Small Kindnesses By Danusha Laméris I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We …
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Small Kindnesses
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Decorating with Scissors: Jo’s House
This has been so much fun! We’ve loved getting your emailed pics asking for our Decorating with Scissors help and advice. Here’s what we came up with for Jo Glover, one of our lovely customers who sent in some pics of a couple of rooms that needed a bit of a Skinny infusion. Jo had …
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Decorating with Scissors: How can we help?
We know that buying pillows online is tricky, but our aim is to help you feel as confident shopping online as you would if you came into our Bree Street shop. So what’s the solution? Well, let us do some decorating with scissors for you, so we can show you exactly what your new pillows …
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Decorating with Scissors again
I’ve been redecorating strangers’ houses with nothing but a pair of scissors!
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Hello from NYNOW
Hello from New York City, where Pearl and I are finishing up 5 days of showing Skinny laMinx at the NYNOW trade show. While it has been chilly, and the days have been long, it’s been a seriously good day every day, not just because we’re writing orders and getting to meet longtime Skinny fans …
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Meet Barbara Pettignano
We’re all over the world this week! Heather is in New York City doing the NYNOW trade show , and Donna is in Frankfurt with our European distributor, Barbara Pettignano, where they are doing the Ambiente Trade Show. Barbara is so great to work with, not least because she speaks 4 languages fluently, which means …
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Liyabona Library See Saw Do
We spent a special Saturday morning at Holy Cross Convent in Distric 6, attending the joyful opening of Liyabona library. We donated fabric, which the genius See Saw Do put to brilliant use as part of this beautiful, safe, well-stocked library, all orchestrated and fundraised by the Otto Foundation. How inspiring to see a headmistress …
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Gluten Morgen! A collaboration with Jason Bakery
When we opened our shop in 2011, Bree Street was not exactly the beating heart of the Cape Town scene, although it was a great place for car upholstery cleaning and spark plugs. Actually, the only real reason I signed the store lease was that my favourite coffee shop was half a block away. Eight …
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Bums on seats
When Skinny laMinx opened on Bree Street in 2011, Jason Bakery was still a hole- in-the-wall coffee shop. They soon expanded, opening their larger premises in the space they currently occupy on the corner of Bloem & Bree. (Don’t know where that is? Just look out for the Doughssant queues on a Saturday morning. They’re …
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