Immortality without toilet cleaning.

I have just finished the fourth Twilight book, which has had me enthralled enough to forget about social media for a few weeks!!! I know it's not the most intellectually challenging of books, and if considering the position of women in society certainly isn't full of strong female role models... but I was wondering to myself yesterday while cleaning the toilet, 'what is it that I really like about it?'. Well the answer came as I sniffled and stared blankly down the brown, encrusted u-bend.... THEY don't have to clean toilets do they???? This ideal life of laying around, staring in to each other eyes while pondering the pros and cons of immortality!!!! I'd want to live forever too if I never had to cook another meal, deal with another childs whinge or clean another bathroom!!!!

On a better note... Fat Mumma's is supporting an incredible challenge by
http://www.alice2antarctica.com/ to raise funds for indigenous health in Australia. If you get the chance to support in some way, every little bit will help!

Love, peace and immortality without toilet cleaning!

Fat Mumma's

FREEBIES - send me an email to prototype our new coin purses!

Yippee.... I have finally mastered the coin purse, which I launched at the LifeStyle Market yesterday. There weren't too many people around yesterday, but who can blame anyone for staying home in the windy, wet, Melbourne weather!

These coin purses will be for sale online very soon, for a very reasonable $12.00, but if in the meantime you'd like to try one out for free, subscribe to our mailing list, via the homepage and you may be chosen to receive one!

The newsletter is almost up and running too... so there are soon to be freebies and competitions galore!!!

Love

Fat Mumma xxx

TO MARKET to market TO MARKET we go... again!

So, I have managed to get away with staying indoors for the past three months... but as spring approaches it is time to dust off the market gear and get myself revved up!!! It's not a bad start as tomorrow I'm at Fed Square... nice coffee, hot food, possibly music, and I'll be almost infront of the NGV bookshop, so if boredom sets in I can even go for a browse!!

Should be a good day. If you get chance come and say hi!

Love

Fat Mumma xx

Great to see a dad blogging too!!

I realised today that I don't actually link to any men! So, in making an effort to stand by my aim to be non-gender specific... I have found a very amusing dad blogging site which I point you all to! Check out, reservoirdad.blogspot.com for some insights in to the world of a stay-at-home dad; which are actually not that rare these days... I'm happy to say!

In the same vein I was discussing the sad case for children friendly male toilets with another stay-at-home dad friend of mine. I realised I have never thought about some of the simple problems dads face in our supposed 'dad-friendly' society! He was telling me how it's really hard to find clean male toilets that he can take his daughter to when he is out and about. Most male toilets also don't have a baby change table, unlike most female toilets... my little mind finds this very interesting! As much as we may try to move away from our gender stereotypes, there are still these simple societal pressures that keep our mindset stuck in female, male roles!

Anyway, enough of my diarrhea about toilets... on to much nicer news...

This SUNDAY 16TH AUGUST Fat Mumma's will be the the LifeStyle Market, showcasing Victorian Small Businesses, as Federation Square, Melbourne City, between 12pm and 4pm. I have new coin purses for sale and will also be handing out lots of info about is... and hopefully some show bags (although I have yet to get myself in gear to organise this!

Sleep tight...

Love

Fat Mumma xx

Here is someone crying out for one of our t-shirts!!!

http://tinyurl.com/mg3nrz

I read this article today and thought... this is some one who needs a Fat Mumma's t-shirt in the childs collection!!! It also made me realise I'm not the only one with tv trauma's.

My current obsession is healthy eating for the kids, so I am looking forward to going to a seminar on Saturday Afternoon by Kim Bishop.. www.yu.net.au. Haven't thought of a t-shirt though... any thoughts anyone???? Maybe a starter could be "Fast Food Junkie"? Would you buy it? LOL! Probably more sellable would be "My mum wants me to be Healthy, Wealthy and Wise"!

Also went to the Handmade in Melbourne launch last night! It was huge!!!! Great to be there with good friends (Betty Jo and Klei), and spotted lots of other crafters... but only from a distance. It was soooo hot in there at one stage we all thought we were going to faint, but I feel really special to be a part of the project, so thank you Slattery Media for putting it together. The hand-made scene definitely needs a good boost everyone now and again!

Love

Fat Mumma xx

Gotta get that rhythm back....

Oooo, after a week of holidays and being completely out of range for all forms of communication... I am finding it hard to find my rhythm today! However, had a brilliant time watching crocodiles and enjoying life in the Northern Territory. I would describe it hesitantly as paradise for white, middle-class types like myself.... but I couldn't help feeling a sense of unease at the cultural divide between aboriginal and middle-class whites! I really wish there was a solution to the problems up there, but I don't think anyone really knows where to start! Throwing money at the problem seems to be the only solution they have come up with so far!

We did the full-on touristy thing with a campervan through Litchfield Park. It was fabulous! Soooo nice to be out in the bush. It truly is the best place to go for relaxing... forget yoga classes for a year... just park yourself in the bush for week and listen to the sound of the wilderness (and the britz vans generators!!!).

Anyway, I am on a mission to create this week... so stay tuned. We also have the launch of the Handmade book this week. I will post our page as soon as I've seen it!

Love

Fat Mumma xxx