It will take seventeen trees a whole life time to offset the amount of carbon emissions that only one average household creates in just one year.
ClickGreen is a wonderful new way to help your environment. It’s an easy way to offset a whole week’s carbon emmissions, and that’s just by signing up! You can do much more by continuing to gain points and by inviting all your friends and family to join as well.
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown and co, United States, 2005
After having heard this author described as the new Anne Rice I had to go check it out. With high expectations in comparison to Anne Rice’s vampire stories I was wary of being disappointed as I expected the Twilight series to mimic Anne Rice’s style and characters. I was shown wrong.
Meyer depicts a wonderful tale about a young girl, Bella Swan, who has moved to a new town, she is clumsy and describes herself as bland, yet she manages to catch the eye of the handsome and mysterious Edward Cullen. A fairly typical start to a story, but then as it progresses you discover that Edward is more than just good looking; he’s a vampire. Bella is the embodiment of what it is to be human, that is: clumsy, slow and unable to defend yourself. While Edward looks human, he is fast, agile and very strong. The clashing of these two qualities is what draws the pair together as they fall in love.
The descriptions and characteristics of the vampire’s in the Twilight series is very different to any other vampire tale yet. Meyer writes the story so it is very human and believable as she combines the very real world of high school and the fantasy realm of vampires and the supernatural.
With the fourth and final book in the Twilight series having just been released in June 2008 and the first film coming out this Summer, this series is one to get to know.
Aunts and Uncles step right up, it’s finally YOUR day.
The 28th of September is Australia’s first Aunts and Uncles day to acknowledge the part that some aunts and uncles play in the lives of young people.
Now is the time to remember the times where you had a fun time with your aunt and uncle and the role that they played with your growing up, or maybe the role they play in your own children’s growing up.
Can you think of a wonderful time you shared with your aunt or uncle? Or maybe a time that you have witnessed with your own children and their aunt and uncle?
Then again, maybe your children’s aunt/uncle has saved your sanity a couple of times…
Libraries are a great source of entertainment and learning. Some of the basic things that a library has to offer are:
• Books (for all ages and all types)
• Toys
• DVDs
• CDs
• Internet access
• Printers
• Craft activities
• Story time
• School holiday activities
Many libraries also have a wide range of holiday activities that are great for the kids. They are a free source of entertainment that never wears thin as there is always something new to look at or a different event being run.
Taking your children to the library is a fantastic way to encourage them to read and learn. The libraries do all that they can to make the thought of reading entertaining and colourful for those children that desire to watch a DVD or play a computer game instead. Though they do offer those for hire as well it’s fantastic to get children to read and socialise with other kids in activities and story time.
Though the act of hiring is free, there is always the risk of those pesky over due fees that seem to build up as you forget to return the books in your busy life. A trip to return them is out of your way as you take your kids to school or you go to work. Or maybe you just haven’t finished reading a book or haven’t watched that DVD that you hired yet. It’s all easily fixable from the comfort of your own home now. Now you can simply renew your items online for many libraries so check out their site. You can even reserve a book online so next time you visit it’ll be there waiting for you.
Check out your library’s website to see what school holiday activities are happening in the libraries near you!
Minti is a fantastic site to share advice and discuss the job of parenting. It’s a great way to learn and improve your parenting skills and simply to read articles from other parents.
Even if you are just expecting a child or if it’s a question about your siblings children, Minti will find the answers for you.
Not only do you get all your questions answered and share your own advice, you can earn Moolah!
Minti Moolah is points that, once you have enough, can be converted into paypal money.
So sign up and join in and help other parents, parents to be, and a lot of other people as well as learn more for yourself and earn more for yourself
Want to get those christmas cards out of the way?
Sending a card to your employees and colleagues is a good way to show them that you notice their good work and christmas cards for your loyal or new customers is a fantastic way to thank them for their support, plus remind them of your business or brand.
So click HERE and organise your very own christmas cards that you can design yourself for a great early bird price.
We have just added our blog to the Minti parenting site – savetime.minti.com – so that more parents can find ways to save time online by finding great Aussie sites easily, entering competitions or reading articles and tips.
If you run a blog, do you have it feeding anywhere else? Has it helped you get the message out to more people?
For more info about RSS feeds, our previous posts “What is an RSS feed?” and “Why offer Rss feeds on your blog?” may be of value to you 
September 13th is Roald Dahl Day across the globe. With his birthday on September 13th it’s a great time to remember the joy that he put into your heart as a child and the watch they joy in your children these days.
As one of the worlds best selling children’s authors, it’s fantastic to recognise and celebrate the genuis of the man who puts the fun into reading.
With some of his titles being Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda and many many more get out there and remember and reread these amazing stories.
Kidz Funky Designs create unique and colourful hair accessories. All their items are hand made using wonderful bright coloured felts, silks and ribbons and made for babies and all through to big girls in all sorts of various colours and styles. Their clips have a non slip grip so they work in all sorts of hair.
We are offering selected items from their elastic, headband and hairclip range. We are offering some purple and yellow flower elastics, a Lime Green Headband with a pink and lime green flower, and a Pink and Red Heart Clip. With a total value is $29.45 these are a perfect gift for any little girl (or even yourself).
To go into the running for this wonderful prize click HEREand answer How many Little Girl Clips are there in the Kidz Funky Designs range? – remember, you must be subscribed to our newsletter to enter and answers as comments will be deleted.
Competition closes on 9th of November 2008 and winner will be announced in our November newsletter.
Home Loan Interest Manager Pro could be just what you need if you are starting to feel the pinch of all the interest rate rises. This mortgage software will put you in the driving seat and help you track, plan and manage all aspects of your loans, check the accuracy of your interest charges, and show you how to pay off your mortgage sooner.
And with the cost of living going through the roof, now is the perfect time to review your credit card spending. With Home Credit Card Manager Lite you simply match your credit card transactions to the categories provided, and then use the reports to group and sort your information.
Great for the monthly budget, creating yearly summaries and weeding out bad debt.
To WIN these fantastic coupons for the wonderful money helping software simply go to their site to find the answer to: when you download and try the software, how many days can you use it for free? Then just click here to tell us your answer (adding it as a comemnt doesn’t enter the competition.)
The competition will end on the 9th October 2008 and the winner will be announced in our October newsletter. You must be subscribed to our newsletter to enter.