Yay for me! I’m going on a Designer Long Weekend. Sadly this does not mean an island getaway with bathsheets by Jonathan Adler,  swinging chairs by Patricia Urquiola and cocktails on tap. It just means that I am desperate to catch up on my freelance illustration and design work and can only do this by …

It’s all over the news that there’s a tiger on the loose in Mphumulanga. Big deal. I’ve got  The Elephant right here next to me in my study. Elephant is a UK-based arts & visual culture magazine. I think it’s called Elephant because it’s a really, really fat magazine, crammed with interesting and in-depth arts-related …

Somebody was just shopping in my Etsy shop, wondering what might go nicely with a mossie brown Waiting cushion, so I put together this little mockup for her to consider.  Nice eh? It’s fun to take a look at my things through a new filter. Certainlybetter than answering emails. Here’s another:

I love it that these pics are just as I took them at Milnerton Market last Sunday morning. Not a Photoshopped tweak or a lift was necessary – the clear winter light and my nifty camera did it all.

So delighted with my new Canon G11. It takes the most brilliant pics, and my new portable white floor (a painted board) helps a lot too. Upgrades and organisation rulez! Thanks to equipment aforementioned, I snapped my Orla cushion product shots (now in store) with minimal fuss. Painting in background courtesy of my talented studiomate, …

Operation Studio Sort & Rearrange (OSSAR) continues, and one of my favourite changes – borne of the need for more fabric storage without losing any deskspace –  is my brand new Mezzenine Office Space. Just climb the ladder, and you’re on a whole new level up there in the rafters. Also, I keep finding things …

It was much more Makeover than Making Friday last week, as I got out my cutoff jeans and pots of paint and did some long overdue redecoration chez Studio Skinny: