• Fanmail for Sonia… and team

    Oh Sonia, what a treasure of a customer services / online shop manager you are! And with Belinda by your side, wrapping and packing orders so beautifully, and Lericia and Nobuzwe handling the production like champions, how happy we can make our customers.

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  • The TwoFor Sale

    We’re clearing our stockroom to make room for new things as we get ready for the holiday season, which is why it’s time for… The TwoFor Sale! TwoFor means you get Two for the price of One at Skinny laMinx, both in-store and online, on selected items. HOW IT WORKS ONLINE: 1 : Choose an item from …

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  • More shapes of Flower Fields

    Who can get enough of our Flower Fields fabric design? We certainly can’t, which is why we’ve been pushing it into new shapes lately, the most recent of which are our Oblong and Round throw pillow and scatter cushion shapes, piped in lemon. Yummy! The Pillow Lab is where we like to play with things …

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  • Best team ever!

    This is a big shout out to the Skinny laMinx team who, in just 4 weeks managed to nail our first New York trade show at NY NOW, pulled off a GIANT fabric sale and topped it off with a very successful Maison et Objet show in Paris. It’s all been done at the same …

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  • Colour Pop piping on Cushions and Pillows

    We’re giving the Colour Pop treatment to everything now, because we LOVE the way it just gives our patterns a lift. Our latest trick is to use the Colour Pop palette to add piping to our patterned pillows and cushions. Don’t you think the lemon piping on our Flower Fields pillow is simply too fab? …

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  • Pattern & Palette Alex Sack

    Accessories get Colour Popped!

    Ever since we added solid colours to our pillow selection with our Colour Pop Pillows, we’ve gone nuts for the way our palette makes our patterns pop. It’s incredible how adding dashes of these pure colours make you see our patterns even better. We’re so in love with it, we’ve extended the Colour Pop treatment to …

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    Large Pincushion tablecloths at home

    I’ve been taking snaps of our fabulous new Large Pincushion tablecloth at home, using my lunch for props. Doesn’t it look lovely? The Pincushion design started out as a papercut (read the history lesson ), and has appeared in our range as upholstery fabrics, cushions, curtains and accessories. Its most recent iteration is as beautiful tablecloths, …

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  • Week NYC shop ideas

    Shopping for shops

    When I visited in NYC in May 2011, I was thinking of opening my store, and took lots of inspiration shots. I think the way the Skinny laMinx store turned out could fit perfectly into the streets of New York, don’t you? See more pics here. We’re off to New York City to show Skinny laMinx …

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    Decorating with scissors – vintage style

    I had some fun putting together graphics for our June and July promotions newsletter, inserting Skinny laMinx into vintage scenes, just for a laff. Enjoy this latest in my Decorating With Scissors series.

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