Author Archive for Blog Chicks

Featured Blogger- LJP from Save Save Save

This weeks Featured blogger is LJP (an annonymous blogger) from Save Save Save.
When did you start your blog?
I started SaveSaveSave in June 2006.
Why did you start blogging?
It happened around the same time I started shopping online.  Sometimes I would get the most outrageous bargain (ie. a $200 piece of cookware for $40).   After a [...]

Featured Blogger- Laura Kane

Featured Blogger- Laura Kane

This weeks Featured Blogger is Laura kane, aka Rah. She blogs at Rainbowtatt as well as That’s Noice
When did you start your blog?
Umm, good question! I started this version back in 2006, though I had others on other domains (yayme.com, funkyspacedog.com, lrkane.com) since maybe… 2003? I started my first web site 9 September 1999 [...]

Featured Blogger- Chocolatesuze

Featured Blogger- Chocolatesuze

This weeks featured blogger is Susan Thye from Chocolatesuze.
When did you start your blog?
I started my blog 1 week before the HSC in 2001. I was looking for a distraction from my studies and oh boy did i find it!
Why did you start blogging?
At first it was an outlet for my thoughts, rants and [...]

FebuSave Blog Ambassador Program

FebuSave Blog Ambassador Program

ANZ is embarking on a new and exciting campaign just for women in the new year, FebuSave.
FebuSave aims to encourage Australian women to start saving towards their goals. A month where savings habits can be developed in a fun challenge within an online community of other women. Bringing fun and humour to the art of [...]

Submissions are currently open for Miscellaneous Voices

Submissions are currently open for Miscellaneous Voices

Submissions are currently open for Miscellaneous Voices: Australian Blog Writing 2009. If you have published on your blog this year content – a poem, a deeply thoughtful personal story, a review, a short story, an essay etc. – then it may be eligible for selection for the above anthology.
People arrive at blogging [...]

Chicks rule the social web

Chicks rule the social web

Women are social creatures in the real world. So it is hardly surprising that new data reveals that women dominate most social networks. That is, expect digg, which has always been a bit of a boys club.
But, on closer inspection of the stats, which uses US gender figures. Australian demographics reveal that Aussie chicks are [...]

Asian-style Watercress Prawn Salad

Asian-style Watercress Prawn Salad

Originally posted by Anh at A food lovers journey
Watercress is one of few veggies that I have grown to love more and more in past years. I love them in salad, or quickly add them to noodle soup or stir-fry. The slight bitter and somewhat peppery taste is addictive somehow.
This beautiful vegetable is believed to [...]

Ghosts of the Cyber Dead

Ghosts of the Cyber Dead

Originally posted by Cathie at Year of the cat

It’s been rather a mournful week one way or another, and I’ve been thinking of melancholy things.
Last week, I received the annual automated email reminding me of a friend’s birthday. My friend died a few years ago, but I can’t bring myself to turn off the [...]

Techno-Babes

Techno-Babes

This post was originally posted by Cath at SquiggleMum

I love this photo of my son and I blogging.  Well, I’m blogging and he’s giving me material to write about!  As children of a software developer and a reasonably tech-savvy mama, my kids are bound to be fairly technically literate and exposed to the online world [...]

Living Small

Living Small

This post was originally posted by Rhonda at Down to Earth

It never occurred to me when I was a spender that I was actually giving away my independence. I thought the opposite. I believed I was the queen of my realm and the more I had and the more dollars I spent, the more power, [...]