While I might have been a semi-conscious human for much of the 70’s, I seem to have managed to absorb that era pretty deeply into my being. I mean, I do macrame, pottery, and I’m learning to weave, too, ffs! This probably explains why I was happy to spend a solid hour of my Tuesday …
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Out & About: A visit to Liebermann’s
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Priorities
If all had gone to plan, my bloke and I would be in Mozambique now, but our big old 17-year-old brown bear Nanook has become quite ill, and so instead we are having a quiet time at home. It would have been delicious to have a palm tree and warm sea holiday, but it’s perhaps …
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Airport corridors
I missed a flight back from Joburg last night, which ended me up in overnight Purgatory (aka the TravelLodge), atoning for the sins of the Gautrain ticket machines, but which did afford me the opportunity of admiring the airport corridor windows with the 5:30am sunrise on the other side. The ovals reminded me of my …
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The Best of Bree Street
We’ve extended our shopping hours during the Summer season, so you can visit the Skinny laMinx store at 201 Bree Street til 6pm on weekdays, and 3pm on Saturdays. While you’re on Bree St, make a day of it, and visit some of our friends and neighbours on this top-drawer Cape Town shopping destination street. Here are some …
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Down the garden path in Porto
For four days, we glimpsed our new life in Porto tucked away in garden apartment…
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“Ferro forjado” is wrought iron in Portuguese
Something that really caught my eye while in Portugal was the amazingly expressive and varied ferro forjado (portuguese for wrought iron, y’know) on doors, windows and balconies
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Roof Garden launch… in Paris!
I’ve just got back from my hop to Europe, so here’s a quick catchup on what I got up to on the two crazy days that I spent launching our new fabric collection in Paris.
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Friends & Neighbours: Denny Mo
We caught up with Denny Mo – the owner of our new favourite Cape Town plant shop – Angles+Earth, and discovered he has some pretty radical ambitions!
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Zonnebloem School Library
I couldn’t be more delighted to see these images in Visi Magazine of the new Zonnebloem School Library, to which we donated fabric and cushions as part of a spectacular project by the Chris Otto Foundation Trust and architect Victoria Perry of Loudon Perry Anderson Architects . Head over to Visi to see the full article. Images …
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