Living in Greece has been a great
source of inspiration especially during the summer months! Many of
you know the best way for us girls to be dressed during the hot Greek
summers is in shorts or dresses and the must have leather sandals!
I live in these Greek style sandals as
many months possible or as long as socially acceptable. Many years
ago when I had my new set of summer foot wear I decided I wanted them
to be different from others and have something original, that is when
I started to decorate them with whatever I had – ribbons, beads and
crystals. I constantly got stopped to be asked where I purchased
them! That's when it clicked with a friend of mine we could do this
as a part-time thing. So we did! It was great fun and I loved
creating new designs for the commonly known leather sandal.
Our little part-time fun ended a few
summers down the line – life just got in the way.
Years later I had my lovely baby girl K
and I decided to become a stay at home mom as I didn't want to miss
out on anything K related! I'm actually a JK/ Kindergarten teacher so
I love these early ages more than anyone can imagine! I didn't
realize that staying home would give me the chance to start getting
creative again. I didn't plan it, it just seemed to happen all on
it's own. Painting, decorating and making little accessories started
coming back into my life.
Looking around on Etsy is one of my
favourite pastimes and I love getting things for K that are handmade!
I started looking for little leather decorated sandals for this
summer and just couldn't find any (or a least ones that I thought
looked cute and were actual Greek style sandals). Ta-Da! My mind went
crazy with what I could do! Honestly why shouldn't I just make
them... I used to make grown up ones, teeny ones would be so much
more fun to create!
So, K & Elphy was born (a year and
so after baby K was). This a new adventure and I am beyond excited to
start this journey! Stop by my Etsy shop and have a look at
etsy.com/shop/KandElphy
.
Thank you all so much for the support
and I hope to see your little ones in K&Elphy sandals soon!!
xxx
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