03/07/2026
What beautiful weather we have been having here in little old Ashburton. ☀️🌸
Our living window has been loving the sunshine as much as we have- especially the sweet peas!
It’s Rosie here, 👋 just taking over the grid for a moment to shower our wonderful Jodi with some birthday love and appreciation. 🎂♥️🎂
Jodi is our mama monger. Since the start of 2025 Jodi has been running our beautiful shop from behind the scenes, as well as raising her little, adventurous Rew - who was born at the same time she took over the reigns here. She’s a real super human.
It’s been incredible to witness how has bountifully been fed and watered by Jodi’s beautiful and wild soul, ever since she first brought the shop into being back in 2019 alongside and later (both of whom stepped back in 2025 to pursue their other many creative passions and projects).
Of course Craftmongers has a soul of its own, a garden nurtured by many hands and pollinated by all of you lovely beings. 🌻 But I know there would be no garden here to tend without our wonderful Jodi.
I here are some of Jodi’s own words you can find on our website-
“I have learnt so much in these past few years, particularly about the importance of art and heritage crafts- how the people that practise their gifts and callings, that share them, teach them, write about them, these people are incredibly humbling and brave, and are a leading light to follow in a world that has often felt so very out of touch with our natural native roots. I feel deeply moved by the creative community that continues to grow around us and I am honoured to be able to support them, and privileged to have their faith and enthusiasm in return. The love for the shop and the work of our makers is overwhelming and beautiful, and fuels us to keep doing what we do. All of our treasures are handmade, forged, and imagined from the stories and dreams of the person that made them, stories that will be carried through the generations in the hands that cherish them, and by those inspired to pick up tools, brushes and pens and begin their own. That to me is magic, and it is magic that we