We’ve had a dreadful heat wave in Cape Town for the past week, so I’m afraid I didn’t have the energy to give our place a thorough tidy before Lily Strauss came over yesterday morning to take pics for an Apartment Therapy house tour. Unsurprisingly, Lily’s nifty eye managed to picked out all the least …
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House Tour
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Ooh! ooh!
Looky look! My Herds fabric is on the cover of Visi magazine! It’s one shot in a lovely story featuring textiles by local designers, and guess what? Threadcount Collective members feature heavily! See Shine Shine, Fabricnation & Lula Fabrics all strutting their stuff (and see more of their stuff by visiting the Threadcount website, and …
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Frazer Parfum giveaway
Unusually for this blog, today I’m doing an interview. I’m very fortunate to have Tammy Frazer of Frazer Parfum joining me at Skinny laMinx. Frazer Parfum, you might recall, used my pincushion protea design on their beautiful wooden Parfum Solide containers, and I mentioned before that Tammy had kindly donated one of these to be …
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Gasp!
I’ve had my head down, working like a maniac, and so didn’t realise that The 2010 Poppies were announced yesterday on Poppytalk. I’m so, so thrilled to see that Skinny laMinx was voted the Jury’s Choice for the Favourite Textiles category, and in the Peoples’ Choice award, Skinny laMinx was third . Thanks so much …
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One hoop to jump…
I’m feeling superstitiously concerned about blogging my incredibly exciting news before the last hoop is jumped through, but our visa interview is tomorrow morning and I just can’t wait any longer to share the news. So here’s a picture of a little city themed mug I made (and sold) last year, to mark the fact …
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Patching
While I could never find the inner pernicketyness needed fro proper quilting, I do find that piecing fabric together with my overlocker and sewing maching is one of the things that gives me huge satisfaction. During the holidays I made a bit of a dent in my piles and piles of fabric scraps, starting out …
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One lump or two?
Come and have tea at my spot! Shelterpop has done a story on our little apartment, so off you go, put the kettle on, dunk a teabag, then click here to pay a visit while you sip your tea.
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The winners
The winners From an astonishingly enthusiastic 424 comments, Lynn Russell has selected two lucky winners for the Heath Ceramics / Satsuma Press / Skinny laMinx giveaway! Go visit the Satsuma Press blog to find out who won. PS: Lynn’s feeling super-generous (and a bit sorry for those who didn’t win), so anyone who left a …
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Getting Christmassy
Getting ChristmassyStephanie Levy is doing a lovely Artist Advent Calendar series of posts at her blog, Studio with a View, where every day an artist opens a little window onto their way of celebrating Christmas. I did a very little post for her on Sunday, and there are lots more to see. Thanks for the …
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