Everything Happens for a Reason

Everything Happens for a Reason

I have faith. No this isn't going to be a blog about religion I promise. I have faith that everything happens for a reason no matter how much it initially doesn't feel like it at the time. Even the very worst situations can have a silver lining or the bad situation leaves you in a [...]

Win BIG with Home & Garden Expo 2016

Win BIG with Home & Garden Expo 2016

You still have a few days left to enter the Home and Garden Expo's Photo Contest and be in with a chance of winning over L$82,000 worth of prizes including L$23,000 worth of cash prizes! This is HUGE and you have just a few days left to get in on that action! The main aim [...]

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People – A Facebook Story

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People – A Facebook Story

  Facebook is a powerful tool for promotion for businesses, bloggers, personalities...you name it Facebook can be used to help promote it. Used incorrectly it can have quite the opposite effect than that which the user initially intended. A lot of us refer to the facebook we use with our second life avatars as 'SL [...]

Put a Little Spargel in your Life

Put a Little Spargel in your Life

\o/ I got on quite a roll with decorating my 'project' for the duration of Home and Expo 2016. The Spargel & Shine home, Bocas Belle is available at the Expo which runs until 6th March and over the course of the next few weeks I will be taking time to decorate the house. Of [...]

Avi Choice Awards…Why All the Controversy?

Avi Choice Awards…Why All the Controversy?

A few years ago I worked at an organisation that assessed and awarded restaurants for their food quality. During the time that I worked there a senior manager tried to use his position to influence a restaurant inspector in their assessment of a restaurant which was not awarded and therefore not included in the guidebook. [...]

Waiting for the Show to Begin

Waiting for the Show to Begin

The weekend is here and whether you work a regular work week or not it seems everyone looks forward to Friday! Well, this week I'm actually looking forward to Sunday instead. It may seem a little odd to be looking forward to the end of the weekend but Sunday is special this week. A friend [...]

As One Door Closes…

As One Door Closes…

It's the final day of 6th Republic and it will be a whole 6 months before it opens it's doors again. Anyone who has attended the event knows that it has been truly spectacular, with the best names in home decor all participating and going out of their way to bring a mix of beautiful [...]

Orange Should be the new Red!

It's the Clash of the Seasonal Titans! In the Orange corner we have Autumn, weighing in at a windy couple of months. Wearing Oranges, browns, muted greens, tans, and neutrals. He's a good looking chap for sure! In the Red corner we have Christmas! Weighing in at a measly 'week' but spreading out into a [...]

The Broken Body Clock

This whole extra hour in bed sounds like a great idea but in practice it doesn't work. In the UK British Summer Time officially ended in the early hours of Sunday morning when our clocks went back an hour. Technically this meant an extra hour in bed which sort of worked out on Sunday morning [...]

Futures Made of Virtual Insanity

In a few short weeks time the world around us will turn tinseltastic. There's already advertisements for 'the holidays' and I'm sure this year will be no different when it comes to the question of what we call the holiday season. Up until I was made redundant recently the company I worked for was a [...]