Winter has hit us, and while I’m not crazy about the chilly toes, I’m quite excited about all the opportunities for new clothes combinations. A little boy asked me about my favourite colour the other day, and I told him that I mostly like colours teamed up with others. (Poor kid – he picked the …
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Pink, silver, grey
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Press 2014: ELLE Decor USA
Wow, we’ve had so much love from international ELLE Decoration titles! The latest is from ELLE Decor USA, with their feature on Cape Town, which includes a pic of our shop. Thanks so much for the great publicity, and to the fab pics and mentions in your sister publications, ELLE Decoration France and ELLE Decoration …
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I’m scarce
Of course, the Skinny laMinx shop never sleeps (well, the online one, anyway), and our fab team team keeps on keeping on, but I’m a bit out of circulation right now, as far as blogging, Instagramming and whatnot is concerned, as I’m spending most of my time styling and shooting images for our new fabrics …
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Making Friday: Ceramics
I’m still loving my weekly ceramics class, and these guys are the first of the bunch to come out of the kiln. Fingers crossed the rest don’t explode so I can eventually line them up in more or less the way I painted them before I began 🙂
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DIY Squares
Last week was all about half squares, and this week we’ve got even more squares to talk about:  Introducing the brand new Skinny laMinx DIY Fabric Squares! We’ve taken our fabric offcuts, sorted them into colour groups like Reds & Pinks, Yellows, Black & White, etc., cut them into 15cm / 6″ squares, and packaged them …
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First Thursdays May – Half Square launch
After all my blogging about the process, I’m so excited to finally reveal what I’ve been doing fiddling around with ceramic tiles in collaboration with Spier Architectural Arts: At the First Thursdays event tonight, there’s a special preview of this World Design Capital project called Half Square (project #WDC382). Half Square is launching at a couple of venues …
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In the World of Interiors
Very thrilled to see Skinny laMinx on the pages of the May issue of The World of Interiors magazine.
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Flowering palette
One of the succulents on my rooftop studio garden started flowering this week. It’s not my usual set of colours, but I kind of love this palette of silvery greys and orange-y pinks. My winter wardrobe always tends towards the greys and blacks, and I’m kind of dreading heading in that direction this year, and …
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#cellphonesarethenewsmoking
I sketched these two outside Jason Bakery while they waited for their takeaway coffee. #cellphonesarethenewsmoking
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