By Margaret Lewis

New Zealand produces an exciting range of high quality goods from fruit juice to fire engines, ball gowns to boats and croissants to cranes. In fact, many of the products in every day use are made here in Aotearoa.

Christmas is a great opportunity to bring Buy Kiwi Made to the creative sector and look at who is making and supplying great products and selling them online - after all, if as a sector we can all buy Kiwi made and support each other then as an industry, we have it made. By Margaret Lewis

New Zealand produces an exciting range of high quality goods from fruit juice to fire engines, ball gowns to boats and croissants to cranes. In fact, many of the products in every day use are made here in Aotearoa.

Christmas is a great opportunity to bring Buy Kiwi Made to the creative sector and look at who is making and supplying great products and selling them online - after all, if as a sector we can all buy Kiwi made and support each other then as an industry, we have it made.Add to that, the trend towards shopping online and there is no excuse.

If it is music you want to buy then you can't go past Amplifier - New Zealand music online. They say, "We're the only place you'll ever need to go to learn about NZ music, catch up on New Zealand music news, listen to your favourite kiwi musicians, watch NZ music videos and purchase CDs and legal MP3 music downloads by kiwi artists." Whether its Shapeshifter, Tiki Taane, Hollie Smith or Hayley Westenra or Herbs.

Object, craft and design sites - there are plenty, all catering for different tastes. There's Toggle [handpicked handmade gifts], Felt [dedicated to all things handmade], Clever Bastards [the clever way to shop for emerging New Zealand art, design and all manner of clever Kiwis], and Jammy [online arts and crafts].

There's also more mass manufactured designs from places like Eon and more alternative places like the underground creative Kiwis at Gothic Punk with emo scene accessories.

If you're looking for authentic quality Maori arts and crafts, then the toi iho site can put you in touch with Maori artists.

Good books is an online bookstore with a conscience. Their offer is simple: Every time you buy a book from Goodbooks - any book - they contribute all profits to Oxfam to help fight its global battle against poverty and social injustice. New Zealand Books is a site for New Zealand published books - from farming to politics but also art, architecture, poetry and fiction.

Beer making is a craft too and you can buy award-winning beer from Moa Beer and if you're lucky enough to be in Marlborough this summer you can sample their beer at their microbrewery. If not, you can buy their beer at Glengarrys and Liquorland.

And don't forget to check out the work from The Big Idea members on The Big Idea showcase.