I was manning my stand at the Neighbourgoods Market this weekend, and although it was a pretty busy day, I managed to snatch a few minutes to sketch the passing parade. I sacrificed one of my blueberries to colour in the girl who had fallen asleep in the sun while wearing her sunglasses 🙂
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Sketching at the market
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Fast & High
It was mostly just a function of being a bit bored on a long trip, but I’ve been enjoying the silliness of taking snaps through a car or plane window, and occasionally, I get a nice enough shot too.
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A shelter for unwanted embroidered hankies
I tend to find it difficult to pass those flea market boxes and crates of little embroidered hankies and napkins without having a scratch, and then, inevitably, I’m incapable of leaving those carefully-stitched labours of love in their state of abandonment, and I bring them home. That’s how I ended up with a massive box …
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Seeking on the Working Proof
I’ve been an admirer of the work put out by The Working Proof for so long, enjoying both the prints they sell, and the socially responsible angle of the business too, where a portion of each sale is donated to a charity of the artist’s choice. That’s why I’m particularly thrilled to have released a …
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From 10am tomorrow…
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New studio space
So, the big, big news, and what has been keeping me exceptionally busy over the last few weeks, is that we’ve moved in to the new store & studio at 201 Bree Street. The brown paper up on the windows is as much to generate an air of expectation as to hide the sheer mad …
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Service Interruption
Based on high recommendation from the store owner, I bought this gorgeous tape dispenser from Kiosk in New York earlier this year (such a great store – see here). It’s already paid for itself 100 times over, as we’re not only using it to box loads of wholesale orders, we’re also boxing the entire studio, …
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Before, During, and…
I haven’t been saying much about it on this blog, as I was concerned that things might not run to schedule, but this last week has seen the brand new Skinny laMinx studio/shop progressing apace, and I think I can say (with fingers crossed) that the doors will open in early December. Renovating is quite …
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Eep! Sofa! Special!
Over the next month or so, it’s all change at Skinny laMinx. We’re moving shops and moving studios, and so of course, it’s time to change the colour scheme. And that’s why my Eep! sofa, currently doing duty in my shop in Greenpoint, must find a new home. The Eep! sofa was custom-made by Saks Corner, …
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