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Colts handbag
Colts handbagTomorrow’s my third Friday = Making Day, so I’ll be out for the count, yahoo! Here’s another fruit of my labours from the first F=MD, which was a total bag bonanza. It’s a cute little...
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Befores and Afters – colts
Befores and Afters – ColtsI’ve had yet another chair covered in one of my Sevilla Rock prints. It’s become a bit of a mania for me, but when someone swaps you a cute tub chair for a kettle, a bottle of...
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Tricks of the trade
Tricks of the tradeSo finally I found a solution to making up swatch books for my Sevilla Rock fabrics. It was pretty simple really. I went to a bookbinders and gave them specs for making up 25 plain...
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Oh Deer!
Oh Deer!Spruce is a fab design studio in Austin, Texas, doing wonderful upholstery projects. They gave me a big thrill when, not long after releasing my Sevilla Rock collection, they asked for samples,...
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ScrapEep! again
ScrapEep! againI’ve made five more ScrapEeps and they’re in my store now. Happy weekend, all! The sun’s out this morning – let’s hope it lasts.
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Herd it on the grapevine
Herd it on the grapevineAnd yes, what you “herd” is true. I have more Herds cushion covers in my shop, in both red and grey. Happy weekend, all!
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Skinny at Silk & Cotton Co
I’ve spent the last couple of days heaving great big bolts of fabric around my studio, cutting them into fat, crisply-folded piles, and then getting blisters all over my fingers as I cut and pinked...
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Eepmail – first edition
I’m ridiculously over the moon with the new little rubber stamp I’m using for the mini envelopes and notecards I send off along with my Etsy orders: Hey, I’ve got an idea. Why not go buy something from...
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Breathing new life into old favourites
The very first Skinny laMinx print collection was called Sevilla Rock. Although I put it into production on running metres in 2009, in fact, it was my very first attempt at fabric design, and it turned...
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Frankenflowers… on your cellphone!
Quite a few years ago, I used to spend fun hours with ceramics transfers that I’d had made, creating plates, bowls, mugs etc, decorated with my sketches. I was only able to have the transfer sheets...
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Spoons again
Josh Vogel makes spoons. Lots and lots of beautiful carved wooden spoons, and in his new book, The Artful Wooden Spoon, the former architect and founder of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. shows...
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Thrift store sighting
I must admit that for some time, I’ve been anticipating the experience of seeing my work in a thrift store / jumble sale, and wondering how to prepare myself for this. But this weekend it actully...
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