Jan & Äya in Greenpoint, Brooklyn features beautiful things for your home, clothing for adults and children, and even yummy cakes. The shop is just opened, and you can see photos of the opening here.Bad news for Capetonians – that’s Greenpoint, Brooklyn in NEW YORK, not Cape Town. More’s the pity, as I’d love to …

Thanks! While waiting for Blogger to swallow my pics gratefully once again, I want to give my many thanks to the people who’ve been writing about my work lately. I really, really appreciate your taking the time to show your readers my things and it sure makes me happy to read all the nice things …

Erm, Skinny laMinx is a finalist in the Design category of the 2008 SA Blog Awards! I’ve been thinking about it and I reckon it must be the photos of our kitty cats that gave me the edge, eh? Anyway, now my blood is up and it’s down to the wire, and I need your …

Bourgeois PigYes, I like a latte, I’m a property owner and I do care about the fabric on my sofa. However, the title of this post is not in reference to my ideological failings, but to the rather delightful-looking Bourgeois Pig Gallery in Heidelberg, Germany. I’m very excited to be posting off a nice big …

CraftzineWowee, the dial on my sitemeter was approaching maximum velocity over the weekend, after my papercuts scored a mention on Craftzine! Thanks, you crafty bunch, nice to meet all of you. (update: and it seems the mention on Design*Sponge helped a bit too – thanks for letting me know, Sam!)While that was going on in …

Finch Last week I sent off another wholesale order, this time to a shop called Finch in Austin, Texas.It looks like that shop is full of lovely things, you lucky Austinites… Austiners…Texans. Wish I could visit it too.

Jesse’s bookThis is huge news: Jesse’s graphic novel, I Don’t Like Chocolate, is being launched on Friday night, along with an exhibition of her original drawings! If you live in Cape Town, you simply have to be there! Get a sneak peek of Jesse’s book cover here, and read some of the stories here. And …

Hanging with Annie This is too sweet. Annie from Chicago, one of my most loyal customers, has sent me pics of the “garden” she’s made with her lovely fabric flowers and a collection of Skinny laMinx teatowels, all on the wall of her quilting studio. Thanks so much, Annie! It looks fantastic.Thanks, too, to Katelynjane …