I love visiting Laughton’s Hardware in Seapoint. It’s a family business, has a great Art Deco sign outside, has a friendly, on-the-ball guy downstairs who is genuinely interested in helping you find the solution to your hardware problem, and is full of surprising and useful things. While buying bits and bobs there recently, I spotted …

On the studio wall hangs a linen piece with strikeoffs of all the colours used to print Skinny laMinx designs over the last couple of years. Love it when practical objects are unexpected things of beauty.

On Friday night I had a sweet, but odd dream about a golden orb in a mouse’s ear. On Saturday morning, I set up my stand in the food tent at the Biscuit Mill market next to someone selling berries, so I bought a punnet of gooseberries to snack upon. That’s when I remembered my …

After a bit of a Biscuit Mill break (that’s the way the cookie crumbles), I’ll be back in the food tent tomorrow, selling tea towels, napkins, runners, and more! Gotta rush – lots of bags to stamp! Hey

Last week I visited a new coffee shop in Long Street called Yours Truly. Take a look at my post at the ELLE Decoration blog today for more.

It’s addictive: It started pretty low-rent, as I lined my dresser drawers lined with knockoff  ‘Orky Kiley’ paper, then ramped up a notch as I snaffled a genuine Orla Kiely dress for just $15, I now also have the MOST GORGEOUS Orla Kiely tote to casually swing as I conduct my daily affairs. Thanks so …

Things are getting back to normal as 2011 gets into gear. My Etsy shop is open once again, and from today the Skinny laMinx shop in Greenpoint will be open Monday to Saturday from 9am – 4pm daily. Click here for a map of where to find my little shop. It’s above Vida e Caffe …

We’re off for a short break, so I think I might make this my final post for the year. I’ve just about had it, staggering around, exhausted, dead on my feet,  which is probably why I’ve been gazing longingly at chairs lately. I found this exquisite specimen at the frequently awesome Vamp in Salt River …

Being Cape Town, Wednesday night’s market at the Biscuit Mill was, of course, full of beautiful people, but I think the sunset outdid all the human gloriousness. My cellphone camera couldn’t do it justice, Carl Zeiss lens and all, but you get the idea.