Ideal Home..Betsy Salutes you!

We love it when one of our products makes it into a glossy

...even more so when that glossy happens to be Ideal Home...

the icing on the cake??....its the December/Christmas edition....

and the cherry on the cake?..

the wonderful people at ideal home have issued us with complimentary tickets to The Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court....we sadly couldn't make it last year, but by hook or by crook we will be there this year....watch this space

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Funk Up the Hess pt 2!!

Operation funk up the hess has finally finished....well part one....more to be added in the new year if I can persuade the lovely and incredibly talented Megan to dedicate a few more days of her life to all things hessian!!

....needless to say we are incredibly wowsered (we've just made that word up!!)...

to take pictures is one thing....to have the ability to make pictures talk is something else entirely and something this talented photographer does....and does well!!

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Operation Funk up the Hess!!

Some very exciting things are happening at Betsy Jarvis, we have employed the services of Meg, an incredibly talented photographer, who creates what I can only describe as contemporary, edgy, urban, people art.

Megan Stumm photography

The brief we gave Meg was to 'funk up' the Hess....Meg style 

Megan working her magic and funking up the Hess!!

and as you can see along with the stunning Ela and a mountain of hessian cushions that is precisely what she is doing, we cant wait to see the end results!!

The Stunning Ela.

Press the link below to view video footage of funk up the Hess....and check back to see the finished results!

Funk up the Hess 

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   Water Tower Envy

Wowsers.....now I love my home...I adore it....I am besotted with it, but occasionally....not often....just occasionally I get house envy....or in this case Water Tower envy.

Kennington Water tower - 99 feet worth of Grade II listed building , situated in Central London was featured on the hundredth edition of Grand Designs. Now being the hundredth episode was just a clue that the restoration in store was going to be special....very special.

Kennington Water Tower.

 Leigh Osborne and Graham Voce the new owners of this extraordinary building set about the immense task of restoring what was a decaying, crumbling yet non the less stunning piece of mid nineteenth century architecture complete with its six foot deep walls and huge steel water tank crown.... the scale of the task was monumental, before any-form of restoration/structural work had even begun a whopping seven thousand pounds was paid in order to clear around two thousand dead pigeons from the building....hmm...nice.

However a whirlwind eight months pass and the tower is transformed (with the help of an Army of contractors and every trades person imaginable) oh and a injection of money ... a huge injection of money!!

The proud (....rightly so) and extremely brave (...or completely bonkers) owners now have a unique, edgy and contemporary living space....and what a space it is!

....along with the Water Tower itself which is now transformed into a  9 story  4 bedroom house (all en suite, but of course) complete with lift (which only goes about half way up...but to use the tag line of a well known supermarket....every little helps!!)it also has two additional adjoining modern and  contemporary structures nicknamed 'the cube' which house the kitchen among other things....but the real selling point for me....the real clincher....the jaw dropper...the part that fueled every envious bone in my body was the view from the top of the tower....which is now a lounge with huge glass walls giving a 360 degree vista of the capital.....oh my oh my oh my .... you don't even need a wrist watch or a clock up there ....just look out of the window.....you can see Big Ben!!....it is simply awesome!!....sigh...

 Anyhow having reviewed my finances I have come to the conclusion that an extra lottery ticket is called for this week end...I feel lucky....although when I do move in (note the word 'when'...I feel a positive approach is called for) I am going to ('I'?!!..who am I kidding?!!...I will be a lottery zillionaire)...OK .... some nice contractor chappies will create a fab New York loft style interior for me.....as below...

also I am going to commission a chair to replicate the one Kevin Mcloud made on his man made home project (if you haven't seen it its well worth watching!)...I could happily sit and while away many an hour gazing over the London sky line in this..

However I feel my most crucial investment when I move in ...(there I go again with the positive vibe!!..) is  a few kettles....I don't fancy trotting up and down nine floors every time I need a  caffeine fix!!

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Here comes the Bride.....

Our Truly, Madly Deeply Cushion has been featured in the October issue of Irish Brides...

......October seems to have been a very popular month for tying the knot this year, as well as Truly Madly Deeply we have also been inundated with orders for Mr and Mrs Cushions with one bride to be ordering one to be used as a ring cushion, how lovely.....happy days. 

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Far and Wide

On Friday we opened an 

international payment facility on Betsy Jarvis and today we received our first international order ... Two customised city chic cushion covers will soon be winging there way to Canada...yayy

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Edith

OK, its not everyday that a blog begins its life on the topic of a sewing machine....but this is no ordinary sewing machine, this is a grand old lady of a sewing machine, a true workhorse, a vision of beauty  and without her Betsy Jarvis would be a very different place...Vintage Industrial....Very Betsy Jarvis. Edith, we salute you.

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