Every year, I take stock of what I managed to get done during my behind-the-scenes studio practice, which I like to call Making Friday (even if it doesn’t always happen on a Friday). Here goes with 2018! Weaving My most sustained creative work outside Skinny laMinx was my continued project of teaching myself to weave. I graduated …
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A Year of Making Fridays: 2018
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Making Friday: Colour monster
I’ve been using Colour Pop offcuts to make crazy beasts like this one, just for fun. Visit our DIY section online, or pop into the shop to get a fab selection of offcuts for your next crafty project.
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Weaving update
I have so many looms! How did this happen? Well, how could I resist a simple frame loom for just R150? It’s so easy to pick up and put away, so that’s what I’ve spent the last little while doing while turning my hand to the challenge of weaving a ring shape. I took snaps …
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In The Press: Ideas Magazine South Africa
Thanks so much to Ideas Magazine South Africa for the fabulous feature. You’ll find Ideas on the shelves until the end of January 2019, or you can take a look at the Zinio edition here.
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In the Press: Where Women Create
Where Women Create is a US based magazine filled with inspiring work spaces of extraordinary women, created by the Jo Packham. We’re feeling super-thrilled to have been featured in their Jan – March 2019 issue. Get a preview of the issue here, where you’ll also find more info about how to get your hands on a …
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Skinnylaminxenstein: Biz Books for the Beach
By the time you read this, I’ll be on the beach. Finally! We worked solidly through the end-of-year break, and now it’s time to put the feet up. Hooray! While I plan to mostly spend my holiday surreptitiously sketching fellow beachgoers, my work and personal life are pretty much inextricable, so I also be packing a couple of business books. …
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My Swedish inheritance
I have been mistaken for a Scandinavian occasionally, due to my blue eyes and blonde hair and penchant for Nordic style, but I’m all South African, with a couple of Irish and English and Scottish ancestors 3 or 4 generations back. However, my mom’s dear friends Monica and Jörgen, both children of Swedish missionaries in …
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2019 Wall Calendar
Happy new year! As you may know, our studio always makes a couple of ENORMOUSLY useful OVERSIZED year calendars to use for our in-house planning. This year, these A2 sized calendars are not only designed to organise, but also to inspire our team around our 2019 theme, which is… Seriously, Have a Good Day. “Have a Good …
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Until 2019. . .
I’m at work on the last day of 2019, looking at my moodboard, which is all about sunshine and contentment and choosing fabulousness, which are all things that I hope the new year brings to me, and you, and everyone we know and love, and to those we don’t know, too. Thanks so much for …
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