Spurred by the birth of her first baby, Aromatix owner Amanda set out on a mission to find truly pure and natural products for her family from local suppliers. She even studied beauty and skincare in her journey to find solutions that reduced exposure to potentially harmful ingredients.

Amanda has scoured the length and breadth of the country to bring you Australian natural & organic products to delight your body, mind and home. And she knows you’re going to love them as much as she does.

Many of them are based on the principles of Aromatherapy, which means they are not only good for you but they smell great too!

Check out her Spiffy Store at www.aromatix.com.au

The worry dolls from Guatemala featured in the Worry Dolls store are all produced by co-operatives from various villages, earning much needed funds for basic necessities and small scale infrastructure projects within their communities.

Their gorgeous new Spiffy Store was based on our Seattle Theme, re-designed by Design & PR Girl, and built by us. This is a practical affordable approach to getting your own store fully customised. We’re loving the look, and Ana (the store owner) is tickled pink with the new design!

Check out their Spiffy Store at http://www.worrydolls.com.au

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Goldfish Toys are designers of original, colourful, fun stuff for kids and the young at heart. All products are ethically and fairly made by hand in Indonesia and India.

The happy wooden products are designed in Australia by Mrs Goldfish (Elisa Doro), and lovingly handmade in a small family workshop in Bali.

Check out their Spiffy Store at http://www.goldfishtoyshop.com.au

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The Elms & King store, created by Arlington Milne co-founders Rebecca Elms and Louise King have a great selection of handbags, clutches, totes and wallets made from high quality PU.

I love the Manhattan Shopper in red, it adds a bright, happy splash of colour to Winter’s dark outfits and it’s roomy enough to carry all my stuff!

Check out their other goodies at http://www.elmsandking.com

The Bushcraft Oz store is filled with products which have been hand made by local Australian craftsmen. Many of them are regular and well known members of the popular BushcraftOz forum.

They don’t just sell gear that looks pretty (although much of it is) and they’re not interested in selling products that they wouldn’t use themselves.  Their products are tested under Australian conditions, and many of the items on sale are the result of extensive research drawing on the generous experience and knowledge of others in the Australian bushcraft community. If it’s on sale there then it works, and works well!

Check out their Spiffy Store at http://www.bushcraftozstore.com.au

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The whole concept for Styled Sealed Delivered is based on the concept of a one-stop shop where thry provide a style sheet to guide you, as well as all the elements for the table, so that you can “style” it yourself.

Their collections are combinations of beautiful and bespoke pieces all designed so that they have many applications and can be re-used, built upon and styled by you.

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Don’t you just LOVE hot chocolate! Whenever I go to a cafe, while my friends are ordering strange sounding fancy schmancy coffee varieties… I’m ordering hot chocolate!

At Hot Choccy, they’ve sourced the best tasting, healthiest ingredients to make their range of lush drinking chocolate. They have milk and dark chocolate varieties for the traditionalists… and they’re amazing by the way… but they also have some incredible flavours – caramel, orange, strawberry, cappuccino and lemon!

Take a look around their store… choose a 250g or 70g bag, or a 100g jar, and enjoy their delicious flavoured Hot Choccy range!

Check out their Spiffy Store at http://www.hotchoccy.com.au/

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At suzy hausfrau they’re passionate about the handmade movement and being creative in the home. They believe that by sourcing quality products they’ll act as a source of inspiration and enable you to undertake your own creative journey. We hope that you take up the challenge to create something for yourself… because it is not just the end result that is important, it’s the journey!

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After many hours rummaging through markets and trailing through the internet, the folks at Antipodean Love have brought together some amazing Australian and New Zealand designers under one store… for your ease and shopping pleasure!

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We’ve always believed in pushing the technical envelope to provide advanced technical solutions to make life easier for our store owners.  This is way more important to us than the hype and gloss that you may find in the rest of the industry.

Over the past year, we’ve been talking to loads of web designers who use Spiffy Stores to create online stores for their customers. Although they love creating new e-commerce shops using our software, the resounding feedback we’ve been getting is that whilst the current Theme Editor in the Toolbox is great for small changes, it get’s a bit more difficult when designing an entire theme for a store.

For larger theme updates it’s really necessary to download the theme files to your computer, edit them and then upload the new files to the server. Using the Theme Editor to do this is a bit cumbersome, and makes the design process more difficult than it should be.

We’ve listened to these concerns, and have spent considerable time and effort working on a solution… so today we’re very proud to announce a major new capability which allows all your theme files and assets to be edited directly from your computer using WebDAV enabled editors such as Adobe’s Dreamweaver, and Panic’s Coda.  If you’re on a Mac, you’re even luckier, as WebDAV is built right into OSX, and can be used in conjunction with TextMate and Taco.

To use this new feature in Windows, all you need is a WebDAV enabled editor or a utility such as NetDrive which allows WebDAV files to be mounted on your computer as a local folder. This means that you can use your favourite editor to edit your store’s theme files directly from your computer.

If you’re using a WebDAV enabled editor such as Dreamweaver, you also have access to some advanced features such a file checkout and locking so that you can work in a team without having to worry about whether someone else overwrites your changes.

If you’re a web designer and your current e-commerce software doesn’t support WebDAV, then you should seriously consider Spiffy Stores for this feature alone, as you’ll find your theme development time slashed significantly.

For more info about using WebDAV to edit your store, head over to the WebDAV section of our knowledge base.

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At The Possible Co. they believe it is possible to always shop nice – nice for people, nice for animals and nice for the planet.  Shopping nice doesn’t mean sacrificing creativity, adventure or design however…

All of their products have been specifically sourced from companies that work hard to ensure neither animals, humans or the environment are harmed in the making of their products.

Check out their new Spiffy Store at http://www.thepossibleco.com.au

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JD Lighting are based in Browns Plains, Brisbane, but have brought their great range of lighting solutions to everyone in Australia… 24 hours, 7 days a week with their Spiffy Store.

Their online store is a full custom designed store, which was designed and built by 2plik8 Studios in Brisbane.

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Soundhub is based in Brisbane, Queensland. Soundhub stocks a wide variety of headphones that includes earphone/earbud styles, traditional overhead headphones, wireless/bluetooth and noise-cancelling models.  With a growing range they are always on the lookout for headphones that offer listeners more than the generic ‘clonephone’ design.

The Soundhub online store is based on the Minimal ecommerce theme from Spiffy Stores.

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 At Mon Hannah, the clothes that they sell are classy, cute and tasteful. The right clothes at the right price delivered to your door.

Quality is important when purchasing online, so rest assured they only sell excellent quality clothing. Great quality, great price and great service. What more could you ask for?

The Midgee Moo online store has a gorgeous range of quality, traditional puzzles, games, pretend food, craft, special needs toys, kinder needs and so much more… sourced from around the globe for kids from newborn up to 6 years old to enjoy.

Their store is based on the Georgia Theme for Spiffy Stores, and they’ve added a super-cute custom designed logo, background and banners designed by Restored 316 Designs.

Whether you’re ride is a Vespa or a ’49 Mercury… Whether you want to spruce up the old bomb or individualize your Derby Helmet … If you’re into cool graphics & stickin’ them up on the stuff you love.  Stickers, Decals, Posters, Postcards, Badges… Whatever your vice!  “Wildhart creates… Useable Graphic Art inspired by social rebellion, retro subcultures & the wild at heart…”.

The Wildhart Graphics Shop is based on the Showtime theme from Spiffy Stores.

Welcome to the first day of Spring!  If you’re a fashionista and haven’t heard of Style Milk… where have you been!

One of the first online concept stores in Australia, Style Milk draws inspiration from European stores combining the very best in design for women, children and interiors… all in the one place!

Style Milk are celebrating by offering a 10% discount when you enter the code SPIFFY in the checkout.  If you want to take advantage of this offer… you’d better hurry as this offer is subject to change at any time.  Head on over to their online store or blog and check out their new Bec & Bridge or Arabella Ramsay Summer 2011 “Sunnylands” collections.

Remember… to take advantage of this offer, you need to enter the code SPIFFY in the checkout when ordering.

We’re pleased to announce the release of a new Spiffy Stores theme!.  The Seattle Theme for Spiffy Stores includes a host of features including unlimited colour schemes, Facebook comments, wish lists, social media integration including Google +1, customisable slideshows and 9 different font options.  Read on to find out more about this theme.

Unlimited colour schemes.

Easily choose one of the 6 built-in colour schemes in the Theme editor section of your toolbox… or make your own colour scheme by choosing colours for your titles, background, menus, footer, buttons… just about everything!

9 title fonts.

You have a choice of nine different fonts for your store’s titles and/or menus.  Hopefully you’ll find one that works with the look you’re trying to get for your store.  If not, we can easily add a new font to your store for a small fee.  Our technique for achieving native font display in browsers is tried and proven, and works on most modern browsers.

Upload your own logo.

Easily upload your own logo to your store.  It’s re-sized automatically for you.

Display a slideshow on your home page.

Your store home page can display a slideshow of up to 5 images.  You can choose how many to display, upload your own images, and select the transition you want the slideshow animation to display… as well has how fast you want your slideshow to run.

Social media integration.

Facebook “like” buttons and Facebook comments, Twitter “tweet” buttons, links to your Facebook and Twitter pages, link to your newsletter service provider (such as MailChimp), and even a new customer wshlist function (currently in Beta testing)…. they’re all included, and all configurable in your Theme Editor without you having to edit a line of code.

Plus more features!

You can easily edit your colour scheme, and choose the menus to display in your store with a few clicks!  There are so many options in this theme that it’s difficult to list them without going on forever.  For more information about this theme, head over to our Knowledge base and view the Seattle theme guide.

To preview the Seattle theme, head over to the theme’s demo store at http://seattle.spiffystores.com

The Love a Dog store design is based on the Georgia Theme from Spiffy Stores.

The Arlington Milne store is based on the Minimal theme from Spiffy Stores, and features photography by Jedd Cooney.