We’re so super proud of our 2019 fundraising campaign, where we sold our Seriously, Have a Good Day shopper bags to raise money for the Breakfast Club at Good Hope Seminary Junior. Just look at those statistics! We’re hoping to raise even more money in 2020, and with this week being back to school, what …
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Seriously, not bad!
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Colour Yum: Persimmon and Sand
I know, I know, they say it’s all about blue this year, but we’ve started the year hot to trot with our new favourite colour combo, Sand and Persimmon. While they may not make good ingredients for a smoothie, they do make for a yummy colour palette, in both fashion and interiors. Clockwise above : Burda magazine ++ Paloma Wool ++ Nanamica ++ Verloop x Peanuts …
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Making Friday: Print your own chocolate
We’ve been getting crafty in the shop on Thursday evenings, staying open til 8pm throughout December … and on the first First Thursday of January 2020 too. Yup, join us in the store on Late Night Shopping Thursdays throughout December, and use my handcarved lino stamps to print your own wrappers for bean-to-bar Honest Chocolate. I’ve been having so …
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November 2019 – A customer review
“On Monday 18 Nov a Skinny laMinx package left Cape Town on a test run. On Wednesday morning. 20 Nov, it was at our Brooklyn door. Thanks to a very sweet new $15 flat rate with FedEx, shipping from Cape Town to the USA is now a whole lot quicker & cheaper.” – Marie Viljoen, …
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India with Expedition Curiosity
Bev Missing is the founder of body and bath product company Rain Africa, and is now the organising force behind Expedition Curiosity – her travel company specialising in immersive and authentic journeys to lesser-known places. Bev loves travel, but can’t bear the usual tourist packaged experience, so her mission with Expedition Curiosity is to travel …
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In the Press: Haguruma’s Hug Letter
We’re so thrilled to be featured in Hug Letter, the brand new emagazine brought out by top Japanese stationer Haguruma, who celebrate their 100th birthday this year. It’s not our first association by a long shot. In fact, in 2012, I was lucky enough to be asked to design their new year’s card, and so …
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Shop The City
We’re joining in the central City fun, starting this first week of December. Shop the City is the latest initiative from the First Thursdays bunch, with the aim of promoting central Cape Town’s top-notch independent retail on offer. Get your hands on a must-have Shop the City guide, giving you access to tiered discounts at …
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A Cabin by Heath
We love this. The owners of our long-time San Francisco stockists, Heath Ceramics, have recently made their beautiful holiday cabin in Tahoe’s Alpine Valley available for all to enjoy, and it is filled with beauty from Heath itself, as well as from the brands they stock in their store. “A Cabin by Heath began in 2012 …
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Experiments in shipping
You’ve heard us banging on about how quick and affordable it is to FedEx our goods from Cape Town to the rest of the world, and here’s proof! We contacted New York City food writer Marie Viljoen of 66 Square Feet fame and asked her if she’d be our guinea pig, as we knew her …
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