Stuff, glor­i­ous stuff,  oh how we love to take you home with us.  These are the places we go to win­dow lick, tire kick and buy, buy, buy.  Love your work, people.

Japan City
The former Hal­len­steins build­ing on Cuba Mall has a cheer­ful new ten­ant.  Japan City is home to faux branded goods, home­ware, and plenty of ador­able cul­tur­ally con­fused items.

Cul­tured Petone
Amazing cheeses from Cultured PetoneWendy Adams escaped from the pub­lic ser­vice and is now provid­ing a much bet­ter ser­vice – act­ing as a cheese pimp in Petone. Cul­tured Petone stocks all kinds of cheeses from boutique pro­du­cers around New Zea­l­and, as well as oth­er edible good­ies and cheese-related accouter­ments. You can get cof­fee, sand­wiches and Rush Mun­ro ice cream to eat in store, sign up for a cheese-mak­ing class or just mar­vel at Wendy’s magic­al enthu­si­asm and clear love of what she’s doing.

Swon­der­ful
This moth­er and daugh­ter run ven­ture has been thriv­ing since its move from Brook­lyn to Vic­tor­ia Street in cent­ral Welly. Stocked with cute frocks and oth­er super girly clothes, Swon­der­ful has their very own label, Paper­cup, to show off as well. They also have plenty of jew­ellery, sta­tion­ery and the odd zine to fos­sick through.

Moore Wilson’s Fresh

Image from Wel­ling­ton Daily Photo

Recently redeveloped to open it up to the “gentri­fied” Col­lege Street, Moore Wilson will over­power you with its glor­i­ous smell when you walk past – a mix­ture of fresh pro­duce, cut flowers, fresh baked bread and the anti­cip­a­tion of all the glor­i­ous cheese and chocol­ate inside. Although we’re secretly a little sad you no longer need a club card to shop there, it’s a great place to load up on food, or to just pop into for a few things.

Madame Fancy Pants
Fancy as and con­sist­ently rated as a top shop­ping exper­i­ence. MFP is chocka with the hand­made and the bespoke, and the staff always make you feel just super when you drop buy for a browse. Song­bird pro­pri­et­ress Claire Terry stocks the shop with her own jew­ellery between gig­ging around town and rais­ing her fancy little man.
Phew!
Love your work.