A Lovely Ramadan Tray from Hirfa
Since the holy month of Ramadan is upon us and is only seventeen days away by god’s will, its all about Ramadan everywhere in Kuwait! People, myself included, are in the process of getting ready to celebrate Ramadan’s arrival and with every passing picture, smell, item purchased, or a morsel of food tasted my excitement is building up, I cannot wait until Ramadan is finally here. Therefore you can imagine my joy when I received a wrapped up tray with boxes from a local business, Hira @Hirfa_q8.
Hirfa is a small Kuwaiti business specialising in hand painted home accessories and table ware. Their designs are fresh, young, modern yet traditional. Looking closely at the paintwork you can tell its very precise, clean, and will not wash away with the first contact with water. My tray came with four cylinders with lids topped with a crescent moon handle and painted with dangling stars and crescent moons. The tray itself had a drawing of a crescent mood and stars, very Ramadan-esque indeed.
On each cylinder/box there are written words like “7abb” which means seeds and sebal, baithan, festeq, all Arabic names for nuts which are peanuts, almonds, and pistachios respectively. The idea is to fill the cylinders up with nuts and seeds which are consumed in handfuls on daily basis in Kuwaiti households and these cylinders might very well be the funkiest nuts and seeds holders I’ve seen so far in Kuwait.
I love the attention to details in the tray, check out the trays handle and the lovely crescent lid handles.
The cylinders would make a lovely and different plus useful qerqaia’an giveaway! Qerqaia’an being a is a traditional celebration during the 13th, 14th, and 15th nights of the holy month of Ramadan where children dress up and sing while going from door to door to be given candy, kinda like an traditional Halloween without the ghosts. I think you can customise the writings on the cylinders to say the child’s name, elegant funky and to the point!
Did I tell you there was a handwritten note from the girls behind Hirfa, Anwar Al-Sabah and Fajer Al-Bader? I always love the notes the most, thank you girls for making my day
Thank you Hirfa for the lovely Ramadan tray, its already taken a centre stage on my coffee table waiting to be filled with ramadan goodies. Mbarak 3lekom el Shahar o 3asakom min 3owwadah la faqdeen wala mafqodeen 
For more information regarding Hirfa and what they have on offer for both Ramadan and qerqaia’an you can contact them via whatsapp at +(965)-99003666 or follow them on instagram (@Hirfa_q8).
