I’ve been holed up in my studio this week, with scissors and pinking shears in hand, as I hack into mounds of my printed offcuts, putting together colour groups as I think about next year’s fabric collection. It’s a wild life, this!
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Colour thinking
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Making Friday… is now on Monday?
I started my Making Friday routine because I didn’t seem to have any time to spend in the studio, so I had to schedule it in. In particular, I needed time in which to tackle non work-related projects, as I find these “just for fun” things seem to inevitably provide the basis for future design …
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Endless Thursdays
5 December is the first Thursday of the month, which means it’s First Thursdays in Cape Town! We’ll be open late this Thursday, along with heaps of other businesses in town (check out the lineup here), but on Bree St, we’re taking it a little further: we’ll be ushering in the Summer season by opening until …
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Making Friday: 15 November
Actually, after such a looooong break from my Making Friday routine, I’m planning to have an entire Making Week (or more!). I have an ‘away’ message on my email, and I’m doing my best to get my teeth into a new collection of prints. Of course, before I began, I first had to pull and push every …
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Joburg shapes and colours
I’ve just spent a week in Johannesburg, doing the FoodWineDesign fair, which is held annually on the roof of the Hyde Park Corner shopping centre. I spent a lot of time driving in and out of the centre, and really came to appreciate the parking lot on the 3rd floor, which has a great paint job, …
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Happy Birthday, OZCF!
This Saturday marks the first birthday of the amazing volunteer-driven project that has transformed an abandoned suburban bowling green into a thriving, buzzing, living urban farm. Happy Birthday to the Oranjezicht City Farm! All the veggies that I used in the Oh My Garden shoot for the 2013/14 Skinny laMinx Lookbook came from the bounteous …
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Lookbook 2013/14: Acid Pastels
Banana + pineapple….. Kiwis + tangerines…… Mustard + watermelon radish….. Those are crazy food combos*, for sure, but they’re colour groupings with zip, and that’s what the Acid Pastels theme in the Skinny laMinx 2013/14 Lookbook is all about. This week, we have a few of our yummy Acid Pastel-themed pillow covers at 25% off **. Pop into our Cape Town …
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Making Friday – on a Sunday
I had a peaceful day catching up with things in the studio on Sunday while Shepherd wielded his paintbrush downstairs, but eventually found myself with time on my hands, and so I dug around on the prop shelves and lined up some interesting shapes for an Instagram moment. And suddenly, after trying to kill time, …
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In the Shop: Blues News
I spent much of last week poring over paint swatches, debating the different methods of different blues, photographing blue things wherever I saw them, and frankly saturating my retinas in deep blues while I pondered changing a large wall in my shop from a greeny-black to a bluey-black. Subtle, but essential! My painter Shepherd and …
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