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For those who love to travel, snap pictures and are obsessed with social media, Lauren Bath has your dream job. As Australia’s first professional Instagrammer, Lauren has travelled all over Australia and the world, taking photos of camels on Cable Beach, foxes in Japan’s Zao Fox Village  and the exquisite landscapes of the Middle East. But her journey involved a big risk in the beginning, as Lauren quit her job as a talented chef to pursue her passion for photography, social media and travel ( read more about her story here ). As part of our brand new series spotlighting Aussie Instagrammers , we spoke to Lauren and asked her about her life as a travelling photographer and social media expert . You were a chef by trade before you became Australia’s first professional Instagrammer. Can you tell us a little more about that and what led you to changing fields? ‘It’s a bit of a long story but I’ll give you the short version. I was a chef by trade working on the Gold Coast when I got my fir...

Photo: Lauren Bath Billed as Australia’s first professional Instagrammer, Lauren Bath was working as a chef when she quit her job in 2011 to follow her passion for travel photography. Six year’s later, she is one of Australia’s most powerful travel influencers , with 464,400 Instagram followers, and counting. She also runs a successful business consulting on social media to the travel industry. LAUREN’S TRAVEL TIPs Join a frequent flyer program , and try to stick to the same airline each time. Standardise your packing: having a routine and always putting things in the same place makes your packing so much faster and easier. Maintain a regular sleep schedule when you’re not travelling, and do your best to sleep on long-haul flights. Travel with snacks, especially if you have a dietary requirement. Buy a local SIM card . It’s the first thing I get at an airport. It lets me keep my friends in the loop, and allows me to access the internet, like Google Maps. Bring your camera. How did yo...

I have been on a bit of a bathroom focus these past weeks on the blog. With intentions of listing our home on the market as soon as is humanly possible and moving back inner, we've been hunting down inexpensive and portable ways to organise our everyday clutter in an attractive and practical manner that adds visual value to our home. (Which hopefully translates to an attractive sale price too!) Last week's Featured Thursdays was all about Dreambaby's Peli - a sweet and fun way to store your child's bath time playthings that is also a plaything in its own right. (If you missed this post, you can find it here and there's a giveaway too - do check it out.) While Peli takes good care of the kiddy clutter in this space, Everloc picks up the grown-up stuff. I didn't know much about the Everloc Xpressions range before I was sent some of their items to try. So what am I banging on about here, I hear you ask? Shelves of course! The Everloc Xpressions Medium She...