Coronavirus Update
Hi everyone,
Hope everyone is coping as well as can be. Here at Giddy Arts we've been trying to think of how best to stay afloat, provide essentials, and keep things going if possible without putting anyone at risk. I have broken too many drill bits, got too many wood splinters in my eyes and put too much money and time and love into this place to let it go down now, it's going to be difficult but I hope we make it through. However, I know the main priority has to be the safety of our customers and ourselves.
We have therefore taken the difficult decision to close the upstairs shop. For now, we will keep the eco shop running from the back alley behind the shop, at the moment hours will be 12 - 4 Wednesday - Sunday (if this doesn't work for you, let me know). I will serve people at the door - you tell me what you need/give me what you need refilling, and I will get your products together. We're hoping this will reduce the number of people in close proximity and people using the dispensers etc. The extra cleaning and restocking has been a lot of work and worry, and I hope this will make things easier and safer for everyone whilst continuing to provide what we can in terms of useful household supplies and my reknowned top quality small talk (from a distance of 2 metres).
I have put most of the eco products and food refills on the website in the form of an online shop too - orders can be placed on the website and either collected from Giddy Arts, or I will deliver to those with a BD18 postcode free of charge. Stock levels are live so please bear with me if anything is out of stock, we’re working hard to keep things in and add new lines. The address is giddyarts.co.uk and also through our Bio. For those further afield, please remember Refill Shipley has a great range of liquid refills and products that Soraya will deliver to you.
Obviously things change so rapidly at the moment - if there are updates, if this is not the right thing to do, if it’s not working, I will have to change things.
I will reopen the shop upstairs and the gallery when it is safe and right to do so. For continued support for our artists and makers, I'm aiming to do features on here showcasing my makers, their processes, and their amazing work, hopefully bringing a little beauty and creativity into our lives that have suddenly become very isolated. We are really trying to put our heads together for other things we can do and I would welcome any bright ideas!
As always, thanks so much for your support and patience. I feel so lucky to be part of Saltaire and have been so humbled by some lovely messages of support recently. Some of you kind folk have offered to support us with donations, which has been overwhelmingly generous - I'm really conscious at the moment that there are so many people who are much more at risk now more than ever. I propose a Pay It Forward to a local charity, I'm just in the process of firming this up, but the plan is you will be able to purchase food online through us (at cost) and I will then take donated food and supplies to the charity. Once I have all the details early next week I'll update you and put it onto our website.
For now, our priorities have to change - take care, stay safe, look after each other, and try to stay sane and happy.
Obligatory joke:
What’s the most humorous type of pasta? Chortellini!! 🤣🤣🤣😑
