Friday Freezing

The first week of July is over. Schoolkids and teachers alike can cross one more day off the calendar as the long awaited Summer Holidays get closer. For a lucky few today is that day. So how will you be spending the long days? 

Here at Cheeky Monkeys we're preparing for the best summer yet. More pocket money lines are in place and things are coming along nicely for the grand summer window display. Blue Lego and green felt (which, incidentally I'm currently shrouded in. How foolish of me to wear a t-shirt on the 8th of July...) will set the scene beautifully. Next Friday the theme will be announced and we can all look forward to getting involved.

In the meantime the window has been updated to depict a kind of seaside coat of arms. I took a few photos to give you an idea. Unfortunately the glass is highly reflective. This meant that most of the pictures were essentially my reflection in a bright green poncho. Still, I think it looks good. You'll just have to come on down to Rottingdean to see how it really looks. 

As I was rejigging the window I found that there are still quite a few Lego scenes which haven't been reclaimed yet. I take this to be a good sign - winners were keen to bring them in, to put them on display but a month after I said they could take them back they are still here. The Cheeky Monkeys window is THE place to be seen. While I rearranged the displays a young lad came in and offered to look after these displays for me. I politely declined the offer, although I might have to keep an eye out for him in the future. This boy knew a thing or two about business and how to sell. I won't share any of his tips here but they were inspired. 

We've also been busy planning Cheeky Monkeys videos. I tried to include one in this post, but I have literally spent the day waiting for it to upload. They are available to view in the shop, so do please swing by and ask to watch them. I'd love some feedback. If you can't make it I will put some up as soon as. Hopefully those ones will be a bit smoother. 


Thanks once again for reading and have a brilliant weekend,


Marco


Cheeky Monkeys
26 High Street
Rottingdean
East Sussex
BN2 7HR


01273 302644
www.cheeky-monkeys.me.uk

Summer Ahoy!

I'll be the first to admit that I haven't quite kept my promise of a regular blog which will give in an insight to how an independent toy shop works. This could be taken as a good sign. After all the LEGO Seaside Competition was a huge success. Entries came in from right here in Rottingdean, as far as Cardiff and from all over East Sussex. One lucky girl won a trip to LEGOLand in Windsor, a local boy won some brilliant LEGO sets and I've been asked about the next one.  Watch this space.

I've also been working out how to introduce my Pick'n'Mix toy selection. If it works for sweets, surely it can work for other things too. Choose a bag and fill it with as much or little as you like - from Yo-Yos to Costume Items; Finger Puppets to Modelling Clay and produce the ultimate, tailor-made gift. The selection will expand over the summer holidays, and hopefully I'll be able to introduce this system onto the website so that those of you who can't visit this fantastic little shop can still benefit from it. On the website there are already suggestions of the kind of thing I'm getting at (http://cheekymonkeys.bigcartel.com/). 

While I'm on the subject of the website you can see a number of the entries from the LEGO competition on there, and don't forget that there's a cheeky 10% discount code hiding on there somewhere which WILL disappear this Friday, 8th July 2011. 

I will be updating this blog regularly, especially as the summer is fast approaching and there are so many good things happening to Cheeky Monkeys. I won't give too much away now but let's just say I've spent all morning trying to work out how many grey LEGO bricks I'll need for... well, you'll see. 

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Speak to you soon, 

Marco

Cheeky Monkeys

26 High Street

Rottingdean

East Sussex

BN2 7HR

01273 302644

info@cheeky-monkeys.me.uk

www.cheeky-monkeys.me.uk