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Our retail store closes Sunday for 2023 (we close at 3:30pm Saturday and will reopen on Monday 8th Jan at 9:30am), and we wanted to take a moment to wish you all a very happy & safe holiday season and...
The team at Dooney & Daughters love a good notebook / sketch book / art journal but we were struggling to find exactly what we were after - a high quality, unlined, thick journal made of recycled paper. So we...
We have been loving painting and decoupaging our small and large scallop trays! Along the way we've worked out our favourite way to paint them and thought we'd share - anything to make painting easier :) Tip One: Use Velvet...
We're very excited to introduce our special, ready-to-paint MDF wood collection! Designed by us, our first collection includes two different photo frames, a rectangle and a square tissue box, and two different sized trays with scallop detailing. When it comes...
Luna Pearl is our favourite glaze to play with! Super versatile, it looks wonderful over a variety of colours, from pale blue, to yellow, to pink, to neutrals and greys. Luna Pearl is a semi-translucent glaze that gives a pearlised...
We often get asked if you can paint glass with premium chalk paint, and the answer is: Yes! You can definitely paint glass with premium chalk paint, in fact it's something we do often with our range of glass bottles...
We're very excited to be the first retailer of the wonderful White Cloud rub on transfers! We love to support local manufacturers and designers, and White Cloud transfers are made here in New Zealand. Available in a huge range of...
In this blog post we share some inspiration of small projects we've completed using rub on transfers. Transfers look great on furniture but you can also use them on smaller decor items to create unique items for your home or...
We're very excited to be able to reveal two brand new metallic concentrate colours from The Artisan Company! Both beautiful metallic concentrates can be used as a full pigment paint or as a metallic glaze, making them a perfect addition...
In this blog post we will show you step-by-step how to apply an Efex moulding to a photo frame. We love how using mouldings adds extra detail to a simple photo frame. Once painted you can add depth with dark...
