You may remember my recent blogpost about a visit to Spier Architectural Arts last month, but in that post, I didn’t mention that my visit was to talk about an exciting collaboration: I’ve been invited to participate in the Spier Architectural Arts’ official World Design Capital 2014 project (#WDC382_HALF-SQUARE) The project consists of the ceramics studio working with …
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Up, Up and Away! inspiration
Even if I say so myself, the Up Up & Away fabric collection that I designed for Cloud9 Fabrics is totally gorgeous! And now they’re in my Cape Town shop, you can get your itchy, stitchy little fingers on them too. The ten designs in the collection are all printed by Cloud9 Fabrics on organic cotton, which is great …
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Making Friday: 15 November
Actually, after such a looooong break from my Making Friday routine, I’m planning to have an entire Making Week (or more!). I have an ‘away’ message on my email, and I’m doing my best to get my teeth into a new collection of prints. Of course, before I began, I first had to pull and push every …
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Collaboration: Up Up & Away!
Just look at yummy fabric all piled up in my studio. Not just any fabric, mind: it’s Up, Up & Away! – my second collection for Cloud9 Fabrics. I’ve got some fun plans for these, so watch this space. Also, sign up for my newsletter here to find out as soon as stock arrives …
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Lookbook 2013/14: Acid Pastels
Banana + pineapple….. Kiwis + tangerines…… Mustard + watermelon radish….. Those are crazy food combos*, for sure, but they’re colour groupings with zip, and that’s what the Acid Pastels theme in the Skinny laMinx 2013/14 Lookbook is all about. This week, we have a few of our yummy Acid Pastel-themed pillow covers at 25% off **. Pop into our Cape Town …
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Making Friday – on a Sunday
I had a peaceful day catching up with things in the studio on Sunday while Shepherd wielded his paintbrush downstairs, but eventually found myself with time on my hands, and so I dug around on the prop shelves and lined up some interesting shapes for an Instagram moment. And suddenly, after trying to kill time, …
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Sofa, so VERY good!
My inbox has been all a-bulge after these two fantastic sofas covered in my Bowls print landed therein: This completely maxed-out one in the Persimmon colourway is from the always brave-hearted Dan Saks of Saks Corner. (I’d LOVE to see the entire room setting that this sofa will inhabit. It must be wild!) And the …
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Coincidences & Pots
For a while I’ve been drawing lots and lots of pots. I’ve been pinning them to my Vessels board on Pinterest, I bought a lot of bowls and tea bowls from our friend Steve Shapiro a while back, and I really enjoyed my visit to the Potters’ Market earlier this year. It seems I’ve got …
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Vera and Grace
I had a super bumper collection from the post office this week. Unfortunately, only one of Paul’s online-bought birthday presents was amongst that lot (Flip! Birthdays are unmissable deadlines, and I missed this one BADLY), but I certainly scored with my vintage Vera scarf from Luola, and my copy of Grace Coddington’s memoir, too. If …
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