It's Our Birthday! 🎂 Celebrating 19 Years of TruffleShuffle With Our Top 19 Highlights
Happy Birthday to us... Happy Birthday to us!
Would you believe it... *Poof* just like that we're turning a ripe old 19 years old? We totally can't and we're just so thrilled that so many years on we're still bringing people together through their love of classic movies, TV, music and cartoons they grew up with or enjoy right now. Well worth celebrating we think!
Not only are we currently offering you a whopping 19% off on the website (see what we did?), we thought we would look back and share some of our top 19 moments and highlights from our 19 years keeping you looking and feeling totally awesome.
Let's do what we love to do best and reminisce about some of our favourite moments and achievements in TruffleShuffle history so far!
Our 1,000,000th Order
Probably our biggest milestone ever! From selling T-Shirts on eBay out of a flat with some mates and pizza to celebrating a whopping 1,000,000 orders. A truly incredible achievement we were thrilled to mark by running a giveaway to win a year's worth of T-Shirts!
The Big TruffleShuffle 10th Birthday Party
Well, what a night! As you can imagine, we did this one right and it was a star-studded night of music, games and food, all with our signature retro vibes!
On the decks we had Fun House star Pat Sharp keeping the party going along with the one and only Timmy Mallet hosting Mallet's Mallet and performing his number one hit Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini! Good times.
The Great Flood!
Maybe not so much of a highlight, but something we'll never forget! Affectionately known at Truffle Towers as 'The Great Flood', after one almighty downpour our warehouse roof simply couldn't cope and it started to rain... inside! Yep, burst guttering showered down the walls and flooded our entire warehouse with a few good inches of rainwater leaving us all panicking to save as much of our stock as possible.
Charity Collections Galore
Something we're hugely proud of and always keen to grow and develop further is our exclusive Charity collections. Getting to design and sell exclusive clothing where the proceeds are donated to some of the amazing charities we have supported has been a real thrill. One such collection was our Pride T-Shirts where we donated 100% of the proceeds to the amazing Stonewall charity.
Exclusive Loungefly Designs!
You may have spotted this by our huge and ever-growing collection of Loungefly bags, we're pretty big fans! Getting the chance to work closely with one of our favourite brands to create our very own, bespoke backpack was just a fairytale dream come true when we released our exclusive TruffleShuffle Cinderella Castle Mini Backpack. We loved this so much... expect to see even more of these soon!
Spotted! TruffleShuffle Dressing The Stars!
Remember the days of constantly flicking through your favourite mags for the latest fashion and hot gossip? (They're dating who now! What are they thinking?) Well... we totally do as we were lucky enough to be featured in heaps of classics from Cosmo, OK!, Glamour, Loaded, FHM and more in some top celebs including Jenifer Aniston, Sarah Harding, Jennifer Lawrence, Katie Price and more!
Head TruffleShufflers winning young entrepreneur award.
"And the winner is... US". Back in 2008, our very young-faced founders Pat and Claire won the coveted Evening Post Young Entrepreneur Award for being just totally awesome. Loved it!
More than T-Shirts!
Always looking to grow our collection and abilities, we've been working so hard to design and create even more exclusive styles, shapes and designs with our favourite licenses so you have even more ways to share your passion for the movies, shows and characters you love. So far, we've created exclusive dresses, cardigans, lounge pants, and pyjamas and we've got heaps more ideas left!
Keeping TruffleShuffler's Onboard
TruffleShuffle is made up of a small team of hard-working, retro-loving geeks, many of whom have been in the team for over 10 years and counting! Proof that we really love what we do and well worth celebrating. When one of us hits 10 years TruffleShuffle service, we're treated to a custom gold disc in a frame! One is displayed at TruffleShuffle HQ and the other is to keep. These are starting to add up!
Working through COVID
It's not all been plain sailing though, COVID-19 brought along a whole new era of challenges and changes and we're able to now look back and reflect on how well the team were able to adapt, stay safe and continue faultlessly to ship orders to keep you cosy in your latest TruffleShuffle pyjamas.
TruffleShuffle SoapBox Race
Boy did we feel the need, the need for speed on this one! Always on the hunt for our next fix of adrenaline, we entered the Portishead soapbox race and of course... had to make it 80s themed! Designing a cart shaped to look just like a MiG-28 from Top Gun (trust us it totally did and wasn't made from two bikes and some cardboard!), we managed one clean-ish run, then ran into a little trouble on the second that ended play. What a great day though!
TruffleShuffle.Com X Sunset Cinema!
A sunset screening of the best movies ever made, The Goonies of course, we were lucky enough to be able to sponsor an outdoor movie night at the iconic location of Ashton Court here in our hometown of Bristol.
Treating excited movie-goers to more TruffleShuffle branded popcorn than they could dream of, we had such a blast meeting Goonies fans and rewatching this true classic in this incredible setting.
Portishead Raft Race
Having a wild old time AND raising money for the RNLI Portishead Lifeboat... how could we not?! Back in 2015, we set sail in our (not so trusty) boat styled like the iconic The Inferno from The Goonies, but you already guessed that.
Raising over £3,200 for the amazing people in the RNLI, while the boat did eventually sink, there was no dampening our spirits on this top day out and amazing cause.
Moving to Truffle Towers
Back in February 2010, things went to w whole new level of cool when we moved into our firth and current home here in Avonmouth, Bristol. Taking on more space for even more retro goodness along with so much more office space for activities. This was A LOT of work and we're always making changes and improvements now. PS. It looks nothing like this now!
The TruffleShuffle Bake-Offs!
Over the years, we've seen an incredible amount of bakes and delicious creations come through our doors for our highly competitive Bake-Off competitions!
For a number of years, we would battle it out by baking and mixing up some truly glorious treats around the main theme leaving all of us to tuck in and get voting. It's safe to say we've had some truly incredible treats over the years from some super-talented bakers!
TruffleShuffle Glow Up! (The Big Re-Brand)
Coming out with our fresh new look in 2019 was such a big achievement and something we're still in love with now.
We introduced a new look to the website, a new logo, a funky new tagline "you love it, we get it", along with updated brand colours and style.
This was a really great opportunity to sit and reflect on who we are, who we want to be moving forward and how we want to continue to stand out from the pack.
TruffleShuffle Phone Home
This might sound wild to many of you (we're looking at you young lot at the back!), but shopping on mobile phones wasn't really a thing when we first started up. As smartphones got smarter, bigger and with faster internet, moving onto mobile was essential and a really big step for us.
Working with an intern from UWE, we built our first mobile version of the site (that accepted payments! A big deal you know) back around 2010. Moving with the times!
Love It When A-Team Van Comes Together
Yep, if there were ever a business that just had to have their very own A-Team van, would be us!
A total throwback that brought us many an adventure, fun night out and photo opportunities, this was a total blast. Celeb weddings, TV shows and even cinema events at screenings of the 2010 The A-Team movie, we did it all!
Pumpkin Carving Battles
If there's a way we can incorporate our favourite characters into something fun, you can be damn sure we will! Turning our hands to pumpkin carving for a Halloween special, a number of times we've run pumpkin carve offs all with our signature retro vibes with some pretty cool results!
What a wild ride! We're so grateful for all the amazing support and fun we've had over the last 19 years and we're excited to see what the next 19 have in store for us too.
Get ready to grab a slice of cake and a party bag as you join the fun and celebrations with our 19% off almost everything right now! £50+ orders. Exclusions apply.