I love being a shoppe keeper!

Chipfork made me this amazing picture- it's me measuring out strawberry bon-bons in the Mythical Beast Sweet Shoppe. I totally LOVE this! It makes me think of my Grandma's family for some reason- I think it might be because they all had orange skin and blue hair too...

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.

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/

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!

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



Someone very tall had to put these up



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

balloons inside the shoppe as well as outside

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

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!

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.