Exeter has been decorated with stunning artwork as a renowned painter staged a mini 'takeover' in the city centre. Sophie Tea is on a mission to raise the profile of local charity shops nationwide. On Friday (August 16), Sophie visited two charity shops in Exeter city centremtransforming a Dolls House and a Monopoly board into masterpieces.
Throughout the day, she dropped clues on her social media channels, leading to an eager crowd of buyers ready to snap up an original Sophie Tea at a fraction of the price. Fans in Exeter got lucky when Sophie selected a Monopoly board from Marie Curie. And she just couldn’t resist a second item to celebrate reaching a million followers on TikTok, so bagged a beautiful dolls' house at the children's charity shop, Jelly, on Fore Street.
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Sophie is halfway through the first season of her series, Charity Shop Friday - which has amassed over a million followers - where she visits charity shops across t.