BIG Box Sale 2020

YAY!!! It is finally (almost) here....Our BIG annual box sale is 6 DAYS away!!!!  THIS Saturday, Feb 1, 2020 from 7:00am-11am in West Monroe, LA. The location is the same as the past four years- at Ark La Tex Window & Door on North 7th Street in West Monroe.  Why do we have it here?? This is Brent's (Mr P's Co Owners) "Real" job location. He and his dad have this business and it has the most covered space we can find (plus parking) and not have to rent a building.

The actual address is 2804 North 7th Street~ down the road from the old Trenton Street Golf course... Hope these little maps help....

Start time is 7:00AM. We will try hard to get there a few minutes before 7 (we are just dealing with trying to coordinate 3 kids, free labor, etc) Here is a few pics from some past box sales. 

Here is some basic info for ya that we get asked a lot.....

"What time should we get there?" As early as possible-especially if you are wanting to snag youth shirts. The 2t's,4t's and 6t's seem to be what goes the fastest. Next would be the Adult mediums.  Last year, folks that arrived around 6am had plenty to pick from. We did have a few die hards that camped out..... if you do this, please just note that there is not an outdoor bathroom. You may be running down to the gas station.....

"What kind of payment are you guys taking?"- Cash and Debit/Credit only. No checks at all. We will have 3-4 check out lines. Some will be cash only and others with be debit/credit only.  Please note that there are NO exchanges after this event. All sales final. 

"Will you still have the sale if it rains?"- YES! The sale will happen rain or shine. Please note that shoppers will be standing outside while they wait to come in. If you think it might start raining, please bring an umbrella. But- we just checked the extended forecast and it says Saturday is SUNNY with a low of 42 and a high of 60. Fingers crossed it stays like that.

"How do you get in the Door?"- You just wait in line. First come, first serve. It doesn't cost anything to come shop. Repeat, no entry fee. We try to get around 15 or so shoppers in the door at a time (due to fire marshal). We ask that people try to take 15 minutes or less so everyone can get a chance to look. Our "bouncers" at the event try to keep the line moving.

Everyone loves Robby the Bouncer!! 

"How are the clothes organized?" They will all be in boxes labeled by what size they are. There will be everything from baby sizes on up to Adult 3X. Please note that our youth shirts normally run Small- So... if your child normally wears a 3t in Carter's, you will want to look at a 4t in our shirts.

"Will you put anything for sale online?" YES! After the box sale is over, we will start posting as soon as we get the sale items on our website (www.mrpstees.com). They will be listed for the same exact prices that were at the box sale. We usually have this up online by Sunday night. We will post on Instagram and on FB as soon as they are available.

"What are the Prices??" 

"Since I'm your friend, can I please come shop earlier that week?"  Please, Please, please, no.  It makes me uncomfortable because we truly try super hard to make it fair for everyone. The only folks we let shop early are our handful of volunteers who give up their Sat morning to come help us work the event for free. 

We appreciate all the excitement over this sale!!! We promise to have a tray or two of Chicken minis being passed around again for all the early birds in line, and some hot coffee.

 How many sales have you been to where they actually serve you some food?!?! We will also have some prizes for the first 15-20 folks in line....

AND FYI- Our brand rep search will be starting back up around the second week of Feb. Stay tuned for more info on Instagram to enter.

Also- SAVE THE DATE.. will be back to the Monroe, LA Junior League Spring Market March 20th-22nd with at least 6 new designs!!! 

Thanks for reading and all of your support!!!

Love

Lissy

Taco Sloth.....It's 4:20 somewhere....

One of our newest designs out this Spring was inspired by Marijuana... HAHAHA

I better explain....

Especially since I teach today's youth!!

 Back during the Christmas holidays, we were invited to a Tacky Christmas sweater party. So, like any busy mother, I googled "Tacky Christmas sweaters" on Amazon. Let me add that it was late one night--- I found two I liked and was pumped to see they were on Prime- YES!! Ordered. Done. I could check that off my list...

  When it came time to go to the party, Brent decided to stay home with the kids and I went. I wore sweater #1 which was really awful. Here is what it looked like... I even had a little Elf on the Shelf I carried around the party HAHAHA

Sweater #2 stayed in my closet. So... fast forward to the half day we were getting out for Spring Break. I decided to be FESTIVE!!

I got out my funny Sloth Christmas Sweatshirt. I love sloths and thought it was hilarious how he was eating on a candy cane. hahahah

(I AM AN IDIOT!!!)

Here I am thinking I am so cute!

I left for the day and my husband NEVER said a word about what I was wearing. 

I took my baby to day care at Claiborne CHRISTIAN School. I talked to the nice Pentecostal lady who worked in the nursery and everything.

No one said a word.

I then went to get ready for our office Christmas party. One of my co workers walked in and pointed and started laughing.

I still didn't realize.

I kept thinking that I was so fun and festive and full of holiday cheer in my tacky sweater!! lololololol

  And then he pointed out all the weed on the sweatshirt.

Weed??

I thought that was tropical palm trees- OMG!!

I. D . I . O . T.

We were all dying laughing. And I ended up leaving it on all day for fun. I think I will bring it out every year at Christmas for a chuckle.

  So, I knew we needed to have a sloth tee... but we really didn't need him to be smoking anything.

We are a family friendly business!!! I first drew him on a flag pole with Donald Trump hair....

But we really aren't trying to make a political statement..So that design was scratched.

Then I drew him in a tropical shirt... kind of like the one I wore, but I just wasn't feeling it.

And then I started looking at the shapes of their hands and it hit me- He has to be holding something. What could he hold???

What do I love? Tacos!!! YES!! A freaking sloth holding a taco- it doesn't get any better than that!!!

   So, there you have it- That is how this shirt came to be.

And how cool is this- Our little baking Brand Rep Suzie up in Ohio (muddyoakhenhouse on Instagram) just had a "Taco Tuesday" party for her son Thomas who just turned 5.

Happy Birthday Thomas!!! Adorable!!

Thanks for reading-

Love

Lissy

Taco shirts available online at www.mrpstees.com

Big Spring Reveal....

We are so ready for Spring around here. I'm so over all the rain and crazy temperatures...

We have been working hard on our new spring designs and will have them for the very first time in person at the Monroe, LA Junior League Spring Market at the Civic Center. The event starts TOMORROW morning (Friday March 15th) and goes until Sunday at 5pm. We will be in our usual spot with two booths. You will have to come check out our new set up...think Clean, Fresh and COLOR!!

Check out the super fun paint plate skirt!! They were all left overs from my talented art students at George Welch Elementary.

  So I know you guys have been dying to see the 6 new designs are so here goes....

#1) The Taco Sloth- We showed a pic of the actual drawing the other day on social media. We love sloths and we love tacos!! HAHAH Its a win/win. Check out Shelby, Juliana and Breanna enjoying some tacos at The Planters Bar in downtown Monroe. Delicious!! And then we have the adorable Ace with his red curls and little sassy Laken hanging out on the sidewalk and (Maybe!) sharing a taco.

#2) The Old Red Barn- This design was very important to Brent- he had been asking for a barn design for awhile now. Funny thing is, we are in the process of getting ready to build a barn. Life imitating Art. Here is Mattie and Jordyn modeling the old red barn look at Kendall Cooper's farm in West Monroe, LA

(Thank you Rodeo Boutique in Ruston for these cute cute shorts and jackets.- We esp appreciated the styling by Mary Gleason)

#3) Parish Pecan Company- We thought this squirrel was pretty funny and loved being able to use the name Parish on a tee. Going Nuts since 1979....the year I was born!!! Here is Aulbani and Krislynne modeling out at Double P Farm in Monroe, LA and a pic of the adorable Watson kids in the kid version.

#4) Bear Unplugged- Have you heard the joke about the Bear in the Woods... HAHA Well here is our Bear singing and playing the guitar by himself without a care in the world. We had the Hinton kids and Dad (thank you Jason) who modeled (along with Mattie and Jordyn).They even became a little garage band in a matter of a few minutes!!

#5) The Hummingbird- If you follow us on social media, you have already read about this design (see previous blog  on it). I'll just get to the pics for it... Thank you  Sims, Teller, Jewell and Hally for the gorgeous pics at Plant World in West Monroe,LA.

#6) Im obsessed with Zinnia Flowers!! Love them- and we plan to plant a ton of them this summer. Here we created a Vintage Seed Packet for Zinnias. Thank you Jewell and Hally for modeling it.
Love the green!!

And we will also have our new Union, Justice, Crawfish tees and some of our best sellers like Duck Taylor, King Cotton, Cluck Taylor and a remake of our Cypress Trees on the cutest slouchy sweatshirt.

 Breanna in our V-neck version of the Union, Justice, Crawfish tee. 

Thanks for reading and see you this weekend!! And if you aren't in the North La area, we will have all of these designs online early next week.

Love

Lissy

P.S Make sure to take a close look at our special pecan mini skirt....my mom worked extra hard on this one this year!!! 

And a close up!! 

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