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.

Getting to the Mythical Beast Sweet Shoppe by foot from the train station

I'm sure Simon will give you more details about this film he made of how to get to the Sweet Shoppe. There will be maps and things soon- but in the meantime watch this!

Setting up shoppe

We started to set up the shoppe today.Look out for cool stuff by Johanna, Katy and Camilla.





Here is mine on the gallery wall. You can get an idea of how big and bright they are but there better when your there. I've put more pictures on flickr for now if you want a better look. But i think its going to be worth coming down to the sea side to experience the whole thing with the art and the sweets in the little gallery by the side of the rusty Birnbeck pier.

A visit inside...

Our lovely upstairs neighbours




A very tall man, in a very small (soon to be) Shoppe




One of the windows from the inside




some of the wood paneled wall inside

On Sunday we went and took a look at the inside of the future home of The Mythical Beast Sweet Shoppe. After many visits where we had been restricted to pressing our faces to the window it was really nice to finally get inside and see what we had to work with. The space has recently been repainted by the volunteers who run 'The Friends of the Old Pier' upstairs, and the white wooden walls, with black beams were all sparkly in the sunshine.