Posts filed under ‘Wellington’
Oh happy day!
Most Wanted Vintage, the cracker jack store for all vintage treasures found in Aro Valley, Wellington has just launched an online shop. Go have a gander, especially if you are homebound or provincial – you’ll thank me for the mainline to the good stuff.
Fair Trade Wellington
The super people at Fair Trade Wellington have put together this useful guide of fair trade cafes, retailers and wholesalers. Take a look and then support ethical consumption shwoppers!
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Photo Booth Fun at The Big Shwop 2011
Thanks heaps to the fabulous people at Photo Booth Fun for bringing along their side order of good times to The Big Shwop last Sunday. So many great pictures of shwoppers enjoying themselves – what a divine bunch they all are too! All the photo strips are available to view at Photo Booth Fun’s gallery.
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The Big Shwop Wellington 2011 in pictures
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We’ve a bunch of images from The Big Shwop last Sunday in our photo gallery on the website. Man it was a GREAT event! Inga’s going to give us a full report in the next few days. Until then pop over to our gallery and have a squizz.
Giveaway announced: Green Juice for a week to you!
A while back, we offered The Big Shwop Blog readers a chance to win a week’s worth of fantastic green juice from the Green Juice Inc right here in Wellington. Awesome.
So without further ado, to decide the winner, I shall introduce the Random Number Generator again:
Congratulations Liz Ung! You were comment number 12 so its your lucky day. Yay! We will email you with the details.
You feeling like winning too huh? Make sure you enter the Pacific Perfumes draw - it ends today.
Giveaway: ecostore bodycare pack
I am getting toooooo excited about The Big Shwop this Sunday. This Sunday. Oh me, oh my! Wellington ladies pop over here and get you and your pals some tickets pronto!
The Big Shwop is obviously full of incredible clothes. FULL. Its a beautiful thing. But its also so, so much more than ‘just’ the clothes. What makes shwopping so much fun is its an afternoon complete with MOMO wine to savour, music and sustainability talks, Trilogy skincare, Peoples Coffee, Kowtow clothing, Photo Booth Fun and ecostore.
Now ecostore have been alongside us, supporting the shwop concept, right from the beginning back in 2008. And they are back with us again, thanking each of our shwopkeeper volunteers with a Healthy Home Starter Kit and gifting every shwopper on the day with some ecostore laundry powder and lovely soap. So fresh, so clean.
And, to celebrate The Big Shwop and ecostore even more, we have an ecostore body care pack to giveaway, right here on the blog!
It contains everything you need for beautifully healthy skin:
- Orange & Patchouli Body Wash
- Orange & Patchouli Hand Wash
- Light Moisturising Body Lotion
- Light Moisturising Hand Cream
- Body Butter
Brilliant. Just leave a comment below stating that you would like to enter, and make sure you like our facebook page. Easy! Entries close Thursday 15 December.
We have stacks of competitions on this week, so make sure you are in to win them all: here, here, and here.
Peoples Coffee at The Big Shwop
Peoples Coffee, the fantastic fairtrade roastery in Newtown are right behind The Big Shwop too. And to show it, they are gifting a 200 gram bag of plunger coffee to each of the first 100 people through the door at The Big Shwop this Sunday.
Dont worry if you miss out, because each and every other shwopper, will get a Peoples Coffee free coffee card so they can enjoy a fabulous fairtrade coffee at one of their great cafes, on the house.
Peoples Coffee are ridiculously awesome. I am near enough a groupie. If you haven’t been to their Garrett St or Newtown cafes, here is your chance. You can taste the fairtrade happiness in every sip I swear you can.
So yes, its true – The Big Shwop this Sunday gets even more awesome. Its hard to believe I know. There are goodies coming out the ears of this event, and I’m not even talking about the racks of incredibly awesome clothing up for grabs! Stay tuned, for even more eco-goodies to be announced. Yeeeeow! And if you still haven’t got a ticket -then get over here now and get yourself one!
Giveaway: Kowtow Clothing
Kowtow Clothing is amaaaaaazing. Fair-trade organic fashion with a difference – kowtow’s collection is understated, clean and unashamedly contemporary in its approach.
But don’t be fooled into thinking that this is a label that just rocks out classic staples. Hell no. A kowtow piece might seem deceptively simple, but its often multi-functional, and certainly distinctive. Take for example their rail piece.
One minute a skirt, wrapped around and tied, nek minnit its a top – with the ties turning into sleeves. Oh-so-clever. I have a rail piece in black, and I wear it equally in both iterations and loooove it.
Its imaginative and that’s what makes their stuff so gosh-darn awesome. That and the fact that its incredibly soft organic cotton and everyone in its production has been paid fairly. Yeah – thats fashion that feels good on the outside and the inside.
Be at The Big Shwop this Sunday 11 December and keep your eyes peeled for Shwop Surprises – brand-new Kowtow clothing pieces peppered throughout The Big Shwop. What a score. Haven’t bought you and your friends some tickets yet? Heck, go do that now!
Gosia has also kindly offered Big Shwop blog readers the chance to win one kowtow rail piece, valued at $145. All you need to do is write a comment below to say you would like to enter and like our facebook page. Easy. Winner will be drawn on Tuesday 13 December.
Giveaway: Green Juice for a week to you!
Green Juice Inc. is a fabulous new Wellington company making super fresh green juice to cleanse, revitalise and invigorate. And when I say fresh – I mean FRESH. This stuff is made to order, daily and delivered to a place near you for maximum detox punch.
The juice is made from roughly 40% leafy green vegetables and 60% fresh seasonal fruit. Consider it an oil change for your body’s engine - it will make you feel all tickety boo and vroomy in no time. Yes, vroomy is a word, people!
The Big Shwop Blog has a weeks supply of Green Juice Inc. to giveaway to one lucky reader! You can choose the week you would like to start, and whether you would like to pick it up from their CBD, Mt Victoria or Island Bay depots.
To enter, just leave a comment below saying you would like to enter and also like their facebook page. Entries close Friday 9 December.
