Feb
20
2009
Do you know a “Local Premmie Hero”?
L’il Aussie Prems website seeks nominations for Australia’s first award recognising the work of volunteers within the premature baby community.
Every year in Australia, thousands of babies are born prematurely. Their families ride a rollercoaster of emotions as they watch their children fight to overcome the health and developmental issues facing them as a result of their early arrival. These issues continue long after the babies are discharged from hospital.
L’il Aussie Prems (LAP), an online support site for families of premature babies, is proud to sponsor Australia’s first award to recognise and celebrate the dedication of individual volunteers within the local premature baby community.
LAP is seeking nominations from around Australia of “local premmie heroes” – the ordinary yet extraordinary people who give up their time to support the families of premature babies both during their hospital stay and afterwards, doing everything from sewing tiny clothing for very low birth weight babies to setting up local playgroups for prematurely born children to organising fundraising for research into the causes of premature birth.
“As a community of parents, we understand the premmie journey and how hard the road can be. We want to recognise and pay tribute to those people who go out of their way to make things easier for other families travelling that road.” said Julia Toivonen, founder of the L’il Aussie Prems website and mother of two premature babies.
(pic courtesy of Julia Toivonen)
Nominations of local premmie heroes can be made via the L’il Aussie Prems website at http://www.lilaussieprems.com.au/hero/ Nominees do not need to have any premature children of their own. Nominations will close on 30 April 2009 and details of the winners will be announced in May.
La Toriana is proud to be associated with this award as a sponsor, and also as a judge. Please support premmie babiess, families of premmie babies, and so please nominate someone you know who is deserving of this award.
If you are looking for stylish premmie baby clothes for your premmie baby or as a premmie baby gift for a newborn, visit
La Toriana premmie section to view a wide range of clothing and accessories for premmie babies. 10% from all purchases in the la Toriana Premmie baby section goes to non profit organiseations for premmie babies.
After having 3 premmie babies myself… the hard work, time and passion that goes into a wonderful support website like
LAP is truly amazing. Please visit
LAP and show your support.
warmly
Elizabeth xx
Feb
16
2009
La Toriana would like to introduce to you a gorgeous new Australian kids fashion designer “Tippie Toes”. Australian owned, Australian designed and Australian made with the finest materials and quality workmanship, this will soon become one of your favourite kids designer clothes for your child.
Inspired by a bygone vintage era, these stunning items in the Tippie Toes collection cater for baby girls to children 6 yrs. Soon we will also see a fresh, stylish collection of boys clothing from this talented Australian kids fashion designer.
The first shipment of these devine … no STUNNING baby and designer girls clothing collection has made an impact on loyal La Toriana followers as shown by our stats and orders. Tippie Toes designer Leonie is sure ona winner with this kids fashion label.
The Sweet lily dress above is a classic all time favourite of everyones. Simply stunning can we worn in Summer as it, and for special outings. SWEET LILIY: 100% soft cotton, pristine white dress with vintage inspired embroidered lace trim finishAlso great for First Birthdays, Christenings and of course for Easter and Christmas.
TIPPIE TOES are 100% Australian designed and Handmade.
The lace Singlets (above)are a special designer girls clothing piece in a crisp white ribbed singlet with two tone lace sleeve finish and soft, intricate lace motif on the front. Avail in white as shown and also in baby pink
A vintage inspired petite singlet to suit any occasion. Great for baby’s Christenings, special outings and “just because”
Enchanted TuTu’s available in pink and in white. This delightful enchanted tutu is complimented with a thick elastic decorative waist band for comfort and ease of dressing.A captivatingly gorgeous tutu that has a vintage inspired floral brooch attached to give it a lovely enchanted princess feel. Your little one will feel magical indeed.Great for the birthday girl, to wear to parties and for special occassions or … to wear just because she is special!
If you are looking for some great, high quality baby and toddler designer clothing, you cannot miss a piece of this Australian designed and Australian made kids fashion collection to your minifashionista’s wardrobe.
be warned though… be prepared to have everyone wanting to know ehere you got them from…. do you dare tell? of course… tell them you can view the Tippie Toes range at La Toriana!
Feb
11
2009
Bushfire Appeal
La Toriana and KidStyleFile have partnered up with our own small initiative:
Become a KidStyleFile fan on Facebook and we’ll donate 20 cents to the Red Cross Appeal for every person who signs up between now and 22 Feb 2009. Become a La Toriana fan on Facebook and Elizabeth will donate 20 cents to the Red Appeal for every person who signs up between now and 22 Feb 2009.Ok, then, let’s see how much money we can raise in the next two weeks – tell you friends and family, and let’s go for it! -
We all have been touched by the devastating news, and our own community here in Bendigo has lost over 58 homes, 1 life and many more injured and have burnt areas of their homes. I cannot after seeing the devastation in our own town begin to fathom the towns in the Kinglake area.
The 2009 Victorian Bushfire Fund has been set upt to assist individuals and communities affected by devastating bushfires in Victoria. If you are able to donate, please head on over to the Red Cross website and make a contribution no matter how small.
What Coles is doing to support:
To help lend a hand, every Coles store in Australia will donate this Friday’s profits to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal, in partnership with Australian Red Cross.
What you can do to support:
If you’d like to help out too, you can make donations to the Bushfire Appeal at all Coles’ supermarket registers. We hope that with your help, we can make a difference to Victorian communities in their time of need.
anything you can do will be greatly appreciated by all. If everyone chips in… collectively we can do a lot.
