Joanne Musgrave

Wondering where to buy your Lock & Lock plastic containers from? While doing some googling tonight, I found the most disgusting reviews for one of my competitors, Kitchen n Table. Read them at MyShopping.com.au

I wonder how many other people have been ripped off that didn’t go through MyShopping.com.au to find them or couldn’t be bothered complaining. I have actually had a couple of customers tell me they ordered through them and it never turned up, so they came to me instead. Great way to run a business guys.

Wow, busy work weekend. I installed 6, yes SIX copies of Word Press this weekend with various custom templates from Woo Themes and Gorilla Themes. We have blogs for Cheap Dresses, Strapless Black Dress, Buy Clothes Online, Suicide Safety Network, Vegan Shopping Australia and Organic Skin Care. They’re not populated with content just yet, both me and my clients are still working on that part.

Plus, to top it all off, we’ve been adding stock to Shop Naturally, including the cutest Insulated Lunch Bag range I’ve ever seen from Skip Hop and I wrote a funny thermos flask recipe over at I can’t believe it’s not a recipe.

………….. and it’s only Saturday night!

http://vividlive.sydneyoperahouse.com/MusicForDogs.aspx

Sydney Opera House are holding a concert for dogs. I kid you not. It’s 20 minutes of music that humans can’t here. Take your 4 legged kids and plenty of poo bags (and perhaps some ear plugs from all the howling & barking)

I just love it when I flip through womens magazines and find products I sell, especially products that don’t have a high profile. I just opened up my latest copy of Women’s Health magazine. On page 113, they show the Lunchbots Stainless Steel Lunch Box in green (the big one – the Lunchbots Eco lunch box). They do come in 4 sizes, but this one is our biggest seller by far. It’s surrounded by plastic in the feature and at least one of them is marked BPA Free. The Nude Food Movers look pretty nifty too.

On page 155 there’s an ad for the new Seven Wonders natural hair care range. It’s  bargain, starting at $14.95 and it’s salon quality. I’m about to crack a few open and give them a test run. Would love some feedback if anyone has used it.

There was a promo on Channel 7 this morning for a story on Today Tonight. The basic idea of the promo is that you can save big dollars by buying things overseas online. Big surprise, they interviewed someone from eBay. I do wonder if these things are actually advertorials, and on the whole I loathe these pseudo ‘Current Affairs’ programs. If you want real Current Affairs, flip over to the ABC.

Wow, way to support local business Channel 7. Don’t you understand that as a powerful media corporation, you have a moral responsibility to the Australian economy? This weekend, there will be a large line up of moronic Today Tonight viewers walking in to Australian retailers, asking questions about products, trying on clothes & shoes, basically wasting the staff’s time so they can go home and order it online at half the price.

Selling water bottles is quite the seasonal product and we unfortunately have seen a bit of a slow down in sales accordingly. What amazes me though is that we somehow have the #11 spot in Google for the phrase ‘drink bottles‘ and I have done absolutely no work on it whatsoever. We’re still sitting at #30 for ‘water bottles‘, that one’s going to be tough cooking to crack.

We’re adding the Herbon range of cleaning products to the store, and in a few days, a new exciting range of Organic Baby Products called Buds for Baby and a few other surprises in store that we’re just going to do a bit of product testing on first.

Having some fun with my joke website, I Can’t Believe It’s Not A Recipe too, which I have decided I will also put a few links and comments on REAL websites, cookbooks and recipes – not just easy ingredient combinations for the culinary challenged among us!

2 successful weeks now of getting out of bed earlier and going to bed earlier and going for a walk each week morning before I start work. Ok, I took one morning off because I had bad hayfever!

Saturdays see me out of bed at 5:30am, yes, before the sun even comes up. I make my porridge, put it in an insulated thermos flask, grab a couple of stainless steel water bottles, some snacks and off I go to play security guard for the triathlon training squad. And today, I made it through the entire day without a sleep. I’m impressed !!

I’m in the middle of launching a new fun website called I Can’t Believe It’s Not A Recipe, which is a tongue in cheek look at how friggin’ lazy and pathetic some cookbooks and cooking shows can get these days. I mean, a piece of pre-made pastry, a tin of Caramel Top & Fill (aka, condensed milk boiled in the can) and some whipped cream isn’t exactly an earth shattering recipe to be handed down through generations – it’s tight-wad cooking for people with no imagination or no time or no cooking skills, pure & simple.

We’ve been doing a huge amount of product development for Shop Naturally, and for the past couple of weeks we’ve been working on our stainless steel lunch box range.

We have added the LunchBots, the ECOlunchbox and a whole range of insulated lunch bags from Built NY. Click on the links to check out how funky they are!

Day 4, and we’ve gone walking EVERY morning before work. I’m so glad I’m getting up early each morning and going for a walk before work, I feel so much better for it now.

Today I even took the dogs with me, and trust me, it was a fun experience when they’ve never learnt to heal on a lead! (thanks James). I have now gone and bought short dog leads from Pet Barn today and getting the dogs to heal should be a little easier tomorrow. Stay tuned.

After getting out of bed at 5:30am on Saturday morning to babysit about $50,000 worth of triathlon bikes for some of my husbands friends on a training run, I was amazed at just how many people are out and about that early in the morning. There’s this whole other world that happens before I usually even get out of bed.

Now, I’m a night owl. I probably stop working at about 10:30-11:00pm  most nights in my never ending quest to sell more water bottles and baby bottles on the internet than anyone else – but this quest also means I have to sleep in, and I don’t start my work day until late.

Starting this morning, I’m on a quest. I am going to start going to bed earlier and waking up earlier, at least 6:30am or earlier. I will have my breakfast, put on my comfy new Lorna Jane workout clothes, my Polar heart rate monitor and go for a walk to start the blood pumping for the day.

Stay tuned!

After months of delaying this for something more important, thanks to the Easter bunny this weekend, I finally found the time to design, fill and launch my assault on the phrase ‘bpa free baby bottles‘ in Google – www.safebpafreebabybottles.com.au

It’s a fairly comprehensive guide to all the bpa free baby bottles we sell at Shop Naturally, with little hints and bits of information about which bottle is best suited for your needs. We’re giving away a Green to Grow Welcome Home set this month and next month we’ll be giving away the new Earthlust Birds & Bees insulated baby bottles.

We will be adding a couple of new brands over the next few weeks, and will soon have the most comprehensive selection on the market. For now, we have deliberately chosen not to stock the Avent bottles and the Tommee Tippee, because every chemist shop & supermarket we walked in to had them on the shelves already, tossed loosely amongst a large pile of toxic polycarbonate and cheap flimsy crap! Luckily they’re marked BPA Free or you’d never know what you were getting.

If you’re wondering why you should choose BPA Free Baby bottles, basically, BPA is an endocrine disruptor and it can screw with your childs hormonal development, especially if you’re putting plastic bottles in the microwave.