Congratulations to A Barbitta, WA 6008 - the final winner for our `We Like Toys!’ competition.

The winning entry was for the `FurReal Friends Go Go Friends My Walkin’ Pup’.

“So cute and cuddly already trained, no feeding required and one that I store in the cupboard when we go on holidays!”

Thank you to all our amazing Lasooers for your entries and for your support!

There are lots of other fun things coming up soon … so stay tuned!

You can continue to search Lasoo.com.au for all the catalogues and offers from your favourite retailers! Whether it’s something for yourself, your family or a friend - you can find all the best deals on Lasoo!

Great news! The Target Toy Sale has just made 7 extra shopping days for you. The Toy Sale is on in Target stores for another week!

The 2-Week Target Toy Sale is now on for an extra Week 3, until Wednesday 10th August. So now’s the time to head into your local Target store and bag some bargain pressies to tuck away until Christmas time. Or grab some games for playful times, right now!

Target’s famous Toy Sale is in its 10th year and, as always, they fill their stores to overflowing with all the top toy brands for boys and girls - big and small! This year, over 250 of the toys in store are exclusive to Target - that’s right you can’t buy them in any other store. And over 80 toys are 1/2 price bargains just waiting to be snapped up for Christmas and birthday pressies.

Shop at Target for LEGO, Fisher-Price, Nintendo, Bratz, Playskool, Chuggington, Tonka, and many other great toy brands, plus a huge array of kids’ DVDs from ABC for Kids and Dreamworks. There’s also 20% off great board games and jigsaw puzzles, too!

Find the Target Toy Sale 2011 catalogue on Lasoo now.

Target’s Toy Sale starts in just 3 weeks - 21st July - and how about this Harry Potter Diagon Alley LEGO set, one of over 250 toys exclusive to Target.

July is a great month for Harry Potter fans! Not only can you immerse yourself in Harry Potter’s universe with this LEGO land Diagon Alley build for just $223 in Australia’s Biggest Target Toy Sale  (full price $279), but this month also sees the final unveiling of the Pottermore website. It’s been under wraps for a while (and no, Pottermore is not a new HP movie!). Now it’s ‘all systems go’ for this long-awaited and tantalizing new Harry Potter website, by author J.K. Rowling.

The Pottermore website will definitely have the whole Harry Potter series of books published as ebooks - that much is known. But the exact details of Pottermore as an interactive online world where readers can fully immerse themselves in the world of Harry Potter, are really unknown. J.K. Rowling herself (thought to be the world’s wealthiest woman!) will be there, sharing her Potterverse that she’s been “hoarding for years”.

July 31st is the go-live date for Pottermore - but only the first one million people who successfully `follow the owl’ can enter the site. After joining the site for free, you’ll be able to make comments, upload drawings, and join in things like mixing potions, casting spells and visiting Diagon Alley to interact with Harry Potter’s universe. Pottermore website opens for everyone in October.

Australia’s Biggest Target Toy Sale

Find Harry Potter on Lasoo.

What a clever idea! Lay-by for Christmas toys before the Target Toy Sale which starts July 21st!

What better way to cushion the cost of Christmas pressies. The Target Early Bird Lay-by list is online now.

Just go to www.target.com.au and follow the links to Australia’s Biggest Toy Sale.  Create your own list by selecting your favourite toys. Print out and bring the list to your nominated Target store before Wednesday 3rd August and pay a 10% deposit.  Then save up and collect your toys between Monday 21st November and Christmas Eve (once you have given the store notice and paid your balance).

Thank you Target! Pictured is the Ridgeview Clubhouse, by pre-ordering you save $201.00! View Target catalogue on Lasoo.

The hypnotic sound of Zumba is everywhere. Move aside expensive gym memberships, Zumba dance fitness is here. 

It’s an exhilarating, easy-to-follow, Latino calorie-burning party that’s dancing millions of Australian’s into a healthy fitness. 

It all started by accident - when Zumba creator Beto Perez forgot his aerobics music for the class he was going to teach. Not to disappoint, he improvised with his own music tapes stashed in his backpack (salsa and merengue which Beto grew up with) and they loved it. A new kind of dance fitness was born.

Beto’s brainwave is that the Zumba music moves you, rather than you trying to keep step with it.

So, are you ready to party yourself into shape? The Zumba Fitness Workout is just $99.95 from Target, you get six workouts on 4 DVDs, plus 2 maraca-style toning sticks.

The Apple iPad has landed at selected Target stores - this great offer starts today and ends March 2nd.

Pop in and try - and maybe buy - an Apple iPad at selected Target stores*, for as little as $598 for the Wi-Fi 16GB model, the 32GB model is $749, the 64GB model is $874. 

If you want an Apple iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G: the 16GB model is $797, the 32GB model  is $899, the 64GB  model is $999.

Before you buy take a look at our Apple iPad review on Lasoo to get the full rundown on this well-connected piece of technology.

It’s reassuring to see that Decor has just released a new lunchbox system that’s free from BPA, PVC and phthalates, making them totally safe for using with food. There’s been some concern recently in the media over these substances in plastics - some experts say they may harm our health, especially our kids’.

The Decor lunchbox system is made up of small containers that combine in different ways so that you can serve up an endless array of lunches (for you or the kids) - from fresh sandwiches, salads, wraps and rolls, to last night’s leftovers for reheating in the microwave. There are four sizes of lunchbox, a drink/freeze flask and clip-together cutlery set which packs up neatly in the insulated cooler bag. All the lids are airtight and leak proof - which means school bags/handbags stay clean!  You can buy each item separately and there’s a starter kit so you can try out the system. Target, BIG W, Bunnings, IGA, Coles, K-mart all stock the Decor lunchbox system.

Decor have also made a `big lunch’ insulated cooler bag with a 750ml stainless steel drink bottle, only for sale at Woolworths stores.

White is everywhere, all year round - white sands in summer, white winter snow… white spring blossoms, white camellias in autumn. 

Decorators just love white for walls, sofas, cushions, crockery, collectibles - because it plays tricks with the light and makes everything in your home look so much bigger!

Target’s White on white homewares sale starts Thursday 20th January -  white sheets, white quilts, towels, cushions, clocks, crockery, ornaments and photo frames.

Well as you know we here at Lasoo are throwing our support behind the Movember movement, so I just had to write about these Mr Mo t-shirts.

Target will be donating 25% of all retail sales of these t-shirts to the Movember Foundation, so they’re perfect for everyone: whether you’re actively growing a mo and want to advertise the fact, or if you’re not but still want to do something for the cause.

And for $25 each, why not get two?

By Caroline Warnes

Homewares rank right up there with shoes when it comes to things I dream about owning, so it should be no surprise to know I’m all over this week’s Target homewares sale catalogue.

There are always some great buys in these catalogues and to be honest most items look just as good, if not better, than homewares from more expensive retailers.

For $15 each, these Egyptian bath towels are worth checking out. They’re marked down from $20 and are big enough to use at home or at the beach.

By Caroline Warnes