Jabula Tents Blog
Port Eliot Festival 2017 – Dead Man
It was the wettest, muddiest Port Eliot Festival ever but still so enjoyable. The beautiful green grass of the pristine estate was completely covered in thick mud and we were so glad we took our gumboots. It didn’t dampen the spirits and the show went on. Our tent covered the bar of Dead Man’s Fingers, […]
The Dwarves of Zennor
Our 8 x 10m stretch tent enjoyed a week up with ‘The Dwarves of Zennor‘, a group who get together to make swords & things in a remote field. Amongst other things they heat & cast metals to make various implements, make leather shoes & knit. They moved onto this empty field for 10 days and […]
Mount Pleasant Eco Park – Weddings & Events
A unique & beautiful live music, wedding & event venue which offers a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces plus a campsite with bell tents & a shepherds hut. It’s set within 42 acres of organic farmland, in an area of outstanding natural beauty on the north Cornish coast near Porthtowan. It is also a […]
Tropical Pressure 2017
This was our third Tropical Pressure festival and it was totally and utterly tropical and wonderful yet again. There is an amazing array of bands from all over the world, awesome workshops, absolutely delicious vegetarian food and so many happy friendly faces all over the place. With the view of the sea and hills around us, […]
Polhawn Fort
Polhawn Fort is an amazing venue for a wedding. You can hire out the entire fort for your guests, and you have it all to yourself and it has a path directly down to the beach. It has space inside to seat 120 people and a stretch tent on the roof but some people choose […]
Crasken Eco Centre
We were asked to set up a stretch tent in the courtyard for a wedding at Crasken Farm which is close to Helston. We fell in love with the place and it’s an amazing place to have a wedding or party. The lovely courtyard area only just fitted our 8 x 10m stretch tent. It […]
Spring Masked Ball 2017
Another amazing Masked Ball, an incredible all night party in many tents, carved into the many levels of the cliffs of Porthleven, directly overlooking the sea. Every year has different themes & decor but this year they went even more far out with a totally new feature – the Underground, where you could get lost […]
Tropical pressure festival 2016
Tropical Pressure, what a fabulous festival it was again this year with totally tropical weather & happy, groovy African, Carribean & Cornish vibes. Overlooking the sea, fields and old mining ruins, the 42 acre organic farm venue has surprises, chilled out areas around every beautifully decorated corner. The wide variety of music, tropical DJ’s, music, craft […]
The Stack House Cornwall
The Stack House Cornwall – Weddings The Stack house is a unique wedding venue in Cornwall. A converted former 19th century engine house with a large deck, gardens and al fresco dining area. The Stack can sleep up to six guests, with rooms of exceptional interior design arranged over three floors and an open plan […]
Surf competition – Porthmeor beach
We put up a stretch tent for our local surf school, Saints Boardrider’s surf competition on Porthmeor beach in St Ives. St Ives Surf School set up Saints Boardriders club just for the local kids and teach the huge groups (I think there’s over 140 kids) every Saturday in the summer. We are so lucky […]
The Ale & Anchor festival in Mousehole
The Old Coastguard Hotel in Mousehole put on a 3 day music and ale festival in the beautiful gardens and they were blessed with mostly sunshine. They had so many different bands and musicians playing over the 3 days as well as delicious bbq food & refreshments from Skinners Breweries. We weren’t able to see […]
The Jubilee Pool Grand Man Engine Ball
This was a fabulous event put on in the Jubilee Pool in Penzance. Amazing burlesque dancing show and DJ’s till 3am. Lots of people dressed up & a great party vibe. We put up 4 stretch tents on the side of the outdoor pool which was quite an enjoyable challenge . It looked stunning in […]
Port Eliot Festival 2016 – Dead Man’s Fingers Rum Bar
It was our first time at the Port Eliot festival and it was a wonderful experience. We set up tent for the Dead Man’s Finger Rum bar which looked really cool with old sea nets and instead of regular poles we used their old wooden paddles. They hung up a gigantic skull mirror ball from the […]
Rock Oyster Festival 2016
We were happy to be putting up our tent again for the fabulous Rock Oyster festival. A beautiful festival on the banks of the Camel Estuary. Our tent was for the daytime activities, pilates, yoga, puppet shows & kids disco etc. We added some colour to our stretch tents using our tie-dyed stretch fabric. Here’s […]
Fluorescent decor & our new 6 x 8m stretch tent
Our daughter’s school organised a school carnival for the kids and we thought it was a lovely opportunity to put up our brand new stretch tent and try out different ways of putting up some of our colourful stretch decor. It’s such a lovely school and 3 of our children have gone there so we […]
The Masked Ball
So exciting to have our tent up at The Masked Ball. What an incredible experience & so good to see both our tents joined together for the first time and decorated in such an unusual way. Each tent at the Masked Ball had a different theme decorated in great style; The Grand Ballroom, The Terrace, […]
