Wrap Yourself Up in Love

The leaves are turning, the air is chillin', autumn is finally here! Hurrah!
Before you dust off your soup recipes, find your knitting needles or snuggle up with your doona and a good book be sure to get your autumnal 'drobe sorted.



We heart our new range of lovingly hand-made neck wear Knits by AK. In lush 100% wool and 50/50 wool-mohair blends, they are super comfy, soft and snuggly-warm chic!
Check out a range of scarves for ladeez and fellas...








...and this super fun and handy pocket scarf!

We also adore the cuddle-like feel of this super long hand-knit scarf by Aunty Kathryn...


Perfect for a stroll through the changing leaves, because you can never look too fabulous, we adore this beautiful SupremeBeing Mask Coat!


And our faves for the fellas...

...Palmercash checks...

... and Red Collar Project cardigans!

Check in-store or at our on-line shop for many more hoodies, shirts, sleeved dresses and uber cute owl scarf & matching fingerless glove sets! Perfect for when the weather gets flustery and blustery.

Be My Valentine?

There's just three more days until Valentine's Day, and I know that some of you are searching for something to help you express the right sentiment. We've just had a box of Lazy Oaf cards arrive, and you might just find something in that lot! Check 'em out...

Lazy Oaf cards, $7.

Or if you'd prefer something a little more classic...

Ruck Rover cards, $6.

Blueberry cards, $6.

But the most lovely of all our cards? Check out this one from Gemma Correll...

Gemma Correll love you so much card, $7.

And if you need more than a card, we can also help you out. Do you normally buy your lady friend roses? Why not add another rose that will last forever!

Classic Hardware reproduction bakelite rose jewellery, $30-$40.

Notions rose earrings, $20.

Scrumptious rose earrings, $16.

Or you could stick with a heart theme, which never fails!

Crave A Little Love Sterling Silver Necklace, $39.

Scrumptious Darling Heart Earrings, $15.

Frankie Sweet Treats Cook Book, $19.95.

Ruck Rover Amore Hoody, $85.

We have plenty more treats in store for your honey, so come on in and take a look around.

XX

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Here at Ruck Rover we'd like to wish all of you a Happy Chinese New Year.

This year is year of the rabbit! So to celebrate, we'd like to share our favourite rabbit related goodies with you. Well, we will also celebrate with some eating, but that we won't be sharing I'm afraid.

Sunday Morning rabbit & tree house pillowcase sets, $60.
Available in light blue on white or light grey on white.

Poketo Creatures Version 2 tee, $50.
The bunny is with friends, here.

Japonicas Alice necklace, $50.
The book is a locket!

Little Odd Forest Rabbit booties, $30.
With polka dotted soles.

Gong xi fa cai to all our friends xx

Salesperson required!

We are looking for a casual salesperson to work 12-20 hours per week, including at least one weekday shift and one weekend shift.

Whilst it is primarily a sales position, if you have any other skills that would be of assistance to us, like graphic design or advertising design, we'd love to hear about it.

Fashion retail experience and knowledge about Polaroid and their products would be a plus, but is not essential. What is essential is that you are friendly and reliable!

Please send resumes to info@ruckrover.com.au or Shop 4 / 595 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley, WA 6050.

Closed 2nd November

Hey folks, we are having a day off tomorrow, November 2nd and will be closed all day long. We apologise for any inconvenience and hope you can visit us another day.

Fancy Schmancy

Check out our products all styled up! Perth fashion blogger Rebecca of Fall Victim to Fashion has used some of our pieces in her latest photo shoot. Check them out below!

Artechoke gingham cuffed short $92

Knits by AK Fraser Scarf $55

Malmo basic long sleeved shirt in washed black $109

Model: Harry at Catherine Ruze Agency
Photography: David Broadway
Styling: Rebecca Pattison
Hair & Makeup: Tricia Trotman

Instant Gratification

It's happened! The Impossible Project and their dream of producing instant film for Polaroid cameras is now a reality and we are proud to have brought their PX600 Silver Shade First Flush film onto the streets of Perth.

This is a monochromatic film for use in 600 type cameras with 8 photos to a pack. Being their 'First Flush' they were still experimenting, so be prepared for some odd characteristics. I reckon they make the film more fun! Things like white spots or undeveloped areas are what to expect. You can find tips and instructions for using this film here. It's available for purchase in store or online and $35 gets you one packet.

When the Impossible Project started they bought up as much remaining Polaroid stock as they could, and lucky for us we were able to get our hands on some of what they scored! So, and this is pretty exciting, we are able to bring you TZ-Artistic for SX-70 cameras, Image Softtone for Spectra cameras (type 1200) and some of the peel apart type 100 film in chocolate, sepia and blue. These gems are, as you can imagine, very limited.

Warm as Toast

We've just had a new delivery of our most favourite winter warmers, and I'm not talking hot chocolate (mind you we love hot choc more than you know). These are the new scarves hand knitted by our Auntie Kathryn in Canberra! She is so hugely talented in the knitting department and always produces such beauties.

Why oh why did we start talking about hot chocolate? Now I need one so badly!

Polaroid News!

Howdy all you Polaroid lovers, I have some good news for you!

1. We received a letter from Polaroid today announcing their new camera! For those familiar with the Fuji Instax it is like that - same shape and prints those business card sized photos. It's super cute! So Polaroid are producing the cameras and the film. They come in blue, red and black and their expected arrival in stores is May/June. So not long now! If you'd like to reserve your camera please email us.

2. The Impossible Project have announced they are making film. They have been working hard to bring back instant film and it is SUPER exciting that this has become a reality, right?

3. We still have some of the remaining Polaroid film! A few packs of 600 film remains at $35/pack and we've just managed to get a case of 779 film too which goes for $39/pack. Perth locals can swing past the store to grab some of what's left, or if online shopping is more your style we have what you need here.

As you can probably tell we are really excited by this!

Howl like the wolves

Check out our new tee design! This is printed in cream onto a brown men's tee.
These go for $59 and are available in sizes small through extra-large.

Footy Tipping

We are super pleased that footy season is approaching! Soon we will be spending our weekend afternoons yelling at a bunch of grown men running around an oval while we eat the occasional meat pie. We are also bringing back Ruck Rover footy tipping for 2010!

It is FREE to enter, plus the leading tipster at the end of the home and away season wins a $50 voucher to Ruck Rover General Store.

If you played last year, all you need to do is login to footytips.com.au and reactivate your membership. Easy peasy. If you are new, go to http://www.footytips.com.au/comps/RuckRo and sign up.

Go on, it's fun!

Shara Porter

It's taken us a while to find the perfect leather wallets so we are pleased to bring you these beauties! Shara Porter of Massachusetts makes the classic men's wallet with a twist; the front has been printed with an excellent image! I think my favourite might be the bike.


See them all here.

The Perfect Thursday Club Diary

Our friend Amber Fresh has just dropped in with a real treat! She has made a 2010 diary, filled with photos, words, drawings, charm and fun. Oh and space to plan your life as well!

The diaries are super limited edition and are A5.

You can buy them online here, or drop in and check them out for yourself!

We hope you all have a magnificent 2010 xx

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