It’s yellow-a-go-go in Cape Town this year, with World Design Capital fever, and yellow dots all over the city, including our GIANT dot outside the Skinny laMinx shop at 201 Bree St. So, in keeping with yellow dottiness, we thought a yellow-themed Fan Friday post might be in order, starting out with this darling image …
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Fan Fridays – Hello Yellow
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Fan Fridays – the best kind of blues
Although we don’t have a lot of blues in the fabric range at Skinny laMinx (hmm. Must look into that gap), we managed to pick out a blue theme for this week’s Fan Fridays post. Top left: A skateboard made by Cape Town’s boardmaking king, @alphakent, using our Rough Diamond in sunny sky. Bottom left: Adorable …
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Maker Stories – Heath Ceramics
Did I mention something in Friday’s post about a current of San Francisco running through the air? Well, I had that one right, because continuing on that theme is our feature on the Heath Ceramics website today, as part of their Maker Stories series. We’ve been supplying Heath Ceramics with tea towels, table runners, napkins …
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Fan Fridays – Monochrome SF
We’ve got two beautiful monochrome shots from San Francisco for our Fan Friday feature. On the left is the awesome window display at Lotus Bleu in Hayes St, SF (follow them on Instagram here), and on the right, Janet Brown sent us a pic after her visit to Heath Ceramics, where she bought the beautiful bowl …
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Fan Friday
After introducting the idea of Fan Fridays last week, we were so thrilled to see people already making use of the #Lookatmyskinny tag! Just look at these gorgeous chairs upholstered in Bowls, in the home of @gio_eucalyptus on Instagram. See more pics of these chairs in the #lookatmyskinny album on Facebook @evalebens Instagrammed this Eames …
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Fan Fridays #LookAtMySkinny
It’s so much fun to see what people have done with Skinny laMinx fabrics, and how the goodies bought from us have become part of peoples’ lives. I’ve been taking screengrabs whenever I spot them on the web, and I think it’s time to start running a regular Fan Fridays feature. For this first one, …
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We’ve upgraded
Are you a South African online shopper? If you’ve tried our previously ever-so-slightly clunky online shop in ZAR before, you’ll be happy to hear that it has transformed itself into a sleek, elegant platform with much improved performance. We love these new features: Post office or courier? – Choose whether your items arrive at your local post office, or if you …
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Clearing the Decks – now online
We felt so bad about leaving our online fans out in the cold with our Clearing The Decks sale last week, so now we’ve moved the sale into our online shops. Hooray! From 12- 18 June, there will be 50% off selected fabrics in our online shops. International Shoppers: visit our ETSY shop South African …
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Clearing the Decks
In mid-June, we’ll be launching a brand new fabric collection, which is very exciting, but also a little worrying, because we’re looking at each other and thinking the same thing: “WHERE ARE WE GOING TO PUT IT ALL?”! There’s only one thing to do: Please come over and help us to clear some space by coming …
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