What the Heck are Green Wellies?

Last year at Christmas a favorite customer, Miggs Hill, presented me with this wonderful watercolor. Miggs is a wonderful artist, I was very honored to receive this.

What I especially like about this painting is that it shows a pair of "Green Wellies". I receive many inquiries from our customers as to what Green Wellies are. That is if they are pronouncing it correctly, a good portion say Green Willies, yes, you heard me Willies. Willies , with an " i " . I try not to cringe. When I hear Green Willies, I immediately conjure a picture of a gentleman in coveralls, a straw hat, sucking on a corncob pipe, a few pieces of straw sticking out of his pockets, and farm implements, lots of farm implements. Yikes! Can you tell I this has been on my mind a few times? I apologize, back to Miggs and her lovely little painting.

Green Wellies or Green Wellingtons are English Gardening Boots. (see photo above) . Now doesn't the name of our shoppe make more sense?

Thank you Miggs , again for the heartfelt gift, and for giving me a easy way to explain the name of the shoppe.

Rekindle Your Christmas Spirit

Thanks to all of you who attended our village Holiday festival " Rekindle Your Holiday Spirit" this last Thursday. For a first time event, I believe all involved were quite pleased with the turnout. Thank you, brave souls who stood in the cold night to listen to Christmas Carols, and anxiously awaited their turn for a Horse Drawn Carriage Ride. Thank you everyone who made the effort to visit our shoppe, quite of few of you for the first time. It was my pleasure to meet you and introduce the shoppe to you. It was a fun and exciting evening, I don't think we ever had so many people in the shoppe at one time. ( I admit to a case of nerves, I couldn't greet or talk to all of you.) Thanks to the organizers of the event, congratulations on a job well done!

We all look forward to next year.