It's a Steal - Party Time Over at The Inspiration Cafe

For the last 5 weeks the ladies of the Inspiration Cafe have been knocking each other off left, right and center!

Now it's your turn, if you have "knocked off" or been inspired by another blogger we would love to have you come and join us at the cafe for our "It's a Steal" party.

This party is open through till Saturday and we'll be sharing our favorites Sunday!

Please make sure any projects inspired by another blogger includes full credit to the original post.

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Inspiration Cafe is looking for guest posters. If you would like to guest post, please let us know, we would love to have you.  If you would prefer a feature instead, feel free to drop us a line. New or old posts welcome.

Nappy Rash - Cured!

Hey all,

First up I want to say this post is not sponsored, but it's so amazing that I wanted to share it with all the Mums out there who have children with nappy rash.

A few weeks back I was at a blogging conference and I had the opportunity to meet a few different brands who were giving away samples of their products, one of which came from the Australian company, Brauer.

The women demonstrating spent some time telling me about their bath and body wash range and said their products contained "no nasties" basically I listened to their product spin, thanked them for the sample and then moved on to the next product.

Now I'm a budget shopper and I buy everything on the cheap, however Max has had a terrible time with constant nappy rash. His little bottom just continually bled it has been awful. Every nappy change has been a nightmare, I've literally tried every product available to me including, off the shelf, prescription creams and the old fashion corn starch, olive oil ect. Then at night when bath time rolled around the screaming of poor Max has just been dreadful, he would fight me to sit in the water because his bottom was just raw.

Anyway I decided to give the Brauer Bath and Body wash a try, I could not believe it, he sat in the bath and for the first time in about a year he played in the bath, in fact he didn't want to get out! He was having the time of his life. 

Well that was enough for me to love it, but it got better, to my amazement after a few more nights the rash was completely gone! I truly wish I had before and after photos (although I'm not sure I want his little bottom on the internet).

This product is amazing and it is now a no compromise thing for me, I'm happy to pay the bit extra compared to some of the other brands and believe me when I say I'm as frugal as can be, feeding a family of 7 means I always buy the cheapest or generic brands this is worth the little extra.

In fact the only problem I had was one little rubber ducky and two kids in the bath.

Again, I have not been paid for this post, and the sample given to me was handed out to everyone who attended I was under no obligation to advertise it for them. If you have a little one suffering from skin rashes, I highly recommend giving the range a try. You can read more about the Brauer range here /http://www.brauer.com.au/. Products can be found at Woolworths stores.

Thanks for reading,

Mel xo

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ANZAC Biscuits

This is a post I shared over at the Inspiration Cafe

Hi Guys,

ANZAC stand for the Australian & New Zealand Army Corps, these biscuits were created and baked by the wives and mothers of our "diggers" (The name we call our Aussie soldiers) . They have a long shelf life and were sent as care packages during the first and second world wars.

ANZAC day is the 25th of April, on this day in 1915 the Aussie diggers, many of whom were barely men, landed in Gallopoli in an effort to defeat Turkey. 8000 Aussie diggers lost their lives that day, fighting for the freedom we enjoy today and the remaining men were forced to retreat. However it brought about the birth of Australia, a new federation had come into it's own.

ANZAC Biscuits

1 cup of plain flour
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup of rolled oats
1/2 a cup of desiccated coconut
125 gr of butter
2 Tbs of Golden Syrup (For those unable to get it you can make your own very easily see here for that recipe)
1 TBS of water
1/2 tsp of Bicarb Soda

Sift the flour into a bowl and ad the other dry ingredients except for the bicarb soda
Melt the butter, golden syrup and water together

Once melted add the bicarb soda which will froth and should look like this

Roll into walnut size balls place on a greased tray then flatten with the back of a fork

Bake in a preheated oven at 170 degrees Celsius for around 15 minutes.

Then it's time to knock off for smoko , grab your billy tea and enjoy a biccie or two.(take a break for afternoon or morning tea)


Thanks for reading,

Mel xo

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