It’s just over a week since we returned to Cape Town, and as I make worried eyes at my ever-lengthening To Do list, our Tokyo trip already it feels like so long ago. So, time for one last look at my photos, with some thoughts thrown in. Thanks for sharing this trip with me, on …
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Last thoughts on Tokyo
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Tokyo textures & colours
My Tokyo obsession isn’t wearing thin yet (other posts on the topic here). I spent the weekend watching japanese movies and experimenting with making tsukemono and o-nigiri, so let’s maintain the theme, kickstarting the week with more textures, patterns and colours from our trip.
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Thoughts on Tokyo – Plants
It might be paved, tarred and concreted, but plants are very, very important in Tokyo. In front of every store and every home we saw a carefully-tended cluster of pots and plants arranged just so, there are plant and flower shops around every corner. Long-limbed trees are given posts to rest upon, and every hedge and …
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All about Anne Finsen
On Saturday morning last week, something rather unexpected landed in my lap: Stephen Inggs, head of Michaelis Fine Arts at UCT, popped around to my studio with a portfolio of fabric prints by somebody called Anne Finsen, who died last year at the age of 94, as he thought I might be interested in her …
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#CTtype
If you’re in Cape Town and, like me, enjoy taking pics of interesting typography, you can submit them for consideration to the CTtype website. Join the fun on Instagram by hashtagging your pics #CTtype, which is what I did with mine.
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Snaps
Just taking snaps of props at hand instead of cracking on with the work. Sometimes you just have to muck around!
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This week
I’m stepping AWAY from the computer this week, in order to get my teeth into preparing new things for the products catalogue due out in August. It’s very exciting to put up that ‘away’ message and to know that this simple act releases me (to a degree) from the tyranny of my email inbox. And …
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Back and forth
It’s been a crazy week of backing and forthing between studio and home this week, as we renovate the studio upstairs, and electricity goes on and off at home rather unpredictably. So while work has been a bit patchy, I’ve seen a lot of pavement and street markings on my travels, to nice effect.
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Happy Lucky going a treat
The HAPPY LUCKY seconds sale is going down a treat! Seconds are at 50% off normal retail prices, for today and tomorrow only (1 & 2 Feb). Pop in! We’re open til 6:30pm tonight, and from 9am-2pm tomorrow.
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