𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 | 𝐝𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭

34.

It's finally here; the soft opening for my shop was finally here. All these months, time, hard work, dedication– and everything in between that I put into making sure this day was perfect nobody could take it away from me.

As I said my soft opening was just for a few family members, friends and a couple supporters that won the challenge on my Instagram to be one of the firsts to walk in and buy from my shop. Even thinking about it right now I just wanted to drop to the floor and start crying because it was all unreal.

In the next two weeks after receiving all my feedback from everyone in the boutique and apply it to my business I'll do my grand opening where it'll be open to the public.

This whole thing was so unreal to me to the point where every time I woke up to a new notification from my business page it felt like a dream that people were taking time out their day to support and show love.

I'll also be launching my website on the day of my grand opening for those that are two far away can still order my products and get them shipped. In the near future I definitely plan to branch out and add new things to my brand, until then I'm perfectly fine with just selling clothes I put so much blood, sweat and tears into to make sure everything is perfect.

Finding the perfect manufacturers was a hard process for me but there was always something whenever I received a sample from them, most of the time it would have a weird smell or the material would feel itchy on the skin and I couldn't sell those types of clothes and really make a profit.

David was telling me about different manufacturers from brands that he's worked with and I should look into it, with me being stubborn and wanting go through all these trials and tribulations the stress was getting to me so I eventually gave up and contacted the brands.

Surprisingly they were more than happy to tell their manufacturers and how the whole process works, after receiving the samples I decided that I would work with them until I found manufacturers to fit me and my brand.

As I was more than eager to open up my boutique I had to put all my feelings aside and just do it to avoid people losing interest if the wait was going on for too long, people tend to lose their interest. Life was treating me well and moving at the perfect pace for me, moving back to NY was the best thing that I could've done.

To be in BR right now I don't know what I'll be doing with myself but this is why it's so important to have goals and try to reach these goals. Nothing is impossible if you don't try and what I've realised is that a lot of people don't try and start to regret it when it's too late.

I could not be that person but I didn't want to be old and cry about a life I could've lived if I just took that one step and pushed myself into reaching my full potential. To live and see your dreams happening right in front of you is a blessing and such a beautiful experience to know that you can only go up.

Everyone has their time, whether those around you don't believe in you and what you've got going on, when you believe in yourself and your own destiny who cares about what other people think when their bums watching you succeed?

The funniest is about people is that they never support you until you're actually successful and see you living the life they want or when they start to ask you put them on game. The only thing you can really do is laugh in their face cause what you thought this was?

Kairi ran up to me and held out her arms to get me to pick her up "Kai I thought you were a big girl?" She let out a little whine so I leaned down to pick her up and placed her on my hip.

Kairi be thinking I'm as strong as her dad but she's lucky she's not that heavy or that big but I be having my days when I feel weak and everything is way too big for me to carry "what happened you tired?" She rubbed on her eyes and nodded her head.