So excited to have a brand new tea towel design to share with you. This one is called Stig. Why “Stig”? Well, you might recall my recent post on my blog about a papercut I made, inspired by one of my all-time favourite designers, Stig Lindberg? That has been turned into a fabric design, and …
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New tea towel – Stig
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A new lease on Space for Life
Space for Life, as you’ll know if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, is the go-to Cape Town store for fans of mid-Century Nordic furniture, ceramics and glassware. Everything is brought in from Denmark, and then painstakingly restored. I’m a big fan, but the last time I tried to visit their Foreshore store, …
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Fan Fridays – the best kind of blues
Although we don’t have a lot of blues in the fabric range at Skinny laMinx (hmm. Must look into that gap), we managed to pick out a blue theme for this week’s Fan Fridays post. Top left: A skateboard made by Cape Town’s boardmaking king, @alphakent, using our Rough Diamond in sunny sky. Bottom left: Adorable …
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Maker Stories – Heath Ceramics
Did I mention something in Friday’s post about a current of San Francisco running through the air? Well, I had that one right, because continuing on that theme is our feature on the Heath Ceramics website today, as part of their Maker Stories series. We’ve been supplying Heath Ceramics with tea towels, table runners, napkins …
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See Saw Do
Have you heard of See-Saw-Do? I just want to tell everyone about this simply delightful husband-and-wife social entrepreneur team, who use colour and cuteness to improve the lives and educational opportunities of kiddies all over the Western Cape. Over the past month the See-Saw-Do team has been hard at work inside the Grade R classrooms at …
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Making Friday – 14 June
Last week’s Making Friday was spent with my 7-year-old niece, Isabel. We designed and made iron-on motifs on fabric, and sewed it up into a cushion (but forgot to photograph it!), and then we made variations on my paper doll idea. Looking forward to doing it again some time, Izzy!
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Fan Fridays – Monochrome SF
We’ve got two beautiful monochrome shots from San Francisco for our Fan Friday feature. On the left is the awesome window display at Lotus Bleu in Hayes St, SF (follow them on Instagram here), and on the right, Janet Brown sent us a pic after her visit to Heath Ceramics, where she bought the beautiful bowl …
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Azulejos
In June, my bloke showed three of his works at a big exhibition at the Gulbenkian Institute in Lisbon. He’s been working on a large tile project himself, for Spier Architectural Arts, and is really into pattern, so was naturally blown away by tile and pattern riches he saw in Lisbon. One of the gifts …
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Lampshades online
We’ve been selling made-to-order lampshades in our shop at 201 Bree Street for some time now, but from today, we’re upping the game, and we’re selling them online too! Visit the brand new lampshades section in our shop for South African customers*. *Please note that the lampshades are only available in South Africa, and the …
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