Never Shopped Out: A Shopaholics Resource

Recycle your old winter woolies with reknit

As we all know, recycling is a good thing, and a great little site we stumbled across lets you recycle your knitted goods in your wardrobe

Reknit is a nifty service run by a mother/daughter team in the US. Basically you send them your old knit jumper, they unravel it, and then mum reknits you something [...]

Nails 101: Grow and Strengthen your nails

Nails are a wonderful. They’re like shoes, when all else fails you can paint your nails for a bit of a lift (god knows, nails, like shoes, never make you feel fat).  But whilst you don’t neccesarily need super long talons, decent length, strong healthy nails do require some work. Here’s how to get them…
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The Magical Milky Way’s Super Galactic Zoo

Here at NSO, we practice what we preach (it gives us a legitimate excuse to go shopping). This morning, my 3 year old was incredibly excited when the postman brought a beautifully wrapped parcel from Little Pinwheel, containing a lovely little frock and this totally awesome book. Written by Nicole Mandile, it’s illustrated by…you! (Well, your [...]

Mag Nation Undies Mondays – Are you up to the challange?

In one of the funniest instore promotions I’ve seen in a long time, Mag Nation are challanging you to shop in your jocks with Undies Mondays.

Basically, every Monday from now to March 29th if you stroll into Mag Nation in your undies (you’re not allowed to strip off instore), they’ll give you  any magazine, book [...]

Tom and Molly – Handmade Treasures

Tom and Molly is a new Australian handmade label I’ve fallen in love with – at the moment, the pretty twirly skirts and reversible tie dresses cater just for little girls (or boys if you want, who are we to stifle creativity?!) but rest assured cool gear for little guys will be available soon.
Aside from [...]