At iVillage we’re passionate about supporting Australian bloggers. That’s why we’ve created iBlog Friday.
iBlog Friday is a chance for you to introduce iVillage readers to your blog, by showcasing the favourite blog post you’ve written each week
If you want to appear in our iBlog Friday roundup please send the link to your blog to us at info@themotherish.com
We will be posting all the blogs we receive in a round up every Friday morning so make sure we get your blog by Thursday at 12 noon.
The winner of the blog for the week (our favourite favourite) will win 6 shades of Revlon's new ColorStay Ultimate Suede Lipstick.
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Each prize pack retails at $155.70.
The winner will also have their full blog republished on our site and promoted on our Facebook page and Twitter feed.
To kick things off, here are just a few of the blogs we’ve enjoyed reading this week. We can’t wait to start reading yours!
Kerri Sackville at Life & Other Crises is sharing some incredible information on dealing with anxiety. We bookmarked this post to send read again and again. She writes:
"Let me tell you this one little secret – anxiety hates nothing more than company. Anxiety likes to live alone, dwelling in the fertile lush pastures of the empty mind. The very best weapon against anxiety is to keep busy. Anxiety needs to be driven out with force.
When I am anxious, my natural instinct is to fret. I become completely useless to myself and everyone else. I wander around in circles, I pace, I bite my nails. My heart races. My mind goes cloudy and I can't focus. If all I need to do is make the school lunches or write a blog post, I can't function. I can take an hour to put a sandwich together. I can sit at the computer and not make any sense."
You can read the rest of Kerri's post here
Mrs Woog at Woogsworld caused a few raised eyebrows around the office when we became hysterical reading her blog about pedicures. She writes:
"I quite often take this time to spend with my beloved friend The Divine Ms M, who sits next to me as we chatter away about not much. After a good soaking, out comes the razor and the Divine Ms M's face immediately looks like this…
There are the traditional jokes about "corn flakes" and losing 4 kilos after the foot shave down, but Vivienne, my shaver of choice, makes no judgements, apart from questioning the fact that why, indeed, are we still friends after 20 years."
You can read the rest of Woog's post here
Eden Riley at Edenland is always awesome – but when she interviews the Prime Minister of Australia – she is beyond awesome. She shares the video interview on her blog and writes
"The first thing I need to explain about this video is that my hair looks CRAP. A red Elvis cowlick, because I was so worried about people commenting on how closely the PM and I resemble each other with our red hair and glasses, that I threw it up in a not-very-well-coiffed ponytail. (Because obviously as soon as a woman gets any traction at all in the public space, her looks are up for discussion.)"
Watch the video here
Kelly Exeter at A Life Less Frantic made us think about the time we spent preparing for the birth of our babies… She writes
"Never ever set up the baby’s room any earlier than 1-2 weeks out from your due date.
Just don’t do it.
I applied this rule with my first-born and other than one government client deciding to get feedback from a ‘few key stakeholders’ four days before J was due (on a piece of artwork they’d approved and signed off on the previous week!), there were no unexpected, last minute, stressful things to deal with in the month before his birth.
But I couldn’t help getting a little bit cute this second time around could I?"
Naomi Bulger at Messages In Bottles got us thinking about (and preparing for) Easter. She writes:
"This is a super-cute and incredibly easy Easter craft activity. These little papier mâché eggs are laced with wildflower seeds. Tie them up with a pretty ribbon or a piece of washi tape, nestle them into a decorative nest, and you have a sweet little springtime Easter gift for a friend (even if Easter is an autumnal festival, as it is in Australia)."
Linda Drummond of Pink Patent Mary Janes caught us by our tastebuds when she blogged about bacon cupcakes. BETTER than you think. She writes
I know.
Bacon.
On a cupcake.
Janine Fitzpatrick of Shambolic Living should win most dedicated blogger in Australia after her frantic effort to get to #DPON13. She writes:
Lara Cain of This Charming Mum wrote an Open Letter to Facebook that could have come from well, everybody. Funny and true! She writes
We look forward to hearing from YOU!
