Celebrate

To celebrate World Joke Day and help bring laughter back to the lives of kids facing cancer, we’re donating 1% of sales made on July 1, 2024 to our partners, Camp Quality.   International Joke Day isn’t just to prove how funny you are, it’s also the perfect opportunity to put a smile on kids’ faces by sharing your favourite joke or donating to a charity like Camp Quality who believe laughter is the best medicine. Are you ready to put that to the test?  You wouldn’t think a good laugh and a gym workout have much in common, but both can boost your mood and produce feel good endorphins.  Here are our top tips to get your daily dose of laughter.  Ditch the doomscrolling – try cheerscrolling instead. Instead of scrolling through pages and pages of bad news, try searching for inspiring or uplifting news stories instead!  Give Laughter Yoga a go. It’s hard to think of anything more awkward than getting together with a bunch of strangers and pretending to laugh. But the magic of Laughter Yoga is that what starts out as forced ‘ho, ho, ho, ha, ha, ha’ soon turns into hilarious, spontaneous laughter that becomes infectious.  Look for small moments that make you smile. Besides finding more reasons to laugh, it’s important to find at least one thing every day to make you smile.  Get a regular dose of humour. Listen to funny podcasts, join a humour group on social media that posts jokes or funny cartoons daily or have a weekly comedy night – get together with family or friends to watch funny movies or sitcoms at the weekend.  Get silly with the kids. There’s so much laughter potential in spending time with kids because they’re more in touch with their silly side. They also love telling and learning silly jokes like, ‘Why did the teacher have to wear sunglasses? Because her students were so bright’.  Take a laughie. You know how to take a selfie, but how about a laughie? Set aside time each day to take a 60 second video clip of yourself laughing – then play it back to yourself three times a day.  Bring humour to dinner … When you’re sitting around the dinner table ask the kids what the funniest thing to happen today was!  …and keep a humour journal. Collect and share things that make you laugh, like jokes, quotes or memes and compile them in a journal or keep them in a scrapbook – and on days when you feel flat, flick through it or search for something to add.  Grow some gratitude. It’s not a laugh-out-loud emotion but gratitude helps create a calmer mood and teaches us to find joy in the little things.  Google some laughter quotes. Quotes about laughter can give you a laugh (or at least a smile). Here’s some of Camp Quality’s favourites:  “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan.  “You don’t stop laughing because you grow older – you grow older because you stop laughing’. George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright.  “It’s bad to suppress laughter – it goes straight down and spreads to your hips.’ Fred Allen, US comedian.  So get out there, get giggling and really, what have we got to lose by laughing? 

To celebrate World Autism Understanding Day, Shoes & Sox will be donating a dollar of every order today to our 6-year-long partners, Aspect. So, what exactly is WAUD? It’s a day that’s aimed to create understanding, acceptance and celebrate life on the Autism Spectrum. We celebrate it to recognise the unique talents and skills of individuals with Autism. This year, the theme is the colour blue, signifying understanding and acceptance, so dust your best blue shirt off and visit your nearest Shoes & Sox store to support. Want to learn more about our work with Aspect and other partners? Click here.

Wow we can’t believe it was a year ago we opened our doors! To celebrate our 1st birthday at Maroochydore we are hosting fun activities and giveaways in-store across the weekend on Saturday 29 July and Sunday 30 July and a fabulous offer in-store. Get 20% OFF almost everything* at Shoes & Sox Maroochydore, on our birthday weekend only. This includes our biggest and most popular brands including Adidas, Clarks, New Balance, Reebok, Puma, Converse and more. Join in the fun activities including face-painting and tattoos, plus a spin & win with every purchase. We’ll also have a guessing competition with a gift card up for grabs and giveaways for the kids! We hope to see you at our 1st Birthday celebrations at Maroochydore. Book an in-store fitting now to enjoy the festivities!

Spooky season is upon us, trick or treat yo' self with some Creepy Crispies. Get the little ones to join in on the fun by decorating their too-cute-to-spook rice crispy treats. You'll need for the base: 1/2 cup honey 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted 4 cups rice bubbles or puffed rice Whisk honey and coconut oil together in

Camp Quality's mission is to give kids impacted by cancer every opportunity to thrive. Camp Quality’s services and programs are created specifically to support children aged up to 15 years, who are dealing with their own cancer diagnosis, or the diagnosis of someone they love, like a brother, sister, mum, dad or carer.

Keep the kids scrolling in the kitchen (not on the iPad) these holidays with these delicious winter treats by @recipemumma You'll need: 2 cups self raising flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup tinned apple sliced, mashed 50g butter softened 1/4 cup date syrup 1/3 cup tinned apple sli