Detail Retail
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Detail is a proudly independent, family run gift shop in Ambleside, the heart of The Lake District.
It really was a picture perfect night, the Aurora Borealis was giving us a show AND the Perseid Meteor shower was on top form.
It may be raining today in Ambleside but it’s always bright and sunny in Detail! Here’s a few snapshots from the shop 🥰
We’re open 7 days a week and don’t forget you can browse our website if you aren’t local to us. Plus you can sign up to our VIP club via the newsletter pop up form on the website to get a monthly offer/discount and news from us.
www.detailretail.net
It may be raining today in Ambleside but it’s always bright and sunny in Detail! Here’s a few snapshots from the shop 🥰
We’re open 7 days a week and don’t forget you can browse our website if you aren’t local to us. Plus you can sign up to our VIP club via the newsletter pop up form on the website to get a monthly offer/discount and news from us.
www.detailretail.net
☀️ NEW WINDOWS ☀️
We’re manifesting some sunshine with our fresh window displays 😎
Don’t forget we’re open 7 days a week and if you’re not local our website is choc full of goodies that can be delivered straight to your door!
www.detailretail.net
Some of our beautiful Frances Lumber ceramics, each piece is completely unique and handmade in her studio in Sedbergh☀️
Winifred wants to let you all know that there is 15% off any orders placed on the website from now until this Sunday (21st April)! Go go go! All you need to do is enter the code APRILOFFER15 at checkout. 🥳
An exciting delivery this morning.. not 1 but, 2 new Lakeland Lights Company scents! Including the much anticipated AMBLESIDE! We can confirm both of these scents are absolutely amazing and well worth the wait! Now available on our website (link in bio) or drop us a message, we can post out for you! ✨
Happy Mother’s Day the wonderful Heidi, our original Detail leader, my mum and now Oma to my little girl. ❤️
Sending lots of love to all the other mother’s out there today 🤩
Happy International Women’s Day ❤️
From Buzzy Bumble Bees to Terrible T-Rexs, these fab little activity packs by Clockwork Soldier are great for little imaginations.. and no glue or scissors required! 🐝 🦖
Happy Valentine’s Day! Let’s give some love to one of our new artists Freya Niamh Design and her beautiful work.
PS We had to drop a photo in there of Wren matching the colour scheme with her dress! 💜❤️🧡💖
🌸 we’ve had a fresh new delivery of our gorgeous Hannah Burbury embroidery kits 🍃 these lovely kits contain everything you need, making a great little spring project ☺️
😍 ❤️ ✨ 💕 🥰…
❤️ Valentine’s Day… not far away! 💕 we have a great little selection of gifts for your loved one.. pop in and see us ☺️
❄️ Lovely little Winter Wonderland here this morning 😍
Merry Christmas everyone! Also a very Happy Birthday to Heidi! We hope you had a wonderful day with your loved ones.
Thank you to everyone for your support this year and we’ll be open 27th December to see your lovely faces again.
⭐️ PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT ⭐️
A simple yet powerful idea to allow yourself 20 minutes of calm, quiet and peace while the beeswax candle burns. ❤️
A beautiful gift for someone you love or a treat for yourself. Each box contains 12 beeswax candles, a small ceramic holder and a little reminder card.
They’re now available to order on our website. Also any orders from today on the website will come with a free gift as a thank you for supporting our independent business this Christmas! 🎄
As requested a few photos of our new delivery from Frances Lumber, how stunning are they all 😍
All handmade in Cumbria and each one is totally unique! A perfect Christmas present or treat for yourself 🎄
Frances Lumber ❤️
🦕 COMPETITION TIME 🦕 CLOSED!
We had two correct guesses across our socials so as mentioned they were put into a random name draw. Head to our stories to see the video. The winner is Marina Stewart you will receive the small version and the runner up Jessica Reevers will receive a mini Dino. If you could message us we can arrange delivery 📦
Guess the amount of snowflakes on our Christmas Angelsaurus window to win a small version of our GIANT dinosaur!
To enter:
1. Make sure you are following our page
2. Like the post
3. Comment your guess for the amount of snowflakes
The competition will close this Sunday evening (10th December) at 6pm GMT. The winner will be announced on the post and via our stories shortly after 7pm GMT. Keep an eye out to see if you’re the winner so we can get your dinosaur posted to you.
Please note: to be as fair as possible if there are multiple winning guesses we will enter the names into a random draw. One overall winner will be chosen and the others will receive a token dinosaur gift.
Please share the post with any of your dinosaur loving friends to spread the love 🦕❤️
🎄 CHRISTMAS WINDOW COMPETITION 🎄
We are excited to be part of Ambleside’s Christmas village window competition this year. We would LOVE your vote, we spent days crafting and putting together our displays.
All the snowflakes were lovingly cut by hand and the Angelsaurus’s took some extra Christmas magic to come together. 😆
Please follow the link below and select Detail from the line up, you will also be in with a chance to win prizes in the raffle at the end of the competition!
Thank you so much! ❤️
https://www.amblesidechristmaslights.com/shop-window-comp
Click here to claim your Sponsored Listing.
Our Story
Detail is a proudly independent, family run business in Ambleside, the heart of The Lake District selling a carefully curated selection of great quality gifts including, homewares, stationery, cards, jewellery and of course Herdy!
Heidi set up the business over 12 years ago with a passion to provide the Best of British gifts, homeware and stationery. Now with a strong mother-daughter team at the heart of the business Detail is flourishing and has a dedicated local following as well as visitors both national and international.
We pride ourselves on having a friendly and happy environment in which to find unusual, characterful and eco-friendly products for sharing, giving or even to hold onto for yourself.
In recent years we have promoted considered buying and moved towards more environmentally conscious products which has been welcomed and respected by our customers and community.
Retail can be a difficult business to be in, full of complex ethical dilemmas. In response to this we are trying to reduce consumption and waste and encourage our customers to buy with longevity in mind; buy with consideration to keep, to love and to treasure.
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Detail, Market Place
Ambleside
LA229BU
Opening Hours
Monday | 10am - 5:30pm |
Tuesday | 10am - 5:30pm |
Wednesday | 10am - 5:30pm |
Thursday | 10am - 5:30pm |
Friday | 10am - 5:30pm |
Saturday | 10am - 5:30pm |
Sunday | 10am - 5pm |
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