River Nile Linens
Giles Stewart with Jenny Bullock.
River Nile Linens has reopened its showroom in Warkworth. It’s now conveniently located between two bed shops at 8 Mill Lane, otherwise known as “sleep street”.
Wellsford’s Giles Stewart took over the business in April and his long-term goal is to make River Nile Linens New Zealand’s go-to linen brand.
He has been in the bedding industry for more than 10 years, and worked for Sleep Systems NZ as it expanded from a small family business in Ruawai to a significant wholesaler countrywide.
He says one of the biggest hurdles to buying a new bed is being unable to find linen to fit it. River Nile Linens solves this by producing custom-made linen – a service also popular among caravan and boat owners.
ECM Laser Tattoo Removal
Kate Sheehan
Kate Sheehan has a passion for tattoos. She has them all over her body and adds to them regularly – around one new tattoo a month.
At the same time, she is conscious that sometimes there are tattoos that are no longer wanted.
Common examples include ex partners names, rebellious art from back in the teens or tattoos that just didn’t turn out how they were imagined.
“I’ve had a couple of tattoos myself that I came to dislike because they reminded me of certain times in my life that I did not enjoy, so I had them removed,” Kate says.
Looking at life through the eye of a needle
Jennifer Kirker stitched a lockdown memoir of life under Covid-19.
The fruits of lockdown labour will be on display this month, when Warkworth Embroiderers hold their biennial exhibition of work at the town’s Masonic Lodge, off the Baxter Street carpark.
The group of around 25 sewers will be displaying all-new pieces made in the past two years, many of which were conceived and created when Covid-19 struck last year. The coronavirus concentrated the minds of several members, giving pause for thought as well as extra time for stitching during the long weeks of lockdown.
Tai chi marathon raises money for famine relief
Members were “filled with joy” when they finished their 40 sets.
While most fundraisers for the annual 40 Hour Famine go without something they love, Warkworth Taoist Tai Chi group went the opposite way and did back-to-back tai chi sessions on June 26 and 27.
Normal tai chi classes consist of two sets of 108 different moves and positions, each of which takes around 20 minutes. However, for the World Vision 40 Hour Famine weekend, president Anne Taylor came up with the idea of doing 40 sets over the two days at their Warkworth Scout Den base.
“We did it from 8am to 4.30pm each day, a total of 13 hours of tai chi over the weekend,” she said.
Design, Develop, Construct (DDC)
Wayne Senk (left) and Rod Bradley.
Rod Bradley has brought decades of international experience on large scale construction projects and subdivisions to his new building business in Warkworth, Design Develop Construct (DDC).
Rod says no project is too big or small, but among his specialities are tricky jobs, especially where old structures might otherwise be condemned to be demolished.
Most recently he was put in touch with a client in Snells Beach who had been told that restoring their two-storey deck and conservatory would be too difficult to be worthwhile.
Rod kept the conservatory intact while rebuilding a 40-square metre deck with a staircase leading to a 25-square metre deck above.