Sometimes people ask us “What is a tea towel for?” or “How do I use a tea towel?” Well, the obvious answer is that it’s made for drying the dishes, but actually, a tea towel can do lots of other things too. Yes, they can multitask. Heck, they are the masters of multi-teatowel-tasking! We’ve come …
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8 ways to use a tea towel (aside from drying dishes)
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What’s the difference between a cushion and a pillow?
People often ask, “What’s the difference between a cushion and a pillow?” Today, we have an answer for you: Generally, people use the word “pillow” for the thing you put under your head when you sleep. It’s kind of oblong in shape and has a soft, washable cotton cover, called a pillow case. Our friends …
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Summer Seasonal at Heath Ceramics
It’s Summer in the Northern hemisphere now, and the Summer Seasonal range at Heath Ceramics has been launched, in a range of intense blues. We’ve been working with Heath Ceramics since 2008, and it’s always an honour and a treat to get the Heath seasonal palettes a couple of months ahead of each launch. Other …
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Who looks for treasure in the same place twice?
Nobody looks in the same place for treasure twice, right? Well, it depends on how you define ‘treasure’, I guess. For designers, like me, creative thoughts & fresh ideas are hugely valuable. This is the ‘treasure’ I look for, and I definitely need to look more than once to find it. Here’s what I mean: …
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How to Look Better – tips for seeing treasures every day
I’m a good looker. I don’t mean I’d win a beauty contest, just that LOOKING is part of my creative toolbox as a designer, and I’m good at it. I’m in the habit of using my eyes in an enquiring way that helps me make the creative connections and leaps that are needed for new …
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On my bookshelf
I took this photo when promoting our 2021 calendar, choosing titles from my bookshelf that I thought made sense together. Then, as I was packing them away, I thought perhaps some of you would be interested to know more about them. So here’s a bit more, with links for each. Yes, yes, this is a …
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Making Friday : On the Promenade
The Sea Point Promenade really is my favourite place to take a walk. There’s so much to see! Waves & surfers, paragliders & windblown trees, dads with prams & nurses with wheelchairs, doggos & joggers all making up a passing parade that’s one of the enduring pleasures of Cape Town life. It also has some …
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Lifestyling
There’s been so much change and loss in the print magazine industry during this time of Covid, so it’s heartening to hear from JP de la Chaumette who used this time to launch a brand new online magazine, called Lifestyling.co.za. I asked JP to tell us more about the origins, plans and dreams for this …
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Best Things: Stripes
Do you know about the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon? It’s that thing where you notice something once – a new word, an idea, a colour – and then it seems you just can’t avoid it. It’s everywhere. But is it really everywhere, or have you just become attuned to it? I’ve been feeling that way about stripes. …
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