On Thursday November 15 we saw a preview performance of the play "Calendar Girls" at the Gold Coast Little Theatre in support of the Leukaemia Foundation. The theatre was fully booked with many women wearing black cocktail dresses and pearls in "Calendar Girls" style. There were a few men in the audience, including Amanda's hubby who thoroughly enjoyed the titillatingand amusing comedy for a good cause. The play "Calendar Girls" revolves around a group of women raising money for leukaemia by posing nude for a calendar. A very apt topic for a play to support the Leukaemia Foundation of Australia.
Tuesday November 6 was, of course, the Melbourne Cup Race at Flemington in Melbourne. On the Gold Coast many Queenslanders duly celebrated the great race at many different Melbourne Cup events. I joined the many people who cheering for a winner at the Mebourne Cup in the Paradise Room at the Gold Coast Arts Centre to support the Leukaemia Foundation. Amanda wore a pretty pink hat with pink floral top, purple silk skirt, pearl jewellery, and white shoes and handbag. After champagne and canapes on arrival, the over 300 attendees enjoyed fish or chicken with a chocolate or meringue dessert. The champagne flowed freely at…
Wednesday October 31 saw Chicks@Lunch celebrating the Spring for 2012 at the Southport Yacht Club. Over 100 women celebrated Spring during this fun monthly luncheon. Many women donned bright sunny dresses and spring wear for the event. Ann's Hot Rock gave us a great selection of fashion jewellery, including some lovely dangly pearl clip earings that I snapped up quickly! They match my lovely pearl fashion bracelet also made by Ann Shankey that I was wearing at the lucheon. Not having pierced ears, I'm always on the look out for some nice clip earings. During the luncheon Rosie Jones, the Chicks@Lunch founder, shocked us…
The latest Friends of Make-A-Wish Luncheon was held on Tuesday October 23 at the Gold Coast Arts Centre. The keynote speaker was Anne Ellis who is the Manager/Coordinator at the Youth Health and Education Service (YHES) located in Southport on the Gold Coast. YHES is a community organisation funded by the Queensland Government to provide holistic health services to "at risk" youth and young parents living in the Gold Coast Region. They provide a nuturing environment for both young people and young parents with new born babies who are seeking assistance to feel secure. What a worthwhile cause! Unfortunately, YHES's funding…
Yesterday I attended the McGrath Foundation Breast Cancer High Tea at the Customs House Brisbane. This charity do was organised by the McGrath Foundation Queensland Marketing and Fundraising Coordinator Deborah Scott-Ranson and hosted by the vibrant TV personality Emily Jade. What a lovely do! The Customs House decor set the elegant ambiance for the high tea for more than 150 women (and a few men). The McGrath Foundation is one of Australia’s leading breast cancer support organisations with over 16,000 Australian families who are supported by 77 McGrath Breast Care Nurses nationally. McGrath Foundation Ambassador and Director Tracy Bevan made a heart-felt presentation about her dear friend Jane McGrath who founded…
The Seaduction Restaurant @ Sea Temple Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast was the scumptuious setting for the elegant Gold Coast SIDS and Kids Luncheon on Friday October 11. SIDS and Kids is dedicated to saving the lives of babies and children during pregnancy, birth, infancy and childhood and supporting bereaved families through world class research; evidence based education and bereavement support; and advocacy. In Australia each year over 3,500 families experience the sudden and unexpected death of a baby or child, either through stillbirth or during the first month of life, from sudden unexpected death in infancy (SIDS or fatal sleeping accidents), SUDC (sudden unexpected…
Friday 14th September saw us at the Second Chance "Spring Fling" at the Victoria Park Golf Course in Brisbane. It was a lovely cool Brisbane evening and the view of the Brisbane skyline was an added bonus at this fun evening event. Second Chance raises money to support homeless women in Brisbane. During the enchanting evening it was drinks, food, a Brisbane Arcade fashion parade and lovely music. After wine and yummy things on sticks and tasty finger food, we were treated to pretty pink and white cupcakes served by waitresses in cute 18th Century dresses. Attendees included yours trulyn and…
The Boardwalk Tavern Hope Island was the scene of a White Sunglasses “Spring Carnival” Luncheon on Friday September 14. Yours truly donned a green hat and white gloves for this event to raise funds for the Animal Welfare League of Queensland Inc. Many women attended the luncheon and enjoyed a fun event with lovely views over the Hope Island Marina. My calamari lunch was very tasty with a nice salad and chips – dessert was strawberries and cream. The event also included a fashion parade of lovely cruise wear, a “Spring Carnival” fashion competition and the sale of a lovely range…
This was a really fun event! Even my dear hubby was chumped with all the ladies enjoying the cocktails and couture for a good cause. Saturday September 29 was the “Cocktails and Couture Party” organised by the charity Paradise Kids at the Gold Coast Arts Centre. Paradise Kids is a Gold Coast Children’s Charity founded in 1996 to help children learn life-skills to deal with grief through death, loss or illness. Whether the loss is the death or approaching death of a parent, grandparent or sibling, grief through the stress of separation or divorce, or the child’s own chronic life-limiting illness, Paradise Kids…
The Gold Coast Arts Centre was the site for the Friends of Make-A-Wish Luncheon on Tuesday September 25. What a spectacular location for this monthly luncheon looking towards the tall buildings of Surfers Paradise. Friends of Make-A-Wish raises funds to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Many women attended the luncheon and we all enjoyed the day with those wonderful views. My lunch was very tasty and included a scrummy dessert of strawberries and cream. With a fascinating guest speaker telling us about his vast adventures, lucky door prizes…
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