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

What a corker!

If you're in or around Melbourne, you'd be a fool to miss the happenings at Corker gallery right now. Lovely lady Leah Bartholomew is having her very own exhibition- Where the Dry Leaves Fall. Leah is a talented designer, painter & potato printer & also assistant to Beci Orpin of Princess Tina. She also played a crucial roll in the opening of our new shop, by buying our curtain fabric & sending it over to us all the way from Melbourne! Thanks so much Leah & you know we looooove your work. Watch out for more amazing stuff from this extremely talented lass. X
(Leah bartholomew for Princess Tina)

This is it

Thanks so much to Kiran from Texture for writing such a lovely review about us! She really captured what we aim to be about. Woot!

I'm off to Tauranga, Auckland & Thames for the weekend with a stop at Taste & See Castle Cafe, I can't believe I've never been there before, it sounds like a vegetarian/ vegans paradise.


Of course I remembered to have my say before I go! I feel both satisfied with my choice & a little nervous for the outcome. (Check out Romy's tongue!) See you soon! X

Phew!

Congrats Obama & congrats to the U S of A. Well done y'all!
It looks like...


(painting by Jen Renninger)

I might even have to do a red, white & blue window to celebrate!
I hope everything goes as swimmingly with our own election.


Also- We have back in stock the swing skirt in blue floral, but only two! This is the last of it :( So get in quick folks! X

Wanna see something cute?

We've got some super dooper new stuff in for little ones, so super we're wishing it wasn't so little & we could order some for ourselves!


Spilt milk is a new Wellington based children's wear label, their focus is on high quality garments that aren't in run of the mill colours & styles & the designs are mainly unisex. Not to mention hip! I'd love one of the brown cardis for myself & my boyfriend is insanely jealous of the brown gingham "cowkid" shirt. Bless.


Almondtree is another local label producing hand knitted Maryjane booties. They are so sweet! Almondtree booties also come in a lovely selection of colours- both the traditional baby colours & other lovelies like apple green. Scrumptious!

We have a selection of both Spilt Milk & Almondtree goodies available in store now. X

Feeling the love...

(Image by Julian Wolkenstein found via Code for Something)

Lovely Liv gifted us a sweet bloggy award not too long ago. What a doll!

Here is the text that goes with the award (a rough translation from Portuguese)

'To translate the gift from Portuguese to English, it means:"This blog invests and believes, the proximity" [meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' -being close through proxy]". They all are charmed with the blogs, where in the majority of its aims are to show the marvels and to do friendship; there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize, and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut, or that they propagate? Then let's try to give more attention to them!
So with this prize I must deliver it to 8 bloggers that in turn must do the same thing and put this text in their blog.'

Hehe what funny English! The lovely Hollie from my new favorite blog Vegan & Vintage also sent us some bloggy love in the form of another award, so I thought I would combine the two here & share some blogs I really enjoy. Here are the rules to the second award- (They were also in funny English but I kinda changed them).


1) Post this wee pic on your blog.
2) Link to the person who awarded you.
3) Nominate seven other people and link to them.
4) Leave a message on those people's blogs to make them aware they are nominated.

I couldn't really think of seven (or eight!) blogs I wanted to share, or that haven't been shared by friends already so here are my six!

Studio Home Creative
Code for something
Scaredy Cat
Papercuts
Victoria n Bird
Vegan & Vintage

All amazing ladies, with an eye for style, design or art & doing wonderful different things. Love your work! X

In case you didn't know...

S'marvellous!