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Draw a shape on your city
In my best and worst post a few weeks ago, I told you about a video I was filming as part of a global art project for my role as a Range Rover Evoque City Shaper ambassador. I basically spent an afternoon mapping out my favourite parts of the city using the Pulse of the [read more]
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Katy Perry
Katy Perry has just wrapped up her Australian tour and has since been bungee-jumping over in New Zealand and controversially appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair looking very much like Dita Von Teese. Similar hair, similar dress, similar pose. Even if she is pinching the 40′s burlesque thing Dita has going on, she sure [read more]
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A normal face
I’m a shocking starer. Truly disgraceful. When someone sparks my interest, I’m seized by desperate curiosity, a need for behind-the-scenes information and the stupid hope it will magically appear if I keep looking. People simply fascinate me. Imagine my delight when I boarded a recent flight and noticed the woman across the aisle was wearing [read more]
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Pippa Middleton
Pippa Middleton is quite possibly the most googled female in the world right now, we’ve even discussed her bottom here and according to The SMH she is fast becoming more famous than her sister Kate Catherine. (Scroll down for our Pippa Middleton gallery) While her sister is trying to settle in to a quiet life [read more]
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UK Grazia photoshops Kate’s waist +week in pics
What a full-on news week it has been; Osama bin Laden is shot dead by American forces, Kate Middleton and Prince William marry with approximately two billion people watching, a tornado hits New Zealand and the Logies and Rosemount Australian Fashion Week are held. This is not even mentioning England’s newest paparazzi target, Pippa Middleton [read more]
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A Week In The Life
Welcome to a new regular Mamamia post. Are you ready? One of my favourite parts of my friend Louise Bell’s more-ish blog Table Tonic is her “Day In The Life” posts where she just shares what she’s wearing and eating and doing and reading and thinking about and being inspired by. I could NEVER be [read more]
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The best place to be a mum
The best place to be a mother is Norway. If you’re in Australia and Iceland, don’t panic, you’re equal second. Britain, you’re number 10, Canada comes in 20th and America, how times have changed, America, you’re number 31. According to a study released this week, from the 12th Annual Save the Children’s Mothers Index which [read more]
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Best and Worst – May 7
Welcome to the end of the week. Time to make a cup of tea, haul out your comfy slippers and look back at the week. I fully recognise that I may be the only one in the slippers but trust me it’s comfortable because it’s been a big week. Do you remember the Royal Wedding? [read more]
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GENIUS: turn a $2 spice rack into book shelves
Mia writes: Louise Bell is my design and interiors guru. Has been since we first started working together in magazines 15 years ago. We’ve both moved on now and Louise has her own online homewares store called Table Tonic and a matching blog which you should bookmark immediately. A few weeks ago, she shared with [read more]
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Domestic violence is about violence NOT gender
On Tuesday night Mamamia Live got feisty. And for very good reason. Minister for the Status of Women Kate Ellis, who was a guest on the show has previously written about domestic violence for Mamamia. She wrote in part: “Every woman you meet is more likely to have experienced physical or sexual violence than to [read more]
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Money, love and inequality.
A night out with your friends ? Who pays? What about when you are on a date or with your partner? What happens when you don’t have the same spending power as your group of friends? Mamamia reader Bev* writes: “First, a little bit of background info: I’m 20 and have been with my partner [read more]
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Book review: When it Rains
Book review: When it Rains by Maggie Mackellar Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack “When it Rains” is non-fiction, Maggie Mackellar’s story of how her life fell apart and how she started to put it back together again. When Maggie is six months pregnant with her second child, and her eldest is five years old, her [read more]
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Who was your first fashion crush?
I have clothing issues. Or obsessions. Take your pick. Through self-analysis (actually over a glass of wine or two with a girlfriend), I’ve managed to pinpoint those clothing issues or obsessions back to my first fashion crush – the woman whose fashion sense inspired me. Mum and dad split when I was six years old. [read more]
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Aveeno® Positively Radiant™ SPF15+
Want to hear about some great skincare products and read reviews from real Mamamia readers who have tried the product? You have come to the right place. Nature has the power to make life beautiful. Aveeno ® believe that nature has the power to deliver spectacular skin care benefits to enhance the skin’s natural health [read more]
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The problem with dating your husband
Going on a date without the children is fun. Even a trip to the supermarket without the children is fun these days. But date nights with The Architect (my husband) can be . . . well . . . rather underwhelming at times. It’s not that they’re not enjoyable – they are, truly! It’s just [read more]
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Costume Institute Benefit Gala – MET Ball
The annual Costume Institute Benefit Gala is the fashion world’s Oscars, every A-lister hits the red carpet for this one. It’s known as the Met Ball because it is always held at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York. It serves as a launch to an accompanying exhibition, this year the exhibition ‘Savage Beauty’ [read more]
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The best-ever Mother’s Day pressie
I didn’t have a birth plan when I was pregnant with my daughter Ava. Nope. I had a vision. Within hours of giving birth I pictured myself in a white cotton nightie, serenely nursing my nouveau petite enfant. There’d be dappled sunlight. There’d be a scented candle. Some type of Enya-panpipey-rainforest music would be playing [read more]
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Book review: The Book of Rachael
The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold Have you found Jesus? The publishing industry certainly has, and they’re not letting him go. Why would they, when he’s responsible for so many sales? There’s that perennial best-seller, the Holy Bible, for a start, for which Jesus can take at least half the credit. There’s the multitudinous [read more]
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Does carrying condoms make you easy?
Let’s play a game. Imagine walking into the home of someone you liked. What one thing could you see that would convince you that you were NOT compatible? I recently put this question out to my Facebook friends. The responses ranged from the flippant and amusing (a pair of crocs/ a Nickleback CD/ a dream [read more]
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Mamamia Live on Sky News: Show #2
UPDATE: Here is the show! We’re back! I learned a lot last week. One friend said I should use less autocue so clearly I managed to make it sound like I was reading when I wasn’t. I also learned that I don’t like to sit so far away from my guests and that I have [read more]
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“I have never had a relationship because I’m just too scared to go outside”
Does anxiety stop you from driving across the bridge, maybe it is epilepsy that stops you going clubbing? Maybe you no longer go to the beach with your family because of menopause and hot flushes ? Mamamia reader Allie suffers from anxiety and it is literally crippling her. She writes: “I am almost 21 years [read more]
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8 reasons why it’s okay to lie to your children
My husband Jim was born on ANZAC Day. His father was a Colonel in the army, so ANZAC Day was a big deal, mainly because Jim had been told the march was for his birthday. Every year, they’d head off to see Dad lead the march, lifting his sword and turning his square jaw towards [read more]
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Pippa Middleton: The Bridesmaid Syndrome
It was the ultimate display of love when the royal bridal party gathered inside Westminster Abbey last Friday. And I’m not talking about the devotion of the beaming newlyweds but of that between Kate Middleton and her younger sister, Pippa. Despite adhering to tradition during the regal nuptials, the radiant bride parted with convention in [read more]
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Mesmerising
Do you see the world as symmetrical? Is everything balanced and ordered? Ying and Yang. This video by Everynone looks at our need for balance and reveals beautifully imperfect matches. I was mesmerised.
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“Why I’m proud to be an American today”
Mia writes: It’s the morning after an incredible 72 hours. Who could have thought anything would have knocked The Wedding off the front page and our minds. Enter Osama. Or rather, exit. I’ve been interested to note very little footage of September 11 – particularly the planes smashing into the buildings – has been used [read more]
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UPDATED: Osama bin Laden is dead
My 13 year old son is studying terrorism in History. Just last week they watched the documentary The Falling Man, about the men and women who jumped from the top floors of the 110 story World Trade Centre on September 11. I was jolted when he told me that. Partly, because I had tried so [read more]
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Is it sexist to compliment your wife’s arse?
It was a weekend about bottoms really. First, the Royal Wedding scene-stealer, Pippa Middleton and then Karl Stefanovic’s wife, Cas, whose arse got a special shout-out when he accepted his Silver Logie for most popular TV presenter. Offices and playgroups, watercoolers and dinner tables are buzzing about these two very fine arses and we are [read more]