At last, here they are: the people who put the hands into the handmade. I’m so happy to complete this Meet the Team series by introducing our sewing and cutting team, who work from a studio above our shop. Marcia and Minnie Ever since the very start, Marcia and her elderly mum Minnie (not pictured here) …
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Meet Team Skinny laMinx #4
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Making Friday 17 April
Every now and again, I attempt to be a good aunt, and Making Friday is a great way to connect with my multitude of nieces. Izzy and I had some great studio time last year, and as my middle brother has been out from Aussie with his rarely-seen daughters, this Making Friday past was the perfect time. And of …
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In the Press: My City
Are you planning a trip to Cape Town some time? I’ve got a couple of things to recommend, and I put them into this article for the April issue of The Simple Things magazine. Read it here.
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Making Friday: Waiting for inspiration
You may remember that a few weeks ago, I wrote this post about making designs with the offcuts of a papercut I was doing (with free downloadable wallpapers included). I thought you might like to see the finished papercut, still generating interesting side-effects with its shadow: If you’re wishing you were also having a Making Friday, but …
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Behind the scenes…
I’m dying to share the pics of a super exciting new product we’ll have in our shop next monthl… but I can’t! So, here are some incredibly annoying behind-the-scenes pictures of my studio mid-shoot, sans actual fabulous item. Be sure to be the first to know what the heck I’m hinting at by signing up for my …
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Mid-March Making Friday
After last week’s great reception to my post explaining Making Friday, I’m under pressure to follow up, aren’t I? Well, here goes, with a post about using the side effects of the thing you’re making (just for fun) to make something else just for fun. More fun? I’m in. So, just as I didn’t throw …
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Making Friday – what it’s all about
Anyone else running a business based upon the results of their creativity will be able to relate when I say that I’m always trying find time to spend in the studio, doing the creative work, but there’s always so much other work to do, and long spans of time are pretty rare. I’ve written a fair …
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Paradise on your phone
Earlier this week, we got samples of our own made-to-order cellphone covers, available in the Skinny laMinx SKETCHBOOK store on Nuvango. They’re beautifully packaged, arriving in a little felt sleeve to keep it safe. Aww! We liked them so much, we immediately decided to put some of our Paradise is Here gift tag designs onto phone …
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The idea that seeds the pattern
It was 30 years ago that Susan Sontag wrote that “Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted”. Imagine what she’d have to say about the Instagram epidemic! But I hope to be forgiven, at least in part, for my compulsive snap-snap-snapping, by putting …
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