It's been another fantastic year for Tinch, thank you so much to our lovely customers, suppliers and supporters. Helen is due to go on Maternity leave early December as our 4th baby is arriving near Christmas. 

We've been inundated with demand this Christmas season...

 As well as owner/operator of Tinch Design, Helen is the curator/coordinator for Dunedin Designed collective Store, Guild. 

Helen and colleagues have been working hard to present a 'taster' of the Dunedin store in Oamaru for 4 weeks in the Christmas lea...

Happy New Year!
We are into our 8th year of business, how awesome!

A few minor changes to our services;

• We'll be producing designs in batches and updating the website with stock availability more regularly. In the past, everything was made to order. Hopefully this...

This has to have been the highlight of our year. You might've visited our Oamaru home and studio through the glossy pages of Your Home & Garden magazine recently! We feel very privileged to have been asked to share our home and work story in this way.

We hope you enjoy...

A profile about me, my work and some of the projects I'm working on in the Business Section of Otago Daily Times...

Keen to learn to make Christmas Crackers? I'll be running a mini workshop at Guild in Dunedin Sunday 26th November. $40 per person to make 6 crackers... see you there!

Home, Studio & Garden Tour, Sunday 3rd December, Oamaru. We're opening our home and the Tinch studio as part of a public tour of 9 amazing North Otago properties! Tickets just $20, it'll be a lovely inspiring day...

Just a quick post - to say the website is back up and functioning for online orders!

Today is my first official day 'back at work' after 18 weeks maternity leave.

Tinch is my small, home-based design business; it's our 2nd baby in order of birth date, but by emotional h...

Sorry to mention the C-word in September!

But, Helen's finishing work soon, so the Tinch web stores and ordering services will be closed until 2017 -- so here's the best (and last) chance to order Tinch pressies for Christmas...

The deal:

- 20% off storewide, including cu...

So, heres the thing.

We're expecting our 3rd baby soon!

This will quite drastically affect the busy season for us, and will need to close for orders mid-late October, until sometime in the New Year.

For those new to Tinch, this is a very small family-run business, where...