These are the faces and hands behind the name Skinny laMinx. We love what we do, and we LOVE that you love it to. xx Team Skinny laMinx.
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Team Skinny laMinx 2020
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Feeling uncertain? Be Curious
How do we proceed when the future is so hard to predict?
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Small Kindnesses
Small Kindnesses
By Danusha Laméris
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle,
people pull in their legs to let you by.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag,
someone else will help you pick them up.
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Stone Circles & Gooseberry Gym
I am not a natural athlete (at all!), but in a good week, I’ve been managing to get out early three mornings a week for an hour’s walk, up a hill to a flight of stairs, where I run up and down the 75 stairs 10 times over. What’s behind my impressive discipline? Patterns, of …
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Perks of the work
Aww, look at what long-term Skinny laMinx friend @strikkstrikk posted on Instagram of a tea towel design that’s so old, I can’t even remember its name (help?), but it’s great to see that it’s still going strong, and looking good. Not long after, on my own post about the last few metres of Eep! (now completely sold …
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Skinnylaminxenstein: What’s a clearance sale all about?
Although we’ve had sales before, the weekend’s Warehouse Clearance (now online until 6 September!) was something new for us, because we’ve never slashed our prices as radically as we’ve done for this one. These Skinnylaminxenstein posts are all about sharing some of the thought and ideas behind running this particular business, and so here goes with …
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Skinnylaminxenstein: Bonsai or vine
Are you the guy with shears, or the encouraging string?
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Skinnylaminxenstein: It’s the Small things Part 1
For just over year, I’ve had a pickle jar in the recycling cupboard at home, where I’ve been saving all the scrappy bits of plastic that don’t seem to have anywhere to go in the recycle chain because they’re just too small. You know – those little tag gun things, special snappy hooks for in-store …
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Making Friday: Keeping it Weird
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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