Threepotatofour is a charming new online shop selling fab vintage and contemporary homewares. These are some of my favourites. Those apple mugs are my best!Into the mix of great vintage finds, the owners have sourced wares from independent designers, like Sukie, Shinzi Katoh, Snowdon Wood and, ahem…. … me, with a limited edition exclusive of …

A quick thanks to everyone who’s had such nice things to say about my Borrowed Spoons, and also for all the great publicity from other bloggers – Bloesem, Poppytalk, Print & Pattern, Another Shade of Grey, Decor8, Zee Homebug, design undercover and hopingforhappyaccidents too. And if I left anyone out, a big thanks to you!

A while back, I did a post about Nikki the food editor’s kitchen, where she has a few of the things I’ve made. Now that I’ve finally finished her little curtains, making use of my massive collection of rescued traycloths and napkins, there’s more to show. Jeepers, it’s practically a Skinny laMinx showroom over there! …

I just picked up a copy of the Financial Times Weekend, very excited to read the article in the Design and Lifestyle section about online selling, Etsy and… and Skinny laMinx!I’m more than thrilled – just about twittering – to be mentioned in the same breath as luminaries like Camilla Engman and le Train Fantome, …

Just a quick thanks to SimplyOlive for doing a little feature on Skinny laMinx on her blog. Much appreciated, Olive!

July must be my lucky month! I’ve had so much fabulous publicity for my Summer Weeds teatowels in the last week or so. Big thanks all round are due, firstly to Irene, last week at Bloesem…… to Grace for the Design*Sponge post yesterday……and today from Bowie Style at Print&Pattern.

Whee! I saw my olive Eep! teatowel on Design Sponge last night (thanks for letting me know, Zee). It’s quite amazing to see the power of that blog in action – sitemeter readings soaring, sales in my shop shooting up, my cheeks all aglow. So thanks, Grace. Much appreciated!

Yikes! It’s mid-July already. The August magazines are about to hit the shelves, so I’d better get round to showing my things that appeared in July’s House and Leisure. It sure was a bumper month for me! Jeanne Botes styled this story about illustration in decor, expertly shot by Inge Prins. Hey! There’s my Stem …

Gary from SprayGlue and I have been yakking about making a blog about fabulous South African design for ages, but we both seem to be too busy to get it really going. So I’m delighted to see that we’ve been pipped to the post by a blog called South of the Sahara! The author is …