Snoop has just completed its second year as an independent trader on Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, and it was the fantastic street itseld that lured owner Polly to the area. Find out what shes about and the very special craft sessions she has coming up with visiting artisans.
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00:00Hello Polly, how are you? Hello, I'm good, you okay?
00:03Yeah, so we're on Wild Cop and it's your project, your shop, Snoop.
00:09Snoop, where did you come up with the name from?
00:12I was getting an idea of how people think about going around shopping
00:18and the whole thing was about snooping around somewhere and going inside and how you feel.
00:23So yes, that's why I called it Snoop. Great idea.
00:26You've just completed your second Christmas, just in the thicks of it still a little bit as we head into the new year.
00:32How's it been? You're on Wild Cop, probably my favourite street in the whole country, never mind Shrewsbury.
00:39What's it like for a trader here? Because it's not easy times, is it, for traders. How have you been finding it?
00:46I absolutely love being on the Wild Cop. It's the reason that I came to Shrewsbury.
00:52I couldn't have asked for a better start to being on the Cop.
00:56Basically, I came to Shrewsbury just to be on this street, because it is a well-known street in the UK
01:04and it was just named the best one in Britain in the Telegraph the other week, which was great.
01:09But no, I wanted to be part of the independent scene and I just knew that this was the place to be,
01:16so I just waited for a unit to come up and it happened.
01:19So imagine I bump into you on holiday and I say, oh, so what do you do? You say, I've got a shop.
01:24And I say, what shop is it then? Tell us about it. What do you do here? What do you sell? What's it all about?
01:30So I absolutely love colour. So it is a very colourful shop, which draws a lot of people in.
01:36Kids absolutely love it because they see it when they come past.
01:39Yeah, it's a great frontage on the street.
01:41But yeah, it's inspired by Scandinavian design, although 80% of the brands in here are actually British.
01:48But yeah, it's mainly like a Danish, Scandi vibe, lots of colour and lots of small independent makers
01:56because I think that's really important, especially now.
01:59And I've come from a creative background, so I know exactly how it is to be a small maker.
02:04So what are some of the products you've got? You've got stuff for dogs, you've got all kinds of stuff for stickers, I can see.
02:09Yeah, so I call it a bit like a lifestyle store, so you've got a bit of everything.
02:13So you've got like chocolate and coffee, you've got dog stuff, cat stuff, your blankets and your homeware, books, vases, jewellery, cards and gift wrap.
02:25And you also do special little events. You've got a few little kind of one-off craft events coming up, haven't you?
02:31Yeah, we've got some workshops coming up. We do them in the evenings and we do them around the table in the shop.
02:40They're with local makers and I just basically wanted to meet local people and local creatives and get fun and have a good time.
02:48So we've got a charm necklace workshop coming up with East Hope Studio and a sip and paint class with Alicia.
02:55And then we've got a couple of other bits coming up that we're just in the background working on to do some silver jewellery.
03:02That's awesome. I mean, it's just great fun, but also good for the mind, isn't it, to kind of focus on something creative.
03:08A lot of us are losing that kind of touch, aren't we, that we used to sit down and concentrate on something for more than 10 seconds.
03:16Yeah, no, it is nice. And when people come, they always sort of say like, oh, it's so nice to actually take a time out of your life and take that rest.
03:23It's like a couple of hours for you, really, which is lovely.
03:27Fantastic. People want to get involved with the workshops, Polly. How do they kind of find out more info?
03:33So we're on social media, on Instagram. But if you don't have Instagram, we have a website, which is snoopshrewsbury.co.uk.
03:40And all the info's on there for the workshops and shopping online or coming into the shop.
03:45Awesome. So any particular workshop you're looking forward to yourself?
03:49I'm looking forward to the sip and paint one this time.
03:52Sip and paint?
03:53Yeah, no, it's fun. A bit of Prosecco.
03:55Oh, is it? And you're meant to be able to paint straight lines after.
04:00Well, the art teacher helps, so it's fine.
04:02Yeah, yeah. And what's the theme of the painting then? Is it kind of anything people want to, and he helps with techniques?
04:08Yeah, so she will help you if you wanted to do any particular type of painting, if you've got the style in mind.
04:15Or you can find things on Pinterest, or she even can do canvases and pre-draw the canvases so that you can paint over.
04:23So it's for all abilities, basically.
04:25It happens right here on World Cop, and how long's a craft session then last, roughly?
04:29Roughly like two and a half to three hours, depending on which one it is.
04:33Fantastic. Well, all the best, Polly. Thank you.