Every Busy South East Queensland Mumma Needs to Experience The Organised Hub!

My usually unorganised pantry has never looked so good! Thanks to the gorgeous Alana from The Organised Hub, I am feeling much more organised in life, which as a busy Mumma is an absolute dream come true, I can tell you!

“We are passionate about making your home life a little bit easier!”

Alana is super professional, so down-to-earth and just an all-round born organiser! The exact person you want on your side when things are getting overwhelming in your home. Ladies, I’m sure that we can all relate here!

Home Management:-

Errand Management/Personal Concierge

*Laundry service – Drop off & pick up/alterations & repairs
*Grocery shop – Order, collect & unpack
*Quote sourcing and product/service research
*Source and coordinate deliveries and collect
*Babysitter/nanny research, with referrals
*Reservation booking for personal or business needs
*Travel and accommodation bookings
*Personal shopping
*Gift shopping purchased and wrapped
*General enquiries made – Insurance companies, utilities, etc.
*Appointment booking – Doctors, dentist, hairdresser, etc.

Relocation Assistance, and Moving Coordination

We aren’t planning on moving anytime soon, but if and when we do, I wouldn’t hesitate on recommending and using Alana’s services to my husband. From helping with booking the removalist, through until sourcing moving boxes, and of course the actual hard work of helping pack and unpack, organise and make your new home liveable and presentable, Alana is your girl! Her team will make any job, no matter big or small, seem so easy and effortless. Her service fees and customer service are second to none.

Organising and Decluttering

We all know how busy life can get, especially with two little ones under three-years-of-age!
Let Alana take the stress out of your life when it comes to this task…

From home organising and decluttering, through to setting up and implementing household systems and routines, bedroom/wardrobe organisation, including, sorting through and donating any pre-loved/unwanted items. Nothing is a bother or too hard a job for The Organised Hub team of professionals. If your living room and dining room needs a make-over, then Alana and her team are the ones to call! She can even see the professional services of an interior design, if you really want to go all out. With June 30 almost upon us, Alana can also help you and your family with the dreaded task of getting all of your tax paperwork and receipts together in an orderly fashion. Filing systems with personalised labelling is The Organised Hub’s thing! So if you are like me and every year, promise to be more organised than the next, let Alana’s team take the task to another level for you!

Other Parts of the House and Tasks that You Might Need a Helping Hand With

*Childs bedroom/play area/nursery
*Laundry/bathrooms/linen cupboard organisation
*Kitchen/pantry/fridge, including the personalisation and labelling of storage containers
*Storage areas/garage organisation (I know that personally, our family is in dire need of this service! After my little sister’s wedding, our cars don’t even fit in the garage yet!)
*Downsizing of home (great for retirees, people moving overseas and need to find storage suppliers for their treasured items).

Alana on In-home Organising – “These sessions have been designed so that your home organising specialist can work closely with you, as you embark on your decluttering and organising journey. Provide guidance and support, and will implement simple, efficient and easy to manage organising solutions that work within your lifestyle and budget.”

Your Investment – Single Session (4 Hours) $300
Package Discounts
4 Sessions (SAVE 10%) – $1080
8 Sessions (SAVE 15%) – $2040
12 Sessions (SAVE 20%) – $2880
16 Sessions (SAVE 25%) – $360

Competition Time Ladies!

So what are you waiting for?! Be sure to contact Alana today for an obligation free quote. To celebrate the launch of The Organised Hub, we are giving away an amazing voucher, “A Pantry Make-over”, exclusively to be won by one of our valued, Pink Jubilee readers. To celebrate EOFY and to start the new financial year nice and organised, you could be the lucky lady and her family having The Organised Hub experience! Simply tell us in 25 words or less, why you need The Organised Hub in your life! The voucher is valued at $200. To enter, simply email us your responses – editor@thepinkjubilee.com.au. Competition is open from 12am, June 26th, 2018 through until 5pm, June 30, 2018. Good luck!

Visit The Organised Hub website for more information and be sure to follow them on social media! @theorganisedhub

   The Pick this Season for Your 7-Day Tanning Solution – A Winner with Australia’s PR Queen 

We all know what it’s like to have the whiter than usual glow come Winter time and thankfully, we have the answer! Skinny Tan’s Roxy Tan is the perfect choice for a natural, easy-to-use and affordable, quality at home tanning product!

I know myself, as a busy Mumma of two beautiful boys, something that I know that I can trust when I can’t get to a spray tan appointment for a special occasion is a must! Ladies, and fellow mummas, you simply can’t go wrong! What’s best yet, is it is conveniently available online and instore throughout Priceline pharmacies nationwide.

In our eyes, Roxy Jacenko is an incredible ambassador for the brand. A proud mum of two, she has amazing style, a figure that us Mummas also would love to achieve with our fitness routine and is someone who makes beauty look effortless, but chic.

Roxy is a huge fan of the Skinny Tan’s range and fell in love with the brand straight away.

*Retailing at an affordable price-point, for $24.95 – ROXY TAN – Limited edition.

“I’ve used so many tanning products, but Skinny Tan’s 7 Day Tanner is my favourite – it’s so easy to use, it never streaks and there’s no fake tan smell!” says Roxy.

“I like to be super dark, so I usually just apply 2-3 coats of 7-day Tanner in dark, but I run four businesses and have two small children, so I don’t always have the time. I spoke to the Skinny Tan team who said we could launch the same creamy streak free formulation that I love in a darker shade, which was music to my ears… as is anything that will save me time and keep me looking good!”

Roxy Jacenko, proud mother-of-two and the Founder & CEO of four extremely successful Australian businesses, (Sweaty Betty, Ministry of Talent, Pixie Bows & Social Union), is a popular fashion influencer, often included in the social pages and re-grammed on social media for her fashion and beauty choices.

“Our Skinny Tan ambassador Jacenko is highly regarded for her on-point style and this includes her tan, which always looks perfectly bronzed, glowing and even. To collaborate with Roxy and launch an “Ultimate Dark” creamy tanning product for her and the Australian consumers, is super exciting and we can’t wait to hear what customers think!” Says Skinny Tan PR Manager, Monica Tarca. From what we hear, women across the country are loving the product. I know, I personally am a big fan and have friends in our home Coastal town of the Sunshine Coast, who are just loving the product and stocking up their bathroom beauty cupboards!

“Roxy Tan is perfect for the everyday woman who loves to be brown, but doesn’t have time to apply multiple coats of self-tanner, or visit a salon for a weekly spray tan. It’s so easy to use and it’s my way of staying bronzed, without damaging my skin in the sun.” Says Roxy.

Ladies, do yourself a favour and make sure this one is in your next Priceline in-store shopping basket, or order online directly through Skinny Tan. All of the gorgeous Skinny Tan products are 40% off in Priceline pharmacies until July 4th, 2018. With a family friend’s wedding coming up next month here in Queensland, it’s the perfect time to stock up on my collection supplies I think!
Be sure to follow @skinnytanoz @roxyjacenko #RoxyTanBySkinnyTan

Love The Pink Jubilee xo

2018 So far… Looking forward to this year’s adventures! And my thoughts on what has lead our family to appreciate all that we are and all that we have…

I can hardly believe that we are almost half way through this year! Where the year has gone I have no idea… It feels like I blinked and we went from welcoming our precious son Oscar in to the world and now, here he is at 6-and-a-half-months-old. Despite him arriving a little earlier than expected after going in to labour naturally and then having an emergency C-section and little Oscar spending the first half of his day on earth in special care, I feel so very blessed that we are now a little fam bam of four. My dreams of becoming a mum are now reality. It wasn’t an easy journey to get here but boy oh boy, it was oh so worth every single moment and I wouldn’t change a thing.

It’s been over four years since we first started trying for our family and with two little angel babies always watching over us, and two gorgeous boys safely earth-side, I will never forget the experiences which have led us to exactly where we are right now.

Ollie turns three this July and the same month, our first little son, “Chickpea” would have been four. l often wonder what he would have looked like. Would he be big and tall like his little brothers and share their beautiful blue eyes and heart-warming smiles? Christmas of 2013 truly was the hardest month of my life, we lost our first child weeks after seeing and hearing his heartbeat. It made it even harder being days before Christmas and having celebrated only a couple of weeks earlier with special Christmas baubles for our family to surprise them that they would be too welcoming our little one in to the world. Sadly, the timing wasn’t meant to be for us. It was my first ever operation and something that I know will never leave me.

I never knew what gender our second loss was (it was an ectopic pregnancy and I ended up being rushed to emergency of the nearest hospital as I had experienced a ruptured left tube), but in my heart I have always thought a little girl. My heart still hopes that maybe one day in the future we perhaps will be blessed with a little girl, but we only ever really imagined two children. Life though, doesn’t always work out how you plan it.
So who knows what the future might hold… I feel so beyond blessed and know that our two sons are meant to be. They bring so much joy in to our lives each and everyday and to everyone who meets them.

I am the first to admit, the past four years have changed me. Despite the adversity that we faced as a couple before being blessed with our gorgeous boys, I know that we have to accept our experiences shape us. As hard as they are at the time, they make us stronger people. As a Mum, I like anyone, have my good and my bad days. We want so much to be the perfect Mum, the perfect Wife, the perfect Daughter, Sister and friend… But fellow Mummas, we are all each and every single day doing the best we can to be the best version of ourselves – and that’s all that we can ask of ourselves.

I am so looking forward to heading back to university in July also. It will be 17 years to the month that I first started studying. The same month, I will also turn 34 and tick off a special bucket list wish of seeing Celion Dion with my Mum Live, right here in the heart of Bris-Vegas! Not to forget my annual high-tea birthday celebrations with my beautiful girlfriends! Pink, pretty florals and bubbles is a must, oh and lots of giggles and good company!

First time round with uni, I began studying Journalism. This time, I’m enrolled in Business. When I was a school-leaver, I had enjoyed half a gap-year in the UK, living and working in my hometown. This time round, my gap-years have seen me travel the world, get engaged, meet the love of my life and raise our family together. With over 10 years industry experience in marketing, I’m really looking forward to putting my hands on experience to the test when it comes to applying those skills to returning to the books. I am so lucky too that the subjects which I’m enrolled in, (social media of all subjects), will allow me to study online.

Social media has evolved so much in my lifetime. When I met my husband at uni, Facebook was something that was only just becoming more popular. All these years later, it’s still going strong and Instagram too is a platform, which is readily used everyday by people worldwide. As a new Mum, I love how social media allows like-minded people going through the same stage of life as you to connect, whilst still allowing you to connect with old-friends who know you from when you were younger. Being from the UK originally, I am so blessed to also be able to connect with my soon-to-be 92-year-old Nan who is now a converted FB user! Not to forget my beautiful little sister who is newly married and lives on a beautiful rural farm interstate and my besty who also lives in London and travels the world, so I can enjoy special photos and share photos of our family to our nearest and dearest. It’s so refreshing making new friends online too. I am lucky that overall my experience has been a positive one with social media. A few years ago a minor incident, which I felt invaded my privacy at the time, saw me take a short break, but since returning, I make sure that the people I connect with are those who I would want to be friends with in the real world. People with the same morals, values and interests, whilst still respecting those with different opinions.

I am slowly getting back into blogging and look forward to you following my journey and thoughts along the way. It’s Saturday night though, so I’m going to enjoy precious family time, being present and indulging in some Mumma relaxation time – complete with reality TV and magazines, (with Cadbury choccie on-hand) and a (Lipton Peppermint tea, my all time fave!) – the days of my vodka sodas are now replaced with the occasional pink bubbles which of course must come out for every special occasion – cue the recent Royal wedding of course! Might even pop some Apple Music on to enjoy some of my go-to songs and run a nice, relaxing bubble bath. I feel very rich in life right now, with gorgeous family and friends to surround myself with. Tomorrow is new day and I look forward to seeing what the sunshine brings…Winter, I think this year you are going to be a special one! (And perhaps a chilly one from what the last two nights have been, brrr…)

Feel free to drop me a line or connect with me on Instagram. There are so many inspiring Mums out there, who I truly admire. Everyday, I love hearing real-life stories of everyday people doing extraordinary things!

Lots of love and light and wishing all of my fellow Pink Jubilee readers an awesome rest of the weekend and week ahead!

 

Rachael Elizabeth.

xo