Hello again, Padmalila and I would like some women to join us in Lama's Pyjamas on a voluntary basis. In order to find out more about volunteering in any of the Buddhist businesses around the London Buddhist Centre Maitrivajri is running a volunteers day on Sunday. Please do come along, Padmalia will be there and she will be able to fill you in on anything you might like to know about how we work. Please click on the li… Continue

So excited, we've just had a donation of clothes from designers who re-make funky new clothes from old clothes. I love the recycling ethos and the imaginative designs, they look just fabulous.

Other than that life at the shop continues to be lots of fun and surprisingly quite hard work. I'm very touched at the generosity of the people who donate to us, a lot of beautiful things come into Lama's Pyjamas. I'm also having to do some work on letting go - a customer bought a pair of jeans I

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Just lately I've been feeling a huge amount of gratitude toward all the people who have helped us to set up the Lama's Pyjamas and who continue to help us - also to the local community and the sangha who have been just great with their support. Ibon feels like the third member of our little team, he's been… Continue

At the end of our second week's trading we are doing well and have exceeded our targets so far. People seem to like the shop and we have received many appreciative remarks. We are learning a lot as we go. We are still working on the shop look and still need to transform the doors at the back of the shop. So it's still in process.
Can you help us please? We need full length mirrors for the shop. Also we'd like a tall, bookshelf, preferably wood. Many thanks. Padmalila

just thought I'd post a picture of my favourite shop with some shop type stuff in it. We're still filling up the space and getting ready for the grand opening. Have had a wonderful response from the local community, everybody who's come in has been very encouraging and stated how pleased they are that the s… Continue

My New Year's resolution this year is to try to become more of a blogger and keep posting regular updates of our progress. Had a very satisfying run up to Christmas with Padmalila and I madly painting trying to get all the walls covered with all the required coats of paint before she went on to the LBCs annual winter retreat to transform the shrine room ther… Continue

The builders still working but we've got some space at the back of the shop which we're using to strip down the doors we've collected off skips. We have four doors of varying sizes and stripping them is just the best fun ever. The shop looks very clean in the photo but the room at the back is filled with stuff and covered in dust.
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We're itching to actually get in to the shop ... the builders are doing some work which involves digging up the shop floor and it's all taking longer than expected. We (and they) are hoping that they'll be done by the end of next week so that we can start cleaning up, painting and putting our amateur hands to shop fitting. They've agreed to leave us with an… Continue