The Organic Expo is on this weekend at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton.(Victoria)
I'm going this afternoon to the trade only day.... gonna see what's out there, personally and for bpab.
What could be better than Organic??
Pop down to see all the organic goodies on offer.... lots more these days!

My plan is to drop the kids off to nanny and poppy's for the usual play-fest (read: chocolate indulgence to the max!) and leave the car there and take the tram in to the city. Aren't I a good girl? Hopefully it stays sunny for the whole day.....

Eye Spy.... something I should use

A glue gun! I've got a growing collection of broken things that need to be fixed by glue.... I just have to remember to ask my sister for a lend of her glue gun.... soon it seems!

Oh look - my trusty sewing machine! I should start using it on a regular basis. At the moment she looks at me adoringly from on top of one of the dining room tables, in the corner, where all the rest of my sewing stuff is, in boxes..... oh dear.

Blank canvases. Had been hunting these for a while and finally found some square ones at a $5 shop at a good price. Some will be for use for alphalfabeetroot letter wall art - but I've got other ideas for the others.... so I should use them then, eh??

Other things that directly come to mind that I should use:
vacuum cleaner
feather duster (while wearing a black maids outfit I guess)
my body (in a more physical sense.... it sits in the same position a lot come to think of it and would benefit from more physical activity) - so that adds:
my bike
stretching book
local walking track
sneakers....

my weekly planner.... I wonder where that is??

Wow, this is a really depressing eye spy! I think I need some chocolate....
Thanks to The Bird Bath for this weeks 'revealing' theme (don't worry, I'm not really that sad and I don't blame you at all.... really!)
Head over to Bug And Pop's for more procrastinating fun!

Right time to get off this computer (and comfy chair) and enjoy my Sunday, with my family. It's sunny right now. Lots of beautiful gifts to enjoy today. Enjoy yours. xx

Winner of Red Chalk item of clothing is.....

That's BELINDA! Yay!!
Belinda you get to choose 1 item from the Red Chalk range as your prize.
Thanks for entering AND twittering about this give away.

Thanks to everyone else who entered and promoted this give away.
I'll be leaving you a comment on your blog or something on a very special deal, as our way of saying thanks for participating! Stay tuned. x
(if you entered and don't have a blog, please email me at info[at]beyondpinkandblue[dot]com )

Eye Spy... favourite childhood party games

(pass the parcel at Chai's 1st birthday party, with daddy playing the music on guitar)

We've always loved throwing parties... for birthdays mainly. Since the girls have come along, we've had to all take turns on the party front, as they've become rather huge and 'themes' always come into the equation!
My favourite party games from childhood are pass the parcel and musical chairs. Funny they both involve moving to music. We still play pass the parcel at the kiddie parties.... it's become a standard I think.

Thanks to Princess Kristie Jane for this weeks theme (yeah... I'm late this week!).
Head over to Bug and Pop's for more players.

Happy Little Tummies yummy cakes

An old friend of ours has re-emerged into our lives and I found out that she makes these wonderful cakes!
Melanie makes and decorates cupcakes, birthday cakes and cakes for any occassion using certified organic ingredients, all-natural food colours and of course no preservatives or other chemicals. This means she can whip you up something that's GLUTEN FREE! (insert any other food sensitivity here)
Happy Little Tummies is based in Cheltenham, Victoria.
Looks like I won't need to bother making the birthday cakes anymore! Chai has her eye on this doll one already.....
at least I know the kids will be eating a good ol' "wholesome" cake and not running around like crazy scary monsters! You know what I'm talking about....

Recycling unwanted CD cases - TRD style

As Mr bpab is a musician, we've got millions upon gazillion CDs.... but not enough room to house them all in their cases. So ages ago we decided to slim line our collection and get rid of all the big plastic cases and keep the cds with their paper paraphanalia together in double sided slips. All nice and cosey now!!
But we then had all these CD cases to deal with......
Mr bpab came up with a brilliant idea and has made an ad for one of his tunes.
Enjoy and pass it on!



Check out more of The Ribbon Device and download their music... so you can save on plastic.

I want to know!

I posed this statement with the following questions in the July newsletter:

1. The BRANDS / PRODUCTS you love that we already have at bpab (and want us to keep stocking or order again, if it's out of stock at the moment)
2. Any BRANDS you want bpab to stock and why
3. Any products (specific or just general) bpab should be stocking for you. I know we have gaps and don't cover all categories, so it would be great to find out what our lovely customers would like us to have.
4. What's important to you- organic, fair trade, Australian made, imported, hand made, originality, colour(!)...

You can email me with some answers if you want. I'd like to have a bit of feedback from genuine customers (um and not potential suppliers.....) and have a bit of an idea what you want at bpab.
I'll be attending a few Trade Fairs in the next couple of months to see what's out there.
So over to you!