or Lahmajun

9. Kokorec. My favorite! No trip to Turkey is complete without eating Kokorec. Some tourists are so grossed out with this meal since it's lamb intestines. It is usually served as a sandwich and perceived to be so unhealthy (and dirty!) but hey, I was brought up in country where we eat unfertilized chicken eggs (craving for balut now!) We really like the taste of Kokorec, including Kylie of course! 

YUUMMM - kokorec

Kokorec sandwich

10. Turkish Linen.  Okay, it's almost all of the items in this list are food. Moving on to another trademark - Turkish linens! Not-your-normal-made-in-China linen but Turkish-hand-made-linens. Great quality and great craftmanship. Almost all Turkish bedrooms are like this. Awesome sheets they have indeed (no mockery there - really!) 

Turkish Linen!

Did I miss out important Turkish trademarks? Pretty sure I did as ten is such a few. What are your favorite things that are Turkish? Do tell. 




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Turkish Evil Eye For Sale in Doha

Updates regarding Turkish Evil Eye For Sale in Doha.

This one is SOLD OUT!

SOLD OUT! 

This particular design below is our best seller - TWO PIECES LEFT! Please contact us ASAP if you want to reserve. This one is a great interior design accessory! 

closer view 

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Evil Eye For Sale in Doha

EVIL EYE FOR SALE IN DOHA!

Oh Yeah! we have described what Evil Eye is in our previous post! Well, if you want to shoo away bad luck and welcome good luck, these decorative evil eyes are perfect for houses and cars. At the very least, these are good to look at and good complement to your houses' interior designs.

Feel free to contact us through this website's contact form, or Facebook or Twitter.

Here are the items we have sold so far and currently in stock. Hurry - these are limited offer only in Doha!

seriously, we make sure that our car has evil eye every time we travel. With increasing accidents in Doha road, it is better to believe in superstitions - this evil eye is handy for all types of cars!

evil eyes are known to shooo away bad luck and evil curses due to "envy"

Turkish people hang all sorts of evil eye designs in their houses, cars, offices, bags - basically everywhere!

shooing away bad luck PLUS welcoming good luck!! - IT REALLY WORKS!

another one believed to bring luck is horse shoe! add on the evil eye, you are sure to get whatever you want in life! (the rest of action is up to you of course!)

If you think that is BS, then at the very least, this is a perfect house decor!

It really won't hurt to get one of these evil eyes!

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Evil Eye

Have you ever heard of evil eye? Wikipedia defines evil eye as the look that is believed by many cultures to be able to cause injury or bad luck for the person at whom it is directed for reasons of envy or dislike. In the Pinoy culture, the closest I could think of that is similar to evil eye is "bati" or maybe "kulam" but the latter is closer to witchcraft which is not evil eye.

Cihangir's example is a great illustration of what evil eye is: When he was young, almost everyone complemented  his oh-so-gorgeous eyes! Whenever people see him, they would say "you have such a beautiful eye" or "I wish I have angelic eyes like you!" As a consequence, his eyes got a bad vision at such an early age. So you see, those people who gave complement, doesn't particularly mean harm to him, it just came naturally to be envious of good thing or good fortune.

If it is "bati" in Pinoy, to repel that is to swipe a sliver (!) of saliva to the target of evil eye - okay, say it with me with disgust -- EEEOOWWWW!!! I must confess, however, that it comes naturally to me that every time the kids get so much complement from Filipino friends, I would automatically request for them for the salivation (for lack of better words!) ritual. HAHAHA!

Turkish and majority of Middle Eastern culture believe in repelling the evil eye but EVIL EYE! In Turkey they call this "NAZAR." These are usually ornaments which can be hang to protect people or object from bad luck  or evil eye.

Nazar could also be bracelets, beads and lots of accessories for protection.

DOES IT WORK? Well, like any other superstition, it depends on your belief system. For us, Turknoys, we do believe it works. See our blog badge? The first photo is that of evil eye so that our blog is not susceptible to evil eyes online.

Our first car already running on almost 70,000 kilometers only for 3 years but we never had an accident with our lucky car. We always hang evil eye in this car! Who knows!

If you are prone to bad luck, who knows, the evil eye is causing this and could be repelled by simply bringing  Nazar everywhere you go.

evil eye most of the times are combined with elephant and horse shoe design for MORE good luck!

this is evil eye also but religious in nature 

Here comes the marketing part - if you want to get good quality, authentic evil eye - stay tuned in our FACEBOOK Page. We aim to make this world bad-luck free by providing cheap evil eyes from Turkey. 


Who knows, this is all you need. 

Keep the faith!