The New Website !

I am SO excited!  The Sweet Shop now has it's very own bright and colourful website - and special thanks for this have to go to Debbie Fogg at http://www.picantewebdesign.co.uk/ for putting up with me for so long and being so patient with me!

SO, here it is http://www.thesweetshopsaffronwalden.co.uk I've still got some tweaking to do but we are basically there.

I hope you like it, I do!

Auntie Doro's Bunnies

Easter has officially arrived in our little shop.  Bunnies galore and so much gorgeous chocolate.  We've dressed the window with some old bunnies, the male bunnies in their hunting gear and the lady bunnies in their flowery dresses holding their babies.  We've arranged them as if they are having a tea party and one of them is taking a photo with my Dad's old box brownie camera.  These bunnies were made by my Auntie Doro about 40 years ago, she was really my great aunt, lived in Cornwall and had an amazing history of nursing and missionary work that I really only discovered when I was much older and a long time after she passed away.  As a family we always went to Cornwall for our summer holidays so would spend many hours at her house helping her make waffles by the dozen which would then be eaten warm with her homemade lemon cheese (like lemon curd but so much creamier).  She was a kind lady who was so loving to her sister (my grandmother) who was unwell and lived with her, and to her mother (my great grandmother) who also lived with her.  I'd forgotten all about these bunnies that she used to make until my Mum dug them out of a cupboard recently.  They've certainly created a lot of interest in the shop window and after Easter when it's Royal Wedding week we'll just turn their little scene into a wedding party instead, with lots of mini union jack bunting.