Host an Oreo inspired games day

So this weekend we hosted an Oreo Cup games day. Granted the Oreo Cup is actually an online game where you play against the rest of the Oreo loving world and stand in line to win big prizes for your efforts. But we thought we would put our own spin on it and host a team building day.

So we rounded up bloggers from around Nelson Mandela Metro and got a little (a lottle) competitive… Here some tips to hosting your own Oreo inspired games day.

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First book loading…

I have wanted to write a book from the time I decided that I could find more interesting things for cats to do than sit on mats as they did in our school books. I’ve obviously gone on to be a published writer. Poetry, columns, articles, but one thing I really wanted to do was fiction. And I’ve decided to go for it…

Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay

So here is the first page of what I’m writing. Please let me know if you want to know more about this outspoken photographer and her family below. (I have no idea where I’m going to find the time to write it or how I’d get it published, but you’ve got to start somewhere, right)

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Tips for preparing for a family photo shoot

We did a family photo shoot. Which might seem super normal to everyone else, but with a husband who hates photos, a son who pulls faces at the sight of a camera and me only happy with a picture when it’s a selfie I took and edited myself… It was never high up on our to-do-list.

So when Deone of Deona Grace Photography suggested a family photo shoot colab. I had to give it a lot of thought, but in the end I decided to throw caution into the wind and say cheese.

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Bringing my curls back in the kitchen

I don’t straighen my hair often. Much to the disappointment of oh so many family members and Facebook friends… Every time I blow out my hair I’m told just how much better I look.

It annoys me because thats like me telling someone they look better with coloured contacts or breast implants, it’s not me, it’s not natural. That being said I do like to shake things up a bit every now and then and get a professional blow out…. The only problem is my curls look so bleugh after that. Heres how I tried to resuscitate my curls using my kitchen shelves.

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