Christmas and New Year opening hours

These are our opening hours for the Christmas and New Year period:

Sunday 13 Dec: 10am - 5pm
Monday 14,Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16 Dec: 10am - 5:30pm
Thursday 17 Dec: 10am - 8pm
Friday 18 Dec: 10am - 5:30pm
Saturday 19 Dec: 10am - 5pm
Sunday 20 Dec: 10am - 5pm
Monday 21 Dec: 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 22 Dec: 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 23 Dec: 10am - 6pm
Thursday 24 Dec (Christmas Eve): 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 25 Dec - Friday 1 Jan: closed
Saturday 2 Jan: reopening as usual 10am - 5pm

Fancy Some Cake?

Just got a new delivery of Frankie mag's fab Afternoon Tea cookbook after selling out of our first batch in quick time. Get one while they're hot!

Christmas Gift Guide: For the Animal Lover

1. Lazy Oaf dog brooch $25
2. Beci Orpin wooden bear brooch $4o
3. Lady Luck Rules OK songbird necklace $15
4. Small Rhino deco cardinal brooch $44

Christmas Gift Guide: For the Crafty Lady

1. Mix Tape magazine issue 11 $10
2. Lazy Oaf I Make Things tee shirt $59

Christmas Gift Guide: For the Music Lover

1. Vling music note earrings $30
2. Slow Loris guitar lessons tee $50
3. Queen Bee 7" record truckette bag $125

Christmas Gift Guide: For the Food Lover

1. Frankie Afternoon Tea cookbook $29.95
2. Boygirlparty recipe cards $16
3. Lady Luck Rules OK icecream pin $35
4. Nooworks hotdog tee $59

Christmas Gift Guide: For Your Girlfriend

1. Ruck Rover amore v-neck tee $59
2. Classic Hardware rose ring $40
3. Elsiebelle Je t'aime love letter necklace $45

Christmas Gift Guide: For the Photographer

1. Lazy Oaf camera purse $25
2. Polaroid film $35
3. Frankie Photo Album book $29.95
4. Lady Luck Rules OK shutterbug pin $19

Christmas Gift Guide: For the Writer

1. Sunday Morning plant exercise book $14
2. Sniffle Co H.B.B.F pencil pin $31
3. Boygirlparty typewriter necklace $40

Christmas Gift Guide: For Your Boyfriend

1. I Heart Guts I Got the Beat tee $55
2. Sunday Morning pillowcase set $55
3. Happy Family dinosaur satchel $55
4. Mogo passport wallet $29

Christmas Gift Guide: For Your Mum

1. Frankie Afternoon Tea cookbook $19.95
2. Young Eve chandelier stainless steel earrings $45
3. Classic Hardware retrolite rose pin $39

Christmas Gift Guide: For Your Dad

1. Slow Loris tools tee $50
2. Supermaggie double goldfish tee $59

Frankie Books Now in Store!

Frankie Magazine have released a super tops and very beautiful Photo Album and also reprinted their wonderful Afternoon Tea cookbook and we have BOTH these great books instore and online now! Get yours before they sell out.

Tee Time

We picked up our new tee from the printer this morning! We are pretty pleased with it. Hope you like it too!

Happy birthday to us!

Guess what, we turned three today! How exciting.

Thanks SO much to everyone who has supported us over the last few years. We really love doing what we do, and we look forward to sharing the next three years with you too!

Cheers,
Claire and Isabelle

Be a Pyn Up Girl

New skirts in store now from Pyn in gorgeous vintage style fabrics! I can't decide if I like the grey and yellow or the red, black and white one best. So cute.

New Poketo!

Okay, the new batch of Poketo wallets arrived today! This one here was designed by PCP:

Pretty great, huh? There are a couple of new men's tees, too.

August 2009

Hello! We are most excited about the first injections of our printed stuff! To start us off we have two men's tees and a women's hoodie. We really hope you like them!

We've had a stack of menswear and womenswear from American label Rock Steady. Short and long sleeved shirts, cute, casual dresses, embroidered cardigans and even some rockabilly inspired baby clothes. We really dig it and know you will too. A second drop of their wares is due to arrive really soon too!

Malmö fans will be pleased to hear that Fredrik's new shirts have arrived! Once again they are an excellent fit and we have both long sleeved and short sleeved styles.

On the jewellery front we have some new necklaces and earrings out of Canada that are made from recycled vinyl records. Our favourites are probably the keyboard necklace and the red apple earrings. And you have to see the new Lady Luck Rules OK range too! Wooden ice creams, mushrooms and animals are flocked, plus there's the usual enamel pieces too. All you Polaroid lovers are going to dig this...
... yep that's right, it's a Polaroid Land Camera 1000 OneStep.

Speaking of Polaroid, 600 film is currently in stock for your instant photography needs.

Okay, there's some more stuff but we don't want to overwhelm you right now! Come in and visit, or check it all out online. See you soon! xx

Mixtape Zine Issue 10

We love this Australian zine and we're so happy to say that issue 10 is in store and online now!

This issue has a cover by Bola Cooper, a pull-out poster by Tina Tarnoff and articles including:
Aunty Cookie Book Plates
Cool Cross Stitch Pattern
Living Green : Thimble Necklace
Everyday Heirlooms
Livin' Large
Ethically Challenged Corporations
Crafty Lady: Katy Jones

June 2009

Hello all you lovely friends of Ruck Rover!

We're just writing to let you know that we're having a ruthless stocktale sale in store starting today, Friday 12th June. As usual, we have a tee shirt sale table, both men's and women's styles and this time around we're letting them go for only $20 each or two for a measly $30.

We also have a sale table of bags, purses and jewellery and accessories for your perusal, all at around half price and starting from $5 so you can really score yourself a bargain!

And if you're an online friend of Ruck Rover, don't despair! We're offering a 10% discount on ALL our tee shirts in the online store until the end of June. Just use the code WEHATESTOCKTAKE when checking out and you can join in on the sale fun times too! Come visit http://shop.ruckrover.com.au

I Am Still in Yesterday's Clothes Issue IV Launch

This Friday Ruck Rover is hosting the launch party for Issue IV of local zine I Am Still In Yesterday's Clothes. The bumper double issue has a movie theme and features contributions from Leonie Brialey, Adam Trainer, Jarrad Robb, Clare Nina Norelli, Dan Grant and Andrei Buters.

We'd love for you to come down to the store this Friday 29th between 6pm and 9pm and join us for a drink and snacks. You'll have a chance to purchase this great little publication, listen to cuts from the best '80s movie soundtracks and check out our new winter stock at the same time.

We hope to see you then!

May 2009

First of all we are super proud to announce a joint venture with local artist Lisa Max. We have been stocking Lisa's toys and pillows for a couple of months and we have just released a limited edition jersey scarf with Lisa's cat and owl artwork printed on both ends. Art you can wear around your neck! We are really excited to see what we can create together in the future.

Berserk is a clothing label from Karen Bjornenak in Melbourne. Karen also co-owns the great Cat's Meow boutique in the Campbell Arcade in Melbourne's city. Her clothing is cut beautifully with great details. We also love that she only does limited runs of her designs so you really have to snap them up when you see them. We've almost already sold out of her black and white swallow printed skirt but we have just got in a size range of the new red ones with black swallow print.

We do love our brooches here and when mutual friend Laura Miller pointed Sniffle Co in our direction, we couldn't have been more pleased. Bowling pins, ghosts and Woody Allen are all tops motifs for decorating your chest, we think. Here's an interview with Sniffle Co's
creator John Patterson -
http://craft-victoria.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-john-patterson-of-sniffle.html

We're always being asked about bags suitable for guys and when we found screen printed canvas knapsack bags from New Orleans based Happy Family, we knew we were on a winner! It's hard to pick a favourite but personally, we're keen on the dinosaur and Diana camera prints.

Feel like a new dress for winter? Just a sample of our current range includes a strapless 50s red and white stripe number from Peta Pledger, denim ruffled minis from Nooworks, woollen plaid a-lines from Gentle Fawn or fancy black silk with a bow shifts from Secret Squirrel. Come in and see what else we have in store for you!

We also have some more polaroid film due to arrive any day now. Our last lot went so fast we missed out on buying any for ourselves! We've ordered some extra this time but if you'd like any held for you email us at info@ruckrover.com.au and we will sort you out.

March 2009

First we'd better let you know that Ruck Rover FOOTY TIPPING is back for 2009! The leading tipster at the end of the home and away season will once again win a $50 voucher to be used in the store. Follow this link to join the competition. Those of you who were members last year won't have to rejoin, all you have to do is reactivate your footytips.com.au membership by logging in and that's it!

Now, we are happy to introduce new menswear label Malmo. This is the new project of Fredrik Jonsson, one half of the much loved Hem & Haw duo. We know a lot of you were sad to hear of the end of Hem & Haw, but now you can be happy that there is a new label bringing out men's
shirts with super great cuts and in great fabrics.

Those of you who came shopping for men's tees before Christmas probably noticed the awesome range of prints from Slow Loris. Well, we've just received another delivery from them with some new designs and boy are they excellent! We reckon the best is the Top Gun inspired print... or maybe the engine diagram one. So good!

The new Heavy Rotation delivery has arrived and is selling like hotcakes! All those Holga lovers out there (of which we are two!) will dig the camera tees they have done in women's and men's cuts.

We are also stocked up on those lovely bags from Little Odd Forest! As usual all the fabrics used are a surprise, so no two bags are alike.

Oooooh we are also really excited about the latest drop from Melbourne favourite Tomorrow Never Knows. Check out the women's tees, singlets and hoodies and the men's tees and warm gear.

After being featured on the super awesome Michi Girl blog (http://michigirl.com/newsletter/world/1485/januhairy/), the Mr Moustache tote sold out so fast! So for those of you who missed out, get in quick because we have a small re-stock of those brilliant bags from Sirena con Jersey in Spain. You can find them in store, or you can find them here. They totally rule.

Okay what else is new... oh we some news to pass on, our much loved friends from Tasmania Small Rhino are producing jewellery no more! The pair have decided to go their separate ways and both have split from Hobart. This means any stock we have at the moment is that we'll ever
have! Whaaah! We did do an order of all pieces from their most recent range of deco bow brooches and necklaces as well as restocking the ever popular deco bird brooches. If you've had your eye on these before, don't miss out on snapping one up before they all go.

Right, that's all for the moment. Come visit us soon please!

January 2009

Hey gang!

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and that the new year is off to a great start. We re-opened our doors this morning and are excited to be back!

We've spent the morning marking down some items and there are some real bargains. All remaining Dangerfield, Revival, Black Friday and Princess Highway stock is super cheap, and other bits and pieces too.

Also, it's nice and cool in here, the air conditioner is cranking. Come visit!

And don't forget you have until January 14th to exchange any unsuitable Christmas gift items, just make sure you bring your receipt.

Finally, we'd like to thank you so much for all your support throughout 2008. We love our jobs and that's because of you guys. We have the most lovely customers ever and we look forward to seeing you all in 2009. It's going to be a fun year, we're sure.

Love Claire and Isabelle xx