Give pottery for Xmas gifts, gain a mother’s love

You know what’s a nice thing to do? Buy­ing pot­tery to give to people as gifts. You know what else is a nice thing to do? Pimp­ing your moth­er out. Awww yeah. It just so hap­pens that my moth­er is a pot­ter, and she’s hav­ing her annu­al pre-Christ­mas open house at her studio/gallery this week­end […]

No poison at this PoissonHead afterparty

We know that you are gut­ted (like a fish!) that you can­’t party with us at the TAWAs this year (so gut­ted you could­n’t even com­ment, appar­ently). Luck­ily, we DO have a way for you to get your party on with some fab­ulous Wel­ling­ton media types any­way! Present­ing: the Fish­Head magazine after­party! This Thursday Decem­ber […]

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 […]

Win Craft 2.0 craftcash for this Saturday!

The amaz­ing Craft 2.0 is hap­pen­ing again this Sat­urday, and its amaz­ing founder Sue Tyler (full dis­clos­ure: paid-up mem­ber of the Wel­ling­tonista) has decided that you should get a present. Or maybe you. We’ll leave it up to the ran­dom­izer to make the ulti­mate call. On Sat­urday, 18 Decem­ber, Wel­ling­to­ni­ans who want to gift in […]

JUST GOOD STUFF is back for 2010

Craft mad­ness!  Cre­at­ive cre­ations!  6 days to solve all your Christ­mas shop­ping needs, while sup­port­ing loc­al cre­at­ives – it’s prac­tic­ally guilt-free! Fea­tur­ing JUST GOOD STUFF from: Genevieve Pack­er, Gabby O’Con­nor, Lucy Adams, Phil­lipa Cow­drey, Ala­nah Gib­son, Wendy Neale, Ngaere MacKin­non, Flora Way­cott, Isel Greta Jane, Her­mon & son, Flora Gray, Tess & Gab, Mary Adams, […]