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KTrip86 Boutique&Ritza Life

So if you follow me on facebook over the last few years I was kinda all over business wise trying to find where I fit.  Well back in 2015 I had found that fit.  I was with Jewelry in Candles. Well, really I was with several companies...Paparazzi, Tastefully Simple, Norwex, Simply Aroma, Buskins, Tupperware...probably more. I don’t even know anymore.  I was pretty much joining whatever had a deal. Other than paparazzi. I paid full price for that join on...don’t ask me why, because I have no idea. That was a flop for sure. If you sell it and do well, good for you. Nothing against it, it just wasn’t for me. 

But one day I saw Jewelry in Candles had sign on for $1. Sweet! I had just heard of them and been wanting to try the products. Sign me up for a buck and get that discount! Then I thought ya know what, its a dollar, lets see if some friends will join me. And they did. Several of them. I had a nice little team. I leveled up quick! Senior rep, Team leader, Senior Team Leader(I think that was the next level) and then after just 1 year, I was a Director. I was in love. In love with the products, the company and my team. It was like a family outside of family. My team became some of my close friends. I was actually amazed too. Amazed that I was able to do so well, selling products. Hardly ever leaving my home. I did a couple vendor shows and 1 in home party, but other than that I did it all online. It was great.  

Now lets go to summer 2017. JIC is closing. Things just weren’t working out, we were graciously allowed to move into another company, Gemstra/Jewelscent, who had comparable products, without having to pay their joining fee. People were upset, I lost some team members. But I gave it my best effort. Tried to be excited about it, and get my team excited. I had a few who stuck it out for a little while with me. The products were good, prices were comparable, but it wasn’t selling for me. It was good quality, but it wasn’t the same. So I closed my account and that was that. If people are looking to buy it, there is a rep I send them too, so friends, if you are looking for their product, I can hook you up with an AWESOME rep who will help you.

Now what? Well, of all the other messes I was apart of in the past I had buskins left. I signed on a few more things. Nuskin, for the whiting toothpaste. Which I love, and have an account still if anyone needs some lol. But I don’t promote it anymore. I signed up with some dip company and didn’t do a thing with that either. And then for the first time ever I signed up with a company that I actually tried the product first before joining! Senegence! I fell in love with the lipsense products and was like well, I might as well sell it I buy it enough. So I did. And I kinda sold. I love the product, but with so many reps going out of business it is almost impossible for me to sell it anymore. I still keep my account and maybe eventually can sell it. I love the stuff, seriously AMAZING stuff. But it wasn’t giving me what I was looking for, hadn’t filled the hole I had from JIC. 

(Cue bright red long lasting lip color, and bright white teeth) 

One day, I don’t even know when it hit me, it was in the summer this year. I was like HEY lets make this legging thing work! Lula reps sell, why can’t I sell leggings and make off it, buskins are way cheaper and good. So I invested in inventory. Decided to expand from just buskins; ordered more inventory. Did a live show, and did decently well! And then I got into ordering from designers who make their own custom prints and offering them to my customers.  I decided to give myself a business name. KTrip86 Boutique. I run a group and have a lot of awesome customers! I only sell the custom prints now because people love them. ( I still have a handful of others but trying to sell them off). The online boutique is a lot of fun. I like the interaction with people and finding fun prints that people like.  For anyone who wants to give a look at that here is my fb group link:  www.facebook.com/groups/ktrip86boutique

So I have a boutique that is going well. Why do more? Why add another company? Something I miss is having that team, and a family of people in a company.  I hadn’t found that again. Yes I LOVE the fact that the boutique is MINE! And I can do what I want with it. It’s great. And I’m keeping the boutique. There is no question there. I will still be running that. And I plan to add some of these products into it. Whatever my customers there want, that’s what I’ll bring in! 

Ritza LIfe. Why this company? I will tell you. I have been watching it come together. Watching the CEO hard at work planning. Looking into products. Making sure they are the best quality that there is out there. When the opportunity opened, after having a phone conversation with the CEO I was confident this was going to work. I jumped on board. I believe I am rep #16 in the company. How awesome is that; to be a part of something so early on. And with the help of some amazing people I made the decision to be a founding rep. Why? Because I know this is going to be AMAZING! My team started super small, and really I only had a team at all starting because of an awesome friend and former JIC sister, Peggy. When joining I was on the fence of joining leaderless, or to sign up under someone who I know is also an amazing leader, and puts in a lot of work. So I did that, I signed up with Heather Cruz, another former JIC sister, who was an elite director. So now this is back in September, no products yet. Just watching it all happen; which is pretty cool.  Now here we are February. First round of products have been shipped. And a recruiting special drops. I’m not going to tell ya what it is ;) If you are interested hit me up and we will chat. And if I have already reached out to you about this, its because I know you are awesome ;) With this special my team has grown, fast and big. I have a team now of 35 awesome people.  15 of which are on my level 1.  This is amazing. I am so happy to be growing a team, a good strong team of people who are ready to rock this brand new ground floor company with me.  Most of the people on my level 1 are also former JIC reps, who I am SO excited to be working with again. And they are just as excited as I am.  

So what is Ritza you are wondering? If you haven’t seen my other posts yet, its all about healthy lifestyle. Things that go in your body or on your body. Making sure things are toxin free and good for you! Right now our first 3 products are out. They are coffee creamer, smoothie mix, and fat burning hot chocolate. The awesome thing about these products is they are all vegan, diabetic friendly, gluten free, gmo free; all around great for you! Coming soon we have cbd oils, natural medicines, wax melts and candles(which we are all soooo excited about! 100% soy again! Just no jewelry surprise) and there will be much more! My hot chocolate is on the way. And next I’ll be getting some smoothie mix! When they come in I will post a review, from me and my kiddos! If you are interested in getting in on this ground floor opportunity with me, please please shoot me a message. To check out products you can visit me here: 

https://www.ritzalife.com/store/ktrip86 or www.healthritzalife.co

My vision now is to link things together. Create an awesome boutique for my customers. Which is why Be Healthy. Be in Style. Be Beautiful. Be with Family <3 is the subtitle of my blog. Those are the goals of my boutique. To incorporate a healthy lifestyle with Ritza Life, bring you style and feeling beautiful with the clothing you can purchase in my boutique and the seneegence products. And then of course, be with your family; because that is the most important thing!

I know this was a novel. But it gives a good background of my “direct sales” background and how I ended up where I am now.  And to be clear, I have nothing against any of those companies that I was with that I chose not to carry on with. They just weren’t a fit for me. They all had aspects of them I liked, or I wouldn’t have joined them. 

And for those of you who think all of these companies are “pyramid schemes” They aren’t. It’d be a scheme if the people at the bottom weren’t making money. But they are. Everyone starts at the bottom and you build up your team. This is true in any work industry! Put the time and training into your people and it pays off. The only people who aren’t making money are the ones who aren’t working their business! I am looking forward to where this company will take me, and for the new products I’ll be able to offer people. As well as working on changing the lifestyle and products my own family uses to healthier options, and helping others do the same! Please follow me on this journey. I hope you enjoyed reading this. And if you are looking for a company to join, I urge you to check out mine if it sounds interesting. But if not, and you have questions about any of the others I mentioned in this blog, I am more than happy to talk about them, and even point you in the direction of great leaders who sell those products :) 

[kristens-chaotic-life]

What in the world is happening..

*Fair warning...I decided not to proofread this lol. So this could be messy*

Well, remember how I said I blog and then I just stop? And don’t do anything for months..years, or whatever. Yea that kinda happened. I guess it's only been months this time. But several months...because I’m pretty sure the last time I blogged that COVID wasn’t a thing. At least not here. So it's pretty safe to say that life has been absolutely crazy since mid march.  Trying to adjust to this new normal has not been easy. We finished up the year of virtual learning with the kids almost a month ago.  This just confirmed that there is no way in heck I could ever homeschool. I know, people say it's easier than the virtual thing that we were doing, but honestly I just lack the organizational skills to do it. Ask anyone how well I do at following a plan or schedule, they will tell you. We developed multiple schedules for school and chores and everything like that and I think the most successful one lasted a week. Not even kidding. So you can bet I’m praying and have my fingers crossed that we go back to school in the fall with it at least being some sort of normal! 

I’m trying to compose my thoughts into some sort of order that makes sense...but there is just so much that's happened lately it's hard! So forgive me if this is ALL over.

So...real talk here. I spent about a week recently in one of my oh so fun anxiety filled modes. I won’t go into detail over what, because it’s weird. And I know it's weird. Only a handful of people know about it. And I am super grateful for those who do because while they may not understand it at all they have learned how to deal with me..how to be helpful to me and I’m able to talk and reason things out and get to a place of being temporarily ok. And when this is going on I really seriously struggle for a while. I’ll be very up and down. Sometimes wake up in a panic and don’t even get why exactly. I’m finally coming out of it. Thank goodness..but couldn’t have without the help of awesome people.Zach trying to keep me talked down and comfort me.. Keeping myself occupied with the kids and having a friend or two over(Stephanie&Sue), AMAZING friends to talk to on the phone(Christy&Gen) and an awesome therapist to talk things through with and make me feel like I’m not so crazy! I am really grateful that I was able to get an extra appointment in this last week because I was there on Monday..I was a mess but ended up feeling somewhat better when I left. But Tuesday morning I woke up in total panic. Like what the heck is happening...why is this bothering me...why am I so panicked. Its scary..waking up feeling overwhelmed. After monday I had got to the point where I could kinda realize when the panic was coming on and kinda separate it..not let it get too overwhelming. But how in the world can you overcome that feeling when you wake up feeling like you have no control? I wrestled with it through the night/early morning and decided to call up to the office and luckily got in. That afternoon after leaving I felt better...and have been better regarding that whole situation since. So very grateful for that.  OH MY GOSH though..let's take it back a week. So the week prior to all this craziness I left my counseling session feeling different. Not sure what the heck was happening with me. I had found myself feeling really uncomfortable over something that seems so silly. A simple question regarding what I wanted to work on..and I didn’t know what to say. And it just made me feel weird. Like I’m afraid to say the wrong thing? But why? Why the heck does that make me feel like that? It's extremely rare for me to get uncomfortable in a session. As I have literally talked about almost everything and everything you could think of and been very open. But when it comes to me answering a simple question about making a decision...couldn’t do it. So I left there that day and I just kinda drove. And processed. Tried to figure out why I felt the way I did. I honestly still don’t have an answer for that...but I ended up down at the tridge...if you are local to me you know what is. If you aren’t google the tridge in midland mi. Its pretty cool. But my thought process took me to how a lot of things make me nervous or scared. And the tridge is something I’ve been across many times. But never actually alone. Why? Because I don’t like heights..not that it's that high..but it's off the ground lol. And I don’t like bridges. I sat in my car and thought for a while and then decided I was going to walk it alone..and I did. And I sat in the middle of it on a bench for a while and just thought and tried to process some things...and it felt good. Maybe next time I’ll walk by the railing...but probably not .  And I will probably be confused for a while as to what the heck got me there..what a weird process! Maybe you’ve seen that jar of fears thing floating around on fb...I finally filled out lol...yep I’m just afraid of life apparently. I swear its missing like 50 more of my fears haha.

So I’m starting to feel like I should have split this up into separate blogs...but lets be honest if I were to do that it would be another month before I came back to it...so lets keep moving on, if I haven’t lost everyone yet with my randomness.

Having a moment experiencing God...So yesterday was the first time back at worship practice. Our church opened its doors last weekend. Now this weekend I get to help lead worship. Its one of my favorite places to be hands down. Just walking back through those doors yesterday evening felt amazing. I missed being there so much. Just being in the presence of God, and around those people. It was so fun to do music and worship together..and to talk to people I haven’t seen in months. When I left though I felt overwhelmed. Not in a bad way like the anxiety mess. But just overwhelmed by the presence of God. Something that is just so hard to put into words. I spent a little time reflecting on things...I prayed. I cried. I reached out to a couple people. Honestly the only 2 people that I felt would know or somewhat understand what I was experiencing in that moment. Because I didn’t even know. I had sent a few texts that I felt like made absolutely no sense just needing to talk a little bit about what I was feeling and needing someone to pray with. And how I felt so weird asking that because I didn’t even know how to explain what was going on, and I felt somewhat embarrassed because really the words that were coming out didn’t make a whole lot of sense. I actually erased what I had sent so I didn’t have to look at it again because it sounded crazy lol. But I was assured it was ok. And we prayed. What I think got me feeling that way is a particular song lyric that just hit me really hard from a song we were doing: 

'Cause Your goodness is running after, it's running after me

Your goodness is running after, it's running after me

With my life laid down, I'm surrendered now

I give You everything

'Cause Your goodness is running after, it's running after me”

Sometimes, well really a lot of times life gets crazy and we forget..just give it all to God...and it's like why haven’t I been doing this all along. All this last week, or almost 2 weeks when I felt like I was losing my mind. Filled with anxiety, overwhelmed. Why didn’t I just surrender it all over to God...even when literally just days before I was being told to just give it to God, cry out to him and pray. I did spend time doing that then...but I just wasn’t letting it all go and trusting God to take care of it, like I should be. SO to the 2 of you...you know who you are(I literally only talked to 2 people thursday night lol so if you were one of them...its you)  I appreciate you more than words can express. I spent some time praying on this today too and I feel like I’m in a better place. 

I am SO much looking forward to Sunday and worshiping..AND its my BIRTHDAY! No place I would rather be on my birthday than there <3  and then spending time with my family. God is so good <3 

In other news in my life...the kids are all doing great. Glad to be done with “homeschooling”. The big 3 have been getting to go up to Grayling with their grammy and grandma, leaving a lot of time for just me and the little man together. Which is fun. He misses his big kids though. 

 I recently became apart of the “Ritza Creative Team” with Ritza Life which I’m pretty excited about and will be a good opportunity! AND my boutique business has been thriving lately!  I mailed all this out yesterday! I’ve never been so busy! I love it! 

www.facebook.com/groups/ktrip86boutique

If you aren’t part of my boutique group check it out :) I have face masks for sale!!

I think thats all for now..if you stuck with reading all this thanks :D Maybe one of these times I will do a shorter entry with a little less craziness and seriousness :) 

[kristens-chaotic-life]

Hey look! Another post! So I was considering doing my 2nd actual update today BUT I am going to wait until Monday probably. Tonight and tomorrow I am attending a Heartsync prayer conference thing..hosted through the counseling office I go to. Its supposed to be some extremely powerful stuff, so I am really looking forward to it!

Hopeful the kiddos cooperate for Zach. They have kinda a busy day tomorrow. So hoping for the best!

What else...so today has been pretty productive...filled with laundry getting done and staying on top of dishes. I even managed to watch station 19 and greys. And omg did the end of greys have me in tears...Im still bitter that Alex is gone though 😭Like why!?!?

A few updates in my business world...single candles are going to launch on site soon! So get ready to get yours! And as far as the boutique LOTS of pretty preorders to go see!

Check it all out

Www.ritzalife.com/store/ktrip86

Www.facebook.com/groups/ktrip86boutique

This hoodie is one of the awesome products we had a bit ago. :)

[kristens-chaotic-life]

Lets keep going&Molluscum SUCKS!

Did you think I was done with this years blogging already? LOL it wouldn’t be a surprise if the last post were the last one I made for a year haha. I’ve been wanting to pop on here sooner because I have things to say BUT life is busy! I know I still have parts 2 and 3 of the “better me” posts I was planning. They are still coming. I will probably do the spiritual one later tonight or tomorrow sometime. I’m waiting on a video I wana put up with that.  And the mental one...that one is going to take some time. I’m not sure how deep I wana get yet. I mean who’s reading this anyways? So maybe I could go pretty deep and it wouldn’t matter because no one is reading.  

So our weekend was filled with craziness. Per usual. Thursday I had worship practice. Which I LOVE...I get to prepare for Sunday worship with some awesome people.  Meanwhile...Cameron had taekwondo and Bri had cheer. So kid shuffling was passed off to Zach, and my friend Stephanie  so I could do that...so super appreciative there.  Friday morning I had to take the kids down to Grand Blanc to a dermatologist so 2 of them could get their molluscum treated. Let me tell you how much that really sucks.  So for those who don’t know molluscum contagiosum are little white/clear spots that show up on the body. Really common in kids apparently. Cameron had it for like a year and a half before it was treated because the doctors said it usually goes away on its own. WELL his kept spreading and finally we got a referral to a dermatologist to treat it. 2 rounds of treatment and bam he’s good to go. Then Michael gets the spots...like a lot of them. So I get him set up. 1 round of treatment. More appear. And then Brayden has them. So then I set them both up. Some of Braydens go away. Some don’t. Michael...MORE appear AGAIN. So at this point Michael has been treated twice and Brayden once. Well now we are back again...MIchael round 3 and Brayden 2...and this is what it looks like after being treated...   

What they do is put acid on the spots, and if they bubble up and blister then they are usually good and that spot is done. Poor Michael you can see the scarring from the last treatment (darker marks) and all his new blisters...but unfortunately I can see a lot of spots on him that didn’t blister...and then you can see under Braydens chin 2 of the spots that didn’t blister either...SO theres a good chance we will be going back yet again for both the boys :( I’m hopefully that no more pop up...and maybe just maybe these ones will go away. The good news is we were told that its pretty rare for it to come back after its been treated.I know there are MUCH worse things that could be wrong, but praying we get this resolved soon. As its for sure not fun on them, and not exactly a blast for us either!!

So what else...OH! WATER! So I suck at drinking water. Like royally suck. BUT I finally decided to go for it and get one of those cirkul bottles. Let me tell you what, that is AMAZING! So far I prefer the fruit punch over the mixed berry, BUT both are awesome and I’m excited to try more flavors. Yesterday I didn’t even drink pop, like at all! I didn’t even think about. So I’m super excited to see how this can help me on my getting more healthy journey :) 

                       If you wana try it please us my link! 

drinkcirkul.com/share/Kristen-V1358589034586

Its like $5 and you get the bottle and 2 sips. It says they only last like 6 bottles but I’ve gotten way more out of 1 than that. But all depends on how much flavor you use. 

OH and if you are LOVING my hoodie for similar items head over to

www.facebook.com/groups/ktrip86boutique

Other fun things...I’m trying REALLY hard to eat better. And to not let so much crap food into the house. I went out to get our meat today and only bought 2 bags of chips...instead of like probably the 5 or so I would usually get..and 1 of these is for taco salad. I need to start getting more veggies..and figuring out how to make them so I actually like them. But really I did REALLY good shopping until when I was at Jacks I saw cherry fritters. Those are my weakness. And I have a really hard time finding them. Soooo I did get them. But they will be a nice treat. So thats all really for now. Stay tuned for my “better you” updates. They could get pretty deep. Is anyone following or reading? Maybe you follow the posts via facebook...so let me know :) I’d like to know who I’m writing to.