iphone italk : country road

i may need to put a shoppers warning on this post, so be warned retail junkies! the country road iphone app has thought of some great app features. apart from viewing the newest collections with extreme ease, you can enter in your card/member number and receive notifictaions of your benefits, like your spend and save offers, and you can also see your year to date spendage. you can use the store locator to find your nearest store, with opening hours, maps and contact details.

a very cool app that's worth the free download. just search country road.

iphone italk : play-doh

art and craft really isn't one of my strongest mum assets. i'm that mum that draws stick figure people and the two stroke mcdonalds symbol birds on the chalk board. and i'm totally ok with that! when it's play-doh time at our house, it's normally sausages and rissoles that get made by me. but i've stepped it up a knotch thanks to the play-doh iphone app!

sometimes you need to make a morning out of an activity. when i downloaded the play-doh iphone app {free app - search "play-doh"}, i decided we should make some play-doh from scratch, you know, just for fun...

{play dough recipe} combine 2 cups of plain flour, 1 cup of salt, 4 tbs of cream of tartar, 2 tbs of cooking oil and 2 cups of boiling water in a bowl and mix well. add more flour if it's sticky, which i did. section out your dough and colour as your heart desires.

note : when it comes time for the food colouring - wear gloves!

so how the app works is it gives you idea's and instructions on what to make with play-doh, you can take photo's of your creations and share them via email and facebook, you can make your own designs and load and share them, and you can browse play-doh products.

we decided we would make the backpack creation already loaded. it gave me step by step instructions by both pictures and words, and before we knew it, mum was suddenly a play-doh pro. we snapped a photo of it with the iphone {as per below} and we saved it into our play-doh app and we emailed it off to grandma.

i cannot tell you how impressed summer was to see our backpack creation. so impressed that when dad walked in the door, it was THE very first thing she rushed to tell him about. go mum.

iphone italk : monkey preschool lunchbox

one of the mum's from swimming got me onto this app. i'm normally really tight when it comes to spending money on app's. i'll only purchase one if i know it's still going to get used after a week! if you have preschool aged children, for 99 cents, monkey preschool lunchbox is a great app to buy.

the idea is to help the monkeys pack lunch through 6 different learning games. there's a jigsaw puzzle, find the fruit starting with the letter, touch the fruit in the colour, matching cards and counting. a great educational game and the monkey's pretty cute to watch! we love it.

iphone italk : little crew

you may have seen this cute little bird flapping his wings around the place lately. he is the mascot for a cute iphone app called little crew. i don't know about you, but i am a sucker for anything that looks gorgeous, is fun, and has anything to do with kid's shopping. if you're the same, you're going to love little crew. at the moment the app is free, so grab out your phone and look it up, or click on the image above and grab it from itunes.

peta is a mum of 3 and the woman behind little crew. she has created an app that is "the luxe guide to children's shopping", and that it is. there are 5 categories in the app : clothes, travel, toys, accessories and featured. each product that is reviewed has been road tested personally by peta and her children.

a while ago, peta road tested our new kids tea's : the tea party and superhero juice by she-tea {and he-tea}. you can find peta's article on our tea's here.

if you're on facebook, the little crew app also has a facebook page which gives us snippets of bits and pieces that have been featured on the app. the app and page are both worth a download and a like. we recommend.

iphone italk : stella mccartney kids fashion and fun

with all the hype of the stella mccartney kids launch this week, i was pleasantly suprised to see that there is a free iphone app to go with the package.

the app easily lets you browse the lookbook and see the whole collection {babies, girls and boys, 0-12}, you can view and select items and keep them in your favourites, and then when you're ready to purchase you can drop them in your shopping basket and purchase. oh my, purchasing from your iphone. how easy. how dangerous!

there's also a play section which i found a bit fun {see image above}. i also noticed there is a playground on the website aswell. i love this extra feature, it's nice to keep it real and make it fun, for the kids and the mum's! if you're into kids fashion, this free app won't dissappoint you. go grab it now!

iphone italk :: p tracker

while getting lost in app world, as you sometimes do, i came accross some fertility and pregnancy apps that i found kinda fun. there are a heap of free ones (i don't like to spend money on iphone apps), and this one took my fancy the most.

the period tracker lite is a very simple and very cute little app that lets you view your current and future period dates, your ovulation and your fertile days on a monthly calendar. it firstly uses a default setting of a 'normal' menstrual cycle to determine the dates of your next period and fertile days, but you can go into the settings and change the default around to set your period length and ovulation date. after you have logged in your info for 3 cycles, that's when the app will calculate an average and take it from there. you can also add moods and notes and really get into it.

the home screen for this app is of a whimsical tree with a little butterfly, and what i find the cutest is that when your fertile days are on, the tree starts flowering. a fun app to remind you of your fertile days if you are trying for a baby! did you map or take note of your ovulation when you were trying for a baby?

iphone italk :: lego photo

keeping in with my lego obsession this week, i recently downloaded the lego photo app. it's a bit cool. you take a new photo or choose an existing one from file and the app transforms the photo into a lego mosaic. touch the screen once you've got your photo up and it will go through different colour combo's. you have to get a nice close up photo for it to work well and so you can recognise what the photo is of, but it would be a load of fun for the kids to play around with. it's a free app too, which is always cool.

iphone italk :: hipstamatic

i thought i would share some fun iphone apps with you as i find them. you may have heard of them and even have them yourself, but hopefully i can bring something new to someone's ilife with my finds! first one off the rank is hipstamatic. it is one seriously cool app, so if it's cool you're after, pull out $1.99 and get yourself this!

so what is a hipstamatic exactly? it was a plastic analog camera from the 80's that had the ability to swap lenses and take multiple film formats. apparently only 200 of these cameras were produced. whether it was a flop back then or not, i have no idea, but good on the iphone for bringing it back!

the mobile phone comes with us everywhere and i'm pretty sure more than half of us whip it out when our mini me's doing something that is just too adorable to not capture in a photo right then and there. getting tricky with your images is so easy with hipstamatic, it does all the creativeness for you. the basic pack gives you 3 lenses and films and 2 flashes to mix and match together. there's lots of vignettes, blurring, saturation and discolourisation when you mix the films and lenses. my favourite combo is the john s lens with the ina's 1969 film. gives me that 'old photo that's been in nan's old photo album for a hundred years' feel, i love it. what do you think?

ipurchase

it's time to get with the times. apparently. my old lg phone conveniently died right on it's 2 year contract a couple of weeks ago and i was forced to get myself a new phone. there really wasn't any doubt in my mind that i would go for something else other than the iphone, not when i run a business and i hear so much great feedback from other business owners that just wouldn't be without their iphones. so i have now joined the cult. feel free to tell me about handy app's and all that. although it literally took me around half an hour to work out how to insert my sim card, i am sure i'll master this little beauty within a few weeks! =)