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Mending ❄️ boots, 🥣 bowls, and 💆‍♂️ souls, and seeing the city with a different lens 📷

Hiii Dabblers! It's my birthday week! And what better way to celebrate than getting my hair did (by the lovely ✨Hannah✨ from Kitche), then taking the (b)day off to partake in a Kintsugi workshop, and then shmoozing [read: stuffing food in my face and avoiding eye contact, so no-one talks to me] at the ArchiPro Home Design evening. Plus, Go Green and beginning to organise my ✨entire existence✨, ready to move 😬 I'm really looking forward to creating a space to permanently set up my sewing...

Kia Ora Dabblers! Hope your week's been copacetic! Please do smash the reply button and tell me what you've been working on/dreaming about/having fun with/learning this week, I ADORE chatting with you! Maybe my most spendy hobby yet, I bought a whole heckin' house 🙀 (well, tbf, I'll probably own the toilet and maybe 1/6 of the kitchen, but it's a start...!? I'm also schemin'... If you'd be interested in being a secret society member of a separate publication for DIY/interiors/local contractor...

Aloha Dabblers,A bit of a quieter week, particularly event-wise, this week (a fair bit of slower paced stuff)...howeverrrr, we are working on an events calendar (a mixture of regular and once-off/limited time events, still all hobby/interest related), so you can forward plan, refer back to, share, and click the direct links to book/get more info, without getting lost in the weeds. LOOK OUT FOR IT NEXT WEEK!(It will be a paid feature in future, but you'll get to enjoy it for free for a while...

Heyyy Dabblers, Happy mid-Winter! Been a weird ol' week, weather-wise, but that's enough about that (ooh how about a silly little competition?! Count the number of times someone talks to you about the weather for the next week and if you've got the most, I'll shout you a chai) 🌦 Interestingly, there seems to be a bunch of stuff on tomorrow (Thursday), I could have filled the entire section just with Thursday stuff (must be something in the air...(that doesn't count)) 🤔 Speaking of prizes, I'm...

The (inaugural) Dabbling

Howdy, Dabblers!*sharp inhale* Holy-sheeeeet-welcome-to-the-very-first-issue-of-The-Dabbling-I'm-freakin'-stoked-you're-heeeere!Before we get stuck into what to expect weekly from The Dabbling, allow me (well, you can't stop me) to take a moment to explain why I'm creating a free neighbourhood newsletter, all about hobbies, interests, and being a (terrible(-ly awesome)) beginner, right here in Ōtautahi Christchurch... (If you've read your welcome email, this part will be familiar - don't tell...