Our roundup of all kinds of festive wreaths from around the web.
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Faux Wreath or Real Wreath?
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Wabi Sabi again
Oh bugger. I had just been thinking I should take return a beautiful midcentury West German vase to our home, when I moved a fan and knocked it off the bookshelf. Of course I couldn’t just chuck it in the bin. It’s been around longer than I have, so with the help of sellotape and …
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Seasonal Shop Hours
It’s the holidays, but we’re not going anywhere, apart from when we stay home to unwrap our prezzies on 25 & 26 December, and when we have a snooze on 1 January. The rest of the time, the Skinny laMinx shop will be open weekdays from 9am – 6pm, and on Saturdays from 9am – …
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Extended opening hours
We’ve extended our shop hours leading up to Christmas, so now we’re open weekdays 9am – 6pm. Also, we’ll stay open on Monday 17 December, all the way up to 24 December. See you at 201 Bree Street!
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Celebrating 7 years on Bree Street
Way back in 2011, I found a greasy scooter shop to let on Bree Street, just near my favourite coffee shop, and by the end of the year, the Skinny laMinx shop opened its doors! We’ve done lots since then, expanding upstairs, growing our team, doubling the shop size, and building our business, and we …
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How to make cute gift tags
You’ll need card, thin coloured paper (I used origami paper), scissors, a stamp pad, lino and cutting tools. Carve your stamp from the lino. If you’ve been to one of my workshops on this, you’ll know exactly how to do this! If not, try carving a soft material like an eraser. Cut two circles from …
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A Skinny Tale – 2007 – 2012
We’re celebrating the Skinny laMinx shop’s 7th birthday this week, as we opened our doors at 201 Bree Street on 13 December 2011. Just by chance, I came across this Skinny Tale that I’d written at the end of 2012, when our shop was just one year old. So much has changed… and yet it’s …
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20 Days of HappyThanks #10: Kirsten Goss
It’s the last of our 20 Days of HAPPYTHANKS… and it’s my birthday, too! It’s been so much fun teaming up with my fellow business owners to say Thank You to our supporters with these giveaways, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to have Kirsten Goss as our final friend, with a truly spectacular giveaway! …
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20 Days of HappyThanks #9: Mungo
This post is the 9th in a series of 10 instagram-based giveaways devised to promote our fellow business owners, as well as to give us a chance to say THANK YOU to all the people who support Skinny laMinx on social media all year long. A huge thank you to Mungo, whose very generous prize …
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