Last week I was up in Auckland for a few days- visiting family & showing off this cute baby of mine.
I always enjoy visiting my home town but because its so spread out I often have to make a list of places I want to visit, & this time I'm sharing! Here are some of our favorite spots in Auckland:
Queenies Lunchroom 24a Spring Street, Freemans Bay Sweet design & decor, lovely staff & who can resist a cafe that calls itself a lunchroom? We've also spotted a staff member wearing on our our Diamond Sea knitted hair clips! Great minds :)
Fabric & pretty things 479 Parnell Road, Parnell Beautiful fabrics, notions & haberdashery all packed into a sweet old Villa on Parnell Road. I could trawl this shop for hours.
Yellow Brick Road 279 Parnell Road, Parnell Discovering The Yellow Brick Road was like coming home. It's like my Swonderful away from Swonderful. Gorgeous clothes & knick knacks- all very affordable & situated behind an ice cream shop.... too tempting!
Douglas & Bec 9 St Mary’s Road, Ponsonby Douglas & Bec has a great mix of amazing designer furniture & home wares but also cute jewellery & cards. They house a great mix of price points so even though I can't afford one of there amazing lamps I can support them by buying a tea towel!
Peppin 184 Jervois Rd, Herne Bay The best kids boutique. Ever. So many gorgeous clothes with cute twee prints- mostly organic & all beautiful! Plus there's a little boat in the middle of the shop! A boat!
The Bread & Butter Letter The Bread & Butter Letter is like Swonderful if we did vintage. A quirky mix of stationery, jewellery & crafty things & the finest picks of affordable vintage clothing.
A selection of beautiful cards from Auckland based Bayley Collins are now available at Swonderful! Her gorgeous collage illustrations are almost too sweet to give away, in fact we think they're frame worthy!
The very lovely Kath from the now closed down Skylark boutique & Auckland has just opened a new & very cute shop called Peppin Boutique! It's a designer baby boutique packed full with cute things for your little one & is located in Herne Bay, Auckland. We can't wait to visit!
Howdy! The infamous Craftwerk is on tomorrow in Auckland as part of the very exciting Cross st Carnival, they are closing off the street for stalls, bands & general carnival-ish-ness! It should be a fantastic day & I'm pretty disapointed I can't be there, but I'm also super excited that my wonderful friend Olivia (Lily Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts) is running a stall on behalf of both of us. YAY!It's gonna be a fab day, with some great bands playing to- including my cousin in The Vietnam War. Super! So if you're in Auckland you haaaave to go.x