On Friday, while working in my studio, I was disturbed by tiny piercing shrieks coming from Medina’s studio. I rushed through to find a shaggy-haired young paintbrush being besieged by his hysterical canvas fans. I grabbed my camera and managed to get this shot, but wouldn’t you know, my camera jammed just as the paintbrush …
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Popstar Paintbrush causes Canvas Hysteria
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The Fringe Arts
The Spier Contemporary 2010 is now open, and for the first time, this art biennale is taking place in the Cape Town City Hall, which is looking so spiffy these days! I’m delighted to have had some of my things selected to be sold in The Fringe Arts shop at Spier Contemporary. I visited the …
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The Pocketmoney Sale
It’s just two weeks before we jet off to NYC. Before we go, there’s heaps to do (you know: dryclean the flokati, find the worms a happy home, etc), but once we get to New York, there’ll be even more to do, and it’s gonna be expensive. Hence the… From now until next week Sunday, …
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SpeakZA
I don’t usually post anything with much relevence to current affairs (unless you count the shocking news of ripoff Orla Kiely mugs at Checkers, or a new tea towel design as current affairs), but today, in the face of threats to journalists from the ANC Youth League, I’m heeding the call from local blogger Sipho …
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Making Friday 19 March
Making Friday was somewhat hard-won today, with everyone suddenly setting madly tight deadlines, and I had lots of custom orders to get through too. But I love my Making Days, I do, so I muscled aside the deadlines and whizzed through the custom orders and got to the real challenge of the day: making a …
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Spectacularly crepuscular
“Crepuscular” is one of those words (like “pulchritudinous”) that sound like they’re describing something yukky when they’re not. These crepuscular rays, spotted at the end of our mad hot week last week, are pretty pulchritudinous, don’t you think?
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I quit
I’ve been doing the Neighbourgoods Market ever since it began in the first What if the World studio/gallery in Hope Street, and then also at the Biscuit Mill where it started out with Jesse and me running Handmade Now! (pic of our stand below) It’s always been a pleasure to do, but lately, with my …
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Defeated by a diagram
My relaunch of Making Fridays started off so well. I headed off some appointments, and got to work on some much-needed sorting and tidying – usually something I have to accomplish before I can sit down and really work. With tidying done, and second cup of coffee dispatched, I sat down at the overlocker to …
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Shopping and popping
At the very last minute, I’ve two bits of urgent shopping news to announce: Firstly, don’t forget that Friday is the last day of the Pop Up shop at 45 Leeuwen Rd, BoKaap. See Heloise’s lovely pics of the shop here (incl the one below), and click here for a map. Then, Londoners should all …
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