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What a busy week… Monday mornings mentoring session set us up for the week. After that we then realised how much work we had to do before our meeting in London! So we were up late Monday night finishing off all the little jobs that you underestimate how long they will take you to complete! Anyway, we finished attaching all the labels, packed our bags ready for our two day trip to London and headed off to bed.

We were up early the next day and at the printers by 9am to get our Look Book printed off, and then we headed over to the train station (after stocking up on food for the journey of course). Harriet finished sewing her scarf together on the train whilst I posted updates on twitter.

Once we were in London we were able to drop our dresses off at the baggage hold and head off to brick lane to check out The Laden Showroom. After walking all the way down brick lane and back again we finally found the boutique. There were some awesome pieces, labels such as ‘Laura Laura’, who uses second hand knit wear and hand embroiders the garments with her thoughts to create unique jumpers and cardigans! My favorite is the 'If you please' jumper. (http://www.lauralaura.net)

After we had a wander around some of the vintage shops we headed over to Islington to visit an AMAZING boutique, Labour of Love. Its quirky, fun and stylish this is exactly the kind of boutique we want to have our collection in! Some of the designers in Labour of Love include Eley Kishimoto, Dove Nuotano Gli Squali, and not forgetting their own label LOL.

Wednesday the 13^th of July: the day of our first meeting as Still Small Voice. We headed to St. Pancras to collect our dresses then we were off west, to Notting Hill for the meeting with Wolf and Badger. We don’t want to give away too much yet but fingers crossed when we go back to see them with the revised collection we will have our first stockist!!

You would think that by that time we had enough….but no we headed straight over to Warwick Avenue, to a lovely little boutique on Formosa Street, Pipa. The boutique had a great selection of different designers. We were able to speak to one of the assistant buyers, and we also got to try some Lebanese sweets….which were amazing.

London was overall a pretty successful trip. Even though my feet and shoulders are aching now, it was defiantly worth it. We will definitely keep you posted on the Wolf and Badger situation.