Take some time out from your To Do list, and join Heather on a weekend workshop break at Arumvale Country Retreat in the beautiful Swellendam countryside. On the workshop, you’ll get hands-on insights into how pattern is created, & you’ll also learn how to carve & print your own designs onto paper & textile. In …
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Print / Repeat / Retreat – a weekend workshop escape
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Mood: Sunny!
Here’s where the SunnySide collection all began – on my inspiration board, featuring African baskets (that look like sunshines), bits and pieces from Alexander Girard, a spot of Picasso, some tiles from Lisbon, my mom’s ceramic sun, a dash of good-mood vibes from Jonathan Adler, and blockprinted and papercut sunshines-a-plenty from me!
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My mom’s sunshine
This is Old Sol, made by my clever, talented mom after a visit to Bath in the UK, where she saw a paving stone that had been lifted during roadworks, revealing a carved Roman sun on the underside. Old Sol lived on the outside wall of our 70s childhood home in Johannesburg, and still hangs …
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Sheryl’s having a seriously good day
Meet the founder of the Oranjezicht City Farm (OZCF) market in Granger Bay, Sheryl Ozinsky. We asked her what it is about her work that she really enjoys, and what a seriously good day at work looks like for her…
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Choose the Sunny Side
Why positive vibes are important to us.
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La Fonda de Sol
Have you been known to hoard things like paper napkins? I wouldn’t think I would, but actually, since 2016 I’ve had four unopened packets of Alexander Girard paper napkins in my cupboard – unused souvenirs from my visit to Vitra Design Museum in 2016 when I got to see the Alexander Girard retrospective, A Designer’s …
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Sunshine baskets
Has it ever occurred to you that a lot of African basket designs look like sunshines? Well, it occurred to me, so I made a selection of fine specimens found in our friend Binky’s shop Design Afrika, and took this gorgeous sunshiney snap. Find these, and other beautiful African baskets from Design Afrika in the …
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Dimensional wallpaper
Three years ago, we collaborated with California ceramics company Heath Ceramics on the Dimensional textile range, inspired by their Dimensional tile range. Read all about that collaboration here. Since then, this range has been sold exclusively at Heath Ceramics stores in San Francisco and LA, and in the Skinny laMinx shop too. This week, however, …
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Threadcount Collective Reunite
10 years ago, Jane Solomon of FabricNation, Tracy Rushmere of Shine-Shine , me of Skinny laMinx, and Melissa Kerkhoff of Lula Fabrics, all had a textile collective that we called the Threadcount Collective. At the time, the textile industry in Cape Town was falling apart, and so the four of us would get together once …
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