A while back, I blogged about a very exciting project I am working on with Spier Architectural Arts, and now it’s all gathering momentum, for the big Reveal on 8 May. I spent my Making Friday working on my giant tiled panel, and while I took lots of pics, I can’t show the full design …
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Making Friday: Half Square update
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OH Tours: House Stekhoven
Last evening, I went on the next in the series of the Open House Thursdays series of architecture tours organised by OH Architecture, this time in Newlands. (If you missed last month’s tour of Gawie and Gwen Fagan’s Camp’s Bay home, click here). I’ve actually visited this home, just off Kildare Rd before, on the …
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Making Friday: Light dots
Sometimes, when you’re at your desk, pen poised, but not sure what you want to do, you’ve just got to use what you’ve got. On Friday, what I had was a scattering of of light coming through the blinds onto my drawing pad. It’s all about making a start, and it may not result in …
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Sunny Days collection for Chronicle Books
I’m a big fan of pretty much everything I’ve seen from San Francisco-based publisher Chronicle Books This hip, agile and responsive publisher seems to have a finger right on the pulse, so when Chronicle got in touch last year to talk about doing a Skinny laMinx stationery range, I pounced on the opportunity. And now, …
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Made-to-order wallpaper giveaway
One of our all-time favourite stylists, bloggers (and human beings, actually) is Vicki Sleet of I Want That, so we were glad to hear that she’s about to have a little daughter! The news came in around the time we started planning our made-to-order wallpaper launch, which is why we had the brainwave of offering …
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Made-to-order wallpaper – Skinny laMinx for Robin Sprong
I’m so happy to finally announce the very exciting news we’ve been keeping under our hats for an absolute age: Wallpaper! Wallpaper has been on our to-do list for ages, and in fact, some of the Skinny laMinx designs started out as hand-cut wall stickers before ever appearing on fabrics (evidence right here). So it’s …
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Press 2014: ELLE Deco Philippines
I’ve been following the beautiful Instagram feed of ELLE Decoration Philippines for a while now, so was really thrilled to see their fantastic feature on Cape Town, including a full page pic of the Skinny laMinx shop! Thanks so much. xx
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KFM business of the week
Hooray! 94.5 KFM radio station named Skinny laMinx as Business of the Week! Listen to the radio interview here:
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Apartamento
This year, we’ve been enjoying bringing a selection of otherwise-hard-to-find magazines in to sell in our shop on Bree Street. So far, we’ve had Sweet Paul magazine, Kinfolk , Dutch magazine FLOW, and now we have Apartamento in store. Apartamento is described as an “interiors magazine dedicated to interior space and the people who live in it”, but …
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