Welcome Smallprints + giveaway!

Designed and made in Australia, these awesome, colourful (well if you put them altogether!), but most importantly stylish party invitations are by Smallprints.
Designed by Sydney mum and Art Director Alex McCarthy, Smallprints offers modern invites for young ones and older kids (like 'Rock On' above).
We'll be stocking the boxed range, which include 10 postcard style invites and 10 matching colour envelopes. 6 designs to um and arr over. $24.95 a set.
We have 2 set of invites to giveaway! Yippee!
All you need to do is:
1. Visit the Smallprints range at beyond pink and blue and choose your favourite style.
2. Pop back to the rainbow blog or our Facebook fan page and leave a comment under this post/note stating your fave.
3. You must be a fan of either blog or fb page (or both!) to enter and it would be super awesome if you 'shared' this giveaway with your friends and family BECAUSE the name I read the most via other people joining in on this giveaway WINS the first set! (So tell them to write your name along with their comments.)
The second set will be drawn randomly (so entrants who are lazy or without friends get a chance too... hehehe).
Giveaway will open right now and closes on 28th Feb. 2010. Then I'll work my magic!
A good excuse to start planning a party! Good luck.

Eye Spy... adventures

I'm going to choose my funnest (and often silly) adventure, dating back to 1998 (before digital cameras!), where my best friend and I packed her parents camper van up and traveled from Geelong (Vic) up the east coast for 3 months. We started late September..... had the time of our lives!
We had a business called B'zerk Objects! and were selling off our products at markets along the way for extra money. Photo above is us at Albert Park in Brisbane on market day for radio 3zzz.fm. We had been up all night enjoying the night life of Fortitude Valley and met a guy from the radio station who told us about the market day on the next day and the next thing you know we had a stall set up!

This was our ever faithful van "Noggie" (number plates were NOG....), who, as you can see, had many uses! We're at Gympie market here. We did a stint of zucchini picking in Gympie and sorry to say will never return to that town again!

It was not all work... we did do stacks of exploring and seeing the touristy spots as well. (This shot is in Mount Warning N.P. and that's me) Some of our 'highlights' were:
* Me crashing the van at the start of the journey (we were fine, Noggie would have to be put down after our travels though...)
* Doing the 900 steps of the Giant Stairway in the Blue Mountains
* Discovering fave spots like Glebe, Byron Bay area (inc. Nimbin and Bangalow)
* Freebie nights (saying in the van somewhere public) and getting caught in the morning! (Noosa)
* Helpful neighbour thinking we found a snake in our van, when all it was just a spider, ready to get it out (Grafton Park)
* A tick in a neck.... freaky experience for those not use to ticks! (Thanks Tea Tree Plantation, Ballina)
* Playing pool (billiards) OUTSIDE at the pub! (Nth Straddie Island)
* Feeding dolphins (Tin Can Bay)
* Sawing coconuts in half and drinking cocktails on the beach, while sitting on a broken blow up bed (Inskip Point)
* Commando Kev (!) our tour 'guide' on Frazer Island (and the Island itself)
* Scuba diving lessons at Lake McKenzie
* Hot chips with chilli sour cream (Railway Hotel, Byron)
* Tasting different rums (Bunderburg).
I'm sure there was lots more, but these ones seem to stand out.

Ahhh, the days of freedom, where all you had to worry about was yourself! Anyway.....

Thanks to Weezie's Woolies for this theme, was a good one for flipping through photo albums!
Head over to Bug and Pop's for more adventures.