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Sew Your Clothes Festive Settings
Tips for home How to impress
sewers and novices. on a budget.
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Garden Craft
Wendyl Nissen’s
unique craft project.
WELLBEING BEAUTY FOOD
14 Made with Love 40 Best of Natural Awards 48 Vivre la Belle Vie
Keen to craft but not sure How entries for the Best of Annabel Langbein’s search for
where to begin? We’ve got Natural Awards will measure une belle maison in France,
you covered! up, and how HealthPost is plus divine dessert recipes.
making ethical and sustainable
30 Good People shopping easy. 64 Caramel Nut Smoothie
Kate McLeay is changing the Recipe for a super yum and
lives of prisoners. 44 Ingestible Beauty naturally sweet bowl of
The benefits of feeding your goodness with cashews,
35 Overcoming Loneliness skin from the inside out and cauliflowerand cinnamon.
How to make friends at any top supplements to try.
age, anywhere. 66 Modern Matches
46 Tried and Tested Wine writer Joelle Thomson
38 The Six Tastes of Ayurveda A round-up of the best new presents some modern wine
Balancing our lives through beauty products that get and food pairings for
the rasas. our tick. vegetarian and vegan dishes.
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A Quiet Kitchen
Step inside
Nici Wickes
kitchen and her
new book.
HOME 54 TRAVEL
74 Crafting Oven Mitts 96 Tropical Island Getaway
The Ultimate
An easy-to-follow method for An island adventure and
Chocolate Cake
making oven mitts using a welcome escape now that
Annabel Langbein’s
woollen blanket and towel. most popular Samoa’s borders are open
recipe! once more to international
78 Meet the Maker travellers.
Botanical artist Nicky
Andrag’s passion for plants 100 Wonderful Walk
and conserving nature. Step back in time and
experience the wonders of the
84 Watering Guide Karangahake Rail Tunnel Walk.
How to keep your house
plants happy and healthy. 102 Saving Our Soil
Why soil is a hot topic right
90 Pruning Fruit Trees now and actions you can take
When and why to prune. to support soil health at home.
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Craft editor Sarah Heeringa
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Courtney, Kahu de Beer, Todd Eyre, Carolyn Enting, Conor Fox,
Fiona Fraser, Charles Goodwin, Josh Griggs, Rachel Grunwell,
Warren Heath, Sarah Heeringa, Justine Jamieson, Alisha
Kumar, Aimee Magne, William Meppem, Craig Miller-Randle,
Wendyl Nissen, Alice Parminter, Mark Roper, Amanda Reelick,
Rebecca Stirnemann, Joelle Thomson, Paige Thorp, Fiona
Tomlinson, Sarah Tuck, Jane Ussher and Celine Wallace.
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found myself in the company of a harakeke weaver
recently and she offered to teach me how to make a
basket. I accepted the invitation though I was also a
little fearful. This is because I’m a bit of a perfectionist
and for years I’ve told myself that I’m not good at craft,
which is silly because you don’t know unless you try.
Weaving the leaves together – under and over, over and
under – I found myself entering a meditative state. A deep
sense of calm.
Good feature writer Maddie Ballard explains the
psychology of crafting on page 14, confirming that craft
activities come with a whole host of psychological
benefits. Craft activities can not only help you unlock a
‘flow’ state, they can also provide a great distraction from
anything stressful you might have going on.
The same can be said for sewing. Hobby ‘sewist’
Jeanette Hayes (featured on pages 16 to 21) describes the
process perfectly: “At every stage of sewing a garment,
right from cutting the fabric out and actually sewing it up,
to putting the finishing touches on, all you can
concentrate on is what you’re doing. You can’t think about
the extraneous things that are happening in your life, it’s a
very meditative process.”
Then comes the feeling of satisfaction and sense of
achievement. My little basket was far from perfect with lots
of uneven gaps on completion, but it was still good enough
Good editor Carolyn Enting tried her hand at weaving harakeke for the
for carrying objects and I was very happy with it. first time over Matariki weekend at Parohe Island Retreat and made a
This all occurred at Parohe Island Retreat on Kawau little basket. It was far from perfect, as to be expected, but what was
unexpected was the deep sense of calm that the process of weaving
Island, though the weaving was not on the official
brought her and the gift of being totally present in the moment.
programme because the wonderful weaver was, like me,
a guest.
The sense of community and new friendships formed
through shared dinners over the three-day retreat was
heart-filling and reminded me of how food can bring STAY IN
people together. If you haven’t already twigged, craft and TOUCH
food are the overarching themes of this issue for all the
above reasons!
Within these pages you’ll find comforting chicken
dishes by Nici Wickes (pages 56 to 61) and divine desserts
from Annabel Langbein (pages 52 to 55) including The goodmagazine.co.nz
Ultimate Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache,
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We hope you tuck in and
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enjoy this issue as much as we Carolyn Enting, editor Fiona Tomlinson
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