Fresh from Sukie in the UK, these fab notebooks with the look of a vintage novel.

A great notebook in which to write your own novel! Plain paperback paper for writing or drawing.

Size: 11cm x 18cm

Made from 100% recycled paper.

Price:$19.95

 A fantastic new gift kit from Dumpling Dynasty, the Star Gazer Kit contains a telescope, glow stars and a stargazer log book for budding astronomers. Perfect for dark starry nights!

As usual from this talented UK duo, it comes in a gorgeously illustrated tin.

Price:$32.00

A real Cath Kidston icon, the popular floral oilcloth book bag has a multitude of purposes besides carrying books and folders. Made from tough, wipe-clean oilcloth, it has one pocket on the inside.

33 x 38cm. 100% PVC coated Cotton excl. trim. Wipe clean with a damp cloth.

Price:$39.95

Happy Dots is a red/pink bunting with character that loves to celebrate every single day. It is covered with hundreds of dots. They even hang on the edges of the flags!

Happy Dots is the perfect banner for girl's parties, spring parties, love parties, baby parties, housewarming parties, Christmas parties, wedding parties, garden parties and even makes plain old Sunday parties fun. The banner consists of 12 flags and has a total length of 4,30 metres. 

Price:$39.95

This is a fantastic greeting card from the Heidi collection, in a vintage folksy design with embossed details, reminiscent of vintage embroidery designs.

120x170mm, 100% recycled uncoated board.

Price:$5.95

Here's a big concept in a small box. You get 50 IOU cards for anything from 'stay in your pyjamas all day' to 'a stay in a hotel'. You can either use each card individually for all the little people you've accumulated over the years or really spoil one lucky child with an entire year's worth of treats!

Price:$19.95

What_s your pleasure? Chocolate ﾂclair? Angel Cake? Swiss roll? Fruit Tart? Or a cherry-topped cupcake? Our hand-knitted mini cakes are great for party favours, displays or fun _play-food_. They come in a set of 6 assorted cakes. Unlike some of our other knitted treats, these cakes don't have rattles inside. The set comes in a cute cotton box with a mini gingham tablecloth.

Price:$35.00

This gorgeous set of two large place mats will sweeten any room décor. They are especially perfect for family settings as the supple PVC-coated cotton prints are machine-washable, but they are equally at home in a grown-up space!

Price:$24.95

Cloth Kitty is a reprint of the original 17" doll that was hugely popular for Clothkits when launched in 1978.

She is simply made from a printed fabric panel and comes complete with a sweet folksy dress, bag, blouse and dungarees. Original instructions, stuffing and thread also supplied, along with all other haberdashery - shirring, bias binding, poppers and label.

Kitty comes packaged up in a lovely paper bag with polka dot trim. This makes a great project as it covers a wide range of skills. Printed on a very easy to sew cotton that can be stitched either by hand or by machine. Hand sewing is very therapeutic!

Price:$39.95

This charming craft kit includes all you need to get creative and use your imagination. With pom poms, feathers, threads and pipe cleaners, it's packed with all the nostalgia and fun of the original Ladybird books. The kit also includes details of more ideas for fun things to make using everyday items from around your home, along with classic images from the Ladybird archives.

Kit Includes:
Wooden sticks
Wiggly eyes
Embroidery threads
Feathers
Colourful beads
Pom poms
Safety scissors
Glue
Pipe cleaners
Foam shapes

Price:$29.95

 Brilliant notebooks to help you carry out all those secret plans. The back of each notebook reads 'don't you love it when a plan comes together'. Unlined notebook. 17 x 15 cms.

Price:$19.95

We all like to think we could perform some magic, and when you do the tricks in this kit they will seem like true magic to your friends. Only you will know the secrets! Each trick comes complete with fully illustrated instructions, trick secrets and tips for preparing a successful magic show, all packed with the nostalgia and fun of the original Ladybird books. Suitable from around age 5 with grown-up help!

Kit Includes:
Magic cards
Rope trick
Miracle dice
Fake thumb tip trick
Multiplying balls

Price:$29.95

Colour-in each of the eight adorable animals, then hang your finished artwork with the pegs and string included in your kit!

Printed on evironmentally friendly, carbon neutral 270gsm card with vellum finish. Eight cards per kit with pegs and string. Packaged in cello bag.

Price:$14.95

Sparrowkids are wonderful, natural craft kits for children and grown-ups. High-quality felt pieces are pre-cut and punched with holes, and they come with safety needles, thread and notions to make the most gorgeous crafty projects ever!

The new cat cushions are made from a pretty printed felt and can be embroidered and decorated once made. This is a great gift idea for a beginner or more experienced crafter.

Price:$45.00

8 metres of very pretty 'Small Susanna' design Liberty Print 100% cotton Tana Lawn Bias Binding.

The 15mm binding is hand bound onto a rather beautiful large wooden bobbin. So use it to make all manner of gorgeous things, or just leave it as is as something rather special to look at. 

Price:$32.00

You would have to walk farther than the length of the Great Wall of China before you found a sewing kit as cute and useful as this.

With the most beautifully designed tin box as a home, this kit includes quality scissors (yes they really cut), pins, needles, tape measure, reels of cotton, safety pins, thimble, cute strawberry pin cushion, seam ripper and buttons.

From the UK's brilliant Dumpling Dynasty range, and now available in Australia - this tin will be in the family for dynasties!

Price:$32.00

This gorgeous smock dress from Littlehorn has all the things we're loving this season - vintage cut, folksy detailing and a loose fit in soft denim that's perfect for layering. Now why doesn't it come in our size?

Autumn/Winter Special Offer: Save $20 (usual price $75) 

Price From:$75.00

Sparrowkids are wonderful, natural craft kits for children. High-quality felt pieces are pre-cut and punched with holes, and they come with safety needles, thread and notions to make the most gorgeous crafty projects ever!

The Owl Bag Kit makes a pretty and very funky bag that crafty girls will love. Made from the best quality recycled felt with part of the proceeds going to animal research. It's a great accessory they'll be proud to use because they made it.

Autumn/Winter Special: Save $10 (usually $34.95)

Price:$24.95

Imagine, immerse and indulge yourself in the picture book world of Belle & Boo.

These wonderful art prints are the creation of British illustrator Mandy Sutcliffe. Her deceptively simple and stylish images capture vividly precious moments in time enjoyed by children. Each print is signed by the artist and mounted onto soft white board.

The prints are presented in a cello sleeve with a pretty band and certificate, ready to give, frame or just enjoy for yourself. The mount sizes vary.

The prints are delivered carefully packaged and unframed, with a custom mount and wrap.

Autumn/Winter Special: Buy 'My Favourite Spot in Autumn' for only $60

Price:$60.00

Our pumpkins are hand made from washable 100% cotton yarn in vibrant colours. They rattle when shaken and are perfect for baby gifts, pin cushions, or just a sweet display!

Price:$14.95

We spotted these cute cupcake wrappers on our travels and were thrilled to find that they are designed and made here in Melbourne by the fab duo of Natalie and Kathy at the Cupcake Wrapper Co.

Cupcake wrappers are a super-sweet way to decorate your cupcakes. They are quick, easy and economical - perfect for busy people. And if you're not the world's best baker, don't worry - they will make any cupcake gorgeous!

Each packet contains 12 cupcake wrappers of one design.

The wrappers are for decorative purposes only (do not bake your cupcakes in the wrappers).

They are suitable for larger muffin size cupcakes with a diameter of 5cm across the base of the cupcake.

Cupcake wrappers are made from sturdy paper card stock and are laminated on both sides to avoid the cupcake ingredients discoloring your wrappers. This means they can be re-used if you handle them carefully.

Pretty up your cupcakes with a gorgeous selection of wrappers!  

Price:$14.95

Sweet tooths rejoice! The new recipe book from Frankie magazine is packed with all sorts of deliciousness including honeycomb, toffee apples, candy hearts and mint patty delights (to name a few).

If you liked Afternoon Tea, you’re going to love Sweet Treats. A must for anyone who ever lined up excitedly in the tuckshop line or rushed to a cake stall at the school fete.

Price:$19.95

New from Dutch designer Jurianne Matter, Blom, the flowers that are always in bloom!

These pretty paper flowers make a lovely gift to send to someone in the mail, decorating parcels or in a vase. Thread Blom flowers on a string to create instant floral bunting or attach to a cocktail stick to make your cupcakes gorgeous.

Make your own Blom bouquet by pressing the flowers out of the A5 card and threading them onto traditional florist wire. Anyone can do it! They last forever.

Blom includes 3 cards (15 easy pop out flowers in total) plus 4.5 metres of florist wire. The diameter of each flower is approx. 6 cm.

Price:$19.95

By popular demand - our Keep Calm and Carry On range now includes a poster! Printed on archival quality paper, the poster comes unframed, to allow you to choose your own frame. It is 420 x 600 mm and fits perfectly in an IKEA Ribba frame, as shown in the photo. The poster is a tomato red colour on a vanilla background. It does not have a white border. The 'Keep Calm and Carry On' image is based on a British wartime poster - click the images on the right to see other products in this range by Lark, the original designer of Keep Calm homewares!

Price:$25.00

Em and Matt Bruty are inspired by the eccentricities of English tradition, British birds and garden life, vintage crockery, childhood nostalgia, living by the seaside and the love of tea drinking!

Their beautiful greeting cards are silk screen printed in England using water-based inks - they look very sweet in a frame too. Size 12x12 cm. Recycled card in biodegradable bag. 

Price:$5.95

Em and Matt Bruty are inspired by the eccenticities of English tradition, British birds and garden life, vintage crockery, childhood nostalgia, living by the seaside and the love of tea drinking!

Their hand-printed designs are much loved in Australia and they were winners in the 2009 House & Garden Australia Design Awards for their pretty place mats.

These stunning 100% cotton coasters are hand-printed with illustrations based on vintage china saucers. They are 12 x 12 cms and come in a set of 6 (2 in each design).

Price:$39.95

These gorgeous homewares feature images from the archives of Ladybird Books in England.

If you grew up with these delightful books or are a lover of vintage children's book illustrations you will adore them.

Each product is made to a very high quality and will really cheer up your kitchen or office.

The 'Classic' range features 1950s, 60s and 70s images, primarily from the Peter and Jane books. The cake tin is 20cms diameter.

Price:$29.95

These beautiful greeting cards from illustrator Lisa Jones were inspired by the stuffed remnants of retro fabrics that accompanied her '70s childhood. Their misfit aesthetic and recycled ethics are now fit for friendship with a whole new generation. Printed using vegetable derived inks on 100% recycled paper, and presented in earth-friendly biodegradable packaging.

Price:$5.00

 This gorgeous set of two large place mats will sweeten any room décor. They are especially perfect for family settings as the supple PVC-coated cotton prints are machine-washable, but they are equally at home in a grown-up space!

Price:$24.95

These lovely 'old-school' hardbacked books with lined pages take their inspiration from notebooks found in markets across India. Available in 4 styles Size:14 x 19cm

Price:$19.95

Make your own fairytale with these little lanterns from Jurianne Matter!

Bring light into your home or your summer garden party with these magical little lanterns. Send them as invitations, get-well cards, birthday greetings or as a little light in dark times. You simply write your message on the top and bottom.

The A5 format card can easily be folded into a round party light. It fits around a high glass (diam. max 5.5cm) with a tea-light inside. It is safe and easy - it burns for hours. One pack contains 7 lanterns of different designs.

Price:$19.95

From a series of books published by small Japanese publisher Paumes. The books are a must-have for interior design lovers, with their gorgeous images and colourful design.

21 Parisian families, artists and designers feature in this lovely book. Beyond the family portraits are the interiors of their wonderfully creative homes, each with a personality of its own, painting a picture of the family who lives there. From the pure and simple to the boldly graphic, from the vibrantly colourful to flea-market chic, from the enchantingly romantic to cool, contemporary design... Bienvenue à la maison!

128 pages, full colour throughout, text in Japanese.

Price:$37.50

It has taken two years of searching the globe for THE very coolest cocktail stuff and now Wu & Wu are bringing you the very insane, the very magical, the very inspiring - Happy Hour kit. There are four tin Darling Dynasty coasters, a comprehensive Asian cocktail guide (Shanghai-tini anyone?), flamingo stirrers, Chinese-style cocktail parasols and the world's coolest peacock and fan-tail fish cocktail-party decorations. All this, in the maddest of Asian tin designs you have ever seen - this is the gift that just keeps on giving! Your friends will love you forever.

Price:$32.00

No birthday party is complete without bunting, and this cool cotton bunting from Dutch designer-maker Sabien Engel is the best we have ever seen. 11.5 metres (38ft) of large flags in folksy florals and dots are joined together on colourful ribbons.

The bunting is double-stitched for durability and fully washable, so yoiu'll be bringing it out year after year for family parties , baby showers, carnivals, picnics in the park, and celebrating all the beautiful moments in life. It also makes a great decorative feature in cool children's rooms and comes in two super-sweet designs.

Beautiful in combination with Engel's tablecloth, the bunting comes in a handy transparant carrierbag. A great gift for young and old!

Price:$59.95

Lark's soft toys are based on original vintage knitting patterns. Each toy is beautifully hand-made and pre-washed for that 'much loved' look of our favourite old toys. Little Deer is a very sweet deer, knitted in 100% cotton.

Price:$49.95

Konichiwa and Bonjour! Tokyo Belle, the fab new range from Dumpling Dynasty, combines vintage Manga and Kawaii in a super-cute new range. These luscious products are filled with layer upon sweet layer of dainty flowers, precious animals, dreamy frivolous heroines and kitschy European icons.

It’s so 1970s, so Japanese-tastic, so seriously vintage! And sure to be a huge hit for Christmas 2010.

The Tokyo Belle Beauty Kit is a super-cute tin containing mirror compact, tweezers, five brush set, nail clippers, nail file and postcard. For girls big and small!

Price:$32.00

Konichiwa and Bonjour! Tokyo Belle, the fab new range from Dumpling Dynasty, combines vintage Manga and Kawaii in a super-cute new range. These luscious products are filled with layer upon sweet layer of dainty flowers, precious animals, dreamy frivolous heroines and kitschy European icons.

It’s so 1970s, so Japanese-tastic, so seriously vintage! And sure to be a huge hit for Christmas 2010.

The Tokyo Belle Letter Case is a super-sweet tin packed with everything you need to stay in touch with best friends – address book, fountain pen with box of cartridges and two sets of pretty notecards and envelopes.

Price:$32.00

Shine those shoes with joy! Without a doubt, this comprehensive kit is the must-buy retro gift of the season. Complete with neutral and black polish, two brushes, two soft cloths and a shoe horn. This darling tin will last a lifetime. Packaged in white cardboard gift box. From the UK's brilliant Dumpling Dynasty range, and now available in Australia - shine with joy!

Price:$32.00

This popular kit from Dumpling Dynasty contains everything needed to make a 30cm high soft toy, including felt, wool, plastic needle and clear instructions. It also contains a special journal and a pencil to record your throughts or write a story about your new toy. This is the idea kit for beginner sewing and is suitable for younger girls or boys. All in a pretty and re-usable tin. Make with joy!

Price:$32.00

Is this the world's first pigtail kit? Perhaps. It is certainly the world's cutest! Beautifully illustrated tin containing a high quality comb and mirror set. Comes with a selection of carefully chosen vintage hair accessories. From the UK's brilliant Dumpling Dynasty range, and now available in Australia - this is just about the most beautiful thing the world has to offer.

Price:$32.00

How cute is the new Darling Dynasty range? This eco-friendly cosmetic bag/washbag is great for holidays.

Price:$24.95

This stunning bag is made from a strong, non-woven material that is completely cool on the environment to make, can be recycled and will bio-degrade.

It's big at 40h x 37w x17d, so it will easily carry all your worries and worldly concerns in one comfy holdall.  Plus there's a special little pocket on the inside. Guaranteed to raise a smile!

Price:$29.95

At last, the perfect gift to get those tv-watching, computer-game-addicted boys off the sofa and into the outdoors. Inside this gift-giver's delight of a tin, you will find a carefully chosen vintage-style metal torch, magnifying glass, metal compass, string with knot-guide and notebook and pencil. From the UK's brilliant Dumpling Dynasty range, and now available in Australia - this absolutely rocks!

Price:$32.00

You don't need to be a child to love these Marionette cards from Darling Clementine. The animals are inspired by 1950's finger puppets, and we like to think they're all on a stage doing tricks: Mr. Frank Fox, Elle Elephant and all the others! They also look wonderful framed as wall art. Size: 12 x 12 cm with recycled envelopes.

Price:$5.00

We believe this is the world's first colour-your-own sticker book. Free with the book come 75 specially-printed stickers which children can colour then stick where they like. The book itself is another fun-packed adventure, this time exploring the surprisingly interesting theme of things that stick.

Look out for a magnetic ballgown. Watch how a snail plays with sellotape. And see how a tea party in the garden can turn really, really sticky.

Rosie Flo books are a  new kind of activity book for children aged 4 to 14 (and beyond!). The child gets to create their own Rosie Flo and Johnny Joe characters by drawing in their heads, arms and legs. Every detail has been carefully thought of in these exquisite books, from the thick archival paper (no show-through!) to the square format that fits into almost any bag or packpack - great for travel! With Rosie Flo, you'll you'll want to join in and get creative yourself!

Price:$15.00

Price:$3.00

A new kind of activity book for girls aged 4 to 14 (and beyond!). Rosie Flo books are a unique collection of dresses, some fabulous, some with a story to tell, but leaving plenty of room for the imagination! The child gets to create her own Rosie Flo characters by drawing in their heads, arms and legs. Created by a London-based mum (and designer) for her own daughters, these fabulous books are now available in Australia. Every detail has been carefully thought of in these exquisite books, from the thick archival paper (no show-through!) to the square format that fits into almost any bag or packpack - great for travel! What does a pair of riding boots look like? What do ballet dancers wear? _ Rosie Flo takes you through the fashion universe, with different dresses for different occasions_ you'll want to join in and get creative yourself!

Price:$15.00

Price:$29.95

Issue 2 is here!

Extra Curricular is a New Zealand publication dedicated to showcasing people who do interesting creative projects in their spare time as well as encouraging those who wish they did.

Whether they have a 9-5 job, a fledgling business or a young family, the people profiled in Extra Curricular are connected by their passion for keeping the right side of the brain active in their off-hours. They do it for the love of it - driven by a creative urge, they stay up late and work weekends in order to complete their latest side project.

This issue includes a wee illustration featurette, an article about the craft craze and whether it's possible to make a living selling your wares, interviews with a leather tooler, a jewellery maker, a paper artist, and the girls behind 'Martha Goes Green' talk about self-publishing their vegetarian cookbook. There are a few other treats to be discovered too.

Extra Curricular is printed in full colour on beautiful recycled stock. Issue 1 sold out very quickly so don't miss out on issue 2!

Full colour; printed with vegetable based inks on recycled stock
68 pages + cover; 200mm x 148mm

Price:$12.50

Thaw Magazine is a gorgeous zine from Ballarat, Victoria, written and photographed by the talented duo of Kim and Rohan Snderson. It's all about Music, Fashion, Art, Food, Craft and People, and it promotes local creativity. We love it!

Price:$5.00

Spoonful is a short and inspiring little publication which, in light of our insanely busy lives and increasing ‘oh no, I must find time to read x’ can be finished by the end of a train ride. It’s small enough to carry about with you, beautifully soft, & after reading will genuinely make you smile.

Spoonful is subtitled ' a happiness companion' and is all about inspiration, contentment and recovering from failures. Issue 2 includes a lovely little crafty tutorial to use up your happy scraps!

Price:$9.00

Thaw Magazine is a gorgeous zine from Ballarat, Victoria, written and photographed by the talented duo of Kim and Rohan Anderson. It's all about Music, Fashion, Art, Food, Craft and People, and it promotes local creativity. We love it!

Price:$5.00