About eight or nine years ago a customer came to pick something up from our home in Durban. She was really lovely, but I felt like bonking her on the head – truly! She was saying what a great little business I had, and how long did it take me, “About an hour a day?”.
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I’ve always joked that if something were to happen to me, my body would be discovered pretty quickly because of the dedicated Minters who message within minutes of me missing the deadline for a Mint post! The cheeky joke was really about one very special mother and daughter duo, Fleurette and Claudine Milsom, who have
Continue reading »Morning folk! In an attempt to fix the problem where Mint is giving an error saying that there’s “an issue with an item in your cart”, we’ve had to remove the ten minute hold on items. What this means is that once you’ve added an item to your cart you’ll need to check out straight
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Design Joburg takes place this weekend, and Mint is very excited to be a part of the action! We were exceptionally lucky to be asked to provide furniture for the amazing Candice Berman Gallery, who are participating in this year’s Rooms on View. With Nicky Betz of The Design Faculty setting the stage, our retro
Continue reading »Sadly it seems that my dear old Mac is destined for the electronic graveyard – try as he might, Justin just couldn’t resuscitate it! So it looks like it’s going to be a few days before Mint is up and running again, as we hunt for a replacement computer. Apologies folks, but such is life!
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If you’re going to a baby shower sometime soon, and wondering what to buy, look no further – we have the answer for you! Sitting on the corner of 6th Ave and Louis Botha in Highlands North is a wonderful lady by the name of Beauty who makes the most fantastic crocheted creations! I asked
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So apparently I’m not alone in my hunt for woven baskets – after mentioning that I wanted to write a post about Ruth, the basket weaver, I had a rush of emails asking me to please get to it asap – it seems everyone’s in need of a basket! I’m not sure though if I
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For the record I blame Andile. And Lisa. And Mak, Covy, Unathi, Anelisa, Justin, Georgi….well pretty much everyone who attended yesterday’s harmless birthday brunch, that somehow become lunch and ended up with me flat on my bed snoring away instead of taking photographs for Mint for today! So apologies for taking an unexpected day off,
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Ola Mint friends! A few of you might have noticed already, but we’ve made a small change to our payment options – we’ve removed the ‘cash on collection’ option, which not many people were making use of (who carries cash on them these days – accept tat dealers like myself!), and instead added a second
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One of our Mint friends has the most incredible collection of Graphis magazines that she’s reluctantly decided to part with. Graphis is a design periodical that features works from the best talent in design, advertising and photography, with the magazines making a fantastic source of reference for people in the artistic field – or just anyone who loves beautiful
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