ShowersFound this 1958 Showers print by Alexander Girard over at True Up. The colours in particular knock me out – especially the addition of blue into the rest of the earthy tones. How does he manage to do something simple, and so right? True Up has another great Girard post that’s worth reading if you’re …
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Decal garden
Decal garden A local production company recently bought a whole bunch of my decals to stick up in their kitchen. Go check out more pics of their beautiful offices over at the ELLE DECORATION blog.
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My shadow
My shadowOn Monday and Tuesday I was fortunate to have Jane join me from her high school to do a job shadow with me. Collecting transfers, visiting the printers and buying fabric gave her a peek at some pretty grungy parts of the city, but we made up for that with a dose of media …
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Ch-ch-Che-Changes
It really isn’t a current affairs kind of blog, this, but I can’t let the resignation of our president and 11 cabinet ministers go totally unremarked. And all this political upheaval is pretty compelling. I find myself racing from radio news to internet comment in a rather unseemly desire to hear more, and my studio is …
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Keeping good company
Keeping good companySo, madame, which will it be? The LAVA bag by Skinny laMinx for a mere $21, or perhaps the Pottery bag by Stig Lindberg for only $132? Must point out that it wasn’t my idea to see some echos of Mr Lindberg’s iconic design in my LAVA print ( but many thanks for …
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Spring CD
Spring CDFree with the September issue of Fair Lady magazine came this mix CD with my Protea cutouts all over the cover and disc. I’d forgotten all about this, vaguely recalling the magazine requesting the use of the designs earlier this year, so it was a nice surprise to see them looking at me from …
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Spring Zing ELLE DECORATION
Spring Zing ELLE DECORATIONThe new issue is on the shelves, and I’m blogging about it for all I’m worth, over at the ELLE DECORATION blog. I’m totally besotted with this image from the magazine, and there’s another one from the same shoot that I could happily supersize and hang in my living room. Go check …
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Domino made me say Yho!
Domino made me say Yho!“Yho!” is something we like to say around here when something amazing happens. So of course, I said Yho! (and then spluttered, cos I’m still sick) when I saw not one, but two of my things included in the Grace Bonney’s September Under $100 roundup for Domino! Grace has chosen some …
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You’re tweet!
You’re tweet! Thanks to all the kind bloggers for giving my LAVA tea towels such great publicity! For you, my little bird sweetly sings, Bloggin’ all over the World by Status Quo. And to Mandy de Waal, for writing a nice article about my work over at Moneyweb, my little bird belts out WonderWaal by …
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