Josh Vogel makes spoons. Lots and lots of beautiful carved wooden spoons, and in his new book, The Artful Wooden Spoon, the former architect and founder of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. shows us what he does… as well as how you can do it too. It looks like a gorgeous book, and reminds me of when …
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Spoons again
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Begonia growin’ ‘ere
The begonia I popped into a vase has started growing roots! More inspiration for Victoria of Sfgirlbybay who desperately wants to get to the root of things
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Group ceramics show
Every year at this time, my ceramics teacher Louise Gelderblom has a show at which all her students can display some of their work. I’m going to be showing some of the peculiar Oddjects I’ve been making all year, which look something like this: Come to the show on Friday 13 November at 6pm. It’s …
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Best Things: Rope walls
Sometime, things you see on the blogs just stick with you for ever, and this 2011 post from The Brick House is one of those. The rope wall in the blog post is superbly simple, so so effective as a non-solid room divider. I’m going to make sure that one day I have reason to follow the DIY …
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Making Friday: Block Printing mega version
This week, I’m in Jaipur, India, starting my second teaching stint with Ritchie Ace Camps. Last year’s Jaipur experience was amazing (lots of pics here), and I can’t wait to meet everyone who is coming on the 2015 version (although I’m going to miss last year’s group like mad!). I hadn’t used block printing techniques a lot …
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OH Thursdays: Customs House
If you live in Cape Town and drive a car, you’ll have driven past Customs House many times as you set off away from the city on Nelson Mandela Boulevard. It’s on the harbour side of the elevated freeway, and as you drive past, you may have spotted a portion of an interesting blue tile mosaic, frustratingly …
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Making Friday: CMYK lino printing
I’ve had a really extended Making Friday in July, spending every Saturday at Warren Editions learning the art of CMYK lino printing from master printmaker Zhané Warren and head of relief prints, Morné Visagie. Because I’m a completely self taught designer (thanks, Google!), I’ve got a lot to learn about the ‘proper’ way to do things. …
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Inspired by: Lemon & Fog & Sage
I’ve had this little cluster of objects on the meeting table this week, and it made me wonder which of our table runners these things might work best as a centrepiece. Take a look at a bit of fun I had with these props and three of our table runners: a sunny yellow Abacus, the fresh, …
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Making Friday: Fun with scraps
This Making Friday post is about what other (small) people have been doing with Skinny laMinx fabrics, courtesy of our production manager, Sarah. Sarah loves what she does at Skinny laMinx, but I think one of the biggest perks of this job for her is that she gets to take home our offcuts and scraps for …
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