Here’s what we came up with for Jo Glover, one of our lovely customers who sent in some pics of a couple of rooms that needed a bit of a Skinny infusion.
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Decorating with Scissors: Jo’s House
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Making Friday: Print your own chocolate
We’ve been getting crafty in the shop on Thursday evenings, staying open til 8pm throughout December … and on the first First Thursday of January 2020 too. Yup, join us in the store on Late Night Shopping Thursdays throughout December, and use my handcarved lino stamps to print your own wrappers for bean-to-bar Honest Chocolate. I’ve been having so …
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Mood: Sunny!
Here’s where the SunnySide collection all began – on my inspiration board, featuring African baskets (that look like sunshines), bits and pieces from Alexander Girard, a spot of Picasso, some tiles from Lisbon, my mom’s ceramic sun, a dash of good-mood vibes from Jonathan Adler, and blockprinted and papercut sunshines-a-plenty from me!
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Choose the Sunny Side
Why positive vibes are important to us.
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La Fonda de Sol
Have you been known to hoard things like paper napkins? I wouldn’t think I would, but actually, since 2016 I’ve had four unopened packets of Alexander Girard paper napkins in my cupboard – unused souvenirs from my visit to Vitra Design Museum in 2016 when I got to see the Alexander Girard retrospective, A Designer’s …
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Dimensional wallpaper
Three years ago, we collaborated with California ceramics company Heath Ceramics on the Dimensional textile range, inspired by their Dimensional tile range. Read all about that collaboration here. Since then, this range has been sold exclusively at Heath Ceramics stores in San Francisco and LA, and in the Skinny laMinx shop too. This week, however, …
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Threadcount Collective Reunite
10 years ago, Jane Solomon of FabricNation, Tracy Rushmere of Shine-Shine , me of Skinny laMinx, and Melissa Kerkhoff of Lula Fabrics, all had a textile collective that we called the Threadcount Collective. At the time, the textile industry in Cape Town was falling apart, and so the four of us would get together once …
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In The Press: Living & More
Massive thanks to Living & More Magazine in Germany for all the love on the pages of the March issue of the magazine. See the full spread here >> Living & More Germany Magazine.
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