I don’t normally plug individual products on Mumatopia but am making an exception today as I am just so happy to have found some poster paints for the kids that are environmentally friendly. Enviro Kids Paints are made in Australia and are made from organic pigments and bio-degradable thickeners that are non-toxic and don’t harm the environment. [...]
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Oh what a night indeed! More than 200 guests ventured into our little market on Saturday evening to celebrate the launch of Mumatopia. If you ever thought Ipswich women weren’t interested in sustainable style, think again. The goodie bags were a huge hit and were snapped up within 1.5 hours, the pizza guy sold out of pizzas, the stalls had the most beautiful gifts for mums, dads and babies and the entertainment had the littlies absolutely entranced. [...] I was at the Mount Crosby Country Market, minding my own business, when a familiar face entered my canopy. It was none other than Kerryanne Farrer, a brilliant arts producer who I happened to work with at The Woodford Folk Festival many moons ago. I love it when you can take off where you left off. We hadn’t seen Kerryanne for 10 years. In the meantime we had spawned three children and created a life out in this lovely semi-rural area near Mount Crosby. [...] I love Reverse Garbage. Love it! Love it! Love it! Did I say I love it? The other day the peeps and I went for our semi-regular trip into the West End to throw ourselves into the goodies and trinkets galore that abound in Reverse Garbage. [...] Four years ago, our family was grieving and processing our son’s disability. It was a very difficult time for us but looking back, it taught us so much. While we spent a lot of energy trying to problem-solve and “fix” our child, we gradually came to the realisation that the most important thing we could do was accept him, as he was. [...] I have always be drawn towards alternative, folksy music and it is the style of music that I write and play most often. When I finished my Master’s degree I was offered a contract with The Woodford Folk Festival as a marketing and communication analyst and spent three happy years blissing out on fantastic music at the festival. So, when I had children, I tried to find music that departed from the ever popular Wiggles tunes (which, by the way, I loved too… the first two times they were [...] When my mum comes to visit and observes the limited food choices my boys make at dinner time, she takes great joy in recounting how, as a child, I ate baked beans and mashed potatoes every night for quite a few years. I’ve often felt guilty about my children’s fussiness and my lack of effort to persist with dinnertime wars but at the same time, I know deep inside that, one day, they will all eat a variety of [...] It fascinates me that my very messy 10 year old can change his ways virtually over night with no effort on my part to cajole, bribe, or manipulate him into doing what I want him to do. Children are just as capable of finding that internal motivation as we are, so we need to allow them to do so. [...] When looking for a new dentist upon moving to Brisbane’s outer west, I stumbled upon Evolve Dental Healing in Kenmore and was suprised to find they provide a hollistic dental service which takes into account the many factors that influence a person’s dental health and not just whether a person eats too many sweets. Finding [...] Find your way in parenting and come to Gentle Parenting Support. We are a community support group created by local parents, for local parents in the Ipswich/Karana areas. This group is for similar minded parents practicing Gentle Parenting – raising our children with kindness and respect. With occasional topics on the same and natural family [...] |
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