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Why Outsourcing your Problem Solving can be the best way Forward

I’m sharing this very personal little story with you because I was surprised at how many of my girlfriends have experienced something similar and never shared their experience – with me or anyone else. We all have our secrets but there are some secrets that when shared, become a source of joy and acceptance rather than [...]

Happiness, Health, Things n Stuff! September 12, 2009 2 Comments

Sustainable House Day – September 13th

With summer approaching and ‘brown outs’ being tipped as a regular occurance in the more densely populated areas of our glorious sunburnt country – it’s encouraging to see so many people wanting to know how to make their homes more energy efficient. We’ve made giant leaps with conserving water and switching to compact flourescent light [...]

Domestic Goddess, Green & Gorgeous September 4, 2009 0 Comments

Could Meditation be better than Sleep?

When all else fails…Meditate
by Megan Faulkner
I’m sure we have all had those nights before an important event, lying awake sleepless, thinking of things to do, to then check off in the morning. During one such evening recently, where reading provided no respite, I came back to the basic principles of meditation I had learnt.
I focused [...]

Domestic Goddess, Health, Things n Stuff!, Yoga & Meditation August 30, 2009 2 Comments

Need some Calm in your Life?

Hi Gorgeous Things Fans,
My name is Megan, and I am really excited about joining Lesley-Ann and the Gorgeous Things Team. I am a proud little Aussie, Occupational Therapist, student, wife, yoga devotee, healthy living junkie (with the odd glass of Sauv Blanc for good measure), and hopefully in the not too distant future, mother. I have [...]

Green & Gorgeous, Health, Things n Stuff!, Yoga & Meditation August 15, 2009 9 Comments

Are you a budding Social Entrepreneur or Ecopreneur?

Applications for the first ever Australian School for Social Entrepreneurs close on Monday August 3rd – if you’ve got a fabulous idea to help make the world a better place then what are you waiting for!
The school has been running in the UK since 1997 and for the first time – the course is available [...]

Green & Gorgeous, Things n Stuff! July 28, 2009 0 Comments

3 Salon Treatments for less than $10

There was that cute line in Legally Blonde where Luke Wilson says something to Reece Witherspoon about the Day Spa being her character’s ‘Mothership’. I loved that film and had a good giggle at that particular exchange between the seemingly frivolous Elle Woods and her endearingly besotted supervisor.
Anyway, we all know there was nothing frivolous about Elle [...]

Chemical Nasties, Domestic Goddess, Health July 26, 2009 0 Comments

The Natural Way to Better Sex

I really do feel for our gorgeous men – they have to listen to those undignified ‘impotence’ and ‘nasal delivery’ radio ads; and of course none of us are safe from the demoralising billboards that bellow at us in big bold letters as we drive our cars along any major thoroughfare – that the answer to any of our self-esteem problems, is to make sex [...]

Domestic Goddess, Health, Love & Sex, Things n Stuff! July 11, 2009 1 Comment

How to ‘Make Time’ for Yourself

Can you believe the rate at which 2009 is flying by?
At the outset of this year our youngest two started school – I naively believed that I would have all the time in the world to myself. As it happens the exact opposite has occurred – just until the last week or so it has [...]

Domestic Goddess, Health, Things n Stuff!, Yoga & Meditation June 28, 2009 0 Comments

How to read the label of your Skincare Products

When I want information about skincare ingredients - one of the first places I go to get informed is the Environmental Working Group (EWG) website.
Their latest offering is a guide to reading the label of skincare products, which I’ll admit can be a pretty confusing exercise at times. So, if like me you don’t have a chemistry [...]

Chemical Nasties, Domestic Goddess, Health June 27, 2009 0 Comments

What I learnt from Joe Strummer

Thankfully my formative years were spent listening to The Clash, and not Britney Spears. If that had been the case, I’m pretty sure my life would have turned out to be very different, and it’s probably safe to say - my company Gorgeous Things would not exist.
Punk was over by the time I was old enough to be forming my [...]

Things n Stuff! June 21, 2009 2 Comments