I don’t know what’s up with me and ceramics these days. I’ve been making some things I really have mixed feelings about once they’re out of the kiln, but I have a total blast while making them. This one happened on Monday night, when I was shaping the largest pot I’ve ever built, and ended …
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Making Friday: Keeping it Weird
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Imaginary friends
Over the last year or so, you may have spotted the reverse paper dolls I’ve been making in my studio on a Making Friday. Just for fun, I’ve been drawing a person, then cutting out an item of their clothing to hold over a patterned background, inventing new outfits for them. It’s fun seeing how …
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Making Friday: Remembering Girard
The sun was out on Making Friday last week, and so was my Alexander Girard catalogue, which I got at the Vitra show in July last year, and these two factors came together in a very sunny moodboard. Are you a Girard fan too? Did you see my post about my day at Vitra Design …
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Making Friday: Fending off the snooze
The only thing to do to avoid succumbing to the lure of the snooze, is to just MAKE something. Anything!
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Making Friday: Plant shadows
Some of the experiments and photos I’ve been taking around the idea of plant shadows.
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Making Friday with GIH Studio
This post is a bit of a mashup of our Friends & Neighbours and Making Friday features, because it’s a story about a South African designer who credits his start as a furniture designer to my Making Fridays idea. I met Gareth Henderson of GIH Studio on a glaringly hot rooftop in Cape Town earlier this year, as …
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Macrame Workshop 22nd April
Our February macrame workshop with Jade Paton of House of Grace was so much fun, we want to do it all over again! Interested? Join us on the 22nd April for some more knotty fun! Here’s what you need to know: Saturday 22 April 2017 10:00am – 12:30pm Upstairs at Skinny laMinx R550 per person (materials and …
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Making Friday with Jenna
I don’t know Jenna McArthur in the least, but I had lots of fun with her picture in my studio last Making Friday, after cutting away her dress to see what she’d look like dressed in Skinny laMinx prints. And the verdict is: She looks great in everything! Which is your fave?
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Making Friday: Macrame workshop
Want to learn the knotty arts? Sign up for our macrame workshop with expert instruction from Jade Paton of House of Grace.
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