Frequently Asked Questions about how our How Pattern Works online course: WHAT WILL I LEARN? Over the course of 4 lessons, you will: Learn how to create two sets of tile cards based on Lisbon tiles. Experience hands-on understanding of how tiled patterns work. Gain insight into how a single motif can create endless pattern …
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How Pattern Works online course FAQ’s
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Collaboration with VISI
It took me a while to slow down and look properly at the mid-century mosaic mural on the public bathrooms on the Sea Point Promenade (read more here), but I’m so glad I did, because it’s become part of my life in ways I might not have ever considered. For instance, I was inspired to …
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Slowing down on the Promenade
The Sea Point Promenade really is my favourite place to take a walk, and when the exercise ban lifted a few weeks ago, it became clear that I’m no exception there. There’s so much to see! Waves & surfers, paragliders & windblown trees, dads with prams & nurses with wheelchairs, doggos & joggers all making up a …
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Making Friday: Be More Fabulous
I’ve started a new needlepoint recently, with “Be More Fabulous” on it, and as I stitch, I’ve been thinking about these words, which I took from a headline in Elle Decoration UK a few years back. To me, being fabulous is not about being flashy or well dressed or making a social splash. I say …
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Team Skinny laMinx 2020
These are the faces and hands behind the name Skinny laMinx. We love what we do, and we LOVE that you love it to. xx Team Skinny laMinx.
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How Pattern Works
I spent the first month of lockdown designing, filming and editing the How Pattern Works online workshop, which launches today. I developed the course out of my teaching experience with Ace Camps in Portugal, where I was using the amazing tile heritage of Lisbon as my teaching tool. While teaching, I noticed how the energy …
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Monkeys world tour!
Travelling in the mind really has become a theme of the Skinny laMinx lockdown period. Just look at the adventures one of our parcels destined for Australia took… in the mind of one of our favourite Aussie customer, Rebecca Her FedEx package was among the last to leave Cape Town on the day before lockdown, …
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Feeling uncertain? Be Curious
How do we proceed when the future is so hard to predict?
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Making Friday: #myapartmentsafari Challenge
Let’s go on safari… while we’re stuck inside our homes.
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