SWEEEEEEEEEETS!

I stood on my camera yesterday and broke it, so there's no more new photos from the Shoppe for today i'm afraid. Instead I bring you this fascinating insight into sales in sweets over the last four weekends.

Top Five Selling Sweets:

1. Jelly Beans
2. Chocolate Peanuts
3. Rhubarb and Custard
4. Lemon Bon Bons
5. Sherbet Lemons/Strawberry Bon Bons/ Kola Cubes

Bottom Selling Sweets:

1. Humbugs (no sales at all!)
2. Mint Imperials/Barley Sugar
3. Army and Navy/ Chocolate Limes/ Cough Candy/ Fruit Pastilles/Liquorice Toffees
4. Dew Drops/Pineapple Cubes
5. Aniseed Balls/Sweet Peanuts/Butterscotch

To be fair to the bottom selling sweets, it's only Humbugs that haven't sold at all- oh and we've sold 134 flying saucers at 2p each!

In terms of art, the top selling item in the shoppe by a long way are the teeny tiny charms, but maybe that's because they are so cheap! And they are closely followed by the marvelous postcards from Simon.


In our online shoppe it's The Sea Horsicorn by Peskimo that is leading the race.


There's only one more weekend to go before we shut up Shoppe- we've had some lovely visitors, it would be great to see some more of you!

ps- thanks to Elaine for coming and being the guest keeper yesterday, and for Jason for keeping me company today.

Tomorrow

The weather looks like it's all set to be lovely again this weekend, so we are looking forward to another couple of days lounging around, catching the last remaining rays of summer sun and eating lots of sweets...oh no! I mean we are looking forward to opening the Shoppe up and serving YOU with art, sweets and our charming company.

Last weekend Katy did an excellent job of being a guest Shoppe Keeper, tomorrow the honour falls to Johanna, creator of the 'Unusual Horses' print (a snip at £19). There's still space for a few extra guest Shoppe Keepers if anyone's interested:

Sat 26th: Johanna
Sun 27th: maybe Katy

Sat 3rd: Elaine
Sun 4th: Jason

Sat 10th: Elaine
Sun 11th: Jason

Please remember that the Shoppe relies on the volunteers who run The Friends of The Old Pier Society shop, which is located upstairs from us- if they can't find a volunteer to open up for them, or if the weather is considered too bad to bother opening up, then sadly we can't open up either. If possible try and call ahead if you are making a long journey, or if you think you will arrive late- we can try and hold off closing time as long as possible, but when Jodie and David from Peskimo visited last weekend they only had time to grab a few charms and some balloons before we had to lock up.

Claire Elizabeth Platt

I snuck back into the Sweet Shoppe today with a pile of parcels that contained such strange and mysterious things as Yeti's, Unicorns, Sticks of Rock, a creature called 'The Leisure Centaur' and colour and play 'Pin the horn on the unicorn' sets. I also took along two pieces from my old partner in crime, Claire Elizabeth Platt, who is so near to the end of her MA that I can't believe she found time to make something for the Shoppe- Claire rules!