Over the last year or so, you may have spotted the reverse paper dolls I’ve been making in my studio on a Making Friday. Just for fun, I’ve been drawing a person, then cutting out an item of their clothing to hold over a patterned background, inventing new outfits for them. It’s fun seeing how different surfaces translate into outfits at this scale.
We liked these little buddies so much, we decided to make them into imaginary friends – the Cool Mom, the Design Guy, the Best Friend, the Weekend Chef – each with a colour-themed Skinny laMinx wishlist from our 2017 Gift Guide.
Keep an eye out for the #SkinnylaminxWISHLIST tag on our Instagram and Pinterest feeds to see what each of them want to see in their stocking this year. We hope it’ll give you plenty of ideas for your shopping list too.
All in all, an excellent long Freedom Day weekend was had. First, a brief list of cool weekend happenings, followed by a looong market post: – Our “difficult” neighbours moved out. Big phew. Catharsis planned. – A brand new niece and nephew were born on Thursday and Sunday – Isabel Moore and Noah Edmunds respectively. …
I took a sneaky snap of a stylish looking person while having a morning coffee, and then, because I enjoyed her look so much, I spent my Making Friday studio time doing a whole heap of little sketches and paintings inspired by that snap. And this is exactly why I called one of my Pinterest …
Mountain Garden printPleased to tell you that I’ve got a rather glamorous silkscreen print in gold and grey available for sale in my Etsy shop. It’s called Mountain Garden, and is in a very limited edition of only 20 prints. The print is made from my paper cutouts of plants and flowers that I picked …