Ever had those one of those days or week or months when you feel so bogged down in it and you wonder how the heck you will ever get your head above it all? Challenging times filled with self-doubt, fear and zero self-confidence.
Yeah, me too, so this is a gentle pep talk to remind you of something you should all know. Read on…
For years I struggled with low self-esteem, hard to believe right? From a very young age I was told I was worthless, I understood (far too clearly) that being a girl was not as good as being a boy…because my own mother told me so, often. For the record girls and boys are equally ace!
Our history does not need to define our future.
I didn’t have a flash upbringing, oh sure it might have ‘looked normal’ from the outside but it really wasn’t. However, I always felt like I had something ‘special’ within but for too many years was so weighted down with the words and actions that others marked me with throughout my early years.
Life has a funny way of marking us but the good news is we can erase the not so great times and highlight the brilliant.
Gradually I left those years (and some people) behind and spent a long, long time growing from the experiences I had to have to get me to where I am today. And that’s the thing, we have to experience this ‘stuff’ to grow and to be ready for what is to come. Trust me good times do come.
Self-belief is an inside job.
I will always remember the line from The Wizard of Oz where Glinda the good witch says to Dorothy ‘you’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn that for yourself’. And you know what? Glinda was bang on the bullseye, we all have the power and believe it or not we don’t need a powerful and all knowing wizard to show us that we can fly beyond the rainbow.
We just need to know that we all DO have ‘heart’ and ‘brains’ and ‘courage’. You will need resilience, belief, gratitude, empathy and love, but you can do it! We need all of this for ourselves and for others, but especially ourselves. A little bit of self-belief goes a very long way.
Time to share some magical moments.
I don’t know about you but all this talk of rainbows and courage and ruby red slippers has me wanting to get lost in the magic of a childhood favourite, so who wants to come see the stage show ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ with me?
You do? YAY! Well, Ladies pop on your sparkly ruby red slippers it’s time to skip down the yellow brick road for a Styling Curvy Community Catch-up! An afternoon of female bonding, fabulous food and losing yourself in a magical stage show.
A Giveaway you will want a seat at.
I have tickets for 7 Styling Curvy Community ladies to join me for a session of The Wizard Of Oz on Saturday April 14th. Starring Anthony Warlow, Lucy Durack and Jemma Rix and rising star Samantha Dodemaide as Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz is an enchanting revision of the all-time classic with all the favourite characters and memorable moments.
But, let’s make it a really amazing day out, and start the night with a complimentary pre-theatre dinner at Madame Hanoi at The Adelaide Casino. Just to whet you appetite take a look at the menu…
PRE -THEATRE MENU
M E N U 1
choose any two items
BUN HEO TOM CAY
spicy pork, shrimp paste, noodle soup
CANH GA CHIEN NUOC MAM
crispy chicken wings, red chilli, mint
GA CHUNG TRON GOI BAP CHUOI
master stock braised chicken slaw, banana blossom, red chilli, coriander, peanuts
HANOI COLD ROLLS
vegetables, peanut sauce (df/gf/v)
M E N U 2
choose any two items
TOM RANG SOT OT
saigon-style chilli prawns, black beans, kaffir lime, hanoi hot sauce
HEO
crispy pork, cold noodles, fresh herbs, smoked fish sauce
DAU PHU RANG MUOI
salt & pepper tofu, coriander, chilli, lime (v)
PHO TAI NAM
beef short rib broth, rice noodles, thai basil (individual serve)
COM
rice
B E V E R A G E
2016 VINEA MARSON PROSECCO victoria
2016 CALABRIA PRIVATE RESERVE PINOT BIANCO new south wales
2017 LANA BY PIZZINI MOSCATO victoria
2015 CHARLES MELTON LA BELLE MERE GRENACHE, SHIRAZ, MOURVÈDRE barossa valley, south australia
2014 PECCAVI NO REGRETS CABERNET MERLOT western australia
ENTER WIZARD OF OZ GIVEAWAY
To enter just share in the comments what movie from your childhood you would love to see in a stage show.
Speaking of childhoods some of my favourite memories with my boys were spent exploring the city and the River Torrens precinct. I just wish I could have done this now as all the new redevelopments are truly wonderful.
If you have children make some time to take them for a visit in town, you could even take in a meal at one of the restaurants in the Adelaide Casino precinct and a special show at Festival theatre together…like The Wizard Of Oz.
Season runs from April 1st for four weeks, shows run for two and half hours (including intermission) and are suitable for ages 8+. For information on session times and bookings CLICK HERE
Babes don’t forget…you have always held the power 🙂
Til next time
Jen x
Giveaway runs THURS 15/3-Wed 21stth/3 2018 with winners announced on 22/3/2018 and is open to Australian residents 18+. Winners will be notified by email and agree to having their names printed on Styling Curvy Social sites. Prize needs to be taken on day specified above and is not able to be exchanged for cash or any other tickets.
Sponsored post in collaboration with Madame Hanoi and Adelaide Casino in accordance with my Disclosure Policy.
Wizard of Oz most definitely!! My all time childhood favourite movie. 41 years old and still love it. Even bought red sparkly slippers and pjs when Peter Alexander released his range. Would love to see this stage show 😊
Hi Jen, My favourite memories of my girls childhood was taking them to the Childrens Zoo’s at the Zoo, and the goats would try to eat their shoe laces and tops !! They were shit scared, but they went back for more !. Now we take my four grandsons there and they still want to eat their clothes. The boys love it !
I would love to see Mary Poppins that movie brings back lovely memories from a childhood peppered with upheaval . Time moves on and you put things to the back of your mind my goal is making my future fantastic ❤️
Hello veronica CONGRATULATIONS you will be joining us! Please contact me at [email protected]
My favourite childhood memory would be watching Sound of Music for the first time. I know it’s on the stage already, but I have never have had enough money to go and watch it. I remember sitting with my mum and dad and sister and thinking that the world was a beautiful place with all the amazing music that people thought up of. Thanks for all your support you give women and how positive you are on line.
Would love to see sound of music or Mary Poppins but love wizard of oz too!
I would have loved to have seen Mary Poppins on stage in London when Ewan McGregor played Bert!
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For me it would have to be Mary Poppins. It would make a wonderful stage show and I’d be there in a heart beat. The thought of one lady flying down with her umbrella to make our lives a little bit more Supercalifragilistic, what a night that would be.
I would love to see 101 Dalmations! Just imagine all those dogs on stage!
Hi Jen I remember going to the cinema and seeing Mary Poppins on the big screen with my grandmother. I would love to see that on stage although I think it would be lovely to see The wizard of Oz as my very first live theatre production! Oh and thanks for the pep talk …needed that today. Louise
I remember seeing Dr Zivago with my mum. I was barely a teenager and felt so grown up and special on our outing. We frocked up, went for lunch then the matinee. Stunning movie and great memories.
I remember first watching it when I was about seven years old and I fell in love with it right when Judy Garland starting singing “Over the Rainbow.” “I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!” “There’s no place like home.” “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” “I’m melting!” These are just a few of the quotes that I so vividly remember. In reality, what they thought they lacked they really possessed. They just didn’t know it. It took new experiences, some time, and a few challenging trials to bring to the forefront the very thing they thought they did not have. There’s no place like home If you ever go looking for your heart’s desire, you don’t have to look any further than your own back yard. ❤️
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was my all time favorite movie as a child! I think it would make an amazing stage show/ musical just so whimsical and you know – desserts!!!
Wizard of Oz for sure! It was 1 of 3 videos we had at my Nanny’s as a kid, I absolutely love it!
And as for Madame Hanoi…. oh em gee
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Oh my I would love to see the Wizard of Oz on the stage. This was a movie that I would watch on repeat from a very young age. The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Annie were also part of the rotation. My sister and really just loved all the movies we could sing and dance along with. 😍🌈
My all time fav movie is Footloose, I have watched this film over and over, and even when my kids were little I um kind off made them sit and watch with mummy lol. It has been done but I’d love to see it huge with extravagance.
STAND BY ME.
Great movie about friendship, trusting others and boys being boys.
Made me cry, laugh and age 13, I wanted to be a care free tomboy. (Not a fat, big boobed, shy girl)
My all time favourite is Sound of Music. I have always loved it since going to see it @ the pictures on a school excursion with my grade 6 teacher, Miss Crana. Love all the songs & would sit my young daughter on the top of the washing machine doing her hair, both singing ‘Doe a dear’
Musicals are brilliant! Would love to be part of this fantstic prize x
Hi Jen. . Would love to spend time with you and positive ladies on this day. It would have been Peter’s 55th birthday, not that I want it to be a bearing on your decision but I want to do something joyful to mark all of his milestones… My boys, believe it or not, were so into the Care Bears. They could recite it word!
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My childhood movie was Matilda my mum and I watched it all the time. When it came to Adelaide I brought us tickets to see. Such wonderful memories.
Would love to see Wizard of Oz too. 🙏
As a young teen, I remember I was reluctant to accompany my younger brother see BENJI, a movie about a very cute stray dog who wants a forever home. Then came the struggles and eventually the dog finds happiness. I left the cinema much affected, with a pocketful of tear drenched tissues, much to my brothers delight! This movie would make a fabulous stage show.
As a young teen, I remember I was reluctant to accompany my younger brothe rto see BENJI, a movie about a very cute stray dog who wants a forever home. Then came the struggles and eventually the dog finds happiness. I left the cinema much affected, with a pocketful of tear drenched tissues, much to my brothers delight! This movie would make a fabulous stage show.
The ghost and Mrs Muir!!!!!! Not technically a movie but I would wait all week for it to come on. Romance and spooky thrill all in one package. Absolutely loved it.
My email will only let me type it in uppercase 🤷🏼♀️ But it’s all in lower if I’m a lucky winner 👍
I would LOVE to see a stage show of Annie. I recently made my boys watch it with me and all these years later I still know the movie line by line. (Boys weren’t impressed with the movie or my renditions!). But really I’d love any musical. Haven’t been since I was a kid!
Sound of Music ! Best memory of my mum taking me and we walked up some marble stairs . Now I make new memory’s with my granddaughter dancing to chim chim…. jumping on our lounge like Bert and Mary up on the roof tops!!
I would love to see chitty chitty bang bang come to life.. loved that movie
What an ace prize – I love a good musical! I’d love to see Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat come back to the stage!
I love Willy Wonka. All that chocolate and the oompaloompas. Reminds me of me back.in tan days before they got good. 😅
Aahhhhh! I can’t pick just one!
So my top 3:
1. The Princess Bride
2. Pretty Woman
3. The Little Rascals
Oh and…. no, I’ll stop there! But I could seriously get carried away haha
I love LIVE theatre, especially musicals.
Charlie and the Chocolate factory… And I heard today it’s happening next year!!!
Mrs Doubtfire-I thought that was the funniest movie I’d ever seen and as I led with seperated parents it brought some comic relief.
I loved ‘The King and I’ as a child and would love to see that on the stage… etcetera etcetera etcetera
The little mermaid !! Absolutely fell in love with the prince and all the songs 😘
I am an 80’s girl so it would have to be Goonies The stage show. Good guy underdogs triumphing over bad. Tho it would be really hard the get that ship on screen.
I’d love to see anything. I am going to take my 2 girls for a walk around Adelaide next time we are there….great use!
I remember watching Annie – the sun will come up tomorrow ☀️ Some days we need to remember this.
I loved going to the drive in with my aunt and brother and sister in her combi van and watching Bedknobs and Broomsticks 😊 I think it would make a great musical!
My favorite childhood movie was the adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book “Charlie & The Chocolate Factory” with Gene Wilder. Can’t believe it was released in 1971. I always dreamed of finding a golden ticket in real life. Imagine “lickable wallpaper” & chewies that give you a 3 course meal ( avoid the blueberry tart). Upon googling I found out they have opened auditions for a stage play! I’m so excited!!!!!!!
Wizard of Oz is probably it for me. It used to be on TV once a year when I was a kid (in the 80’s). My BFF and I (and her little sister) would set up camp in her lounge room in our leopard print lined sleeping bags and stay up late (I guess 10.30-11pm) to watch it every single year. We would’ve been 5 or 6 the first time so that was super late for us! Loved it! Great memories 🙂
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I absolutely loved the Sound of Music as a child. I got to see it with my daughter when it wax playing here in Adelaide a couple of years ago. Was amazing and i even got to get a little pack on the cheek from Cameron Daddo!!! Embarrassed my daughter who was 11 at the time 😆😆 we’ve started a tradition on her 10th birthday that each year we do a concert or theatre show for her birthday. Love the special times we have.
Wizard of Oz is definitely my all time favourite movie. I have watched it a gajillion times. At 41 years of age I still love it. I even bought a Dorothy costume complete with ruby slippers, Toto in a basket and Dorothy wig for Book Week at school last year but never got to wear it as I ended up in hospital with septicaemia. I would love to go and see it on stage!!!
Hi Jen, I absolutely adored National Velvet as a kid. I loved Wizard of Oz too as I remember mum taking me to see it and it started off in black and white and then turned to colour.
Would love to join you to see the stage show, I adore live theatre, it’s nice to get in amongst the atmosphere and see the costumes. Thankyou Fi x
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OMG I’m so excited!! Thankyou so much x
Fond memories of Walt Disney classics – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, any one of these would be a great live stage show production for the family to enjoy…..it would be fun dining out and watching the fabulous of Wizard of Oz with you a group of lovely ladies. x