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A rec from a reader: https://hapa.co.nz !!

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This is an amazing gift guide, thank you! Needed gifts for our kids kaiako - tossing between the whakakai earrings or the kawakawa balms.

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So much good stuff eh?

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This is the best gift guide ever, thank you. I’ve done a sum total of zero gift buying or thinking about what to get….now I feel sorted which ridiculously cool stuff made and sold by awesome people 🎅 phew.

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Yay!

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Thistle Hall in Cuba St. will have Just Good Stuff by local makers from 16-22 December - always a great spot to find unique, useful, delicious things!

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Awesome list, I've just ordered some cute stickers from The Samantha Room!

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You absolutely saved my ass this Christmas. I've been so sick and until an hour ago I hadn't bought a single present. Now I'm almost sorted. Thank you SO much.

I'd humbly like to recommend Preserved Identity - a 🍉 owned business with beautiful solidarity items, kufiyeh, gorgeous soaps, and omg the best dates you will ever eat. https://preservedidentity.com/

And also for something a bit different, my pal verby who makes wicked cool chainmail jewellery, they did a couple of custom orders for me earlier this year (I never wear a pair of earings, they made me two bespoke non-matching earrings and I LOVE them. https://felt.co.nz/shop/reverb

And kirikiriroa-based Sawubona, a social enterprise with a beautiful collection of handcrafted homewares curated from different African countries with Fair Trade principles. Gorgeous homewares. https://www.sawubona.co.nz/

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Also I often make donations to MSF/Doctors Without Borders on behalf of my friends and family https://www.msf.org/donate

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https://innonative.nz/ is also great :)

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Such a fab list!!!

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Thank you for this! Just bought some of the Manaaki chutneys.

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