Free Range Living

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Happy Birthday Give Away!

Wow!

This week 12 months ago, we opened the doors to our Free Range Living emporium at Kurnell, Sydney!

A BIG THANK YOU to all who have supported us and continue to support our emporium of gorgeous Australian made gifts, fashion, home wares and fine foods, or joined in to one of our CreativiTea programs.

To celebrate, we are giving you the chance to win either (a) a Gift Voucher to spend in our emporium (to the value of $25) or (b) a School Holiday Half Day Workshop of your choice (January School Holidays).

To enter, simply leave a comment on this post, telling us in 25 words or less, which Gift you would like to win and why!

Give Away closes Sunday 2nd December. All entries will be allocated a number for a random.org draw to be announced on the blog and in our newsletter Tuesday 4th December.

You can check out all the upcomming School Holiday Workshops at our website www.freerangeliving.co (under the workshops, play sessions and classes category in side bar).

Sunday, 21 October 2012

Pretty in Pink! Week in Pics

We had lots of fun at Free Range Living this last week - shades of pink were a plenty as we celebrated Breast Cancer Awareness month and raised funds for Cancer Council NSW - the final tally will be calculated on Wednesday!

Here are some pics from the week!

Sunday, 14 October 2012

Theme of the Week: Pretty in Pink!

We are excited to be introducing a new feature to FRL - weekly inspiration themes!

Each week we will have a different theme to inspire us in our styling and CreativiTea sessions, so that ahead of time, you will be able to look forward to different themes that take your fancy, and be sure to schedule in your diary, the CreativiTea events you don't want to miss out on!

As October is national Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we thought we would kick off the themes with "Pretty in Pink!" a week of very girlie styling and pretty creative projects.

We are also going to be raising funds through the week, with $1 for every item sold (includes all retail items and workshop bookings) donated to Cancer Council.

So to get you in the mood, here is a collection of images to inspire the Pretty Pink in you :)

http://weheartit.com/entry/20838478#

http://piccsy.com/2011/07/pink-ladies/

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/7011/7612105isdey0h4953954.jpg

http://kozmozbyhesionka.wordpress.com/category/hot-hot-pink/#jp-carousel-265

http://1-derful-pink.tumblr.com/

http://capecodcollegiate.tumblr.com/post/19058158332

http://poniesandpinklemonade.tumblr.com/post/10981388218

all images above from http://1-derful-pink.tumblr.com/

Friday, 5 October 2012

Out and About: Sydney Park

So, our last Out and About we took you to The Grounds of Alexandria - this last Tuesday we headed back there again for another school holiday workshop - where Amalia learnt about growing your own plants and made a bonsai. During the workshop, I enjoyed the morning to myself, reading our newest addition to our magazine collection in store, great coffee and brunch, and some specials at the Bendon Factory Outlet next door :)

After we finished up at The Grounds, we headed west towards St. Peters, a couple of minutes drive, and pulled up at Sydney Park - perfect place to take your bikes or scooters.

The playground is fantastic! There are four slides, heaps of swings, a big fenced in raised sand pit area, large climbing rope towers, rocking horses and plenty of areas for discovery!

There also heaps of large grassed areas - perfect for kite flying

A fantastic kiosk/cafe, where we purchased an ice block and cold drink, and enjoyed listening to the wheeliebinsoundsystem!!

There is a great wetlands area, perfect for feeding the ducks, and we also got to check out the new baby cygnets :) with their beautiful black mumma swan :)

The park is also very dog friendly, with lots of dog water bowls and taps spread about the parkland, as well as doggie doo garbage bags located at every garbage bin.

Sydney Park is located on the corner of 2 Princes Hwy (as it goes on to King Street at Newtown), Alexandria, on the corner of Sydney Park Road. Here is the link to the Google Map

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Out and About - The Grounds of Alexandria

We love to get out and about, and with the School Holidays upon us, what better time to take a day off and venture out!

I came across The Grounds of Alexandria through a my good friend Kate who had seen it posted on Facebook - good ole trusty FB. It looked gorgeous in the pics, and then I discovered that they were going to be running some kids workshops in the School Holidays.

Considering that my daughter Amalia spends so much time in the emporium, engaging in our creative hand crafts projects, I thought it would be great to get her outdoors for something a bit different, and signed her up for their Make a Birdhouse workshop.

The Grounds is located in the middle of the industrial/commercial precinct of Alexandria, inner south Sydney, though with its large open play cafe/restaurant and large, beautifully landscaped courtyard, you feel as though you are in a little country town.

During the workshop, the kids learnt about the organic fruit, veggies and herbs that are grown on The Grounds, cared for by resident horticulturalist Erin Martin (and of course used in their cafe menu), as well as meet their in house chooks!

Although the workshop included lunch, Mali had spotted all the scrumptious looking sweets so devoured a melting moment to keep her going.

Whilst the kids are being busy little bees in their workshop, parents can relax in the expansive courtyard, or inside the cafe.

Kate met me for some brunch with her little lady Olive and we found it was really easy manoeuvring the pram through. It was also a perfect spot for a bit of crochet too!

The Grounds are passionate about coffee and roast their own in house! It was absolutely divine and I will definitely be bringing some back to enjoy in the emporium!