From the yoga bogsI know it’s probably so not on to blog about toilet paper, but every time I go to the changeroom at my yoga class, I am so amazed and appalled by their fancy loo roll, that I just can’t resist having a rant. I mean, WHY? Who cares about having pretty toilet …
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Many thanks
Thanks, all2008 has had a great start!, with lots of very exciting interest in my work from all over the planet. I hope to tell you lots more about this soon.Also, I’ve had so many lovely mentions on other blogs this year, and just want say a big Skinny thanks to Zee Homebug and to …
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Lucky lucky
Lucky luckyLast year, just before my birthday, Paul did something so spectacularly cheeky that he’s blotted it from his memory. He phoned our friend Artur to ask if he would sell his Ercol daybed to him for my birthday present! Artur said no, but I was pretty impressed with just the idea (and the chutzpah!). …
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New Studio
New studio and old studioSo this is the new studio! It’s still in a bit of disarray, but I like it. Before we moved in, I was calling it “The Cave”, because it’s so long and narrow and a bit dark. But brightening the walls with a fresh coat of paint has made a world …
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RIP Hout Street Studio
Not much time for posting this week, as we’re moving studios due to a massive rent hike.I’ll do a long post with more pics of our glorious ex-studio, but in the meantime, just this one to mark the sad day…
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Bathroom and Vera
Earlier this year, light finally dawned when I read this post of Lena Corwin’s. At last, I could decipher this squiggle on our vintage bathtowels. It’s a signature, reading Vera, belonging to the 20th Century designer Vera Neumann . Some of her scarf designs have been reissued at Auto, and I’ve heard that she designed …
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Monkey mind
I made this monkey on Wednesday last week. He’s not the most beautiful thing in the world, probably because I didn’t give two minutes thought before I started making him. But making this monkey gave me a very rare pleasure: I started the morning looking despairingly at my bossy and impossible TO DO list that …
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Me (as Pucca)
It’s been more than a year that I’ve kept this blog, but I’ve never yet published a photo of myself. In case anyone is curious, here I am (with head obscured). (Pre-emptory note to Pucca’s legal representatives: I made this cushion as a gift for my friend who adores Pucca. There was no commercial gain …
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Beastly tags
Over the past month or so, I’ve politely refused being tagged three times, but was starting to feel like a grouch, so here’s my compromise for Debi van Zyl, South of the Sahara, and Blu Shed. Instead of providing eight facts about myself, here’s a single fact with eight pics as proof: The fact is, …
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