I got all reflective at the V&A yacht basin over the weekend.

My Orla print is colonising a corner, but the spots are holding their ground. For now.

Today’s was a scattered kind of Making Friday, what with hanging about at Deluxe Coffeeworks too long after the Critical Mass ride in the morning, straining my ears and brain on a conference call for my other job, paying accounts, writing stern letters and visiting the Post Office. And when I finally sat down to …

I love it when I get to the studio to find things Medina has been preparing for the art classes she teaches, and I have no idea where this stuff’s come from, nor where it’s going. Happy Heritage Day, everyone. I’m off to the studio to re-start my neglected tradition of Making Fridays.

I’m loving the vintage wool rug I snapped up for the studio.

Yes indeed. They have built it, now get on yer bikes, Cape Town peeps!

For the past two years, I’ve been very lucky to win the prize for Best Design Blog in the SA Blog Awards. But this year, the stakes are a lot higher, as there really is a fabbo selection of hot design-centred SA blogs these days. Sadly li’l old Skinny laMinx didn’t make the cut, but …

Last week I was so excited to see that the fabric I’d sent off to Spruce in Austin Texas had been used on some spectacular Befores & Afters, featured on Design*Sponge too. Check out the enormous sofa covered in my Duikers print. And now I see the loveseat that  Spruce covered in my Cloudbirds print …