I bought these Mia shoes at Urban Outfitters, adding to my growing collection of wooden shoes, and proceeded to wear them for a long trek through Williamsburg and Brooklyn yesterday. Now today, I have a knee that’s practically hobbled me, causing today to be spent almost entirely indoors. I don’t think I can blame the …
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Mia, are you culpa?
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Making Friday – 2 April
It was out with my trusty knife and signage vinyl on Making Friday for the important task of cutting… … a bag of oranges? Yes, for no particular reason I felt moved – a mere 13 days before leaving the country on a very extended break, with a To Do list spilling out of my …
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Making Friday 12 March
Put the trusty blade to work today, with satisfying results: I felt like cutting something very fine and delicate today, and while I can cut paper pretty finely, adhesive vinyl is even better, because it doesn’t have fibres that don’t release. So I used vinyl and then stuck it down when I was finished. But …
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Cutting spaces
Happy 2010, everyone! I’m still on holiday really, but am slowly starting to rev my motor for the new year by making my first blog post of the decade. Once all the relatives left town and we weren’t making treks across the peninsula laden with bowls of salad and bags of presents, Paul and I …
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Frazer Parfum
On Tuesday evening, I went to the launch of the Frazer Parfum pop up shop in de Waterkant, Cape Town (see pics here). I’m not much of a launch or openings type, but I was very excited to go, because of these little beauties that Frazer Parfum is selling, not only at their pop up …
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Cutting frenzy
Cutting frenzyA while back I was feeling so sorry for myself because I couldn’t find the time to do the paper cutting I always say I love so much. Well, things have changed, and now (thanks to Making Fridays) I’m cutting up a storm. This is a new one, called Flower Field. I’ve even done …
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Making Friday
Making Friday Did lots of boring folding, checking, packing, stitching and dusting on Making Friday, which isn’t really the point, is it? So I gathered myself towards myself and got some paper cutting done too.
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Horoscopes 2009
Horoscopes 2009For ages I’ve been doing the monthly horoscope illustrations for FairLady magazine, and these are some from 2009. Leos, you’re up this month, so your pic leads the pack. Can you work the rest of them out? The answers, and more pics, are to be found in the Illustration set on my Flickr page.
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What I’ve been making on Making Day
What I’ve been making on Making DayFor the last four or five Fridays (Making Day, as many of you know), I’ve been cut cut cutting away with the very tip of my sharp little knife, and now I’ve finally finished. I didn’t make this papercut for any reason or purpose (although I’ll probably find a …
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