Hello everyone,
we are happy to announce the arrival of issue #2, “Making a Fuss”. Thanks heaps to our lovely contributors out there, and special thanks to photographer Kate McPherson. Thanks for making the magazine amazing, and great to look at.
You can get issue #2 on our World Sweet World site, or from stockists all over the place. Also, you can subscribe to issue #3 – issue #6, and automatically be in to win a lamp made by ponoko.
It involved glue and cardboard, and a project of the new issue #2 of the magazine. But saying more would be telling. We’re expecting issue #2 to come back from the printer this afternoon, and it’ll come out this Thursday, 5th June. Coinciding with this, the website and blog will be updated visually, and there’ll be some new stuff on the site: updated Hot Dates, a few sneak peek pictures of issue #2, and of course the option to buy issue #2 and to subscribe to issues #3 – #6.
See you then!
Thomas
PS Oh, and guess what we did the weekend before that! We went to the Knack Market in Berhampore, a very cute little crafty market. There’ll be another one in a couple of months, so keep your eyes peeled!
Check out all the stuff that’s going on during the Fair Trade Fortnight, from May 3rd til May 18th. The Trade Aid shops around New Zealand are raising awareness for Environmental Justice, showcasing the Junk to Green Funk pieces that people have submitted.
All Trade Aid events are centered around World Fair Trade Day on the 10th of May, which will see the Fair Trade Food Fiesta in the Wellington Trade Aid shop (86-96 Victoria Street), including baking, cooking demonstrations and tastings, and speakers, including Sue Kedgley (Green Party), and live music.
Thomas
There was a bit of silence lately, but no worries, we’re still here. In fact, we were so quiet because we’re completely and absolutely working on the 2nd issue, which will be coming out on World Environment Day, 5th of June. We will be updating the site soon with new images. And, there’s a new feature – so many people have asked for it, and here it is: subscribe to issue #2 – issue #5.
Thomas
Hi everyone, another crafty fair is coming up this weekend – the Autumn Craft Festival in Lower Hutt. We’ll be there spreading World-Sweet-World-ness and will also cover two chairs during the fair. Hands on!
The exhibition will be open from 10am til 4pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Might see you there,
Thomas
It was hot at Mighty Mighty Markets, humid, but not raining. And we also sold some magazines!
Thomas
well… sort of. In issue 2 (which is well underway, incidentally – thanks to all the people offering to contribute) we’ve got a new gallery ads section in the back of the mag. The idea is that it will be a bit of a showcase for creative types who are making stuff. We’ve had quite a few shop owners looking in the magpie’s nest section for goodies to stock in their shops, so we thought we should give more of you makers the opportunity to get your goods out there too. Rates are reasonably cheap and cheerful – go download the rate card here if you’re interested.
thanks
Hannah
Thanks everyone for coming around to our launch last Saturday at Craft2.0 – it’s been exciting to get all this positive feedback. We were so busy talking to people that we didn’t think of taking pictures of the event ourselves, so here are some, kindly provided by The Shopping Sherpa. Yey!
Thomas
We have dates, and they are hot: http://worldsweetworld.com/hotdates/.
We will try to update the events regurlarly – any suggestions, drop us a line, so they stay hot!
Thomas
Ooh er! We got the mag back from the printers on Friday and Thomas has spent the weekend working on the website (have a peak over at www.worldsweetworld.com and see his hard work) getting it all ready for launch next weekend. It’s all looking WONDERFUL! Thanks to Lithoprint for a speedy and beautiful job. Thanks also to all the lovely people who have been contacting us out of the blue about World Sweet World. We’ve put up a stockists page on the website, so now you know where you can get it, if you don’t want to buy it directly from us at Craft2.0 on Saturday *sniff*. We’re also in the process of talking to other shops, so keep checking back, and if you’d like to see it in a particular store near you, let us know and we’ll see what we can do.
Hannah
