As young little girls playing with barbies for hours, we'd play pretend that our barbies owned a little boutique shop...dressed them up for hours changing them into thousands of different outfits...only dreaming as adults one day we could make that dream come true...
Little did we know 15+ years later we started our journey into making it a reality...
It all began when I was at a crossroad in my life. I had two options: one to finish college & graduate becoming a dental hygienist or option two believe in myself to chase after my dreams. Well with long conversations, prayers, and encouragement from my husband...I decided to go with option two!
Starting in 2017 gave the whole creating my own business thing a whirl, came up with a name, designed a website, and started to jump right into investing $200 of supplies to make jewelry. Before I knew it my little side hustle grew so much I had my handmade jewelry items in over 25+ store across Michigan. With working a full time job plus my side hustle, I thought why not throw into added more work...so I started attending craft shows to gain more exposure. That's when Bre stepped in and started helping me...I finally convinced her that it was time we start pursing that dream we once talked about long long ago...
Fast forward to 2019 we both invested $2,000 each of our personal money into purchasing boutique clothing. Neither of us knew where to start, how to sell clothes, and everything else in between, it was all a whole new experience with several failures. We did have our online website running, but we had less than 10 online orders that entire first year, we solely relied heavily on markets to receive any sort of income. At the end of the year we had our markets lined up for 2020 & we were ready to get back at it...Each year we would attend roughly 30-35 markets, well COVID hit and all of our markets cancelled.
We were absolutely devastated. We had no clue how our little business would survive at all. It was time we either threw in the towel or really dig deep and ask God for help. A couple months in, God gave me our first BIG idea...that's what got the snowball rolling. A few months later between the orders & all the inventory my entire house was taken over! It was time we started looking for a small space...
Well we found our space that we are in now, worked out a great deal and began the renovations! It took about a week in to realize the space was too big for just inventory, so we turned it into a retail location. Before we knew it the shop was ready a month later & we opened our doors for the first time to the public!
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There's so many other missing details from our journey but overall the trust we put into God is what kept us going. Without His help, wisdom, patience, and persistence we would not be where we are. This has all been such a blessing, we are still truly speechless with just how God keeps providing for us. At the end of the day we try our best to show our faith using fashion, we are both the farthest from perfect people, but we truly try our best. We will never take for granted how much we appreciate all the prayers, love, and support we've received...we definitely feel the love surrounding us & we treasure it greatly...
I'll end with our motto we always say...
Dream BIG. Pray BIGGER.
-Xoxo,
B+B
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