Did you know that there are over 70 fabric choices in the Skinny laMinx shop? It’s a LOT to choose from, which can be a bit mind boggling when you’re trying to decide which fabric to choose for an upholstery project.
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Cut Out Indecision
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Making Friday: Blank faces
When you run a creative biz, it’s important to make sure that sometimes the creative part has to be given more space than the business side, cos the inventive cogs get clogged up when the things you make are always purpose- or deadline-driven, and that’s why I spend Fridays in my studio. I thought it …
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Cook Better workshop
Find out all about this weekend’s Vinaigrette workshop.
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Imaginary friends
Over the last year or so, you may have spotted the reverse paper dolls I’ve been making in my studio on a Making Friday. Just for fun, I’ve been drawing a person, then cutting out an item of their clothing to hold over a patterned background, inventing new outfits for them. It’s fun seeing how …
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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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Making Friday: Getting organised
I started sorting through my piles of sketchbooks last week, categorising images, ideas and inspiration pics. It feels like that time of year, doesn’t it? If you’re interested, I’ve started a Tumblr page where I’ve been posting pics of my sketches and other side projects. Take a look here
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Horoscope Special 2010
I’ve been doing it since 2008 – the Fair Lady magazine horoscopes, and then, once a year, I get to do the horoscope special. This year I did some little cutouts. They’d make nice lino prints, I think.
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What’s for Supper 6
These are the What’s for Supper illustrations I did for the August FairLady magazine. I reckon I should turn these into teatowels some time. Talking of teatowels, it’s a sunny day in Cape Town so I can photograph my Summer Weeds teatowels to put them up in Etsy later. Yippee!
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A food editor’s kitchen
A few weeks ago I wrote a bit about meeting the food editor of FairLady magazine, Nikki Werner. Well, over the weekend she sent me this pic of her sweet dollshouse of a kitchen. Just a sec. That cushion made of old embroidered traycloths and napkins, and the Orla teatowel on the oven look rather …
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