12/21/2024
✨👋Hi Friends. Please Read Me…long, vulnerable, and overdue post:
Where to begin…when I started Spotted Sunflower Boutique 6 years ago, I was chasing one of my biggest dreams. I was a burnt-out mom of 2, working full time, trying to keep everything afloat while my husband travelled 50% of the time for work. I kept hoping the powers that be would send me in some kind of direction that would not only help my own mental health, but allow me to help other women in similar positions. This is where the boutique came to life.🌻🐆
I can’t even begin to tell you how much every one of you reading this post means to me. This boutique has been so much more than a job to me, it has been a family. Whether I’ve ever met you in “real life” or not, you are my family. Many of you have been here with me through some of life’s biggest events…bringing my babies into the world, moving 2 or 3 times, and coping with losses of loved ones.
The last two years have been some of the most trying ones of my life (sounds a bit dramatic, I know 🙃). But if you have been here for a while you watched me open a store front, open another business, and then close that store front. What you didn’t see, were the millions of left turns and pivots I made trying to figure out what direction the boutique was going to take through all of that. Every time a new path looked promising, I seemed to quickly hit a road block. And in the mean time, our other business was gaining more and more momentum, requiring more of my time and energy. I was running myself thin at the expense of my mental health, my marriage and being the mom my girls deserved.
I’ve spent the last 12 months really reflecting on what brought me joy within boutique. In doing so, I’ve also had to take note of the way consumer shopping habits have changed, and how I can make that work for me.
Connecting with other women and helping them feel beautiful, through all of life’s crazy stages, is what brought me the most joy in this business. While in return, you all were making me feel beautiful throughout the crazy too!❤️
I have decided that it is time for me to officially close Spotted Sunflower Boutique. I have put off making this post, and rewritten it about 726748 times, because that last sentence was something I never envisioned myself writing. That is mostly because of all of you. I have had a really hard time accepting the closure until I could come up with something that would let me stay connected to you.
With all of that being said, this page is staying. I have been brainstorming how I would like to use it moving forward. Through a lot of conversations with friends and family, and some of you, I’ve realized that maybe it isn’t just about clothes. I enjoy sharing things that make me feel pretty, bring value, or make life a little bit easier! So that’s what I plan to do here going forward. I’ll continue to post and go live from time to time to share things I love and think you will too. And yes, that means I will earn commissions if you chose to buy the things through the links I give you.😉 As I said earlier, the way consumers shop is very different now than it was when I opened the boutique. And as the old saying goes “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!” 😆
I love you all so much more than you know. Some of you have quite literally saved my life and you don’t even know it. You have supported my family, given me an income, and made this dream of mine come true. You ARE Spotted Sunflower Boutique. You are why I wanted to do this in the first place. I love you all so, SO much.
You will see the name of our social media pages/profiles change over the coming weeks to align more with just me and not the boutique.
If I didn’t already say it a million times in this post, I love you so much. Thank you for giving me 6 amazing years!
Bloom where you are planted.🌻
xoxo,
Bre
