Craft2.0 is back in the City

Tomor­row, Sat­urday 30th sees the return of Wel­ling­ton’s favour­ite fair Craft2.0 in the sunny and light atri­um of the Chaf­fers Dock Build­ing, down­town Wel­ling­ton City It’s a cel­eb­ra­tion of all things, craft, hand­made and indie design, in one place for just one day.  A cur­ated selec­tion of  crafters, makers and design­ers will offer a world […]

Get creative for Queen’s birthday weekend

Typ­ic­ally a Wel­ling­to­ni­an makes haste for the nearest air­port or road come Queen’s birth­day week­end, but the reverse is start­ing to hap­pen for those of a cre­at­ive bent as Hand­made hap­pens for the second year in a row. Hand­made is home to all sorts of mak­ing related things – from cook­ing to craft­ing they are […]

fabric-a-brilliant

Ima­gine if you will,  40 tables  stacked full of vin­tage fab­ric from the 1950s and 1960s,  and lace from the 1920s.  Add in all sorts of delight­ful sew­ing accessor­ies like but­tons and vin­tage pat­terns and you start to get an idea for what the bian­nu­al Fab­ric-a-brac sale  is  all about It’s being held this Sat­urday 19 […]

Pirates at Roar

Shiver me tim­bers, pre­pare to enter the wicked world of pir­ates.  Eight artists will sail the sev­en seas dis­cov­er­ing pir­ate treas­ure.  Jew­ellers Buster Collins, Vaune Mason and Aman­da How­ley are tak­ing on the accessor­ies of pir­ate-ism with a ven­geance.  From eye patches to col­lars, hooks to com­pass rings, these jew­ellers will provide all the treats and treas­ures that really […]

Summer fairs are here

After the rush of pre-Christ­mas shop­ping when it’s all about every­one else and the right present for the right per­son and being lovely and self­less, it’s rather nice when sum­mer fair sea­son rolls around. Sum­mer fairs are not just about shop­ping for thing for oth­er people, although that is an excel­lent and import­ant com­pon­ent to […]

gorgeous and original Christmas gifts to be found at Craft2.0

Thanks to the good folk at Craft 2.0 even Decem­ber 23rd isn’t too late to shop for gor­geous and ori­gin­al Christ­mas gifts. The Trunk Show strikes for the second week this Fri­day and as if you had your own per­son­al shop­per we’ve com­plied a list of gift ideas for you. All you have to do […]

Craft2.0 brings you a Trunk Show

We’re not sure if you’ve heard yet but that mad sea­son we call Christ­mas is just around the corner and if you’re like us you’ve prob­ably got one or two people you still need to find the per­fect gift for. You could pack your sneak­ers and your pink elbow guards and head out with the […]

We’ve got a craft fair tomorrow

Sat­urday is Elec­tion Day, but more import­antly (to me at least) it’s Christ­mas Knack Day. All I can assume is the PM woke up one morn­ing and thought “how can I make vot­ing more fun?”, and thus Elec­tion Day and Knack got mar­ried, and now you can get your craft on and vote all at […]

forget fireworks this is an explosion of fabric

Kind of inspired about get­ting into mak­ing post-Craft2.0? Well if fab­ric is your thing, then Fab­ric-a-brac is the place you want to be this Sat­urday From WoW win­ners and fash­ion design­ers to Christ­ch­urch earth­quake evacu­ees and but­ton obsess­ives, the stall­hold­ers at this weekend’s fab­ric- a‑brac event will be part of the biggest fab­ric-a-brac event ever. […]

It’s Saturday so it must be time for Craft2.0

It’s Craft2.0 Day!!! today Octo­ber 29th 2011 from 10am till 4pm Craft2.0 has packed it’s bags and moved from the Hutt to Wel­ling­ton City and can now be found at the same loc­a­tion as City Mar­ket, Under­cov­er in The Atri­um, Chaf­fers Dock Building,1 Herd St, Wel­ling­ton, It’s the com­mit­ment to New Zea­l­and-cre­ated, inde­pend­ent design that […]