I’m trembling a little from the great big blogging leap I just took! After much nervous hovering, I finally pressed the button that switched my blog onto a custom domain! Yay! No longer do I have that yukky word “blog” in my url – I’m now officially at skinnylaminx.com. It doesn’t change anything for anyone …
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Whew!
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Fun with a knife
A cup of tea, a glossy mag and a knife – what better way to spend an evening? Chopping up magazines and reassembling the pics I’ve snipped into carefully-arranged pages in a scrapbook has become my favourite occupation. I like magazines, but I can’t stand too many of them lying around, so it’s not long …
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They shoot horses. Don’t they?
The horse cushion’s back from the magazine, but it didn’t get shot. No kill fee either… Righto, putting silly puns and wounded pride aside now, here’s the completed cushion, exclusively for readers of Skinny laMinx, in the home of moi and mon homme. Cushion by me, chair by clever husband Paul, as is the table …
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Paranoid?
Oeer. I’ve just read a post over at six and a half stitches about people copying her designs off her blog, and now I’m feeling all creeped out. After having watched a top retail boss illegally snap 100s of photos at a “young creatives” display at a major design expo last year, I realised that …
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Vessel Wednesday
Every week, Carson runs “Vessel Wednesday” on her blog, Needles Edge. I’ll have to put quite a spin on my post to make it qualify, but it’s worth a bash, so here goes… This is some lasercutting I had done last week, and in the background, you see the glorious mountain view we have from …
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Whip Up
Thanks to Whip Up for making a post about my paint sample illustrations (check it out here), and thanks also to Jesse for telling them about me! I’d add a visual for Whip Up, but seem to lack the chops. You’ll just need to go there yourself!
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Buck
I’ve silkscreened this design onto a cushion, and it looks very pretty.
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Tagged? Sheesh
Sprayglue tagged me. Now I have to reveal 6 wierd things about myself. I’ll be a good sport about it: 1. If a breeze blows on my elbow, I’ll sneeze. 2. I hate all purple fabric, thanks to an afternoons of moms, home perms and a shiny quilted Pres-Les bedspread. 3. As a kid, I …
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K Style and Sprayglue
A quick but heartfelt “thank you!” to K style for popping my work up on her blog, and also to Sprayglue for his kind words and for his feature on my husband’s artwork yesterday. Much, much appreciated!
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