If you like chocolate, this event will be the highlight of your year! The team at Bistro Allure will take you to a whole new level of chocolate appreciation to celebrate Easter, from Monday 18th April to Monday 2nd May 2011. For just $20, you...
Continue ReadingBusinesses around the world will go head to head for a $1 million Queensland travel package in Tourism Queensland's latest global marketing campaign. Companies and workplaces around the globe would vie for the opportunity to win a luxury Queensland reward as part of the Million Dollar Memo...
Continue Reading[caption id="attachment_5972" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Image courtesy of Louis Vuitton Purse Blog by Amanda Hull"][/caption] Because of my retail background, I was drawn to this story by Jade Warne, featured in the Shop til you drop magazine, which I have temporarily stolen from my daughter, who has...
Continue ReadingFee diddly dee potatoes! It's March 17 and St Paddy's Day and I'm excited! The one day of the year where we celebrate all things Irish - drinking, drinking and well...
Continue ReadingA good friend of mine brought a very interesting site called 9-eyes.com to my attention recently. This site shows a collection of fantastic images that were caught by Google maps with Street View. I've shown you a few of my favourites here, but there are...
Continue Reading[caption id="attachment_5870" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Salvador Dalí 'Hallucination partielle' 1931"][/caption] One of the world’s important collections of surrealist art will be shown at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art this winter. Paris’s renowned Centre Pompidou will loan the core of its surrealist collection for Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams, a major...
Continue ReadingIKEA is a furniture and design marvel. Everything in IKEA screams to me: "Buy me! I am amazing! I am cheap! I look great! You need me!". I love IKEA like I love chocolate. It's an addiction. And I know I am not alone when...
Continue ReadingGreen Earth Day (the brainchild of Leigh-Chantelle Koch) will delight Brisbane greenies this Saturday 12 March at a new venue: Albion Peace Centre, 102 McDonald Road, Windsor, Brisbane. This free, family orientated, community event aims to stimulate awareness by bringing environmental, green, health and lifestyle,...
Continue ReadingJust one day left to Clean Up Australia Day 2011! The event will be held on Sunday, 6 March. Clean Up Australia Day has been running since 1990 and has become the nation’s largest community-based environmental event. It attracts hundreds of thousands of volunteers from the...
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