Skinny Bitch Australia hosts a fundraiser for MS

How to Host in 7 easy steps

1. Have wine
2. Have more wine
3. Just kidding no more wine but make sure you have some small priced games or activities for people to do. SB thought to Stick balloons with numbers in them on the fence and the girls can buy darts to hit one and claim the corresponding prize. It was great fun but just make sure that anyone who is a really dodgy shot is up nice and close as we don’t want to stick a dart in the neighbours dog! (Neighbour fine though!)
4. Tupperware was used to raise some money through sales and everyone loves Tupperware and you get to buy some really cool things. Of course SB did a food demonstration with the new Pressure Cooker and made some yummy risotto! Which was eaten to soak up the…..Yes you guessed it wine!
5. Seeing as we were using Tupperware SB thought it might be fun to place people into groups and then make some hats out of Tupperware bowls! It was hilarious how competitive the girls get and we also had some really clever ideas. The winner was one made into a bike helmet to ride on the day of the Charity Bike ride for MS.  (Fortunately due to safety regulations SB does not have to wear the hat. But here it is anyway.)

This won
This won
This one thought she should have!
This one thought she should have!

6. Got to have a raffle, SB had lots of different prizes and the girls bought tickets and placed them in the barrel of the prize they wanted to win. SB used Tupperware prizes as she had heaps of spares but you could ask local shops for donations or coffee vouchers even a dinner or a haircut?
7. Invite four times the amount of people that you think will come. And most importantly remember why the funds are being raised and have fun. Even if you only raise a little amount it’s still a little more than nothing!
Till next week
Skinny Bitch Australia

Goodbye my friend.

I normally like to write about fun stuff and things to make folks laugh but today I can’t, today I must honour my friend Joanne Harvey and tell you about her. Jo was my local lady who worked at the Dry Cleaners and I wondered why she seemed a bit sad and maybe a tiny bit grumpy? So I set out to make friends with her. And lucky for me she liked me. She wasn’t sad or miserable at all although some might say she may have had reason to be.image
This amazing lady lost the love of her life in a truck accident when she was 35 years old and bought her three kids up on her own. She moved to the Gold Coast and then had a bout with Breast Cancer, she won the first round. Her adorable Grandson was born and was the ‘Light of her life’, another reason why Grandma’s should not be given IPhones. Many a day I have watched videos and photos of her darling ‘Teddy’, I didn’t mind it made her happy.
She loved Country and Western, I hated it but even that didn’t stop us being friends. We went to Broadbeach one Sunday to watch her friend of 30 years play in his band. He had written a song for her late husband which he played for her and we all cried. We drank far too much, found some pasta joint on the way home and ate far too much! and then thought it was a good idea to hire a poor young man on a bicycle with a cart behind to take us home! Boy did he earn his money that night! Sorry about throwing up in your garden Jo!!
Thanks for being my friend, thanks for showing me what real toughness is really like and RIP with your beloved husband.

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