This is a fantastic local business. Great customer service and attention to detail. Tracey is lovely to deal with and so helpful. I love the canvas print of my daughter and me. I will be back for more that's for sure!

Lou does a fantastic job creating books and boxes by hand. She is a true artisan and I love her work.

I have to admit this is my business!! What’s not to love about it ;-)

Established in 1981 initially as a spinning and weaving equipment supplier, demand for Hands grew to include craft supplies, handcraft classes and workshops.

Creations Unlimited holds every sort of knick-knack craft tool that you could ever think of. This haberdashery was made for craft lovers and satisfies their every need.

For everything quilt related then look no further than Kiwiquilts!

From candle making to card making to craft workshops, this shop caters to every particular craft desire that you could ever dream of. Situated in Buller, this shop always amazes me with the stock and quality that it provides to the lives of a creative craft maker.

A great Gallery with wonder work from living artists.

A great supporter of the Arts

A great place to support you local artists.

Am still out on this one???

A nice little gallery and a nice day out for the afternoon any time of year.

This great needlecraft store is in Mt Wellington and is a treasure trove of all things crafty. My mother is an avid stitcher and loved her visit here. She did not leave empty handed!

Stitch & craft has a great selection of cross stitch patterns, knitting and crochet, I couldn’t go past a little Peter Rabbit design for my twin nephew and niece. Well worth the drive to East Tamaki.

A treasure trove of cross stitch, needle work and embroidery. I thought I’d died and gone to haberdashery heaven! They also run embroidery classes and drop in knitting classes. And the ladies who work here are lovely and really helpful.

African Art has carved a specific for itself art and crafts industry. Art lovers and art enthusiasts have always appreciated different forms of art that came out of this most fashionable continent. African art is one of the most popular house and office decoration options within Africa but all over the US, Australia and Canada. www.edbask.com is one of the top sources on the web for sourcing various types of artwork from Africa.For more detail please contact to 1-587-350-1440

African Art has carved a specific for itself art and crafts industry. Art lovers and art enthusiasts have always appreciated different forms of art that came out of this most fashionable continent. African art is one of the most popular house and office decoration options within Africa but all over the US, Australia and Canada. www.edbask.com is one of the top sources on the web for sourcing various types of artwork from Africa.For more detail please contact to 1-587-350-1440

African Art has carved a specific for itself art and crafts industry. Art lovers and art enthusiasts have always appreciated different forms of art that came out of this most fashionable continent. African art is one of the most popular house and office decoration options within Africa but all over the US, Australia and Canada. www.edbask.com is one of the top sources on the web for sourcing various types of artwork from Africa.For more detail please contact to 1-587-350-1440

I own it :0) Please look it up if you want to learn to draw, paint or make stuff. Its all fun.

It is our local Public Art Gallery. A wee gem hidden away in Pakuranga. They have amazing international and national artists showing there, right at our doorstep. It’s a wonderful place to visit. It also has easy parking and great coffee.

It’s a great place to go to see National and International artists. To learn how we see ourselves.

Great Materials, knowledgeable and helpful staff. Its a very dangerous place to go, as once you enter it is very hard to leave and quite often you come away with a load more of their exciting art materials to try out then first intended. :)

Terrific contemporary art exhibitions. Love it.

The pure size of this place gets me excited. Their craft supply section is exhaustive. I can go in here with no ideas but a crafty spirit and come out with three different projects!

So many great bits’n’bobs in here. You can find lots of little elements for craft projects. So much bling!

If you need fabric for any upcoming projects - Nicks is the place to go. A great range but not a huge daunting warehouse. Very friendly service and amazing prices.

From paints and canvas to buttons and ribbons to hooks and jars - Geoff’s has everything you’ll need for any crafty endeavour - and at a very reasonable price.

A den of crafty goods. Geoff’s North Shore brother - Ike’s in an excellent place for shore folk to go for all their craft supply needs. Great selection, friendly service.

This place is amazing. Whatever you are looking for lace, fabric, fringing, motifs, tassles, off cuts, everything is here!

Great shop and knowledgeable owner who has been in the business for years.  Enjoyed my visit!

Everything you need for sewing is here. From fabric to buttons, fringing to thread and more. it's an Aladin's cave of gems!

I really like this place. They have a great range of fabric and some unusual stuff that I haven't seen elsewhere. It's quality fabric and the staff give good advice too. Nice, clean shop which is a pleasure to browse in.

Big shop with lots of choice. You can always get a good range of patterns and they have pretty much everything you need. If you can't find it elsewhere, you'll probably find it here.

Global Fabrics is a dream destination for those who sew. It is stocked with luxury fabrics from designers such as Marc Jacobs and DKNY and has an incredible range of silks, cottons, exotic prints and more. Lovely and helpful staff round out the experience in this airy showroom.

Martha's is my go to for furnishing fabrics. The selection is amazing and I especially love the range of natural and dyed linens and the exquisite jewel tones of the velvet. Oh to re-upholster all of my furniture in that luscious stuff. Also worth noting is that they sell feather pillow inners which can be hard to find. It helps that one can sit down for a coffee and a doughnut at Little & Friday after all that hard work. 

Centrepoint has a large selection of fabrics and is handy to central Auckland in its Newmarket store. Lace, satin, sequins, printed cottons, tulle and trimmings - they pretty much have everything.

The Spotlight stores cater for most of your fabric needs whether you are looking for dressmaking supplies, curtain fabric or upholstery.

Front Room produces hand printed furnishings in fine cottons, silks and velvets, all with a twist. The St Kevin’s Arcade storefront is like a miniature gallery in which the sumptuous items are displayed as they might be in a house.

You will not regret a visit to Geoff’s Emporium. It’s your one-stop-shop for all things crafty at super cheap prices. They have pretty much everything you need for most projects, whether you’re making a Halloween costume or scrapbooking or coming up with new, creative home decor. The staff are lovely and are happy to help you find what you’re looking for or reach something that’s just a little too high.

Look Sharp is probably best known for its costumes, but it is secretly a crafter’s paradise. They’ve got paints and canvases for the artist, fondant tools, food colouring pastes and cupcake wrappers for the cake decorator and fabrics and threads for the stitcher. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! All in one place and all very reasonably priced - love it!

This place has a great selection of yarn. You’re bound to find what you need in the perfect colour for that hat, scarf, baby blanket, etc. The staff are lovely and helpful and happy to answer questions and make suggestions. Plus they’re open 7 days, so you’re covered for all those last-minute yarn emergencies.

So many wonderfully talented people have stalls in Craft World. Even if you just go in for a look you’re likely to come out with something you just couldn’t walk away from. If you’re a crafty sort of person yourself, you’ll probably come out with all sorts of ideas of projects to to try yourself. Well worth a trip.

It can be a bit expensive, but Spotlight often has crafty stuff you just can’t find in other shops. It doesn’t matter what your chosen craft or hobby is, they’ll probably have what you need. As a crochet addict, I love the huge selection of yarn. Make sure you get a VIP card you can take advantage of all the sales.

I recently purchased the green jelly virgin mary. She is super cool, and looks amazing when the sun hits her. Love it!

Love the little planes I bought two packs - they are currently flying down my hallway!

Have put up the Carmen and Queen of the Fairies print at my home - I get so many compliments I absolutely love them!

The place for art supplies!

Great little store, lots of gorgeous products for the home!

Te Tuhi is a space that has hosted an amazing array of contemporary exhibitions but still manages to distance itself from the swanky art vibe which can be off putting to the wider community. Not only is their main gallery space accessible to the general public but they pride themselves in creating a space which encourages community participation and engagement. This is a community space with heart and soul, this is what a centre for the arts is all about.

Perhaps one of the more accessible art spaces in Auckland, the Papakura Gallery draws from its local roots and hold it’s own in the art world. It may be one of the smaller spaces around but I always leave the gallery feeling more inspired then after any other gallery visit. As a Papakura girl at heart I can’t speak more highly of this little space and over the years I have seen it grow into the amazing gallery that it is today #proud.

I have certainly been to my fair share of exhibition openings at Artspace and even as a poor student it was never the free food and wine that brought me back. Ok so maybe that played a tiny roll in it. Artspace time and time again blows my mind. I love walking into an exhibition which is going to challenge the way I look at the world, the way I feel about life, the way I smell the roses. This place cultivates innovative art practices and promotes risk taking, which in my books is what art is all about. Push your boundaries, go and check out some thought provoking and perhaps slightly a little left of centre art.

Generally as a rule of thumb when a gallery is a little hard to find it’s worth looking for. That rule applies for Two Rooms, hidden on a side street just off Great North Road it doesn’t seem like the type of place to get your art fix. Looks can be deceiving, we all know that. The first exhibition I saw here was the stunning photographs of Frank Schwere as part of the Festival of Photography, if you are in to photography then head to google and check him out. I love going to a gallery space and feeling like its a second home, space to contemplate and to pace back and forth. Two Rooms is a second home and never fails to get the brain ticking over.

St Paul St boasts three gallery spaces and a long history of innovative and captivating exhibitions. During the middle of the year the third gallery space on Symonds Street hosts student pilot shows every week, openings are on Wednesday nights and as a veteran pilot show opening attendee I know that every week brings something new to the table. Did I mention that students know how to put on a really good opening night spread? Make sure you turn up early though otherwise you’ll be walking around withl a rumbling stomach and we all know that its easier to appreciate art with a wine glass in hand and something to nibble on.