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Aokimi

Māori Alchemist 🌀
Weaving Wellness with Harakeke &
Mahi Tinana 🫶🏾 Mirimiri & RomiRomi 💆🏽‍♀️
📍 Alexandra - Central Otakou

29/10/2026

You asked, whānau here it is…
🎒🐚 He pīkau kupenga! 🦀🌊
Same same but different kupenga woven in a Pikau stylz - Backpack with thickk straps & a hearty handle. Its made to carry a bountiful load. Sized for a tāne, you can cross the straps over for a snugger fit on someone smaller.

The wave represents Hinemoana, goddess of the ocean and mother of all marine life 🌊 Our Connection & oneness to the moana and the abundance she sustains & provides us… I can see this pīkau carrying a feed of kūtai or pāua or even your gears for a day out in te taiao 🌀☀️🌿🌊🏊‍♀️🥽

With so much tautoko & requests to make another raffle here it is but better...

🎟️ $20 per number | 40 numbers | 3 winners!
🎱 Lotto Bonus Ball wins Te Pīkau
💵 Number immediately below: $50
💵 Number immediately above: $50
📦 Postage included anywhere in Aotearoa
📅 Draw date confirmed once all numbers are sold and paid.
🌿 Some numbers are already sold so please check if your number is available on the list below and wait for confirmation before paying.

Reference: Your name & raffle number 🙏🏽
D.M.Karaka
01-0695-0035065-00

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Ngā mihi nunui for all your aroha & tautokotanga with my haerenga 🤎🌿

22/10/2026

Walking through the Rene Orchiston Collection at Manaaki whenua yesterday 🥹
Literally Heaven on Earth 💚

17/10/2026

🎱Bonus Ball #26 winna winna!!
Maasive Congratulations goes to you Jillian Waitere 🙌🏽🌿❤️ Woweee I love that its headed to a Rongoa Mama from the 417, thats so cool 🍀🌼💃🏼 Thankyou for the tautoko whānau 🫶🏾
Mauri Ora Mauri Aroha 🌿

17/10/2026

✨ SOLD OUT WHĀNAU! ✨

All 40 numbers in my kete kupenga raffle are gone! 🥹🫶🏾 Ngā mihi nui to everyone supporting my haerenga to the Te Waipounamu Weavers Hui. Feeling so grateful for all the aroha and tautoko 💜🌿

If you’re still to pay, please pop your pūtea through so we can draw our lucky winner TONIGHT, once all payments are in! 👀✨

One of you will have your summer bestie coming your way! 🧺🌊 And if you missed out, I’ll have another raffle coming soon 😊

Your support helps me gather more mātauranga to bring home and share with our hapori.. eek how exciting 💃🏼 Aroha nui x Bubz

16/10/2026

Where it all starts.. on the ground in te Taiao.. This is as far as the whakapapa of the Kete Kupenga goes that i know of 🌀💚 All the Manu & critters love to come observe & Play.. Peaceful evening clearing out the pā 🫶🏾

16/10/2026

🌿SUMMER BESTY~KETE KUPENGA Raffle 🌿

Woven by my hands, ready for your summer adventures 🤎 A harvesting kete for kaimoana, kai from the māra or your fave rongoā 🌼 keeping the good stuff and letting the sand & dirt fall through. She is abit bigger then your average kete @50 cm wide and 33 cm tall.

This kete is helping me on my own gathering journey to my 1st ever weaving hui.. The Te Waipounamu Weavers Hui in Ōtautahi, Christchurch.. to gather mātauranga and connect with others who share our love for rāranga & our native rauemi 🫶🏾🌿

My beautiful friend Dee, invited and encouraged me to come, raffle my mahi and allow my hapori to support this haerenga. I feel so honoured and grateful 🥹
With $250 to attend this epic weekend wānanga & around $400 in petrol, your support helps get me there & helps me bring that mātauranga home to share through my mahi & our hapori ~ Community of Mata au, Central Otago 🌀🌿🌊

🎟 $20 per number
🔢 40 numbers to choose from 1- 40
🏆 Lotto Bonus Ball wins
📦 Postage included anywhere in Aotearoa NZ
📅 Draw date announced once all numbers are sold and paid.
Comment below or message me to claim your number.. Numbers are in the comments please check first...
💳 PAYMENT DETAILS
DENISE MURRAY-KARAKA
01-0695-0035065-00

Please use your name and chosen number as your payment reference. Your number is confirmed once payment is received.
Every entry, share or words of encouragement helps whānau 💚

Ngā mihi nui for supporting this haerenga 🤎
What we gather today becomes what we share tomorrow 🌬 Mauri Ora & Goodluck 🍀

16/10/2026

It’s harvest season 🦞🍃🌼 & this kete was made to gather it all 🫶🏾

Kaimoana, Kai from the māra, Rongoā or whatever the lucky winner likes to harvest from te taiao 🪶 Shell be your summer bestie, woven with good intentions, to carry your harvest and let the paru, sand and dirt fall through.

When I think about the whakapapa of kupenga, I think about the relationship between harakeke our hands & kai. The knowledge.. Learning& Surviving, making &creating Knowing where to gather, when to gather, and what to leave so there will be more tomorrow 🌀
There’s so much mātauranga to learn and unlearn & that gets me thinking about te kete wānanga.. the kete of knowledge we each carry and continue to fill.. Our experiences go in there. Our whānau & teacher's kōrero. Our whakapapa.. The lessons we sometimes learn the hard way. For me, the spaces in this kete hold a lesson too. We can keep the mātauranga but we must let the s**t fall through.. Keep what helps us grow. Let the paru loosen its grip & make room for what we’re yet to learn & experience 💃🏼

Now I’m headed to the Te Waipounamu Weavers Hui in Ōtautahi, to gather more mātauranga and be surrounded by people who share this love for Rāranga and our native rauemi 🥹🫶🏾 My beautiful friend Dee Mana Wahine invited me & encouraged me to come. She has supported me so much since I've met her 🫶🏾 So im going to raffle this kete and let the people support the haerenga and our petrol and my admission fee..There’s a lesson in receiving too, something that im still working on... Buut how cool for me to know this kete will carry someone else’s harvest, while helping me gather mine 🌀
& what I bring home will flow into my mahi, my wānanga and our hapori here 🌊 the ripple effects are allready giving me goosebumps!

So what are you gathering this season? & what are you ready to let fall through the gaps?

Raffle be up today if your interested 🫶🏾 Ngā Mihi Maioha,
Mauri Aroha Bubz 🌸

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