Join us in our shop tonight as we launch our exciting collection of hand-blocked cotton scarves, which I designed after my teaching trip to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps last October. Each scarf has been block printed by hand in a small printing house in Bagru village, just outside Jaipur, using vegetable dyes and printed onto fine cotton …
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Launching: Block Printed Scarves
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Behind the scenes…
I’m dying to share the pics of a super exciting new product we’ll have in our shop next monthl… but I can’t! So, here are some incredibly annoying behind-the-scenes pictures of my studio mid-shoot, sans actual fabulous item. Be sure to be the first to know what the heck I’m hinting at by signing up for my …
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Ahead of the pastel pack
I just heard that Pantone has released its colour palettes for 2016, including one they call Ephemera, featuring “delicate shades of wan blue, pale peach and tender yellow”. Well, ahem, what have I been saying for about 3 years, with our Acid Pastel and Sweet & Sharp Lookbook images? Way ahead of ya, Pantone! PS: If you’re loving …
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Mid-March Making Friday
After last week’s great reception to my post explaining Making Friday, I’m under pressure to follow up, aren’t I? Well, here goes, with a post about using the side effects of the thing you’re making (just for fun) to make something else just for fun. More fun? I’m in. So, just as I didn’t throw …
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Plant-filled homes
I recently spotted this gorgeous AirBnB apartment in Cape Town, all done up by architect Astrid von Brucken in Skinny laMinx Paradise is Here prints. Isn’t it a fresh, plant-filled treat? it got me thinking about all the plant-filled, botanical-themed, and frankly junglicious apartments and homes I’ve spotted around the web, so I hunted down a …
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Paradise on your phone
Earlier this week, we got samples of our own made-to-order cellphone covers, available in the Skinny laMinx SKETCHBOOK store on Nuvango. They’re beautifully packaged, arriving in a little felt sleeve to keep it safe. Aww! We liked them so much, we immediately decided to put some of our Paradise is Here gift tag designs onto phone …
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Black Gold
For quite some time, I’ve been buying and stashing brass animals in a cupboard at home, waiting for the day that I had enough to send off to the foundry. No, not to melt down for pocket money! I was dreaming of turning them black. While I have nothing against a brass animal, I prefer less shiny …
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The idea that seeds the pattern
It was 30 years ago that Susan Sontag wrote that “Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted”. Imagine what she’d have to say about the Instagram epidemic! But I hope to be forgiven, at least in part, for my compulsive snap-snap-snapping, by putting …
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Pier Luigi Nervi and the Good Hope Centre
Near the end of last year, Paul and I went to the Good Hope Centre to see the Pet Shop Boys, who were touring as part of the Sonar 2014 festival. What a great show it was, but for me, the big discovery of the night was all to do with the venue. Just about every Capetonian …
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