Hello darlings. We know it's been a while. We've not been IGNORING you, darlings, we've just been BUSY. I hardly know where to start. It's been like, ya ya ya, and cha cha cha, and uh hu uh uh huh. Let's see. Have you been down to...
Swit- Swooooo. Bristol's premier cocktail, tapas and cheeky flamenco chica picture hotspot, The Pata Negra on Corn Street, needed new curtains for the colonial- inspired Art Deco function room upstairs. We had just found this ur-maz-ing palmeral fabric at House of Hackney. It seemed rude...
So, right, you know, how we spent a certain amount of money on, like, getting a logo, and a website and all that stuff? Well, it turns out we needn't have bothered. One of our offspring (well, Charlotte's, but I'm not giving you any more information...
Bristol's finest Tiffin-based Empire of authentic Indian foodstuffs (apart from my neighbour's mazers pakoras), the Thali, continues to re-invent itself. Over Easter we took delivery of about a MILLION (that's an accurate estimate) of the Montpelier and Easton church chairs for some va-va-vooming. We waved...
In our quest to take over Bristol and then the WORLD , ahem, improve the general calibre of pub seating in Bristol's Green Capital, we have helped re-fit The Shakespeare on Lower Redland Road. Yonder went ye olde wonky benches, yea, and truly, hither came ye novel deep-buttoned...
Now, I've had, ahem, *mixed* experiences on London Transport. Flashers, pickpockets, break-dancers, pass-out-drunks, snoggers, gobbers and swearers. Buses that smell of burgers, mysterious sticky patches on the floor and gum stuck to EVERYTHING. But I have always loved the thrill of bumping off on an...
Red and yellow and pink and oh. I mean, *clears throat*, 'Teasel" & 'Gorse" & 'Heath' & 'Acre', 'Pollen' & 'Moorland' & 'Barn', I can sing a Rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow toooooooo. Yes, fabric swatches have names for their colours which would make...
Stitch No Evil, Staple No Evil, Hammer No Evil We made it through 2014. It got a bit hairy at the end, but WE MADE IT. It got proper busy. We collaborated with the mighty Russell on this f a b u l o u s...
Much like Charlie's Angels, the Staple Sisters came together over a shared love of soft furnishings, power tools, big hair and hammering things. Each Staple Sister is an experienced upholsterer, who has been catering to the whims and fancies of Bristol's domestic gods and goddesses,...