Hygge

30/08/2023

Which number are you? Alannah McNulty guess which number I am 😂

After a wet and windy day outside with us, we wanted to know what number ewe are all feeling today?

12/08/2022

So today I finally took the leap and got the peacock hair I’ve been dreaming of for the last three years. Ben and Teagan were awesome. I only went in for highlights but I totally fed off their energy and unleashed my inner peacock 🦚 It feels amazing to have the outside me reflect the quirky inside. It’s been an awful year so far but this made me feel like things are about to get perky. I feel unstoppable 💪💃🦚

29/06/2022

Things have been a little quiet at hygge of late. I broke my arm badly and had to have surgery and a tonne of physio. It’s been a frustrating scary time but sometimes it’s nature’s way of getting you to stop and reevaluate. I’ve decided to break up hygge a little. I’m starting a few new separate businesses the first being CRYSTAL AURA JEWELLERY. This will focus entirely on gemstone jewellery. I’d love if you would give me a follow I’m going to start populating with one off pieces and I’m going to be announcing an exciting new product launch soon. It would be nice to see all you lovely people there. I have missed my lovely customers and followers so much but I believe strongly in self-care and that for me means taking time to rejuvenate and only coming to social media when I can share positively. It’s awesome to be back! Love to you all ❤️

19/06/2022

10/05/2022

This reminds me of why I love ceramics. As a creative selling my work, I had grown obsessed with perfection. Confession: I have been known to make and remake each loop on necklaces etc multiple times until they are perfectly round. The little links that hold things together that no one ever notices! - but I notice and only perfect little Os will do. With glass most accidents are happy ones, with ceramics - not so much. I would strut to the kiln to pull out my masterpiece and it would be cracked, misshapen or the glaze would be splodgy and uneven. It was confidence-shattering. Then my tutor told me to ‘embrace the process’ and it changed everything. My pots were still wonky but I really experienced their making- the joy of making- the mindfulness of it where nothing exists but you and the piece. Making over the years has become part of me, part of my therapy, source of my sanity.

I came to making late in life. I was quite academically gifted and in our society I was encouraged to be sensible and follow a professional career. More to the point, the opportunity to create in my education was very limited especially as I can’t draw, sew and burn everything I cook. It is only by trying everything that I found my little niche, by facing failure I found fulfilment.

Embracing the process, doing things that bring us joy for no other reason than that we love them is an important part of life and should be valued as much as the things we do well. It makes us who we are.

“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of ‘getting to know you,’ questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, ‘
‘Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: ‘ I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.’
And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could ‘Win’ at them.”
Kurt Vonnegut

14/02/2022

To all those happy loved up couples out there ‘Happy Valentine’s Day. To the rest of us Happy Monday - the perfect day for some cocoa, me time and hygge ❤️

22/01/2022

Want to this ?Why not indulge your loved one (and yourself) with the gift of relaxation. Our Valentine’s Day vouchers offer the ultimate pampering package with facial, full body massage and manicure for the ladies; an facial and full body massage for the gents or our couples combo including all of the above plus an Indian head massage for the gents while the ladies get their nails done 💅. Also receive 10% off in store on the day.
(Just noticed the stereotypes there😂 anyone is of course welcome to pick the treatment that suits them best😊.)

15/01/2022

We’re back from our much needed hols. It’s good to be back to Scotland and open today in Dunblane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

24/12/2021

Christmas Eve🎄🎁🤶 we'll be reopening on 27th but for now that's me done. Time for baths with hygge bathbombs of course😊, new jammies and Polar Express and cocoa with 'Twas the night before Christmas. Bliss 🙏 and the essence of hygge😊 What are your ?

10/11/2021

Apologies everyone. Hygge will be closed today. I've twisted my ankle 🙄 and can't walk on it. It's definitely getting better and hopefully with a day of rest it should be fine to be back tomorrow🤞. Thankfully I have a tonne of making to keep me busy 😊

15/10/2021

More makes from the gem show haul. I just love working with gemstones 😍 Can you spot your fave?