How did I end up with so many looms?
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Weaving update
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Making Friday: Meet Us +
It’s an unusual Making Friday post this week, as it’s not something I made, but rather something I watched being made in the studio. Over the weeks leading up to the launch of the Diggi Dot fabric collection, you’ll have spotted our little series of teaser videos on Instagram, and the longer video about the collection, too. They …
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Diggi Dot – the Movie
I hope you spotted the fun we were having on Instagram with a series of short-short ‘teaser’ videos leading up to the Diggi Dot launch? Well, now that we’ve finally launched, here’s a full video telling the story behind this fabric collection. And… action!
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Shaggy dogs
While on Noordhoek Beach these holidays (see previous post), we spotted a really funny looking shaggy black dog, with crazy wild hair – some of it tied up with a scrunchie – and giant floormop feet. The owner told us he was an Afghan Hound with rather poor grooming habits. I tried drawing him the …
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Lessons from a Monkey
What a hot weekend! Early morning dips in the sea and Myyög have helped us survive, but mostly we’ve stayed indoors, watching and learning from the Monkey, who is an expert in the art of minimal movement. She knows exactly how to lie in a boneless heap for hours, occasionally making token signs of life …
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Spin the bottle
Last week, someone from Absolut Vodka dropped this beaded bottle off at my studio. Not just any old beaded bottle, mind you. This one’s been beaded with the Skinny laMinx logo! It’s hard to see it all in a single snapshot, so I made a little animated gif of the spinning bottle: This is …
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The Skinny laMinx shop turns ONE
All of next week, we’ll be celebrating the one year anniversary of opening the Skinny laMinx shop at 201 Bree St., Cape Town. Hooray! One of the things we’re celebrating with is a stop-motion animation that we’ve been working on all year long with animator Jeremy Collins, all about what’s behind Skinny laMinx. It’s delightful …
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Instagram tales
On Saturday, I made a comic on Instagram while baking a cake.
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Flower Dreams tea towel
When I released my Flower Dreams fabric collection earlier this year, everyone was asking me if there was a new flowery tea towel to match. There wasn’t, but then I thought that maybe there should be, and so (ta da!) the Flower Dreams tea towel was born, in Strawberry and in Lemon. And now, because …
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