Let there be lights!
Denise > Let there be light! Thanks to J, the Hebridean Woolshed now has proper lighting to brighten up the shop on a dreich day.
Just arrived – materials for improvements to the Hebridean Woolshed
The Hebridean Woolshed – ready for open season 2017
Completed – new lighting in The Hebridean Woolshed
Now with lights! Track lighting brightens the shop on a dreich day.
Now with lights! The Hebridean Woolshed, Isle of South Uist
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It looks nice! And welcoming 🙂
What a cosy place the woolshop looks – and bright too, of course!
I think I could live quite happily in the Hebridean Woolshed. And the lighting is wonderful!
Oh that shop! If my fantasy Great Britain tour ever comes true, you can bet I’ll see it in person.
What a cosy shop. Yarn, jams, perfection!
D > It seems, Luffy, that we can rely on you to spot the edibles! ;~)
Ha ha! You can indeed. What varieties of jam are you making on the croft?
I love the yarns too, though. Are they spun and died on your croft? I just bought some beautiful madder, meadowsweet and indigo died yarns from Shilisdair on Skye.
D > Yes they are all of our own growing and making. Shilasdair shop is now a franchise, as the lady who started it, back in the 1970s (when hair was long and trousers flared – or at least ours were!) now just concentrates on the dyeing itself – she doesn’t care for all the commercial side. Not long after she and her husband started their new life in Skye, mid 1970s, she produced a wee cookbook, which we bought back then, not realizing that we would eventually be following a similar path, across the water from her in Uist.
That must be a relief to be able to see better. And it will show off your wonderful yarns, quality fiber, and lovely knitwear to buyers. Yay Jonathon and Denise!
By the by, is the word dreich a gaelic word for cloudy or dreary? Or perhaps it means dark and rainy?
J > Dreich is Scots. It’s a word that embraces any combination of damp, dark, cloudy, wet that feels depressing or keeps one indoors.
Aha! Thank you Jonathon! 🙂
D > Yes, we’re really pleased. We believe it may already have increased sales, simply by encouraging visitors to understand the shop is actually open at all, and to make it more inviting to come in … and of course to be able to see things properly. It cost about £300 in materials, but wow what a difference it has made!
It looks so cheerful, inviting and homey; like the kind of place I would dearly love to be! Those sweaters with the colors all melting into each other are gorgeous!
D > This summer went by without selling a single one of those cardigans … and then autumn came and I sold three in one week!
And very inviting it looks too!
It looks wonderful–what a warm and cozy space, filled with goodies! I hope someday I can come visit!
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