We love this. The owners of our long-time San Francisco stockists, Heath Ceramics, have recently made their beautiful holiday cabin in Tahoe’s Alpine Valley available for all to enjoy, and it is filled with beauty from Heath itself, as well as from the brands they stock in their store. “A Cabin by Heath began in 2012 …
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A Cabin by Heath
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PLENTY behind the scenes
Last week, we posted about the behind-the-scenes collaboration conversation between Kat Pichulik and us as we figured out how to come up with a fabric design for the Pichulik SS20 range. We’re almost ready for the big reveal on 26 October, but here’s what the studio working board is looking like right now! See the …
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Making Friday: From the studio walls
As you know, my Making Friday studio practice is all about making, making, making, with no real plan or expectation or need in mind. I find it so important to simply generate work that’s liberated from all the necessary work restrictions of cost and production possibility etc that product development requires. Here’s some of the …
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How to style your Scarf: Headwrap Tutorial
Our stockroom manager Nobuzwe is one stylish lady and can rock a headwrap in all kinds of ways. Here she shares one of her favourits styles with us in a nifty headwrap tutorial, using our Matchsticks blockprint scarf. Find our Matchsticks & Sun & Moon Scarves online & in the Skinny laMinx store at 201 …
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Pets on Pillows
We asked a bunch of snooze experts about their favourite Skinny laMinx pillow, and the score was unanimous: Everydoggy (and kitty) gave it a solid ZZZ! These are just the ordinary ol’ pillows though. Imagine how many ZZZ’s we’d get if we made a proper Skinny dog bed. Oh, wait. We did! What’s the score on this …
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Banana Bread
I can’t say for sure that this is an original recipe, but it’s been around for as long as I can remember. My mom got it from my Aunty Betty who lived in Eshowe, inland from the subtropical east coast of South Africa. Aunty Betty always had a great arm of bananas ripening at the …
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Colour Yum: Sand and Persimmon
One of the things we love about all the colour and beautiful things in our shop and fabric studio is the way that new colour ideas suddenly arrive before your eyes, often in surprising combinations. For instance, ever since we’ve had the grassy tones and textures of baskets & mats from Design Afrika in our …
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Colour Yum: Pink & Green
My Instagram Collections has had a Pink & Green folder for a while now, and I think it’s time to share.
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What to do with your SALE fabric
It’s the DESIGNER CLEARANCE SALE on the 2 & 3 August 2019. We’ve put together some inspirational images for how to make use of our discontinued fabrics which will be on sale. If you REALLY want to come to the sale all planned and ready, check out the super-useful info at these links: How much …
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