The Fashion Party to be at this Month

Having trouble with your wardrobe? Then you need to be at the next WASParty! The eco-friendly fashion event where women get to swap clothes they no longer need or wear with other women.

Date: 23rd October,
Time: 3p.m,
Venue: The Rock Tower, 49 Tufnell Park Road, N7 0PS London

Other attractions include a raffle draw with lots of gifts to be won.

Advanced Gate fee £7.50, Advanced VIP gate fee £20, At the door- £10

For more info and tickets go to www.wasparty.blogspot.com or send an email to: thewasparty@gmail.com

"Get Swapping!"

A Change Maker in Lagos

A great guy with an insightful idea has started a program in Lagos called Mom's Connect.
Its quite an impressive programme that helps pregnant women and nursing mothers get healthcare information and questions answered by sending a text to a specified number.
What makes this idea amazing is that, pregnant women in villages and small towns (who all have phones, trust me) but dont always have access to a doctor who can answer their questions and dispel pregnancy myths, can through Mom's Connect get all the information they need!

Its a new project and in a conversation with the progenitor, he is still working out the kinks.

Read more about this Change Maker in Nigeria at
Moms+Connect

"Australia's Next Top Model" Host Makes Mistake in Announcing the Winner

This must have been a curl-your-toes-in-your-shoes, wish-you-were-somewhere-else moment for Sarah Murdoch, the host of "Australia's Next Top Model" when she mistakenly announced the runner up as the winner of the show on live television.

Let me set the stage - there is Kelsey Martinovich in a black and cream shimmering lace gown and Amanda Ware in a power red floor length asymmetric monostrap gown holding hands, waiting for Sarah Murdoch in her black mono-shouder gown to annouce who had won Australia's Next Top Model.

Then Sarah made the ghastly mistake and announced the runner up Kelsey Martinovich as the audience-voted top Model. Kelsey in her one minute of fame, gave her victory speech in an excited joy filled voice and then Sarah went pale. She pressed her finger to her right ear and muttered "Oh my God, I dont know what to say right now, I'm feeling a bit sick about this. No. I'm so sorry about this. Oh my God. I don't know what to say. This was a complete accident. It's Amanda, I'm so sorry. It was fed to me wrong."

In reality, Amanda Ware was... is the winner of Australia's Next Top Model!

It appears Kelsey was initially ahead of Amanda in the votes and this was the information fed to Sarah's earpiece; so when Amanda caught up and won in the votes, the information was not forwarded to Sarah.

The organisers of the show have since compensated Kelsey with a $25,000 cash reward and a trip to New York.

My heart goes out to Kelsey who's victory was only a moment long and to Sarah Murdoch who although handled the situation with poise and professionalism must still have been so embarrassed.

I bet my last penny, someone or a group of people somewhere got fired for this gauffe... sorry muchos.... you should have known better

TheFashionPatrollers - A blog to follow

This post is to invite you all to follow the fashion blog - thefashionpatrollers.

The most recent post is one the girls are going to love! so do check it out
TheFashionPatrollers: 10 Affordable Going out gowns for You!

Have a lovely week people!

6 months

I cant believe I have been gone for 6 months.... a 6 months hiatus... back, married and living in marital bliss.... perhaps a few pictures for you guys... of the gown that spoke to me... of my engagement.... after 6 months away, you guys sure deserve to see some pictures...sorry no face shots!

I'll just hold on a bit

I think I'll hold on to my passport a bit.... just to see the unfolding of this drama that brings sudden hope...

somebody has filled out a "liver rejuvenating form".....

firstly he forms a presidential advisory panel - to draw the "king makers close to himself" then he dissolves the "council of thieves" without prior notice!.... he voids the oil bidding that was meant to give out oil blocks to deserving sons of the shoil and approved contracts for 9 skills acquisition centers in the Niger Delta! .... and then he tops it by throwing that bone at the masses " our votes will count in 2011!" super stuff!

hmmm..... perhaps somebody is not such a pussy after all... Thuraya must be shitting bricks!

I need to stick around and watch this drama unfold... awesome stuff! it reads like a novel by Jeffery Archer.... exciting and saccharine sweet in parts! lol

Setting my passport on fire!

So our President is back... half dead... and our Vice President either has a hidden agenda that is going to shock us all, win him sudden respect and stabilise the country or he's a complete pussy and just another thief...

The Jos crisis is back again.... and frankly I am shocked, saddened and left with a strong desire to burn my passport and become stateless - that is an individual without a nationality.... cos i no longer get the point... forgive me if i sound unpatriotic...

Some people actually think Babangida is the next best thing...their argument being that he has ruled Nigeria before, has experience and is promising to do better... just for thinking such thoughts i think you should be jailed...your memory is disgustingly short and perpetual slavery of your country men appeals to you.... seriously cant we have someone new? as new as Fashola of Lagos was new and is not doing badly? as new as Gbenga Daniel used to be new and did some good before it all went to his head? as new as someone who has not been President before and is not a member of or an offspring of the existing northern or southern cabal....

what is going on with Mutallab and his secret trial? has he been tried and found guilty? is somebody now ready to confess the boy carried a banger or are we still going with the bomb story...if we are going with the bomb story, can we have an open court trial? what does our Presidency (half dead/pussy) have to say on this issue or is it now buried under the carpet while we deal with more important issues like sharing oil licences and blocks?

yeah our now sick President was in the process of giving out some new oil blocks and oil production licenses to some deserving governors and sons of the "shoil"!... is this what he meant by "due process" when he was been sworn in?

Seriously I tire! what is the worst case scenario if i burn my passport?