CHRISTMAS

An estimated $400 million is spent on 10 million unwanted gifts Christmas in Australia, many of whichare were discarded and likely end up in landfill.

Gift cards endure as a great solution. When you know your friend or family member loves nature, the garden, craft, and the outdoors, FORA can help you alleviate that "did I get the right present" anxiety and quell that Gift Card buying guilt. Because let's face it, we all know a fuss POT or two.

Sustainability aside, some of us are just are not that organised so a Fora Gift Card will make a handy last-minute digital gift. 

This beautiful design is thanks to Catherine Haugland, owner and operator of Avalon Rose Design, which she runs out of her home office in northern Iowa, USA. Catherine has been designing for almost 15 years.

She's a mom of two kids and two dogs, an insatiable reader, a collector of old clocks and mountains of ephemera, a gardener, a coffee-lover, crochet & knitting aficionado, and of course an artist.

Avalon Rose Design is a vintage-inspired creative graphic design studio specialising in commercial use graphics and design resources such as fonts, vintage botanical florals, patterns, textures, embellishments, illustrations, paintings and more. If you're lucky custom logo design is available on a very limited basis.

An estimated $400 million was spent on 10 million unwanted gifts last Christmas in Australia, many of which were discarded and likely ended up in landfill.

Gift cards endure as a great solution. When you know your friend or family member loves nature, the garden, craft, and the outdoors, FORA can help you alleviate that "did I get the right present" anxiety and quell that Gift Card buying guilt.

Sustainability aside, some of us are just are not that organised so a Fora Gift Card will make a handy last-minute digital gift. 

This beautiful design is thanks to Basia Stryjecka, of Little Valley Studio. Originally from a small town in Poland, Basia now calls Michigan in the US her home. Often inspired by the beauty of nature, she creates pieces that bring a sense of calm and wonderment to our everyday lives. With a strong interest in color, composition, and texture she loves to integrate her knowledge of design into her abstract works. Watercolor is Basia's preferred medium, allowing the pigment to guide her brush in creating calming yet playful paintings

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Bois Imperial by Quentin Bisch

“It is thrilling to create beauty, sensuality and excitement out of the invisible”

Quentin Bisch
 

An all-encompassing passion is what led Quentin Bisch, a former music student and artistic director of a performing company, to trust his nose and dedicate several years to studying fragrance composition and finding his true vocation. 

All the hard work paid off when he was honoured with France's highest prize of 2020 Perfumer of the Year.

In Bois Imperial, freshly crushed and spicy thai basil leaves meet the sparkling peppery and grapefruit facets of Nepalese Timut Pepper absolute. A brilliant combination that contrasts perfectly with the bold woody signature of the fragrance.

A green, rich and earthy Haitian Vetiver oil echoes with Georgywood – an exclusive molecule with powerful cedarwood tones. This vibrating woody association is illuminated by the sophisticated floral of Givaudin's Petalia.

Majestic Akigalawood truly signs off the fragrance. This exclusive natural ingredient is upcycled from Patchouli by Givaudin. Its unique spicy-woody character is enhanced by a rich Indonesian Patchouli oil and a powerful, sustainable note of Ambrofix.

The Arts continues to inspire Quentin. He creates perfumes such as Bois Imperial in the same way he might direct a theatre performance using strong ideas, careful embellishments and surprising effects.

Quentin has made fragrances for Jean Paul Gaultier, Paco Rabanne, Saint Laurent, Azzaro, Mugler, Chloe, Ex Nihilo, Etat Libre d’Orange...

100ml Eau de Parfum concentrated at 16%

Alcohol made of Beetroot
Without Colouring
93% Natural

Unisex.

Made in France 

The revelation of an unknown landscape thanks to a daring accord of smoky, aquatic and metallic notes,

Ingredients

alcohol denat.*, parfum (fragrance), aqua (water), linalool, pentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, coumarin, citral, alpha-isomethyl ionone, isoeugenol, limonene, citronellol, geraniol, benzyl benzoate, benzyl alcohol.
*The alcohol used in this eau de parfum is a natural organic alcohol obtained from wheat.

Hemp yourself up from head to toe.

You already got the kicks, it's time to get a matching backpack. The Everyday Backpack is the world's 1st waterproof hemp backpack.  Minimalist, yet versatile enough for you to travel during the weekend.

Hemp yourself up from head to toe with the 8000 Kicks Everyday Backpack. The world's 1st weatherproof hemp backpack, minimalist for the work days and versatile enough for you to travel during the weekend. The last piece of back storage you will need.

PRODUCT DETAILS
💦 Weatherproof (PFC free)
🍁 Durable Hemp Fibers
💻 Fits a 15-inch laptop
🧳 18L expandable up to 30L
🔋 USB plug (no cable or battery included)
⚖️ Only 1.05kg | 2.31lb

Fora Studios is proud to an official stockist for 8000 Kicks in Australia. Find out more about their sustainability mission here.

Black Dust

Whether you want to sweep up the kids’ crumbs or take your dinner parties to fine dining level and clean up between courses, this convenient set takes up little room but does a big job.

And its usefulness isn’t limited to the dining table. This set is perfect for indoor gardening to collect any potting mix that may have missed the pot.

Choose a colour to match your kitchen, table setting, studio or workshop. This matte black finish evokes style and simplicity.

Artsy and crafty types will also find these a boon. Keep a separate one handy to flick away eraser shreds from your drawing, sweep threads from your stitchwork, coral beads together and much more.

This set, part of a collaboration with French design studio Mr & Mrs Clynk, brings streamlined modern chic to a classic. It consists of a brush framed in sustainably cultivate beech, with bristles in a blend of natural and synthetic fibres. Simply sweep crumbs and other particles into the lacquered metal tray and whisk them away. 

Presented in a gift box, this is an ideal gift for anyone whose enthusiasms sometimes get messy, including yourself.

Even the mundane act of sweeping up a surface can be a chance to reflect on the beauty of the materials and form. A small moment of grace and beauty in an ordinary day. 

Find out more about the inspriation behind this design collaboration here

Cream of the Crop

Looking for a seasoned all-rounder? HAWS' metal jug will happily water your pots or proudly sit on your shelf as a flower display for those freshly cut blooms.

Built for the ages, its heavy-gauge galvanised steel offers total rust protection for indoor or outdoor use. Powder-coated in one of several gorgeous interior-friendly colours, including this unctuous Cream, it makes a classic addition to your home, garden or studio, whether modern or rustic.

Materials: Galvanised, powder-coated steel

Dimensions: 21cm x 14cm x 23 cm

Capacity: 3 pints |  1420 ml

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CRA-YON's The High Road is your new forever scent. Herbaceous, sensual, and infatuating notes of cannabis, fig, sage, cedarwood, violet, and musk make up this multilayered scent that enchants all senses and teases your mind to reminisce over illicit behaviour. This transportive fragrance will put you in an empowered and elevated state you’ll never want to come down from. The High Road is the name of an ongoing exploration of the cannabis note with the hyped Cannabeauty Brand MANTLE.

MANTLE.

The High Road begins with the fresh, fruity and warm note of fig leaf, next met by the herbaceous and camphorous sage, closely followed by the earthy, herbal and relaxing cannabis note. At it's heart The High Road has a sweet and creamy coconut centre with a nutty tone of vanilla, married to the soft, powdery and flirty note of violet. The bouquet is complemented with delicate, intriguing and lightly citrusy lily. At the base are the alluring, sensual amber, the dry, leathery vetiver, and the intensely intoxicating, seductive musk note. Made in Spain.

Fora Studios is proud to be is an official Australian stockist of CRA-YON.

Top Notes: fig leaf, sage, cannabis note
Heart Notes: coconut, violet, lily
Base Notes: amber, vetiver, cedarwood, musk

‐ 100% vegan
‐ Cruelty Free
‐ Beyond gender
‐ Made in Spain
‐ 50ml

What's the story behind the name 'CRA-YON'?
The name CRA-YON is a typographic play with the word Crayon. A great perfume will add colour, energy and enrich your world. The CRA-YON fragrance collection adds color to your social calender and lets you become the best version of your self in different situations and moods.

Does CRA-YON use natural or synthetic ingredients?
At CRA-YON we carefully select our ingredients based on their olfactory properties and use rigorously tested combinations of synthetic and natural ingredients. This blend offers advantages in terms of sustainability, consistency, ethics, and creativity.

What is the quality of the fragrance?
Eau de Parfum. CRA-YON have over 12 years experience in the high end fragrance market creating award winning scents for AGONIST, Hotels & other brands, so the scents are of the best quality.

An adjustable hanging frame for displaying your treasured greeting cards.

Create ever evolving wall decor by framing artwork quickly and switching your display easily.  It adjusts to display different sized greeting cards, post cards, photos and prints. Just slide the top timber piece up and down the cord. 

Designed and crafted in Australia. Made from premium, sustainable timber, and 100% cotton cord.

• HOW IT WORKS

  It’s fast and simple use - just slide the top timber piece up and down the cotton cord and place your greeting card into the slot.

  SIZE GUIDE

  The Card Frame easily adjusts to suit a wide variety of greeting cards.

  Ideal Card Size - the common card size of A6 (15cm x 10cm) in portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal).

  Available in blonde Australian hardwood or raw pine

  
  

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Love Potion

 “The chic, minimal packaging hints at its chemistry-set roots while the scent is clean, natural and highly addictive. Move over Love Potion No. 9...”
– House and Garden

The fragrances Laboratory Perfumes create at Laboratory Perfumes often start with a single aroma. In Samphire’s case, it was a young leaf of verbena plucked from a friend’s garden on a spring afternoon. The scent was so arrestingly fresh, Laboratory Perfumes decided to find a way to capture its zesty rush for this, their third fragrance.

A sprig of that verbena was crushed with a pinch of juniper berries from the spice rack – and Samphire began to take shape.

Moving from the kitchen to the lab, citrus oil, flourishes of lavender, basil and rosemary, as well as base notes of white amber and oak moss were blended in to create a bright, cool, aromatic scent with a lightness of touch that belies its complexity and longevity on the skin.

The finished scent was so clearly evocative of the seashore they could only call it Samphire.

Notes: verbena, juniper berries, citrus oil, lavender, basil, rosemary, white amber, oak moss

Contents: 100mls Eau de Toilette

Made in UK

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Moroccan Memoir

“After a family holiday in Morocco, I spent weeks rifling through tins of pipe tobacco in a specialist store in Mayfair to find the right base for a scent that evoked the rich, leathery smells we discovered in the mountains.”

Inspired by the scents and scenery of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, this unisex fragrance is built around the aroma of pipe tobacco. Layers of rum, vanilla and hay are topped with cinnamon, ginger and black pepper, wrapped in the woody warmth.

Nostalgia is a form of time travel for emotions, and scent can be the most powerful way to trigger it. For Laboratory Perfumes, a whiff of pipe tobacco can be enough to unleash a fond flood of childhood memories into the hippocampus. So, when it came to determining the base for their fifth fragrance, Laboratory Perfumes chose something very personal – that earthily aromatic tobacco note.

With the help of a knowledgeable but somewhat bemused tobacconist, they went through dozens of different blends and cures in search of the right scent to build upon. The one they settled on had a whisper of the exotic, reminiscent of Morocco, so back in the lab, they introduced supportive layers of rum, vanilla and hay that intensified its North African character. Spiced with cinnamon, ginger and black pepper, and complemented with the warming, woody aromas of fine Cognac, the result is a complex and confident fragrance that unveils intriguing new layers and facets as the day goes on. 

Contents: 100mls Eau de Toilette

Recycled and recyclable packaging

Made in UK

Who's Bringing the Pavlova?

Written, illustrated and self-published by Sydney based artist and illustrator Cecilia Timm, A Very Aussie Christmas is a fun, silly and quirky tale highlighting the amazing, beautiful and unique animals we share our Christmas with every year.

The book has been lovingly drawn with 31 illustrated colour pages, 43 Aussie animals included in the story, and it’s 100% Australian made. Written, illustrated and printed in Sydney… it’s truly local.

Heart's Desire

The versatile heart-shaped trowel has been created to be ideal for planting. It’s extremely useful for shallower digging and scooping when planting bulbs, bedding, or plug plants. The wide head moves soil quickly and easily, and the pointed sharpened tip slices smoothly through ground. The ergonomic design gives the gardener more digging power, since the head is in line with handle, rather than angled. This trowel’s small size makes it especially ideal for container gardening.

The mirror-polished stainless steel of the tool head glides with minimal resistance through the soil. The stainless steel is rust-resistant and will keep rust at bay to stay looking bright and beautiful for years to come. The FSC® beech wooden handle is carefully shaped to fit satisfyingly into the gripped hand, and the turned ferrule in solid brass provides a secure and lasting connection between handle and body.

Presented in a stylish gift box, this unusual garden tool makes a lovely gift for any gardener – or, of course, a very practical treat for yourself!

The waxed Forest Security Council (FSC) beechwood handle is smooth and fits snugly into the hand, while the brass ferrule ensures a secure connection between the tool head and handle. The etched Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball maker’s mark adds a distinctive finishing touch.

Presented in a beautiful box, this heart-shaped trowel makes a beautiful and thoughtful gift for any gardener.

Overall length: 24cm

Head width: 10.5cm

Weight: 226g

Tool head: stainless steel

Handle: FSC® beech wood

Ferrule: brass

Supplied in beautiful presentation gift box

The Bight Dangle earrings feature a fan shape and are the smallest dangle earrings in BoldB's Aqua range.

Each earring has been carefully handcrafted from bonded sand, blue resin and metal pigments with a high-gloss polished finish. Eye pins connect each earring to an allergy friendly stainless steel French hook.

Each purchase from our Aqua Collection will help provide two years of safe water to one person in need through BoldB's support of Water.org, an international nonprofit organisation.

Each pair has been designed in Melbourne, Australia and carefully handmade in the Philippines.

Each purchase from our Aqua Collection will help provide two years of safe water to one person in need through BoldB's support of Water.org, an international nonprofit organisation.

Bold B earrings are designed in Melbourne, Australia and carefully handmade in the Philippines.

DETAILS

• Collection: Aqua

• Height: 25 mm
• Width: 16mm
• Depth: 6 mm

About Bold B

BoldB creates unique jewellery inspired by Australian nature. From beach sand jewellery inspired by the Australian coastline to brilliant golden crystal shapes with dark concrete inspired by our rich natural resources. With each of their collections supporting an incredible non-profit organisation, you cannot only look but feel great about the positive impact your purchase has on the world.

DESCRIPTION

BoldB's Shoal Stud earrings have been carefully handmade from bonded sand, aqua or ultramarine blue resin and metal pigments with a high-gloss polished finish. An allergy friendly stainless steel ear post has been attached to a shallow recess on the back of each earring.

Each purchase from our Aqua Collection will help provide two years of safe water to one person in need through BoldB's support of Water.org, an international nonprofit organisation.

Bold B earrings are designed in Melbourne, Australia and carefully handmade in the Philippines.

DETAILS

• Collection: Aqua

• Height: 12 mm
• Width: 12 mm
• Depth: 7 mm

About Bold B

BoldB creates unique jewellery inspired by Australian nature. From beach sand jewellery inspired by the Australian coastline to brilliant golden crystal shapes with dark concrete inspired by our rich natural resources. With each of their collections supporting an incredible non-profit organisation, you cannot only look but feel great about the positive impact your purchase has on the world.

If it's cold or raining, get out a book, a bottle of wine perhaps. Order your butler to retrieve some kindling for the fireplace and nestle into your chaise lounge. Read away while the subtle floral notes of Paddywax's Cedarwood, Thyme & Basil Soy Candle fill the air.

For all the readers out there, Paddywax presents the Library Collection. By pairing favourite quotes with exquisite fragrances, they pay homage to literary greats such as Austen and Wilde. 

Poured into a sweet metal tin, stamped and embossed with Paddywax Library motifs this makes a divine gift for any book lover or binger of Netflix period dramas. With quality ingredients and notes of cedarwood, thyme & basil, this candle evokes a truly delightful old-world charm without smelling like your grandmother's Cashmere Bouquet talcum powder stash. 

Top Notes: Bergamot, Mandarin, Lemon Leaf, Lime, Peppermint, Crisp Ozone
Middle Notes: Blue Eucalyptus, Muguet, Lavender, Thyme, Geranium, Indigo Poppy
Base Notes: Sheer Musk, Patchouli, Amber, Cedarwood

As usual Paddywax candle vessels are designed with upcycling in mind. After burning the candle, freeze your jar overnight to cleanly remove the wax and wick; great for storing beauty items, holding knick-knacks, or as a planter

Paddywax work with perfumers to source nature's finest ingredients, creating high-quality, candles that tell a special fragrance story to fit your mood. 

Paddywax is a brand started by one woman pouring candles in her kitchen. Paddywax is an artisan company specializing in candles and diffusers that that are made with quality materials, inspiring color palettes, and intriguing fragrances to set the tone in your home

Find out more about Paddywax here.

Candle care

On first burn, allow candle wax to melt all the way to the side vessel before extinguishing. Trim wick before a new burn for a contained flame and even burn.

Paddywax candles is an eco-friendly brand started by one woman pouring candles in her kitchen. Find out more about Paddywax here.


Vol: 56g (2 oz)

Made in Vietnam

Let's face it a trip it's a long way to Kew Gardens or the Chelsea Garden Show.  Happily, this brand new watering can design from the Royal Horticultural Society's RHS Gifts for Gardeners range helps fill the void for lovers of a traditional English aesthetic.

The new ‘Asteraceae’ design showcases blooms from the daisy family. These resilient flowers have a starring role to play in our gardens as summers last longer and autumns become warmer. They keep the colour going in a longer season, and also offer an important source of forage for pollinators when other flowers fade.

The elegant new design has been created by Burgon & Ball featuring illustrations dating illustrations dating from circa 1810, specially selected from the RHS Lindley Collections of historic botanical art. A soft sage green background is the perfect foil for the jewel-bright colours of the China aster and coreopsis.

It’s so gorgeous it could easily double as a statement vase for a small flower arrangement, but this piece has practical credentials, too. All-steel construction makes it durable but lightweight, while the elegant spout facilitates on-target watering — less spillage, less water waste. 

Even if your plot, balcony or window box will never rival Sissinghurst Castle Garden, don’t fret. There's plenty of inspiration this spring with Open Gardens Australia's season calendar. If you're not planning to stick to your home garden, escape to the Kew Gardens site and explore the world of plants and fungi from your sofa. (Gin and tonic optional.)

And if handling this watering can fosters a love of botanical illustration, why not give it a try? There's inspiration everywhere. You can find more about the history and process of this gentle artform here. The Australian National Botanic Garden maintains an amazing online library of our own native plants rendered in art.

Materials: Galvanised steel 

Dimensions: 37 x 21 x 13 cm

Capacity: 1 litre

In this deck of large-format cards 80's nostalgia meets mind-bending puzzles!

With beginner, medium and difficult levels, are you ready to put your brain to the test?

100% Polyester
Made in Colombia