Joanne Musgrave

Mark Zuckerberg gets married

Joanne — Sun, 20 May 2012 08:21:19 +0000

First of all, congrats on getting married Mark. Secondly, as a bit of a nerd, I’m just LOVING the littile quips and headlines in the stories in the media:-

“Mark Zuckerberg updates his status to married”
“Mark Zuckerberg says it’s ‘uncomplicated’”

Let the Facebook jokes roll on. And bravo for releasing your wedding photo on Facebook and not selling it to a tracky magazine.

Organic Plus Erina

Joanne — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:34:55 +0000

I have decided to take Shop Naturally in a yummy direction during the second half of 2012, as we’ll be rapidly expanding the range of organic food we sell. The goal is to become a serious alternative to Organic Plus Erina for organic & health food grocery items.

In additon, we’ve expanded in to mineral makeup with the absolutely stunning Inika Cosmetics range. There’s a full set of testers in the showroom if you’ve like to touch and feel before purchasing.

What’s the hardest part? Having to eat all the food before we put it on the shop. It’s a rough job, but someone has to do it!

Gnostic Corner

Joanne — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:07:26 +0000

James & I went for a drive down to the south part of the coast last weekend and we took a little drive past Gnostic Corner, a cute collection of ‘hippy’ shops, as James called them After my trivia learning for the day (gnostic means knowledge through personal experience) I went and had a look in Gnostic Organics and grabbed some fresh produce and a sprouter to have a play with.

It’s a quaint little store with quite a lot on the shelf that I recognised. If lived at that end of the coast, I’d probably buy it (it’s for sale), but we’ll be setting up our own little version of this Central Coast organic food store soon enough in Tuggerah.

Natural Shampoo my arse

Joanne — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:42:14 +0000

Talk about false advertising. I was just doing some Google rankings research (yes, I have nothing better to do at 9:30pm on a Saturday night) and was wondering how I rank for the phrase ‘natural shampoo‘ – (and sadly, not as well as I’d like) and noticed that Pantene have bought a Google ad for the phrase ‘natural hair shampoo’.

It says ‘Natural Hair Shampoo – Check Pantene’s Shampoos Find the best Shampoo for Natural Hair.

C’mon guys. Really? Everyone’s hair is NATURAL unless you’re wearing a wig. That’s how you trick stupid people in to thinking your products are natural. You know what, I don’t give a shit that they’re not. You have a whopping big market share, and congratulations on that, but do you seriously need to be tricking people in to thinking your products are natural? Shame. If they buy your products thinking they’re natural and then find out otherwise, they’re just going to be pissed off. Is the bottom line more important than your customers?

If they were natural & safe, you’d advertise the fact and put the ingredients list on your website. Want something really safe? Then choose an Organic Shampoo and Conditioner like Mukti, or take a browse through the rest of the hair products we have on offer and stay away from something you buy from the supermarket.

Quick tip, if your hair products have SLS, Sodium Lauryl Sulphate in it, it’s not natural. Nothing we sell has SLS in it.

Organic Food Blog

Joanne — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:59:30 +0000

I have just set up the ‘clean slate’ for my new blog – Organic Food Central Coast. Even though we’re selling some organic food at Shop Naturally, I have no desire to become a fully blown organic supermarket, greengrocer or butcher, so I’m going to be nice and give a free plug to all the organic butchers, fruit shops, cafes, restaurants, farmers and growers on the Central Coast that I can find.

It will be a great directory for myself and anyone else who stumbles upon it in their internet travels. While the shop will always stock stuff like coconut oil, apple cider vinegar, organic chocolate, chia seeds, goji berries, cacao powder and the like, I won’t ever be selling broccoli or steak!

If you’re strolling around looking for good fresh produce on the coast, organic or not, The Entrance Farmers Market is a good place to start. It’s on the 1st & 3rd Saturday of each month down at the Memorial Park at The Entrance.

Jess always brings the ball back

Joanne — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:17:40 +0000

Jess and the wave

Joanne — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:30:06 +0000

Fiddling with my camera in low light at the beach, I snapped a sequence with Jess. Isn’t she gorgeous!!!

What happened to Lego?

Joanne — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:20:25 +0000

Apparently Lego have released a girl friendly range and Twitter & Facebook is buzzing with hatred. Personally I don’t see the problem. Since all Lego seem to do these days is sell kits with all the right pieces to put together, why does it matter that some are geared towards girls?

Whatever happened to the days when you just had a pile of building blocks and you used your imagination to build something? Now it’s all planned out and all you’re doing is putting it together – like a 3D jigsaw puzzle.

It all started with a big bang

Joanne — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:07:44 +0000

You’d think that being a self confessed nerd, I would have been a fan of The Big Bang Theory from day 1. I’m not sure why I didn’t jump on this show when it first aired 5 years ago, but you can’t just jump in ot these things half way through, so for quite some time, I was just never interested in the show.

A few weeks ago now, I was at Coles and saw Season 1 and grabbed it. Oh my god, the show is hilarious!! It’s one of the best written comedies I’ve seen in a long time, and it’s a little scary that when they’re talking techy, I can understand most of it.

I just finished watching a couple of episodes in season 2 and noticed some product placement for one of the natural cleaning products we sell, Seventh Generation. I’ve seen it twice on TBBT now – the laundry powder (which we don’t sell) and the all purpose spray. I have also seen Seventh Generation on Desperate Housewives, Friends and a couple of other shows.

It’s nice to see natural products in product placement on TV shows. It shows a change in the tide when it comes to what kind of brands and products spend the big $ on advertising. Bring it on and slowly change the world!!

On the flip side, I was a little disappointed to see them drinking bottled water in the same episode. Now if only someone like Klean Kanteen, America’s first stainless steel water bottle manufacturer would shell out some ad dollars for a spot on a show like this too……

BPA Free Bong!

Joanne — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:38:11 +0000

My darling husband pointed out a hilarous post on page 22 of the November 11 FHM magazine (yes, I’m sure he buys it for the articles!).

A 17 year old had been smoking pot for 2 years (around 400 times in total) and around half of those times, using a bong made from a plastic water bottle. Sometimes the bottle burned and the teen was nervous about getting cancer from the bottle as he’d only just found out that smoking was bad for you …..

Oh my god, I really don’t know where to start. 400 bongs in 2 years for a 17 year old. Let’s start at:-

how did he pay for them?
who was supervising this teen?
what does 400 bongs do to a 15-17 year old brain?
how pure or well grown was the pot?

My advice is simple.

STOP SMOKING POT
If you insist on continuing to do so, stop using plastic water bottles to make a home made bong. If you can buy pot, you can go buy a glass bong you idiot!