Is it possible to be cool and not take yourself too seriously? Kristie Bishop and Coralie Sleap have proved that it is with their dream shop, Drink, Shop and Do – ‘a tea shop and sweet shop that becomes a cocktail bar at night with an art club and gallery space’. It’s a design café and shop in an old Victorian bathhouse at Kings Cross, where you can paint by numbers or do a dot-to-dot alongside more ‘serious’ crafts like knitting and crochet. It is exactly what it says it is, a place to drink – tea or something stronger; a place to shop – for craft materials, hand made gifts, furniture, or in fact everything in the place; and a place to do – pearl necklace making, ceramics, badge making, jigsaws. Now where did I put my Knitting Nancy?… /Johanna Derry

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