I had red and blue fingers by the end of Making Friday, after spending most of the day trying out the same print in different layouts and combinations, in a very small range of variables, namely: red or blue / right side or upside down / different kinds of spacing. I enjoy this rather repetitive patternmaking exercise …
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Making Friday: 6 Feb 2015
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OH Tours: Hans Niehaus Gallery
On Thursday last week, thanks to OH Thursdays, I was lucky enough to snoop inside a building that has always intrigued me – the decades-long work in progress that is Hans Niehaus Gallery on Vineyard Road in Claremont. Apologies for some of the poor photos (I only had my phone camera with me). The Cape …
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Making Friday – The Multipede
I’m still potting away on a Monday morning, and really enjoying it, making the oddest little pots. Out of the kiln most recently: The Multipede!
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Frankenflowers… on your cellphone!
Quite a few years ago, I used to spend fun hours with ceramics transfers that I’d had made, creating plates, bowls, mugs etc, decorated with my sketches. I was only able to have the transfer sheets printed in one colour, so I liked to chop up the sheets, and assemble the parts into crazy mixed-up …
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Rainbow buckets
You know, when you work in retail, you have to start planning for the festive season so early that sometimes you’ve almost forgotten what you were working on in July when you shot your Christmas images. Or maybe that’s just me and my colander brain. Whatever the case, I was rather delighted to discover these Soft Bucket and …
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Decorate your table
I think the new colours of our Abacus print are a great option for a Christmas table, whether you’re decorating for a sunny Summer’s Christmas, or a cosy Winter’s day. Find them in our shop.
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Patternsnap
Harpers Bazaar called Patternsnap “The Shazam of the interiors world”, which is a perfect description of this ingenious (and free) smartphone app that allows interiors junkies and professionals to use their phones to snap and discover where to find a pattern. This is how it works: As well as just saving and grouping your favourites …
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Christmas North and South
If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, Christmas for you is all about snowflakes and pine trees, right? But down here in Cape Town, it’s hot and sunny – much more in tune with palm trees than pine trees! We’ve planned for this North/South thing this year, designing our flip-over Christmas greeting card to be flexible enough …
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Getting all Martha Stewart over here
I returned from Jaipur at the end of October, in the middle of a renovation of our study, so our home was in an absolute muddle, and the explosion of my three India-souvenir-stuffed bags all over the apartment didn’t help a bit! Slowly but surely we’ve been finding a place for everything (and ditching whatever doesn’t fit), and despite …
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