CHRISTMAS BUCKET LIST. YES. THIS IS HAPPENING. Christmas is my favourite time of year. It has always, always been magical to me. The lights, the decorations, the music... and holy moly, the smell of a real Christmas tree is like a drug to me. Growing up, my parents did everything they could to make ...
Klara Donovan
How to Adult: A Crash Course In Acting Like A Grown-Up
When I was in my mid-twenties, my cousin and his wife invited me to their daughter's first birthday party. The party was lovely, but that wasn't what struck me about the experience - rather, it was my cousin's wife, Jen, and her bevvy of elegant friends. Jen has been in the family since I was in my teens, and to me ...
Millennial Memory Keeping: 5 Modern Methods To Create, Capture and Keep Your Memories
I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR THE TIMES WE ARE LIVING IN. We are living in an age where technology and creativity are at an all-time high. The ways we can connect with people are almost infinite. The availability of information is exploding. And no matter what you want to do, try or discover, there's an app that will help you ...
Essential Self-Care Tips For The Full-Time Worker
Full-time employment can be tough on a lot of people. At some point, every full-time worker has come to the realisation that they spend more waking hours with their high-maintenance boss than with their spouse and loved ones. That stings! Unfortunately, as a full-time worker it can be easy to fall into the trap of ...
4 Essential Steps to Escape the Takeout Trap
Are you a little too reliant on the convenient, tasty, money-hemorrhaging phenomenon known as takeout? Addicted, even? Well, you're not alone. At the end of a long day, there are few greater comforts than knowing the only thing standing between you and a ripper dinner is the line of cars ahead of you at the ...
Healthy, Frugal Shopping: 7 Health Foods You MUST Stock Up On When They’re Cheap
If you're like me, you have found yourself lamenting the price of your favourite health foods at the grocery store on more than one occasion. Sure, Hungry Jacks will sell you two cheeseburgers, chips and a coke for $3.95 but your local green grocer just ain't that generous most of the time. Fortunately, there are ...
The ULTIMATE Spring Bucket List
Tell me I'm wrong. It feels like yesterday that you were pulling on your boots and scarf to brave the weather. You were sipping hot chocolates, bundling up under cozy blankets, reading that awesome Hygge book that everyone's been Instagramming non-stop, pondering the correct pronunciation of the word ...
Slow Cooked Chilli Beef and Cheese Pies
Looking for a yummy, cheesy, spicy, glorious pie recipe? It's moved on over to my sister site, Every Minute Mum. Check out that spicy slow-cooked beef and cheese pie recipe riiiiiight here. You won't regret it buddy. ...
You Can Sow Into Other People’s Dreams (Yes, YOU!)
I had the privilege of speaking to a gang of creative women at the Inspire Collective event this week. In retrospect, I think when Inspire Collective founder Cate asked me to speak on sowing into people's dreams, she was picturing something informal, just a couple of minutes, but I went and wrote a full 10-minute talk ...
Tips for Keeping a Clean(er) House
I know we've covered this before, but I am not a brilliant housekeeper. Despite my poor Mum's best efforts to get me to do chores when I was growing up, it didn't stick. I just didn't have the clean gene. The moment I married Chris (also a terrible housekeeper*) and moved out of home, it was all over. Dishes stacked ...
How to Accept Others’ Success and Use It To Leverage Your Own
Alright. I don't like to get gripey on here. But just give me a moment. I promise I will turn things around pretty quickly. A friend's sister and bro-in-law very cleverly paid off their mortgage in under five years, and recently our local news did a story on them. It was very exciting seeing the video grabs come up ...
For the Love of All-Natural Locks: Why I Quit Hair Colouring
I made a weird bet with a friend a few years ago. I declared that I was going to stop colouring my (at the time, box-ginger) hair, and she bet me $20 that I wouldn't handle it well - either I would begin to start colouring it again at the first sign of re-growth, or that I would chop it all off to avoid facing years ...