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Skinny laMinx
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I’m outta here

Poor us. We’re away in PARIS until mid-June. Promise to bring back heaps of pics and tales of overeating, etc. Au revoir! xoxox

2 days ago

New shop window

We had fun on Thursday evening, putting together a new shop window, which we do try to do about once a month. This one is all about aprons, and I got to give my Supatool a whirl, cutting silhouettes ...

4 days ago

Alexander Sacks in Wild Flowers

Alexander Sacks – the ginormous and super-stylish shopping bags – are now available in my Etsy shop in the Wild Flowers print, in Strawberry Plum and Lemon Plum. Look. How ginormous? GiNO...

6 days ago

Swann-Morton Supatool

I have a couple of guilty admissions to make: 1. I’ve never heard of a Swann-Morton Supatool, or if I really need one, but it was the last one in the box, I’m a sucker for orange enamelle...

23 may 12

Joburg IS dangerous

I spent some of last week up in Johannesburg, launching my Flower Dreams collection at The Silk & Cotton Co. showroom in Kramerville, and then being driven all over town by some of the lovely Sil...

21 may 12

New beginnings & endings too

I’ve spent the last couple of days getting my new space studio all kitted out with desks and work surfaces so that I can get up there and leave more space in the workroom. All this hammering an...

11 may 12

Thursday night is bunting night

Now the terminology is out of the way, here’s what’s happening at the Skinny laMinx studio between 5-7pm this Thursday:

07 may 12

I forgot to mention…

… we went camping in the Cederberg to celebrate a very good friend’s birthday over the long weekend. Our little yellow tent bravely warded off the threat of rain, and putting on all our c...

04 may 12

Spring (into Autumn)

The Northern Hemisphere is getting all Spring-y, while down here in the Cape, Autumn weather has arrived with a vengeance, and it’s all puddles and rain for us now. But in the brand new Skinny ...

03 may 12 1 person likes this

Catching up

It’s been a crazy busy time, and I must admit, I’m barely keeping pace. Facebook and Twitter have become useful places to maintain updates what’s going on, but if you (like me) are ...

01 may 12

Emma’s Box Ottoman

This Before/After project was featured on Design*Sponge last week (thanks, Kate & Grace!), and here’s a bit more detail: On the landing at the top of the stairs of my childhood home lived a...

25 apr 12

Dear Pinterest…

23 apr 12 1 person likes this

Launch at Space for Life

Whew, what a week! One new staff member (hi, Jenna!), two fabric launch events on Wednesday, and on Thursday, three guys arrived with saws and hammers to start a renovation to the upstairs studio. Th...

20 apr 12

Wild Flowers – they’re wild, but they’re sweet

This week, my Flower Dreams fabric collection is launching, and I’m so excited to share the centrepiece of the collection, which I’ve called Wild Flowers. Wild Flowers is a large-scale tw...

16 apr 12 1 person likes this

Flower Dreams…

I’ve been making this little animation for a while now, and am so excited to share it with you. My new fabric collection (launching later in April) is called Flower Dreams , and I thought a pro...

10 apr 12

Animation WIP

Stop-motion animation is painstaking, back-breaking work. I did know this when I embarked on making a little promotional animation for my Flower Dreams launch (coming up 18 April), but I can be very ...

09 apr 12

This week I’ve mostly been…

… taking photos and making fonts. Does it show?   Happy Easter, everyone. Enjoy the hols, and enjoy the hot cross buns, and bunnies too.

04 apr 12

Lampshades

Did you know that Skinny laMinx now makes lampshades to order? I bet you didn’t because I’ve been horribly slack about getting the news out. Nonetheless, this is the news and the news is...

03 apr 12

Eye Chart cut out

I made this Eye Chart cutout illustration for an event held by the Book Lounge on Friday night. The occasion was Picador’s 40th birthday bash, and the Book Lounge asked a number of local artist...

02 apr 12

Flower Dreams shoot

I’m hard at work planning my first ever proper fabric launch of my first ever proper fabric collection, which I’ve called Flower Dreams. While I’m dying to share all the designs and...

29 mar 12

Zafu

It’s Making Friday, but I’ve got a nasty chesty bug and am not up to much today. Also, I had a great Making Wednesday this week, so I think I’m allowed today off. Just this once! Bu...

23 mar 12

Holiday = Bunting

I spent my Human Rights Day holiday yesterday making bunting, which seemed a fairly celebratory thing to do, really. The first four pieces I made are for sale in my Etsy shop, and keep an eye out in ...

22 mar 12

Upstairs at Skinny

The space above my shop/studio has been vacated, and the landlord has kindly been letting me use it for taking photos of all my new fabrics. The light is just amazing! It may be heading towards Autum...

21 mar 12

Making Friday 15 March

Woah, that was one super-productive Making Friday, stretching all the way from Thursday afternoon til Sunday! Alongside the yoga workshops and hoovering (which are what weekends ought to be about) I ...

19 mar 12 1 person likes this

Snap happy

Some of you might know that I have some beautiful vintage Danish furniture for sale in my shop at 201 Bree St. It comes from a treasure trove down at the other end of Bree called Space for Life, wher...

14 mar 12

Making Friday 9 March

I don’t know what this stuff is called, and I don’t even know where I got it from, but it’s rather fab. You can cut any shape you like, then apply a lot of heat, peel off the top l...

12 mar 12

The pink & the plum

So I’ve blogged quite a lot about pink this year, and have even managed to get one of my heros on board with the pink thing , but I don’t think I mentioned that I’ve been bringing i...

09 mar 12

Early lunch

Foodie supreme, Nikki Werner, just popped in with homemade Sevilla orange marmalade and a baguette roll for me. I can’t possibly wait for lunchtime, so snacktime it is. Thanks, Nikki! (check ou...

09 mar 12

Regrets, I have a few…

08 mar 12

Shadows

Sunlight glancing off a car windscreen onto the back wall of my studio sets up lovely shadow play through the hanging plants dividing the shop from the studio.

08 mar 12

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