The Sea Point Promenade really is my favourite place to take a walk. There’s so much to see! Waves & surfers, paragliders & windblown trees, dads with prams & nurses with wheelchairs, doggos & joggers all making up a passing parade that’s one of the enduring pleasures of Cape Town life. It also has some …
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Making Friday : On the Promenade
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Modern Fabric
Look at what arrived in the post… with our Bowls print on the cover! I’m thrilled to bits that Skinny laMinx has been included as one of the 25 textile designers in this book by Abby Gilchrist and Amelia Poole, published by Princeton Architectural Press. What a thrill to share pages with heavyweights like @kaffefassettstudio, …
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Lifestyling
There’s been so much change and loss in the print magazine industry during this time of Covid, so it’s heartening to hear from JP de la Chaumette who used this time to launch a brand new online magazine, called Lifestyling.co.za. I asked JP to tell us more about the origins, plans and dreams for this …
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Making Friday: Papercutting at the Norval
So many Skinny laMinx designs are based on papercuts. Pincushion, Flowerfields, Rough Cuts, Stig – they all started with a sketch, some paper and a sharp little knife. I haven’t been doing much paper cutting lately though, and I really miss it, so when I was invited to spend Garden Day 2020 in the Sculpture …
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The original Skinny laMinx
October is a very special month, because it’s the birthday month of the original Skinny laMinx! I named my biz after our little Siamese cat called Monkey in the pic above, and although she’s no longer with us (after 18 years!) she still makes us smile. To celebrate Monkey’s birthday month, our fans have been …
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A colourful home : My Home is my Horst
Who likes colourful home decor? We do! And it’s always so exciting to see how stylish people with a real knack for colorful home decor incorporate Skinny laMinx fabrics, cushions and pillows in their homes, especially when they have a super-strong look of their own. German interiors stylist and author Julia Ballmaier has totally wowed …
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Slowing down on the Promenade
The Sea Point Promenade really is my favourite place to take a walk, and when the exercise ban lifted a few weeks ago, it became clear that I’m no exception there. There’s so much to see! Waves & surfers, paragliders & windblown trees, dads with prams & nurses with wheelchairs, doggos & joggers all making up a …
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Making Friday: #myapartmentsafari Challenge
Let’s go on safari… while we’re stuck inside our homes.
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Lisbon Square for Cloud9 Fabrics
The latest textile collection for Cloud9 Fabrics called Lisbon Square is a textile reminiscence of my 2016 visit to Lisbon.
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