Smittenz first winter is nearly over. Thank you to all those who supported us, and thank you to my second family in Nepal and everyone who helped with our first selling season. Online sales will continue over the New Zealand Spring and Summer but it will not be until 01 April that Smittenz will be

Having settled on Nepal as the place where Smittenz products would be made, it just fitted so well that my first commitment would be to re-invest back into cottage industry there, where villages were still hugely effected by the 2015 earthquake. One of my dear friends, Andre, has long been an altruist in Sri Lanka,

One of the first things I did was to start googling. A lot. I googled mittens and gloves from all over the planet. I googled ponchos, scarves, hats…………….and saved anything of interest to a folder. Pinterest came in handy as a tool for collecting images of any items that took my fancy. I also started taking