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, […]