Wednesday 14 November 2012

New website and blog

Thanks to all of my lovely viewers,
I would like inform you about my new website which allows you to click onto social network buttons to share what you see.


Please take a look and see what new and exciting ventures have been happening.

I would like to invite you to the shopping event at Bias this evening


Have a lovely Christmas



See you there!

Saturday 10 November 2012

Christmas Shopping Guide

Have you started your Christmas shopping yet?

Have enjoyable days out with your friends and family by making trips out to local shopping area. You will find unique gifts for your loved ones, as well as supporting independent boutique owners and the work of local designers/ makers that they sell.

So far my work is being sold in two London shopping areas, both boasting creative independent retailers.

East Dulwich



This area will be holding a special Christmas shopping day on the
Saturday 1st December
ALL DAY!

This is a local shopping area to my home studio and I enjoy popping down to grab fresh foods and browse around the vintage store.
JHBeulah is in:

Bias


I hear that there will also be an amazing band also and that the model will be wearing my exclusive collar range for part of the evening.

 Ed Warehouse

This large vintage store is opening their Christmas evening on

Thursday 6th December 
7pm

and will be welcoming you with drinks, wine and a jazz band!



Columbia Road Flower Shops & Flower Market 



This traditional row of small shops open Friday, Saturday and on the Sunday with the busy flower market. You will find many London local artists and makers in each of these lovely boutiques.

In the lead up to Christmas these shops open

 every Wednesday 6- 9pm 

See my necklaces in

Marcos & Trump

L'Orangerie


Further details nearer to these events will follow, for directions please see the post below

Happy Christmas Shopping!


Friday 5 October 2012

And The Fourth Stockist is....

In the past week JHBeulah has been received by another two more boutiques in the local Southwest London area. This is the full stockist list so far:

Ed at ED Warehouse off of Lordship Lane has been in contact and will be stocking a very limited range of necklaces in the coming week.

Exclusive designs are in the making

Sally at Bias on Bellenden Road took the exclusive collar range on Wednesday of this week and sold two pieces in the first day! There will be a Christmas window display featuring the JHBeulah collars and a display cabinet especially for the range.




Bee at Marcos & Trump on Columbia Road has been selling my button bibs from the beginning of September and is stocking an evening range which will feature in the Halloween window display at the end of this month.

 

Catherine at L'Orangerie also on Columbia Road has just a single piece, which is the most precious item of the whole JHBeulah necklace collection and is made purely of vintage mother of pearl buttons.





Each boutique has been carefully picked for its ideal suitability to the brands aesthetic and ethos and I am thrilled that each owner have taken an exclusive limited range for their boutique.

I can assure my customers that they will enjoy their shopping experience in these boutiques as much as I do!




Monday 1 October 2012

JHBeulah at the Kingdom of Style

Queen Michelle is a fabulous blogger for Kingdom of Style who has continued to support my new venture on her posts. On friday she featured my latest collection for this AW12, which is available exclusively in store at Marcos & Trump with the full collection online at Folksy where the very latest new collar shape is being released.

At Marcos & Trump





New to Folksy





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Saturday 15 September 2012

Brilliant Businesses



Barry is a very talents carpenter who lives and runs Finger Furniture in Leicester, which so happens to be my family hometown.
We met at the Tweed Run in London this May, when conversation was struck up seeing the matching wooden mud guards and handle bars on his bike. Finger Furniture normally takes on commissional work for domestic kitchens as well as the interiors for camper vans, Barry's past work was on film sets most notably for Wallace & Gromit. This is Barry and his brother at the Tweed Run talking to the penny-farthing cyclist 17_IMG_5624.jpg
Barry very kindly invited me to visit his workshop and showed me how he makes the bike mud guards and handle bars.

working out the measurements for the bike

different shapes, lengths and thicknesses of the handle bars and guards 

I hope to commission Barry in the coming months for JHBeulah delivery bike and in the far future the interiors of JHBeulah boutiques! 


Friday 14 September 2012

What to Watch

The Wartime Farm



This is a really interesting program where these three people in this clip, live and work on a farm, following the duties and daily tasks during the time of WW2. I have just finished watching the second episode of Wartime Farm and enjoyed learning about the Women's Institute and the Land Girls, which were both ran by Lady Gertrude Denman.

You will find some handy money saving tips, by doing things by yourself home grown and constructed.... like the hay steam box for keeping your stew going and saving the electricity/ gas!

Order your booklet at The Open University website to learn more

Saturday 1 September 2012

The Necklace Line







Every item produced by JHBeulah are all individual pieces, though some may be made from the same fabric, there will always be variations in the final make up of the piece. JHBeulah is a practice that exercises’ eco principles as far as possible, as well as producing high quality items by the same disciplines and techniques as couture practice. 

Many of the pieces are made from raw silk taken from fabulous wedding gowns, lace purchased from French flea markets and always vintage buttons.



Inspiration

JHBeulah is an eco- friendly women's accessories brand, with the aim of diverting useable quality materials heading for the landfills and reinventing it into something entirely new. The story of this brand is very much lead by the production: protecting the British environment, promoting British made cloth and crafting the product in Britain.