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HOT: Easy As Vegan Pie Cooking Class, Milkdwood, 120 Nicholson St, Brunswick East

October 26, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

I think it’s pretty obvious from this blog that I’m not vegan. However, I do have an interest in vegan food and vegan cooking, in the same way that I have an interest in any food that tastes good. So when Carla from vegan blog Easy as Vegan Pie advertised that she was starting beginners [...]

HOT: Thread Den, 422 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

February 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Ages ago I enrolled into two beginners sewing classes at Thread Den (you can read about my experiences here and here). With each sewing class comes 2 free hours of machine use in the sewing lounge, but until now I’ve not had a reason to use them. Now that Thread Den have decamped from North [...]

HOT: Marvellous March in Melbourne

March 7, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

I’m all for comfort food, opaque tights and scarves (I think it’s a reaction to growing up in sunny Queensland) – yay for Marvellous March! Marvellous March is also the name of a handy little booklet produced by That’s Melbourne with details of the big events around Melbourne that will make you love autumn. This [...]

HOT: The Social Studio, 128 Smith St, Collingwood

February 24, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

Fitzroy/Collingwood seems to be the hotbed of social enterprise businesses in Melbourne (see my review of restaurant Charcoal Lane), and in late 2009 another one opened around the corner from me – The Social Studio. The Social Studio is a non-profit fashion studio space staffed by approximately 20 young members of Melbourne’s refugee community and [...]

NOT: Making Money from Your Writing, Centre for Adult Education, 21 Degraves St, Melbourne

January 20, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Today’s review of the CAE short course, Making Money from Your Writing, is a guest post I wrote for Wordsmith Lane, a fabulous blog about the art and business of writing that I’ve been following for a while. Check out what I had to say here. Thanks to Sarah for giving me the opportunity to [...]

HOT: Point & Shoot Camera Basics, Centre for Adult Education, 21 Degraves St, Melbourne

November 2, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

My trash TV confession – sitting through 12 cycles of America’s Next Top Model. But now it appears that all those hours have been time well spent! I’ve absorbed quite a bit of knowledge on photography and light while watching ‘fierce’ Tyra Banks and a bevy of model wannabes. That’s not to say I didn’t [...]

HOT Alert: Week of 26 October 2009

October 25, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Can you believe it’s the end of October and they’re erecting the Christmas tree at City Square already? Events this week: preview of The Brothers Bloom with Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz; preview of Jane Campion’s latest film Bright Star, starring the gorgeous Abbie Cornish; glamming it up for homeless shelter charity Many Rooms [...]

HOT: Shop and Cook Tour, William Angliss Institute, 555 Latrobe St, Melbourne

October 10, 2009 ⋅ 8 comments

When it comes to Christmas and birthdays, I’m a pretty easy person to buy for. Anything food related, travel related, art related or music related is a sure bet. So big hugs and thank you to my high school girlfriends, who gifted me the perfect Jetsetting Joyce experience – a foodie shopping and cooking day. [...]

HOT: Thread Den, Level 1 16 Errol St, North Melbourne

August 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Thread Den: Part 2 After my success at Thread Den’s Sewing Basics Module 1, I was all enthused about Sewing Basics Module 2, where I’d be learning about zips, buttons, elastic and casings. I don’t know whether it was the lunch of sausage rolls and cupcakes that I had, but I found it very hard [...]

HOT: Bounce Back, 266 Johnston St, Abbotsford

August 12, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Oh dear. My first Bounce Back class and I’ve discovered that left to my own devices I have uneven hips, super-tight neck muscles, one dropped shoulder, a non-firing pelvic floor and a jutting chin like a Neanderthal (I blame too many years of computer work for that one). I’m a core muscle mess, even after [...]