Retail Therapy is Real

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Project Description

What's In Bloom?

We are Bloom & The Bee Boutique, an online shopping experience specializing in extraordinary lipsticks and incredibly cute accessories for women and girls who value substance and style!

As more and more women serve as their own personal production companies, creating amazing content; introducing themselves and sharing the world around them from their own unique point of view— WE want to BE a resource for innovative “make it work even in a Pandemic” women from every walk of life, everywhere on this planet!

It’s our goal to make sure women have access to affordable, high quality, and visually appealing accessories and cosmetics. We want to BEE there as women in every industry creatively express themselves through their appearance while online or in person; telling their stories, building their brands and representing the causes that matter to them most all while BEE’ing seen in BLOOM!

How We Came To BEE

Over 30 years ago in a small town, in a small house, in a small room; with a HUGE closet...the Bloom & The Bee story began. To the two girls who lived in that small house, that HUGE closet was the gateway to where their Grandmother's extravagant church hats, delicate lace gloves, & luxurious silk scarves would transport them to an imaginary wonder world where playing dress up was QUEEN!

Gabbie McGee and her little sister Ledora spent countless hours pretending to be "fancy ladies" and daydreaming of all the amazing places they would travel to dressed in bright colors, draped in elegant pearls; wearing dazzling chandelier earrings and layers upon layers of glittering gold & silver bracelets!

Sisterhood: An Unbreakable Bond

On October 9, 2011, Ledora earned the Ultimate Crown after a long battle with brain cancer. Although the sisters had to part ways physically, their extraordinary bond of LOVE and SUPPORT for one another continues to live on. Gabbie promised her sister that for as long as she lived, she would always create ways to share her amazing story of hope, laughter, and strength.

And so, to honor their beloved "Bumble Bee", Gabbie McGee and her family founded Bloom & The Bee Boutique with the promise to fill the shop to the top with all the things Ledora loved -- Colorful Purses, Beautiful Bracelets, Vivid Lipsticks and ALL things sparkly. It is also Gabbie's sincere hope to make this boutique more than just another place to shop; that one day Bloom & The Bee will find a home, as a new kind of gift shop; providing "retail therapy" in Cancer Treatment Centers, Hospitals and Clinics all over the world!

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Another Online Boutique?

No one immediately thinks of fashion accessories & lipsticks when they are seeking the best course of action to treat an illness or disease. The vision for Bloom & The Bee will make "Retail Therapy" more than just another online boutique or social media hashtag. The longterm goal is to create a gift shop experience that is a positive resource for "happy feelings" while patients are healing in hospitals, treatment centers and clinics.

Sisterhood & Shopping?

For our founder Gabbie McGee sisterhood and shopping go hand in hand. Because she and her sister spent countless hours in hospitals and cancer treatment centers, gift shops were a beacon of light in what could sometimes be very sad and dreary circumstances. Growing Bloom and the Bee boutique from an online shop to brick and mortar locations within hospitals and rehab therapy centers -- gives Gabbie an opportunity to not only honor the memory of her sister, but it allows her a chance to offer patients and their family members a shopping experience with their overall healing in mind...because retail therapy is real!