Open every Saturday and Sunday from now until 11th October.

10am - 4pm

we're right next to the Birnbeck pier in Weston-Super-Mare

call 0787 6088176 to check if we are open as The Mythical Beast Sweet Shoppe relies on the kind volunteers at The Friends of the Old Pier Shop in order to open up.

Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Shoppe online!

We've started to put some of the Shoppe online, and today we got our first order- which is pretty good going considering I forgot to mention it here. At the moment we've only got a few of the shoppe items listed, but hopefully we'll get everything else added soon- so keep checking back. Prices are listed in £, but paypal handles currency conversion so you can order from anywhere in the world- and indeed we will ship to anywhere in the world, even under sea.

Here ye go: http://themythicalbeastsweetshoppe.bigcartel.com/

Saturday, 19 September 2009

Question: How do mermaids see things?










Answer: With their fish eyes.

Thanks Katy

Ballooooooons!

Because The Mythical Beast Sweet Shoppe can be a little hard to find we decided today to go all out on the balloons, in an attempt to lure people in- it seemed to work as we sold twice as much today as we did last weekend!

This way for sweets

Of course there are my lovingly hand made arrows pointing the way as well

Balloons outside the Sweet Shoppe

Someone very tall had to put these up

Balloons in the Sweet Shoppe

heart shaped balloons to give away to small children (and 27 year old men)

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balloons inside the shoppe as well as outside

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Your shoppe keepers for today are...

We had such a good time at the weekend, but oh boy did it leave us pooped! I slept for 24 hours solid on Monday (might have something to do with only eating sweets all day on Sunday). I know several of you have offered to help out as Shoppe keepers over the next four weekends so I thought i'd try and draw up a rota for you to add your names to...

To recap last weekend we had shop keepers Chipfork, Grrim Rita and me

Shopkeeper Chipfork reads the Beano

Me and Chipfork (aka Si) will be keeping shoppe most weekends, but would LOVE to have some helpers so we can nip off for lunch etc (and not overdose on sweets again) I've penciled in some dates that people have suggested they might be able to do- let me know if these have changed at all, or if you want to confirm a definite shift in the Shoppe.

Sat 19th: Katy!
Sun 20th: maybe Katy?

Sat 26th: Johanna!
Sun 27th: maybe Katy?

Sat 3rd: Elaine!
Sun 4th: Jason!

Sat 10th: Elaine!
Sun 11th: Jason!



Tuesday, 15 September 2009

When it's gone it's gone


Sundays celebrity shoppe keeper Grrim Ritta of The London Rollergirls is no slouch. She got down to the sweet shoppe on our opening weekend and snabbed the last of the small blue t-shirts from the American version of the show. We've still got other t-shirts and we wont run out of sweets, but a lot of the artists stuff we have is in small limited editions and when they're gone they're gone. And some of them will leave a gap on the wall where they were! We're still open for the next four weekends but they'll be over before you know it. This weekend the weather will be amazing again but who knows after that...Well, you get what I'm trying to say. Come along this weekend. It might be you're last chance for a day at the seaside before winter.


new piccies of the shoppe







First weekend of the shoppe

Here's the shoppe. We're downstairs in the little black and white building on the left. Upstairs is where the Friends of the Old Pier Society hang out with info on the Birnbeck pier for everyone who wants to know.

I was worried about being on my own in the shoppe on our first day open. But of course I shouldn't have been worried and I wasn't on my own. I had people to help deliver me and the sweets and label them. People to help with flyers and helping people find the shoppe. The people from the Friends of the Old Pier Society who have been so helpful all along. So thanks to everyone who helped me out. We also had some great customers too!