Mums and Kisses

Mums and Kisses began as a Homecoming Mum both an e-commerce Retailer with a physical store to visit that services exas students and parents attending their local homecoming football games and expanded quickly to offer a physical retail location. The designs, quality and low prices kept customers coming back year after year. What began in Texas, shipping city to city has now grown to now serve customers worldwide. We’ve shipped as close as 4 miles away, all the way to Okinawa, Japan!

Today our retail location is open Aug – Nov servicing customers that travel from all over the state. Our online eCommerce store continues to thrive and we’ve proudly shipped orders all over the U.S. and as far away as Japan. Our personal goal is to extend this Texas tradition to all states. I think every student in school should experience having a Homecoming tradition.

A Little Mums and Kisses History
As told by the Owner & Founder, Shannon Hart Gonzalez.

“14 years ago, I helped to make our first homecoming mums for the pee-wee cheerleaders of the Azle Youth Association in Azle, Texas. Fast forward 10 years later we had moved away and I was still making mums occasionally for my own children. When my son got to be a Freshmen, I had taken a trip to the big box Hobby craft shop and I couldn’t believe the sticker shock I got when it was time to pay for the ribbon to make a single mum…. $90.00! Are you kidding? I hadn’t bought anything but ribbon! No trinkets, nothing but a silk flower, and backer, and some ribbons. I couldn’t believe it. I know I have expensive taste but MAN! And the quality of the expensive premade mums they sold, yuck! I knew there had to be something better.
Six months later, my father passed away from Alzheimer’s at the young age of 65. It absolutely devastated our family. I wanted so much to do something with my grief, with my time, with my feelings of loss. I needed an outlet. At that time, I was giving life a lot of thought and the motto in my head that kept repeating itself was “Shut up and Do It” So… I did. Right before school let out that year I ran across the “sticker shocking receipt” of this past homecoming mum. It didn’t take very long to make up my mind that if this was a problem for me that it was happening to most ALL parents. I set out to make my own website with the goal of not only servicing my area but all of the U.S.
I started this business with .86 cents.
That’s all we had to our name until the next paycheck. I went to work figuring out how to ship a mum with out it costing an arm and a leg. Wow.. that that was fun… Then I tried my hand at designing more and more with scrap ribbon around the house. After which I found a supplier, and cut back on my grocery budget to slowly buy supplies. Right before school and homecoming season began, I took a chance, sacrificing my kids school clothe

2005

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