The coming week

All our efforts this week have turned to our first market attendence which is on the 2nd May at Sloans, Argyle Street.


We have spent the week finalising what we will be selling and more importantly how we are going to transport it from the car!

Thank heavens for trolley style suitcases - whoever invented these deserves a medal.

We will be selling our large jars full of retro sweets, traditional sweets in glass jars and the customary pink and white striped bags and more.  We will also have some of our baskets on display.

It is going to be a long day, from 11 till 5 so if you are in the area please come along it would be great to see you.

Off to check the weather forecast now - we will be outside but undercover so a bit of sunshine woudn't go amiss.

Sweet Charity

Is it that time already? The last week has flown by.


We spent the start of the week organising ourselves for the charity fair we were doing on Saturday - making up our retro sweetie jars and making our sweets look good is no easy task but we always get there in the end.

The fair was really busy and we very much enjoyed it. Its always nice to talk to customers face to face and we got lots of lovely comments.

So, what's happening this week? We have a meeting with our business advisor to discuss our business plan (the boring stuff) and, hopefully, get some helpful hints and tips.

Our wedding favour samples are also starting to take shape now that our stock has arrived - watch this space.

Attention is now turning to our first market which will be on 2nd May in Sloans (Argyle Street, Glasgow) - we are going to be busy in the lead up to this but it is all good and more importantly we are enjoying it.

Hope you all have a good week.

Time Travel

We've gone back in time this week and purchased a huge amount of retro sweeties.  These will be for sale in sweet jars and baskets in the very near future - we have all the old favourites from back in the day when we were all at school. We have black jacks, fruit salads, wham bars, frosties, refresher bars, drumstick lollies, swizel lollies, lovehearts, parma violets, flying saucers and double dips. Yum, my mouth is watering just thinking about those Wham Bars.

Our line of sweetie themed wedding favours is coming together and we will have some samples available very soon - who wants sugared almonds when you could have jelly beans or cola cubes, mini love hearts, foil covered chocolate hearts or any type of sweet you want.

Our next event is on 17th April @ Bearsden Baptist church (from 10 - 12) - if you happen to be in the area it would be great to see you and you can sample some of our lovely sweets. We will be selling our retro line at this event as well as our baskets and also bags of sweets and marshmallows.

Until next week.......

Another busy week for The Sweetbasket...............

We now have 2 events on the go where we will be selling our products.


1. Sat 17th April 10 -12 Bearsden Baptist Church charity spring fayre

2. Sun 2nd May 11 - 5 - Sloans Market, Argyle Street, Glasgow


We are looking forward to doing these and would be great to see you there.

We had a last minute rush of orders on our Easter baskets and got these dispatched on time - would be great to get some feedback from those that purchased these.

If you are a fan of retro sweets then we will be selling sweet jars crammed with all the old favourites, refreshers, fruit salad, black jacks, flying saucers etc. - as soon as these are ready we will get them onto our Facebook shop. If you have any particular favourites you would like to see please leave a message on our Facebook wall.

With the Easter holidays now here we are going full throttle into completing the website.