Much earlier this year, I had an email from Morgan at The Crafters Box, asking for my postal address. This US-based company, whose aim is to make it easy for people to bring crafting back into peoples’ lives by providing subscriber-based mail-order kits and online instructional videos around particular crafts. What a great idea! The …
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Making Friday: Punch needle with Crafters Box
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20 Days of HappyThanks #6: Vorster and Braye
This post is the sixth 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 Martin and Colin of Vorster …
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20 Days of HappyThanks #5: Ballo
This post is the fifth 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 Ballo, who has sponsored today’s super-chic …
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20 Days of HappyThanks #4: Mami Wata
This post is the fourth 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. Thanks to Mami Wata, who has kindly sponsored this prize …
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Making Friday: Blank faces
When you run a creative biz, it’s important to make sure that sometimes the creative part has to be given more space than the business side, cos the inventive cogs get clogged up when the things you make are always purpose- or deadline-driven, and that’s why I spend Fridays in my studio. I thought it …
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20 Days of HappyThanks #3: Sidai
This post is the third 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 Becky and the team at …
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20 Days of HappyThanks #2: Waza Shop
This post is the second 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 WAZA, who are offering a …
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20 Days of HappyThanks #1: Dear Rae
This post is the first 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 Karin and the team at …
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A Colour Dictionary
Eek! I just bought myself an early birthday present on Amazon, called A Dictionary of Color Combinations, by Sanzo Wada. Sanzo Wada was a Japanese artist, teacher, costume and kimono designer who wrote a 6-volume work on colour combinations in the 1930s, which helped to lay the foundations for contemporary colour research. You can see some …
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