Honey Loops Cositas

After completing her high school education at Assumption Manila, Honey Loop and her sister lived in Spain for the next eight years. While in Spain, she worked as a tour guide for the Soriano’s travel agency. This was when she met her future husband, Glenn Loop.

When Honey decided to return to the Philippines, Glenn followed and shortly after, they got married and settled down in Cebu. Since she always wanted to have beautiful, dainty things, she started creating embroidery items for her family and friends, as a hobby. Soon enough, she had a children’s clothes line called Twinkle and also supplied Rustan’s for five years for their orders for toiletries bags. Despite the increasing demand for her products, she decided to work from home because her priority was her growing family (by then, she had Eduard, her only child.) For the next 15 years, she went full blast into embroidery, designing the items herself. However, she does not make drawings so she works with an artist who executes her ideas.

At present, Honey’s charming little workshop located at her home is called Cositas, Spanish term for small things. On display at the shelves are quaint, elegant items for the home: linens, embroidered table cloths, towels, runners, shower curtains, throw pillows, giveaways for weddings, Spanish shawls with tassels, assorted bags and gift items, finely embroidered placemats with matching napkins.

Aside from her friends, her clients have now included various companies in Cebu, simply through word of mouth as she does not mass produce her items. (Her materials are sourced from Divisoria in Manila because of the wider choices found there.)

This Christmas, she has small giveaways that are reasonably priced, such as cocktail napkins with her trademark embroidery, coaster sets, underlays, Christmas towels, Christmas placemats with matching napkins. Indeed at Cositas, one can find gift items for the home that truly warm the heart.