It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the pattern choices at Skinny laMinx. Enter the magic of our colour blocked Colour Pop Pillows – fifteen glorious pops of pure Skinny laMinx colour, piped in a coordinating tone, made up in Square, Oblong & Round shapes. Colour Pop Pillows are intended as the dots, dashes and commas …
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Pops of pure Skinny laMinx colour!
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Flourish Wallpaper at Robin Sprong
We are over the moon about the most beautiful FLOURISH wallpaper we’ve made with Robin Sprong Wallpapers. Robin Sprong Wallpapers is a Cape Town business, creating and installing bespoke wall coverings, with agencies and associates across South Africa and around the world to help bring your walls to life. Visit the Robin Sprong Wallpapers website to order your transformation!
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It’s time for FLOURISH
FLOURISH is here to celebrate our tangled, buzzing, burgeoning natural world, fizzing with life, variety and vigour. This design is a call to put aside futuristic dreams of Mars and AI, and to fall back in love with the beauty, wonder and delight that our planet offers us in abundance. The word Flourish describes a …
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Oddjects is back!
💥FLASH QUIZ! 💥 Question 1: One of the shapes below is called BOUBA and the other is called KIKI. they’re both nonsense words, but can you guess which name belongs to which shape? If you’re like most people – across cultures, languages and ages – you’ll likely have called the soft, friendly shape BOUBA, and …
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Wunders X Skinny laMinx
This year, for Cape Town Furniture week we teamed up with our friends at Wunders who invited us to refresh some of their classic furniture with our prints. Wunders is a family business that has been making furniture in Cape Town for over 40 years. Under the guidance of the third generation of the Wunders …
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Making Friday: How To Play
Every Thursday and Friday, I leave my business hat at Skinny laMinx HQ, and head off to my studio in Salt River, where I close the door, raise the dust sheets, and tap into the creative energy that started the brand. I call this studio time “Making Friday”, and it’s all about cutting, carving, printing, …
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Shoppe Object – Winter 2025
This February, Skinny laMinx was selected to show our goods at Shoppe Object – the premier Trade Show for curated home & gifts, so we had a fabulously chilly start to the year, spending 10 days in a snowy New York City! What a privilege it was to be there, showing our goods amongst the …
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Cherry Season
It’s Cherry Season in Cape Town! I tried making a Cherry Clafoutis for the first time, and it turned out really well, using cherries I bought at the amazing OZCF Market (a must visit when you’re in Cape Town). But before baking, of course I had to use my cherries to make patterns, and to …
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Gifts are a love language
We just love what style maven Ali laBelle has to say about gifts. It’s a love language, and it’s one we want to become fluent in. Here’s an idea to try:
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