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Monique Doy
Meet Monique Doy, a size inclusive personal stylist. She works with women helping them to wear their personalities and show up for their lives!
Neurodivergent Kids Play
A Wellington playgroup for neurodivergent children and their families to socialise and support one another.
Ali Brown Weaving
Online instruction and occasional workshops for both beginners and advanced weavers held at the Ngatīmotī Community Rooms, Motueka Valley Highway, Ngatīmotī, Tasman. Lovely books also available.
Flaxworx NZ
A subscribers only learning space for experienced or advanced weavers as well as selling weaving supplies and Mahi Raranga / woven treasures.
Artisan School of Lost Arts
It all begins with an idea. Start with a block of carbon steel, design, shape and craft it into your very own tool. The same way humans have been doing for thousands of years!
Sue Engels Shoemaker
One on one tuition from an experienced hand in a fully equipped artisan studio. Tailored to suit your skillset. Three day, six day or shorter leathercraft sessions on offer. Simply email your course choice with preferred dates and if a booking is available, a confirmation payment can be done online.
Stackhouse Knives
Stackhouse Knives offers a wide range of artisan classes where you can produce all sorts of objects.1 hour sessions to 6 day classes. All levels catered for.
The Solo Blacksmith
Create your own simple, handmade products. Workshops for the truly materialistic. The truly materialistic are people who care about the things they own, not just about owning stuff, or having more stuff.
Shoe School
Making a pair of shoes is not only a transformative experience, it is a skill that has almost disappeared in NZ. Shoe School is changing this by giving you the skills to make your own shoes.
Make a Knife
Forge your own hand made knife from raw steel to a blade you will treasure forever.
Kōwhai Forge
Do you want to experience the art of blacksmithing? You have come to the right place! From knives to axes and other tools!
Dunedin Gasworks Museum
Visit for the experience and stay for a blacksmithing course. Places limited, bookings essential
Barrytown Knifemaking
Come and make a knife from red hot steel – you’ll amaze yourself at what you can accomplish! 9:30am until around 4pm. Drinks and snacks until around 5pm.
Pure Nature
Learn with PureNature! They supply ingredients so you can make your own health, beauty, and craft products to use, share or sell. In person classes and online tutorials available.
Perfume Workshop Miller Road
Did you know that during their bespoke perfume workshop, you can choose between more than 60 different fragrances? Names of the fragrances are taken off the bottles, so you will be making your choices on aroma alone. This helps you to create something that you truly love. Workshops in Devonport and Queenstown.
Candle Creations
A fun evening in the Candle Creations Auckland sample room.
Wild Forest Tree Hut Eco Retreat
Like a magic carpet ride in the canopy of the forest. Enjoy the lovely setting of this romantic off the grid hut designed to connect you to the forest and with each other. It's both deeply relaxing and energising. Wild Forest Hideaway is a haven of peace and serenity in a stunningly secluded slice of the Kauri Coast. This is the kind of natural decompression your mind, body and soul will thank you for. Lots to choose from.
Wood Pigeon Lodge
A variety of quiet and secluded accommodation options with volcanic, rural and forest views. Wood Pigeon Lodge is an ideal base for all local summer and winter activities in the Tongariro National Park and Whanganui River areas.
Tūī Ridge Cabins
The gorgeous cabins, Tūī Treehouse, The Ark, Morepork Hideout and the The Pines all offer different types of accommodation and great views and privacy and are the perfect escape for some rest and relaxation.
Treehut Whareora
Highly recommended on Airbnb. People love its fairytale feel.
Tiny House Raglan
Come experience what it’s like to live off-the-grid in a tiny house nestled in nature. Take time to rest and unplug from your everyday with a special person in your life. Stop, breathe fresh air, relax and revive.
The Tree House Hokianga
The Tree House is a retreat style eco lodge catering for up to 20 independent travellers - its gardens inspired by permaculture principles and surrounded by regenerating native bush and wetlands. Cute cabins and dorm rooms.
Treehouse Carterton
The Tree House is a perfect, off-the-grid retreat for nature lovers, where you can listen to birdsong, see the sunrise from the deck and hear the river flowing in the valley.
Riverview Treehouse
Come and escape at a little slice of Paradise! Located on the Rangitikei River in the remote Mokai Valley, Taihape.
Silky Otter Ōrākei
A boutique experience without the boujee price tag. This is luxe cinema viewing where everyone gets to lounge around in recliner chairs and enjoy chef-made snacks like mini pizzas (including a vegan Margherita), salmon cucumber cups and triple chocolate brownies.
Rainforest Retreat
Nestled amongst the Southern Alps close to Franz Josef Glacier and countless scenic spots, Rainforest is the perfect base to explore New Zealand’s glacier Country and the wild west coast. Gorgeous accommodation options. From a holiday park, flash packers vibe to deluxe retreat options.
Nest Tree Houses
In Kurow, North Otago, The Nest is a stylish private tree house perched high in a pine canopy. The cosy wooden interior boasts all the mod cons, floor-to-ceiling windows to take in the surrounds, and an indoor gas fireplace for cool-weather comfort. Guests can soak in the hot tub, order a platter to graze on or cross a swing bridge for a relaxing session in the cedar sauna, surrounded by dreamy forest views.
Kauri Chalet Karekare Beach
Beautiful bush chalet surrounded by mature Kauri trees and native birds. Private and peaceful with a deck overlooking the bush.
Hapuku Lodge + Tree Houses
For a cool canopy experience, the modern, wood-clad Tree House Rooms, set in a manuka grove remote from the main lodge, are an amazing treat. The five one-bedroom Upper Branch Rooms, perched 10 metres up in the treetops, are the most romantic and private with wraparound windows ensuring stunning views of mountains, sea and roaming deer from the spa bath, seating nook (complete with wood fire) and deck.
Fairytale Treehouse
This gorgeous house is built right in the boughs of the trees, reconnecting you with tales like the Lord of the Rings and the Magic Faraway Tree. Take an adventure into this dreamy dwelling that's nestled in its own private stand of native trees.