Commencing at 2pm, 4th December, and following each day at the same time with a different prize, is our new giveaway – the 12 Days of Romance! we will be rolling out the red and green carpet with thousands of dollars worth of prizes from a selection of your most favourite and prestigious brands.

Are you a glamper? You know a gal who doesn’t like camping in the elements, but likes the freedom of being behind the wheel. A gal for who the thought of having to wear thongs in a communal shower to combat a fungal infection, sends a shiver down her Christian Loubiton loving spine.

Introducing Gaynor Alder’s ‘An Australian Girl in Japan’. From getting around (buy the rail pass) to eating out, from learning Japanese (hai) to realising everyone understands the universal language of Chanel, step inside Gaynor’s shoes and discover the adventures of an Australian girl in Japan.

For those of you who love romance, but are equally inclined to look contemporary, you can merge a vintage style with modern elements. How to revive vintage glamour without losing the grip of the 21st century? Here are some clues.

Fairy tales imply, through their thinly veiled narratives of rags to princess, that young women must be self-sacrificing and submissive in order to win the heart of a suitor and beautiful to be worthy of love. Stephanie Wescott asks you to think whether this is an empowering platform for young girls and women?

Elle Gale used to follow the daring rules. But now she thinks if you feel it, don’t hold back. Treat every love like it is your first. And if you take anything away from her musings, may it be this – let your past make you better, not bitter.

Gaynor Alder attended the The Mansion Hotel & Spa’s launch of socieTEA. And she enjoyed a sophisticated afternoon of charming conversations amidst fancy frocks and finery, whilst sipping on signature T2 cocktails. Find out more about their new high tea season set in the opulence of the Werribee Mansion grounds.

Melissa Koutoukidis’ relationship with credit cards wavers between love and hate as much as Jersey Shore does between entertainment and embarrassment. Finding a credit card that doesn’t leave her knee-deep in merde has topped her priority list more than her adoration of Prada sling-backs.

Attending anything alone has always gripped Amy with fear. She think it’s genetics.The entire Cassell clan has issues with being sans entourage. So going to the movies alone, being her first foray into the world of solitude, she was starting to hyperventilate.

At the age of nineteen and a half Louise was diagnosed with an addiction. She had no care for gambling, excessive alcohol, coffee or even illicit drugs … her little white powder came in the form of Italian restaurants, first kisses and quizzical conversations that separated her new date’s quirks from their tics.

Our ‘But I Wanted to be a Ballerina’ columns are all about liberating women to play by their own rules and empowering them to generate income from doing what they love. In this series we’re focusing on how to earn money from blogging.

Thinking back to her favourite age in life, Genevieve Bailey started wondering what being eleven was like today and set off on a world wide adventure, that would take several years, to talk to eleven year olds across the globe, their individual personalities, similarities and differences further inspiring the film.

Emma Grey is reminded of Steven Furtick’s brilliant advice: never compare your ‘behind-the-scenes’ with another person’s ‘highlight reel’, and realises she’s been allowing herself to feel inferior against an illusion of another’s happiness.

After being single for 8 years and told she was too picky or had too high expectations, the same friends may just have thought she was crazy after moving with the one after 3 months of dating. But Sarah Kempson believes there is no right or wrong and recommends forgetting the rules and carving your own path.

You can go from drab to fab in five minutes with this modern day intepretation of Brigette Bardot. Because as Gaynor Alder attests, the quality of your life is dictated by the quality of your hair.

Sandi Sieger has been following her gut feeling over the past few months and it has lead to some discoveries and realisations. As well as some of the most relaxing and fulfilling moments of her life. Not the ways to make each moment count, but rather the ways to save and cherish more moments.

Every bad relationship starts with promise. And it’s this promise that has too many women cling onto destructive relationships for far too long. There’s a time to stay and work it out, and there’s a time to run a hundred miles in the other direction {even if you are in your favourite pair of heels} before it destroys you.

Midwife, Alicia Pearce, tells us about the passion behind setting up her charity devoted to assisting families in crisis by donating baby bundles of clothing, prams, cots and other newborn essentials. It’s easy to see why this beautiful and fabulous woman was recently nominated for a Midwife of the Year award.

Suzanah Milan visits eforea Spa at Hilton on the Park in Melbourne for 3 indulgent hours of spa treatments. She is massaged, cocooned and pampered, and gets to experience new product ranges and the high performance K-Lift facial which uses Red LED light. But, did her skin emerge looking brighter?

There’s no doubt about it. Handmade is cool. And for the creators of Handmade Emporium, it makes sustainable sense to support the clever folk who craft, revive, recycle and upcycle. And create an online marketplace that is easy to navigate with high quality and interesting brands.

If you ever happen to write – regularly, occasionally, or for your livelihood – you’d be familiar with how inerasable ink can be as intimidating as a spotlight, reader scrutiny as unnerving as an audience following each box step, an ill-received article as soul-shattering as a stage fall.