OUR NEW SPACE

So by now, you’ve probably heard from our social media, or past emails that we have been renovating and moving into a new space on King St in Newcastle’s CBD. It’s taken us a month of renovating. Starting with removing the previous tenants broken furniture, old carpet, and rubbish. Then we divided the space into the 5 main areas.

 Firstly we have the shop front. It’s a little smaller than our previous stores, we were always fluffing out those spaces with extra gift boxes or plants. Our shop front now is completely functional and easy to navigate. One thing we noticed in our previous stores was that the product flow was a little off, so we’ve really tried to make sure that everything is together now. You have shelves on the left wall, shelves on the right wall, and three tables in the middles. On the left wall we have a row of shelves for Hey Hudson. A Row for Mayde Tea. A row for soaps, oils and magnesium sprays, a row for Scrubs and the row for home aromas (Candles and Reed Diffusers). On the right side shelves, we have our Lips shelves, our Face shelves and our Gifts Pack shelves. Then we have the gorgeous handmade tables in the middle which are holding White Space Crafts Terrariums and more Gift Packs.

Next up we have our function / workshop room. This is a huge space we have to the right of the shop front that we plan to hold our workshops in. We even went and bought a giant 20 person conference room table so you can bring all of your friends along too! Before covid, holding workshops was our favourite weekend activity. And now with the worst of the pandemic (pretty much) behind us, we plan on organising a few different workshops over the coming months. We’ll be holding Make your own scrub, Make your own candle, Sip and Paint and DIY Terrarium just to start. I’m super excited for all of this to start! As well as the DIY workshops, we’re thinking about hiring out the space to other creators to hold their own workshops. But that is something we’ll be needing to do a bit more research on.

Then we have our production space where all our products are made and our raw ingredients are stored. This is where the magic happens. We have shelves and drawers and benches all dedicated to making, packaging and packing which is something we’ve never had before. We’ve always had to use making space for packaging and ordering and mixing and in the one place. But now, everything has its own dedicated area which is going to save us so much time as well as being able to make bigger batches of our products too.

Out the far back behind all of that is our kitchen. Yay! Speaks for itself really.

We also have an extra special room behind the shop front. This is our studio / hang out room. You might be aware that Josh and I have a podcast called Got A Queery, this is where we’ll be recording from from now on. We’ve soundproofed the walls, installed and super cool table for the mics, as well as housing the bevvy fridge and drinks trolly (priorities). There’s also a couch for chilling out, and then my favourite part of the space is the back which is the photog area. I have my lighting and tripods, for product film & photography. I’m super excited to get some quality images out there of our beautiful Scrubba and Hey Hudson products.

So that’s our new store. We’re open 10-5:30 Tuesday – Friday and 10-4 on Saturdays. Pop in for a tour, tell them Hayley sent you.