Home buyers have hit pause in some of the Gold Coast’s most popular markets, revealing opportunities for savvy investors in areas where listings are up but demand has nose-dived. Pink PR client First Time Home Buyers Director, Dane Disney give expert comment on a hot real estate trend

BIG FANS: Sam Spunner with Sinchies being used by Indi Walton, Kalani Broderick, Siaan Walton and Heven Healey in 2013. BIG FANS: Sam Spunner with Sinchies being used by Indi Walton, Kalani Broderick, Siaan Walton and Heven Healey in 2013. John McCutcheon WHEN Sam Spunner answered a customer's phone call on a normal business day, she didn't expect to hear her product had saved someone's life. The Currimundi-based founder of reusable food pouch company Sinchies had designed the food pouches fo

A UNIQUE range of dinner plates have encouraged children to get creative at the table and eliminate fussy eating. Emondo Kids provide ethically made children's dinnerware with segmented styling and creative themes including the Australian wildlife and a rainbow. All plates were designed and created at a Sunshine Coast home studio and are now being sought after by parents worldwide. Mother and founder Sharon Hunter wanted to encourage creativity with food and inspire children to eat.

SUNSHINE Coast designer and Emondo Kids owner Sharon Hunter has just taken home a coveted US award ahead of some huge international brands. Winning the Natural Child World Eco Excellence Award caps off a whirlwind year with her eco children’s dinnerware designs. The mum was shocked to learn about the US award while displaying her range in Melbourne last week at the Life Instyle trade show. “If you asked me six months ago if we would win an award in the US, I would have thought, no chance– it’

FOODIE: Trish Davison credits using local produce and prawns to her recent success at the Royal Sydney Fine Food Competition. Photo: Contributed. FOODIE: Trish Davison credits using local produce and prawns to her recent success at the Royal Sydney Fine Food Competition. Photo: Contributed. CALOUNDRA’S Trish Davison credits using local produce and fresh southeast Queensland prawns from local Mooloolah Fisheries for her recent success at the Royal Sydney Fine Food Competition. Ms Davison now h

NO SILLY QUESTIONS: Vicky Maloney from Injack Outdoor Power Equipment is offering a free workshop for ladies. NO SILLY QUESTIONS: Vicky Maloney from Injack Outdoor Power Equipment is offering a free workshop for ladies. Bek Mugridge FROM time to time you'll come across the need for a life skill that you never actually learnt. For some women this happens in the home maintenance, where chores were traditionally left to the man of the house. But Injack Outdoor Power Equipment owner Vicky Malone

LADY TRADIES: Women are being urged to get their tools out for a free workshop event in Nambour. LADY TRADIES: Women are being urged to get their tools out for a free workshop event in Nambour. Contributed A WORKSHOP completely dedicated to teaching women the tools of the trade is planned for Nambour this month. The Ladies Get Your Tools Out Workshop has been organised by Injak Outdoor Power Equipment's Vicky Maloney. Ms Maloney wanted to create a space where fellow women felt comfortable wh

PR Feature from press release: Mum Tanya was breastfeeding when she got the shock of her life after having just one standard drink. Like many new mums, Tanya Lin can count on one hand how many times she put on a nice frock and enjoyed an evening out with her husband when her children were babies. The Melbourne mum had one of those rare chances at a wedding, and the chance to have a nice glass of wine without toddlers in the background was a treat. But the experience was r

1984 is a year I’ll never forget. I was living in the outback when I became seriously ill. It felt as if somebody had poured cement in to me, and I also had shooting pains down my spine. I couldn’t move my body and I was really scared. My friend placed me on a mattress in the back of a ute and drove me to the nearest hospital two hours away. From there, the Flying Doctors Service transferred me to a Perth hospital.

He loves playing in the backyard, going to the beach and learning at school, but a one-in-a-million genetic mutation has now taken that away from this eight-year-old boy. Miller O'Flynn can no longer walk, talk or sit, and needs to be fed through a tube into his stomach. The Sunshine Coast boy is one of two children in Australia with Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration (PKAN), a debilitating and terminal disease that affects one in 1 million people.