It’s all about dogs and cats this Fan Friday, but how to possibly choose a favourite from all these beasties posing elegantly with Skinny laMinx? In the end, for sheer portly exuberance (and for treating Skinny laMinx like catnip), Bob the cat was awarded pride of place at the top of this week’s Fan Fridays post. Link …
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Fan Fridays – Beasties!
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Fan Fridays – Hello Yellow
It’s yellow-a-go-go in Cape Town this year, with World Design Capital fever, and yellow dots all over the city, including our GIANT dot outside the Skinny laMinx shop at 201 Bree St. So, in keeping with yellow dottiness, we thought a yellow-themed Fan Friday post might be in order, starting out with this darling image …
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Fan Fridays – the best kind of blues
Although we don’t have a lot of blues in the fabric range at Skinny laMinx (hmm. Must look into that gap), we managed to pick out a blue theme for this week’s Fan Fridays post. Top left: A skateboard made by Cape Town’s boardmaking king, @alphakent, using our Rough Diamond in sunny sky. Bottom left: Adorable …
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Fan Fridays – Monochrome SF
We’ve got two beautiful monochrome shots from San Francisco for our Fan Friday feature. On the left is the awesome window display at Lotus Bleu in Hayes St, SF (follow them on Instagram here), and on the right, Janet Brown sent us a pic after her visit to Heath Ceramics, where she bought the beautiful bowl …
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Fan Friday
After introducting the idea of Fan Fridays last week, we were so thrilled to see people already making use of the #Lookatmyskinny tag! Just look at these gorgeous chairs upholstered in Bowls, in the home of @gio_eucalyptus on Instagram. See more pics of these chairs in the #lookatmyskinny album on Facebook @evalebens Instagrammed this Eames …
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Fan Fridays #LookAtMySkinny
It’s so much fun to see what people have done with Skinny laMinx fabrics, and how the goodies bought from us have become part of peoples’ lives. I’ve been taking screengrabs whenever I spot them on the web, and I think it’s time to start running a regular Fan Fridays feature. For this first one, …
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Made-to-order wallpaper giveaway
One of our all-time favourite stylists, bloggers (and human beings, actually) is Vicki Sleet of I Want That, so we were glad to hear that she’s about to have a little daughter! The news came in around the time we started planning our made-to-order wallpaper launch, which is why we had the brainwave of offering …
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Eat & Make
A year ago, in their Spring Issue, Sweet Paul magazine published a gorgeous article on Skinny laMinx (read it here), and they’ve certainly been busy since then, with Paul Lowe having just launched the Sweet Paul recipe book / kitchen crafts book, called SWEET PAUL EAT & MAKE. Congratulations! Now, which of the yummy recipes to …
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Pebble Dresses
It’s always fun to spot people using Skinny laMinx goods and fabrics out there in the real world, and we love it when we can get a pic to share, too, like this one of a sweet little girl called Iris, wearing a Skinny laMinx smock dress. And then there’s this magnificent frock, spotted …
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