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The Parlour at Marlborough

By on October 4, 2013 in Lifestyle

Late last year, my cousin’s wife Bianca made the decision to follow her dreams and open up her own beauty parlour. Since that moment a lot of hard work has gone into finding the perfect space and occupying it, creating a brand and building a client base. It is a testament to B’s hard work and vision that only a few short months after opening, she has been featured in a double page spread in Gloss magazine.

B has gone for a 1920s vintage girly look and feel, from the branding right through to the smallest detail in her décor.  The Parlour offers a large range of treatments and packages which you can view by visiting the website. If you live in or around Marlborough, or if you’re just visiting the area, be sure to book a treatment with B. She’ll make you look gorgeous and feel even better. For obvious reasons it would be a good start to live in the UK but if you’re planning a trip there any time in the near future you’re more than welcome to take advantage of the offer below as well.

The Parlour at Marlborough
44a Kingsbury Street, Marlborough
Tel: 01672 513 917
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.parlourbeauty.co.uk
Facebook: facebook.com/TheParlourBespokeBeauty

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Competition: Refresh, Renovate, Redecorate

By on May 22, 2013 in Competitions, Lifestyle

Have you turned a room from drab to fab?

Reward all your hard work by entering the Garden and Home competition and you could win kitchen appliances worth R40 000 courtesy of the Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association (Sassda) and have your makeover project featured in Garden and Home.

They’re looking for beautiful rooms that through some clever updates have improved your lifestyle and added value to your property. Whether you’ve done this on your own or had help from a professional, you’re eligible to enter. And if you’re mid-renovation, get a move on as entries close on 31 August 2013.

How to enter? Visit their website at gardenandhome.co.za and click on the Refresh, Renovate, Redecorate banner where you’ll find the entry form, tips on taking your photographs and loading them onto their site, plus the terms and conditions.

The grand prize winner will receive an extractor fan, refrigerator, washing machine, tumble dryer and dishwasher all with a stainless steel finish. Plus their makeover project will be featured in Garden and Home. The runner-up prize is a covetable set of ‘Ultimate’ stainless steel cookware from Nutri-Stahl.

Vote and win! Every month from now until the winners are chosen they’ll also be showcasing some of the top entries on their website, so vote for your favourite and you could win one of many gorgeous stainless steel prizes.

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Sihpromatum – I Grew My Boobs In China

By on April 5, 2013 in Lifestyle, Personal

Savannah Grace’s book Sihpromatum – I Grew My Boobs In China is currently on special on Amazon for $.99 and is well worth the money. It’s a great book and the first in an ongoing memoir series, but in order for me to be able to read book two she has to be able to publish it so it would be really grand if you would consider buying it. What’s R10 of your monthly budget anyway?

Please will you also consider either posting about the special on your blog, twitter, facebook or any other social media platform as well. Mucho gracias!

SIHPROMATUM” (Sip-row-may-tum) is a memoir series of one family’s four-year backpacking adventure around the world. The first installment, “I Grew my Boobs in China”, is the beginning of an intensely fascinating, sobering, and emotional memoir of Savannah’s introspective and innovative family adventure.

In 2005, 14-year-old Savannah Grace’s world is shattered when her mother unexpectedly announces that she and her family (mother, 45; brother, 25; sister, 17) would soon embark on an incredible, open-ended journey. When everything from her pets to the house she lived in is either sold, given away or put in storage, this naïve teenage girl runs headlong into the reality and hardships of a life on the road.

These pages do not describe a vacation to semi-exotic locales protected from the local culture by a veneer of private transportation, scheduled meals, and ritzy hotels. The family lives and travels as the local people do, a distinction that generates fascinating and unusual experiences rich in multicultural insights, as told from the perspective of a budding young author with a traveler’s eye for detail.

Built around a startling backdrop of over eighty countries (“I Grew my Boobs in China” relates the family’s adventures in China and Mongolia), this is a tale of feminine maturation – of Savannah’s metamorphosis from ingénue to woman-of-the-world. Nibbling roasted duck tongues in China and being stranded in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert are just two experiences that contribute to Savannah’s exploration of new cultures and to the process of adapting to the world around her.

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Angie Goes Horse Riding

By on February 17, 2013 in Lifestyle, Out and About, Photography

When Angie mentioned that she would be going horse riding this morning, I jumped at the chance to go and check it out. I love horses but I’ve never been on one and I was keen to see where she rides and what the horses are like. I was terrified of them when I was younger but I think that’s due to the sheer size of them when you’re a mere 3.5ft tall. I was convinced I was going to get kicked by one and that would be the end of me. Clearly, that never happened.

For anyone interested on getting on a horse, give Meadowridge Riding School a call on 083 653 3884 or check out their facebook page.

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