I really don’t like the fact that I find myself drawn towards my phone all the time, but I think it’s the crazy times we live in. There’s the constant temptation to check out what new disaster has befallen the world… or maybe a puppy has made best friends with a duck! To help me …
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Making Friday: Dots agains doomscrolling
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Best Things: Stripes
Do you know about the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon? It’s that thing where you notice something once – a new word, an idea, a colour – and then it seems you just can’t avoid it. It’s everywhere. But is it really everywhere, or have you just become attuned to it? I’ve been feeling that way about stripes. …
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Team Skinny laMinx 2020
These are the faces and hands behind the name Skinny laMinx. We love what we do, and we LOVE that you love it to. xx Team Skinny laMinx.
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Monkeys world tour!
Travelling in the mind really has become a theme of the Skinny laMinx lockdown period. Just look at the adventures one of our parcels destined for Australia took… in the mind of one of our favourite Aussie customer, Rebecca Her FedEx package was among the last to leave Cape Town on the day before lockdown, …
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Colour Yum: Persimmon and Sand
I know, I know, they say it’s all about blue this year, but we’ve started the year hot to trot with our new favourite colour combo, Sand and Persimmon. While they may not make good ingredients for a smoothie, they do make for a yummy colour palette, in both fashion and interiors. Clockwise above : Burda magazine ++ Paloma Wool ++ Nanamica ++ Verloop x Peanuts …
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Making Friday: Print your own chocolate
We’ve been getting crafty in the shop on Thursday evenings, staying open til 8pm throughout December … and on the first First Thursday of January 2020 too. Yup, join us in the store on Late Night Shopping Thursdays throughout December, and use my handcarved lino stamps to print your own wrappers for bean-to-bar Honest Chocolate. I’ve been having so …
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November 2019 – A customer review
“On Monday 18 Nov a Skinny laMinx package left Cape Town on a test run. On Wednesday morning. 20 Nov, it was at our Brooklyn door. Thanks to a very sweet new $15 flat rate with FedEx, shipping from Cape Town to the USA is now a whole lot quicker & cheaper.” – Marie Viljoen, …
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Shop The City
We’re joining in the central City fun, starting this first week of December. Shop the City is the latest initiative from the First Thursdays bunch, with the aim of promoting central Cape Town’s top-notch independent retail on offer. Get your hands on a must-have Shop the City guide, giving you access to tiered discounts at …
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Experiments in shipping
You’ve heard us banging on about how quick and affordable it is to FedEx our goods from Cape Town to the rest of the world, and here’s proof! We contacted New York City food writer Marie Viljoen of 66 Square Feet fame and asked her if she’d be our guinea pig, as we knew her …
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