These days, I’m much more aware that flying somewhere is adding to the climate problem, but things are currently set up so that flying is often hard to avoid. So although not flying at all is the best policy, for now, it’s going to have to be a mitigated choice, where the carbon miles generated …
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Plant more trees
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Making Friday: From the studio walls
As you know, my Making Friday studio practice is all about making, making, making, with no real plan or expectation or need in mind. I find it so important to simply generate work that’s liberated from all the necessary work restrictions of cost and production possibility etc that product development requires. Here’s some of the …
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How to style your Scarf: Headwrap Tutorial
Our stockroom manager Nobuzwe is one stylish lady and can rock a headwrap in all kinds of ways. Here she shares one of her favourits styles with us in a nifty headwrap tutorial, using our Matchsticks blockprint scarf. Find our Matchsticks & Sun & Moon Scarves online & in the Skinny laMinx store at 201 …
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Pets on Pillows
We asked a bunch of snooze experts about their favourite Skinny laMinx pillow, and the score was unanimous: Everydoggy (and kitty) gave it a solid ZZZ! These are just the ordinary ol’ pillows though. Imagine how many ZZZ’s we’d get if we made a proper Skinny dog bed. Oh, wait. We did! What’s the score on this …
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Solar Power to the People!
We closed our shop on Friday 20 September as we stood with #fridaysforfuture climate activists around the world, raising our voices to governments and big business so that they wake up to the reality of the climate emergency. Experiencing anxiety about all things climate related? We can relate, but can attest to the fact that …
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Farewell Design*Sponge
This is a loaf of my Aunty Betty’s banana bread that I brought into the Skinny laMinx shop for our Wednesday general meeting this week. It’s significant, because this recipe appeared twice on the Design*Sponge blog over the years, along with multiple features of Skinny laMinx products and a home tour, all resulting in a …
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Colour Yum: Sand and Persimmon
One of the things we love about all the colour and beautiful things in our shop and fabric studio is the way that new colour ideas suddenly arrive before your eyes, often in surprising combinations. For instance, ever since we’ve had the grassy tones and textures of baskets & mats from Design Afrika in our …
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NEW: Apple Green Alexander Sack
Ooh, heavens! Did you see? Not only have we updated our Flower Fields design in a spanky Apple Green colour, we’ve gone a step further and turned it into a particularly delicious Alexander Sack with Shell Pink straps. Like it? Want one? Find it for sale in our shop, and online too. Find it right …
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How to style your Scarf : “The Pearl” Tutorial
We’ve put together a helpful tutorial to show you how to wear our limited-edition blockprinted scarves. This one we’ve named “The Pearl” after one of the origional Skinny laMinx-ers.
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