Peyton Descant’s objective behind Mumzie’s Youngsters, a brand new youngsters’s retailer set to open within the Versailles Procuring Heart on Versailles Boulevard in Alexandria, is to have a enjoyable retailer the place moms and youngsters can store.
“We actually do need this,” mentioned Descant, proprietor of Mumzie’s Youngsters. “To be a superb retailer in Alexandria and a enjoyable retailer. A spot the place mothers can go and discover cute stuff for his or her youngsters and completely different stuff — distinctive stuff not simply one thing that you simply see on a regular basis in a traditional retailer.”
Mumzie’s is called after Descant’s grandmother, Azalie Williams.
“We known as her Mumzie and he or she all the time was simply variety of just like the group grandmother,” she mentioned. “I used to be born and raised in Lecompte. My grandma would all the time make ham sandwiches for all the children as we had been using our bikes and every part.”
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Mumzie additionally taught her methods to sew and stitch youngsters’s clothes, however she doesn’t make any garments that the shop sells.
“She form of fostered that love of excellent materials and a love for issues which can be very nicely made,” mentioned Descant. “And so she died 5 years in the past so each time I opened up the shop, I opened up first on-line about two years in the past in 2019, I solely discovered it acceptable to call it after her.”
The brand new retailer would be the first brick-and-mortar location and have built-in wishlists and ordering choices with mumzieschildren.com.
Descant had been in search of a location and spoke with Justin Giallonardo, president of improvement at D’Argent Firms which owns the Versailles Procuring Heart, about opening up a storefront.
“I’ve had this on-line retailer and I simply stored ready for the correct location to pop up,” she mentioned. “I knew that I wished one thing that was seen and a spot that has a excessive quantity of site visitors and each time this place popped up, I known as Justin.”
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She appreciated the situation as a result of it’s a high-traffic, up-and-coming place in an space with new houses the place many households with younger youngsters dwell.
D’Argent Building is renovating the area for Mumzie’s Youngsters, which is ready to open Nov. 1, simply in time for the vacation season.
“So we simply wished to deliver one thing to Alexandria that form of has all of it and in addition is form of like a enjoyable retailer for folks to go and get presents for youngsters,” mentioned Descant.
She lived in Lafayette for 13 years earlier than transferring again to Alexandria, the place she all the time wished to have a retailer.
Descant needs it to be a one-stop store for mothers who’ve youngsters of all ages.
“I’ve 5 youngsters myself. And I adore it once I can discover a retailer that I can go in and purchase one thing for my 2-year-old and in addition to seek out one thing for my 10-year-old,” she mentioned.
That was her idea. If household, college or images with Santa Claus are being taken, moms will be capable of go to Mumzie’s and discover coordinating outfits for the entire household.
“We will be promoting a whole lot of the highest manufacturers of youngsters’s clothes that’s extremely wanted,” she mentioned.
The shop could have choices from new child to dimension 14 for each girls and boys.
“Considered one of my objectives is to have a retailer the place folks can go and discover youngsters’s sneakers and have a big choice of sneakers,” she mentioned.
Leveraging the web site will create perks for patrons.
Youngsters could make a wishlist on-line that may be shared with family and friends. Mumzie’s additionally could have a child registry.
Items may even be ordered via the location and picked up with out getting into the shop.
“If a child had a superb week on a Friday or has a celebration to go to, the mother can come and choose up a present for $20 and have it present wrapped free of charge,” mentioned Descant. “We are able to even do curbside choose up.”
