Win Two Tickets to the Knysna Wine Festival

Hi guys have been blogging about the Pick ñ Pay Knysna Oyster Festival over the past few weeks, which is happening next month from the 28th June to the 7th July! Well I am excited to let you know I have two tickets, worth R100 each, to giveaway to one lucky reader for the Knysna Wine Festival!

The Knysna Wine Festival is the Garden Routes, Premier Wine Event and will once again be taking place during the Pick n Pay Knysna Oyster Festival on the 1^st and 2nd of July. The event will showcase up to 50 of South Africa’s best wine producers and promises to be bigger and better than any of the previous events to date. These wines will all be available for tasting and purchasing at special event prices.

If you would like to be a winner simply sign up to our mailing list below and give a shout out on Twitter ” @inspired_lifeSA I want to go to the #knysnawinefest happening at the @oysterfestival “. Also do not forget to leave a comment with your details below!

To recap:

Sign up to the mailing list here:

Subscribe to our mailing list

Tweet:” @inspired_lifeSA I want to go to the #knysnawinefest happening at the @oysterfestival “
Leave a comment below the post with your contact details.

Competition Details:

This Competition will run from 31st May 2013, until the 14th June 2013. The winner/s will then be randomly selected and announced on my blog and on Social Media Platforms. The winners will also be notified via email.
Please complete all the necessary steps stated above, to ensure that your entry in processed correctly (please use a valid email address). Your details will only be used to validate your entry and inform you, if you are selected as a winner.
Conditions of entry: Anyone may enter this giveaway but please be advised that unless otherwise informed, the companies sponsoring prizes on Inspired Living, are based in South Africa and therefore prizes will only be shipped within South Africa. The prizes may not be exchanged for cash. Products are all new full sized products received for review or brand feature purposes.

Events, Lifestyle

Pick n Pay Young Oyster Festival 2013

Hi everyone I thought I would share program details of the Pick n Pay Young Oyster Festival 2013, which is happening in Knysna from the 28th June – 6th July. This is especially for those of you who are planning to spend the June/July holidays in the area, with your kiddies! Please click the link below to take you to the full program:

Pick n Pay Young Oyster Festival 2013 Program

Gift Guide, Gift Stores, Proudly South African

Re-fined

As you know I am a bit of a shopaholic and was particularly fascinated when I heard about Re-fined.com! Re-fined is a new-comer to the on-line shopping scene and the brain child of Georgina O’Connell.

Re-fined has just recently launched to the public and offers shoppers a unique, on-line, shopping experience. It is a place where enjoying and acquiring beautiful things is effortless and pleasurable. You will find items for him, her, for little people and your garden and home, giving you far more variety to make your shopping experience that much easier! Re-fined stocks one of my favourite local jewellery brands, Silver Fig, which you may remember me blogging about – I absolutely love their designs!

“We understand that people have limited time and don’t always have access to the physical shops but still want to acquire desirable product and design to express their sense of style, hence the creation of a cyber mall with one check out point” ~ Georgie.

With a background in design, a love of beautiful things and an appreciation of talent, Georgie became acutely aware of the magnificent products and design items, that come out of South Africa. She also saw the need to make these Proudly South African products, more easily accessible to the world. The main purpose of Re-fined is to showcase South African products and designs, both locally and internationally.

What more could you ask for beautiful stylish products all available from one on-line destination and all this at the click of a button!

Please pop over to the Re-fined website and browse their growing, range of gorgeous goodies!

Be Inspired, Life, Lifestyle, Super Mom

What Motivates Me

One of my loyal readers who comments often, yes it does feel good to get comments, left a comment on this post, which I wrote quite some time ago!(13th of October 2011 to be exact) It was great as I said, to receive the comment but the best part was reading the post again 🙂 It made me realise that I still struggle with things like acceptance or fear of failure, whether in real life or in the bloggersphere! Reading this post again was rather sobering and also made me realise that you constantly need to reaffirm what you are doing and why, to avoid losing your way completely!

So with that in mind I thought I would share it again!

Please Like Me!

This is all most of us would like, for people just to like us! Well, thanks to modern technology and the popularity of social networking, gone are the days that liking someone in real life, is enough!

After chatting to friends recently about my blog, I had a bit of a reality check about what exactly my motivation for starting Super Mom was. For me it was always about finding something that I could do – just for me, something I enjoy and that stimulates me both intellectually and creatively. Exploring the things that inspire me and using them to engage with the world out there, was always my main aim for Super Mom.

What I have found however is that most of the blogger- sphere is very focused on ratings, traffic, how many followers you have etc. I am not going to lie and say that I don’t care about these things but you can so easily lose focus of why you are doing something and what motivates you to do it.

So what to do? I guess, go back to basics and the reason I started Super Mom in the first place, to inspire and motivate others out there, especially mothers! Which I hope that I am doing! In saying that I hope people realise that I am not in fact a “Super Mom” but I am the best darn mom I can be! I may not be a professional photographer or a master chef but I love doing all these things and sharing them with the world.

I love doing what I do and that is the most important thing. Yes – I want you to like me and follow me but not at the cost of my integrity. Anyway -life is too short to feel like everything you do is a competition.

So – the things I write about may not be world changing or life altering but they are my way of inspiring and motivating – myself and others. Thank you for being a loyal and cherished reader! 😉

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Reviews and Features

One20fit

Last week I was invited to try out an EMS training session at One20fit, which is in Claremont in Cape Town. For those of you not in the know, EMS stands for electro muscle stimulation. You may recall the Bodytec EMS trial session I did last month, well One20fit works on a very similar principle to that. [Read more…]