Friday Forums in Focus

Over at the AFW forums this week, we are discussing Earth Hour as well as how to remember to take reusable shopping bags to the supermarket.

Also, would you want to be friends with someone just like you?

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo …. or Skippy the Sizzling Steak? Would you eat kangaroo meat?

Just reading about Head Lice makes my head itchy. I am not looking forward to this irritating part of school life!

Bring your opinions and a cup of coffee and join us!

Earth hour

Are you joining the world in earth hour this weekend? Saturday the 29th at 8pm, in over 20 cities around the world is Earth Hour.

Earth Hour is run by WWF. It is a global climate change initiative which calls on individuals and businesses around the world, to turn off their lights for one hour on Saturday March 29 2008 between 8 pm and 9pm.

Over 230,000 people and 17,000 business have already signed up to join in Earth hour this year.

On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour. If the greenhouse reduction achieved in the Sydney CBD during Earth Hour was sustained for a year, it would be equivalent to taking 48,616 cars off the road for a year.

It’s not too late to sign up and join Earth Hour 2008 on Saturday at 8pm.

Need a new style? Online makeover tool

Taaz is a new free and easy site that allows you to upload a photo of yourself, and have a virtual online makeover.

Try out over 4000 of the hottest cosmetics colours from brands such as Revlon, Chanel, Maybelline and more. As well as 100’s of the latest hairstyles and colours all from the comfort of your home. You can create the perfect new look, or something for a special occasion.

Start by uploading a digital photo. The software will map out your face. Then you can go to town experimenting with a palette of thousands of colours and shades in products ranging from foundation and concealer to multi-tone eye shadow, lip gloss and contact lenses. Try out a new hairstyle or colour and your make over is complete.

When your done, the results are so realistic. You can easily test what best suits your face, a long with the helpful tips from Tazz along the way you can really pick what is best going to compliment your features.

You can then save or print or your new look and take them a long to your hair or makeup stylist to show the look you are after. Or use them as avatars and profiles in social networks or save and share your makeover with friends and other tazz users for ratings and comments.

All Women Blogging Carnival

Hope you have all had a wonderful weekend, and weren’t too naughty with the chocolate!

This weeks carnival is HUGE! Hosted by Jenn at Mix Metaphor. Jump on over and check out all the great posts, don’t forget to say Hi, and thanks to Jenn for hosting this week, and link back is always nice.

Next week were off to Jen at Semantically Driven

Still looking for carnival hosts, contact me if you are interested in hosting.

All for Women Birthday Meet

Posted last week about an All for Women birthday meet we are organising. Great to see many girls coming along. We’d love to see you there, if your in Sydney and can join us. Even Megan is coming all the way from Cairns!

Sheila, and the sisterhood of the travelling bra

Sheila  has been in South Australia this week, visiting with Jen. Check out the pictures in our Flickr gallery. Sheila is now on her way to Kim on the NSW Central Coast.

Friday Forums in Focus

Easter greetings, friends. I hope your weekend is full of chocolately goodness. While you are sampling some of the Easter Bunny’s finest, why not pop over to the AFW Forums for a browse. These week we’re chatting about a range of different things.

The internet can be a funny place, you ‘meet’ all kinds of people, so tell us the truth … do you judge others you meet online?

One of the wonderful, delicious things about Easter is the Hot Cross Buns. Tell us how you like to eat them.

And while we’re talking about Easter food, do you eat fish on Good Friday?

Of course, after all those Easter eggs and hot cross buns, we’ll need to burn off those calories somehow. Love it or loathe it, nothing says ‘torture’ like SPIN! - the excruciating experience that pretends to be a gym workout

What Women Want

BCG is putting together a book called What Women Want. They are hoping to capture responses on the needs, wants, goals and aspirations of more than 25,000 women from all walks of life in developed and developing countries around the world for their book.

They will also be interviewing 15-20 leading women from around the world about their life stories, their advice on success, their reconciliation of life trade-offs and predictions about the future.

They are hoping to obtain 1,000 responses in Australia and 300 responses in New Zealand within 30 days.

So would you like to contribute to this exciting study? Here’s how you can help.

First, if you are female, complete the survey. The survey itself will take about one hour but please don’t let that put you off because it contains some interesting, reflective questions, and we really appreciate your involvement. The responses are completely confidential and your anonymity can be assured.

We are trying to obtain responses from women across all age, income, education and geographic groups, and would really appreciate it if you can forward the survey to a broad range of women (eg women in your family, your school friends, work colleagues, mothers group etc).

Friday Forums in Focus

It’s that time of the week, folks! Here’s a rundown of some of our discussions on the Forums this week.

You know the feeling, you’re doing your own thing, minding your own business when all of a sudden, out of nowhere you become the victim of a random act of unsolicited advice!

But there’s always something to make you smile - even if it’s just reading other people’s *smile* moments on our regular What Made You Smile Today? thread.

Can you help with advice for getting permanent marker out of a school uniform?

We also talk about parenting issues such as dealing with a shy child and some of the stickier toilet training issues.

Mammograms … have you had one? Can you share your experience?

Come and have a chat, we’d love to meet you!

Bandaged Bear Day

Tomorrow, Friday 14 March is the 19th anniversary of the Bandaged Bear Day Appeal. All funds raised through this appeal go directly to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead which provides excellent care for children not just from NSW but across Australia and the Pacific Rim, along with conducting ground breaking research into childhood illnesses, providing community education and advocacy for improved child’s health.

Merchandise starts from $2 and will be on sale throughout this month so invest in our future, support the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and purchase one of the cute, colourful and useful items including pens and notepads, photo magnets, clip-on bears, hacky sacks and badges.

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