Colonial, Parties, and Market…

Was it only a week ago that the Crown Plaza Invitational at Colonial began? We have been so excited about all of our Funky Friends that we saw at the tournament with Funky Trunks clothes on! Even my husband, Brian, was walking up to ladies asking if they were wearing Funky Trunks! Some were… and some were not … his eye for our inventory is not as good as ours! But how wonderful to see ladies in our clothes and carrying our wristlets all around the tournament and around town! 

On Sunday, yes when it was raining, we had another FABULOUS party!!! The ladies in Willow Park know how to shop! Kortnye and Kelly were gracious hosts who brought on the shoppers and got some great perks from their party! Look for the posts from their party our Facebook page. We could not have done Sunday’s party without Carrie Hamstra! Our beautiful and perfect little helper, advertiser, model, etc! Stacy could not make sundays show and Carrie stepped in to fill those big shoes! 

So now, what you all really want to hear about… MARKET! We could only go to market one day this week… but we made our one day jam packed full of GREAT finds from clothing and jewelry lines all over the country! We are getting some Nikki Bikki under garments! Everyone who has been asking for them will be so excited! Elan International is a line that we currently have a few pieces of but soon we will have more of this amazing line and we are already ordering for fall so that we don’t miss out on the amazing fall looks that they have. (leather and zippers.. um yes please!)

Market is so much fun until hunger sets in… so of course I was getting “Hangry” (hungry+angry) and Stacy was just putting up with me the best she could.. so we decided, in the middle of placing an order, that we should eat and go to a fashion show immediately! That poor girl who was trying to get us through our order! We just told her we would come back! (btw we did go back for another AMAZING line FATE will be here in August!) 

Going to lunch we met our new friends… States of Mind Clothing! From Little Rock, AR (love) !!

These guys ROCKED!! As you can tell from the background these guys do t-shirts with very cool sayings for a variety of states.. our state TEXAS has some amazeballs shirts AND we are getting some shirts for the MEN!!??! What?! Yes ladies get ready to buy for your husbands, sons, boyfriends, brothers…!! We will do some posting when we get them in our hands! 

WOWza! I have so much spinning in my head I can’t even think of what to tell you! so… I’ll just let some photos do the talking! Keep it Funky Fort Worth!!! and keep shopping with Funky Trunks Boutiques!! and don’t get HANGRY at people! 

How this Funky thing Works…

We have been hosting Funky Trunks Boutiques parties for a little over a month, although it feels like we have been doing it for 6 months. When we started out with this idea we never dreamed it would be as big as it has become so quickly! We are in no way complaining, but we have been overwhelmed to the point that we never really got around to posting exactly what we do on our Facebook page, which is where most of you see us, or on our website, which is still being neglected as we plan for parties.

Funky Trunks Boutiques (FTB), to put it simply, is a private shopping experience for a specific group of ladies. The host of the party invites FTB to come to her home and then invites her friends to come and hang out and shop! We are there to help style ladies as needed and make suggestions when asked our opinions, but we truly love seeing old friends and new friends find clothes that are affordable and make them feel great! It is a blast to have already met some truly incredible gals!

We do not give a speech during an FTB party or pressure anyone to book a party or buy anything that they don’t love. Stacy is the most honest salesman that you will ever meet and will let you know very quickly  when she “doesn’t love something” or it isn’t her “favorite”. If you are ever at one of our parties and she says these things to you just go ahead and put that item back! But then expect her to find you something that is even better and more perfect for you!

We always try to remember to tell people to like us on Facebook and use our Instagram, #keepitfunkyfw, and let them know how to book a party… but I said we “try” to do those things but most of the time we are just having so much fun that we forget! Praise the Lord that people are able to find us anyway and we still get parties and Facebook likes regardless of what we actually remember!

We are often asked by people on our Facebook page if they can attend one of our parties. If the party is at one of our homes or an open party, then by all means we will say come on over! However, if the party is hosted in a clients home we can’t invite other people to just show up. So if you have been sad, as some have stated, that you have not been invited to a party.. don’t blame us! Blame your friends for not hosting an FTB party!! 🙂 or call us and we can let you know if there is an open party date on the books, but they do not happen often. We are trying to figure out this problem so stay tuned!!

Another source of confusion has been online sales! We know we know… Everyone wants to  buy it online!! And believe us we want to be able to support that too!! And we WILL! For now, we are able to send things out after parties are completed because we could literally sell out of our inventory and not have enough to make a party worthwhile if we started doing online sales the way people want us to! We will get there!! PINKY PROMISE! It’s coming but we are “low budge” right now and need to clone ourselves since we can’t afford to have employees just yet!

So I think that we have covered everything! This is Funky Trunks Boutiques. We are having so much fun getting to shop with all of you! Book a party soon! Dates are filling up quickly!!!

 

 

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Junk in the Trunk, Funky Junk, and how it all began…

I am not a writer… I daydream about writing, but I am not, nor will I ever claim to be, a writer. That’s my only disclaimer for this blog. Don’t expect wonderful writing or correct punctuation… Just wonderful, fun stories of how we started our business, Funky Trunks Boutiques (FTB), and the antics that go along with being wives, moms, business owners and friends all at the same time.