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Lucky us! Not only do we get a spacious, light and delightful new shop but we get to open it with an exhibition of Julie Arkell’s papier-mache dolls. Julie’s creatures are perking up our windows for the next month! Julie is a friend of Loop. Not in the virtual Facebook sense, but in the Pops-in-to-say “Hi” way. Julie gives workshops at Loop and you can buy any of her exhibition pieces. If you can’t get down to see the exhibition, I’ve put together a little slide show of her work. Click on the first thumbnail to see it enlarged and …

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Phew! We are still reeling from the opening of our new shop! We’ve never had a day like it!  There were over 130 people waiting in the queue when our shop opened to applause and cheers. (It was very heart warming ~ tears were shed backstage!) Thank you to everyone who came and made the day such a joyous celebration for us! Many bloggers have written about the event and posted pictures of the mayhem. (Lookie here,  here, here, here and here for just a taster.) I’d love to hear from others who have pictures and blog links! I wasn’t …

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Today, Sunday June 13th, is our  last open day on Cross Street. At 5:00pm, we shut shop here, for the last time. Starting tomorrow morning, we’ll be packing our yarn bags and moving to our new shop, in Camden Passage, Islington. I’ll take some sneak preview pictures of our moving this week… just little ones ~ I don’t want to spoil all the surprises. Come for the big reveal on Saturday the 19th! For now I’ll leave you with this preview of some of our amazing new buttons. Our haberdashery is growing. We want to be the first stop in …

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