Finishes tomorrow!

Our ONCE'IT sale finishes at Midday tomorrow! There are still some great bargains to be had-

 

 KISSIN' COUSINS DRESS IN RED & NAVY $89! 

OUTLAW SHIRT GINGHAM $99!

OUTLAW SHIRT BRODERIE $99 & COLONEL MUSTARD SKIRT NAVY $99!

ONCE'IT

Click here to shop our ONCE'IT sale! Ends Sunday at Midday!

Last days!

Our sale is coming to end- we're making way for summer- oh summer! We can't wait to show you our new collection... in the meantime get yourself a bargain while you can!

Auckland

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.

Workroom Sale and Market Day!

It's never happened before & will probably never be repeated... We are having a major workroom clear out & you're invited!! For one day only we will open our workroom doors to the public- come get your fix of bargains galore from Papercup- tees, frocks, skirts & fabric- you name it! All heavily reduced for just one day. Up for grabs are one offs & samples- things you've never seen before!

We've also invited our buddies to join the madness- Love Love Lorelei, Ragdoll Illustrations & Free Range Baby. So expect to see loads of fantastic locally made products all at great prices.

Oh & cupcakes! Lots of cupcakes!!

Next Saturday 25 June 
Unit 10/369 Adelaide Road, Newtown
12- 4PM ONLY
Cash & Eftpos accepted

SEE YOU THERE!

SAAAAAAAAALE!!

 

It's Sale time here at Swonderful & we don't do things by halves here... or maybe we do, like half off!! Yup, up to 50% off clothes. Twoot!!

Our webshop will be updated with sale items very soon too, so keep an eye out!

Just good stuff!

Just Good Stuff is back again this Xmas at Thistle Hall. Last years market was so great, I picked up some great gifts! Check out some of the beautiful things on offer~

Friday 17 December - Wednesday 22 December 2010

12noon – 7.00pm

Opening 6.00pm Thursday 16 December

Thistle Hall Gallery, Upper Cuba Street, Wellington

CASH ONLY

How Swonderful

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!

Harry & Misty Pop up!

If you're a Swonderful girl you'll be very familiar with our friend Harriett Falvey- whose gorgeous designs we stock alongside our own. Harriett & her friend Misty Lang are opening their very own Pop-up store! The store is located at 47 High Street, Canterbury Arcade, Auckland and will run from the 29th October to the 23rd of December. The opening is tomorrow from 4-7 pm. Pop down to the Pop up for bubbles & discounts. What a treat!

A date with Elvis

One of the super talented lasses Petra, from our favorite local haunt Martha's Pantry has been a busy beaver setting up A Date With Elvis- her new online boutique.

A Date with Elvis will be home to reworked vintage and replica garments- specifically 1940's and 50's era. How exciting!! We can't wait to see what wonderful things she has in store.

Stay tuned, the launch is soon! x

I love your shop

Part of my job description as a shop owner is to "research" other shops, this involves frequently visiting shops (what do they call that...? Oh yeah- shopping) & also researching shops internationally. I came across the Everyday Life Objects pop up shop in Milan through the Selby not long ago...


Love the DIY aesthetic, looks like a great place to hang out & discuss art for an afternoon. X

wonderful wieners

I just came across the most delightful illustrations from San Francisco based Lab Partners (whose work you may recognise from the shop, we had some beautiful prints a while back).
We here at Swonderful are dog fanciers, so these sausage dog prints definitely tickle our fancy!

We recently revamped our wall outside as sadly our lady of the green wall was in a state of disrepair. So Penny & I spent hours painting a large scale version of a painting a did for the shop last year & pasted it up last week in time for our soirée, what do you think?


As you can see there's a couple of sweet pups on there too! Buster the Boston Terrier & Wesley the Daschund. Our new store mascots!

In other news, the same painting was also the basis for the design of our new website! Yup, a real website! Our online shop is not quite up and running but it will be very soon, so keep checking back. X

Fresh & minty

Just landed- Beautiful new eco fashion magazine Peppermint. Peppermint is all about walking the walk as well as talking the talk. We love Peppermint & are so proud to be the Wellington stockist! Come grab your copy in store, supplies are limited! X

Sale ends this Sunday!

Oh Yay!

A Swonderful Christmas

Here's some more special goodies we have in the shop...

Pretty Hokey rose rings... these are just so so lovely $28.00


Hungry Girls Cookbooks, a beautiful gift. $39.00


Cheek Pinchy Collage brooches- $15- $30.00


Cute necklaces and earrings by lovely local lass Natelle (Prices vary)


Hokey handmade hair slides. So cute! $18.00

Stay tuned for more gifty goodness! X

Yummy...

I'm so pleased to announce the arrival of The Hungry Girl's Cookbooks in store, both volumes one & two. These are the most beautiful books I've ever come across, seriously! Each book is handmade with a cute cloth spine, sweet illustrations & fantastic photographs. I think it is often underestimated just how important it is for recipe books to have photos of all the recipes. The hungry girls have done a wonderful job of this, all the photographs are so inspiring, just a flick through the book makes me want to cook! (& rhyme!)



A little but about the hungry gals- The Hungry Girls' Cookbooks are more like works of art than regular recipe books. Each edition is lined with cloth and hand-sewn, and inside you’ll find exciting dishes for the home cook. A crisp green bean, breadcrumb and pistachio salad, a soba noodle soup for a simple and satisfying weeknight meal, a delicious lemon poppy seed cake, and plenty more. These unique books are the work of three friends – Rachel Pitts, Leah Holscher and Katherine Bird – who have combined their love of food to create the recipes, photography and illustrations.

Pop in for a squiz! X

Oh & Remember...

Buy Handmade this Xmas

The silly season is upon us, ugh! There's no denying it & you can't avoid it as hard as you might try. However, you can do your part to reduce the amount of crap that end up in landfills or being resold on trademe.
This Xmas, Pledge handmade!



At Swonderful most of our lovely things are handmade & if they aren't they are manufactured ethically & as locally as possible, All papercup clothes are lovingly handmade by us & our tees are printed just down the road in Newtown. We've taken time & care to ensure all our outsourced products- (tees, hoodies) are great quality & sweatshop free. So you can rest easy buying from us!

Visit Buy Handmade for more reasons to take the pledge.

I will be posting more handmade ideas for Xmas soon! Oh & take a look at my new wee blog- Friend or Doe! X

It's pronounced "Squirl"

I saw these beauts on the Hokey blog last night & asked my boyf ever so nicely if I could borrow his credit card. Lucky me! I collect salt & pepper shakers, some of which can be seen in the shop, and these are just too cute! I know they will take pride of place in my collection.

I think the lack of creatures like squirrels & raccoons in New Zealand is what makes them both so darn appealing, won't someone please (accidentally) introduce them?

There's plenty more treasures like my squirrels to be found at bliss Vintage. X

Good news!

Due to demand (um.. ours) we have decided to extend our sale until this Saturday, there are more reductions- some real steals if I do say so myself, so hop on in for a bargain! Choice! X