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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How to style your Scarf: Headwrap Tutorial
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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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Sun & Moon and Matchsticks
Ever since the first teaching trip to India with Ace Camps in 2014, we’ve been working with the same small-batch blockprinters in the Rajasthani village of Bagru to produce our small batches of limited-run blockprinted scarves. So far, we’ve produced 5 different designs, and now we’re thrilled to introduce two new scarves: Sun & Moon …
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My mom’s sunshine
This is Old Sol, made by my clever, talented mom after a visit to Bath in the UK, where she saw a paving stone that had been lifted during roadworks, revealing a carved Roman sun on the underside. Old Sol lived on the outside wall of our 70s childhood home in Johannesburg, and still hangs …
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La Fonda de Sol
Have you been known to hoard things like paper napkins? I wouldn’t think I would, but actually, since 2016 I’ve had four unopened packets of Alexander Girard paper napkins in my cupboard – unused souvenirs from my visit to Vitra Design Museum in 2016 when I got to see the Alexander Girard retrospective, A Designer’s …
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