Designer Shoes or Art?

Too much fun not to share........

Kobi Levi, Israeli Shoe Designer 

Visit his blog for all of his designs....

kobilevidesign.blogspot.com

Kobi graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 2001.

He specialized in footwear design and development. He is a freelance designer.He has designed commercial footwear in Italy, China and Brazil.

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Kobi Levi: "When I design a shoe I think about it as a sculpture to wear, an art piece you live with." 

*quote (first sentence) taken from The Virtue Shoe Museum website, at vitualshoemuseum.com

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Personal note:

A very good friend of mine had sent me an email regarding Kobi Levi's Designer Shoes....these amazing shoes got me wondering about the designer. So...I googled him and "wa-lah" found his blog site. HENCE, MY ARTICLE TODAY!

Thanks Debbie T. for the idea! The shoe below is "for you" dear friend...

Coffee anyone?

All photos were taken from his blog site (listed above) or Google images

Amazing design & concept....Enjoy

 Who hasn't stepped in GUM?

 Target practice anyone? the guys will love these! 

And the ones below!!!

Ooh La La....

From the Bird collection; Toucan

 Madonna Inspired; Blond Ambition

 The famous Miss Olive Oyl

 From the Bird Collection; Duck

 The Mother/Daughter Shoe

The Chinese Design

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Amazing Shoe Designs

Check out his blog site today!

 Shoes & Art with Amazing Style....

Lucy Active Wear

Have you heard of LUCY???

Lucy is place where you can find some really great active wear!

And they just releases a new line! TODAY!

Check it out below. The Lotus Collection.

Specs From Above ::

Info from LUCY

* Our new true straight leg fit. the vinyasa pant has been re-made for a more universally flattering waistband and fit- meet the lotus power pant

*lucy powermax, flatlocked seams, interior pocket, gusset, lucy impact logo, lucy bar logo above left hem

*new style :: low rise, straight leg, body hugging

*$89

Go check LUCY out today!

Don't forget to come back here and share what you think of their stuff by commenting below!

And get ready for a review and giveaway coming soon. 

I was lucky enough to get to review some of the new collection and will be sharing more very soon!

My dad is my hero

Hey friends, hope you're doing great. I'm sorry that I've been absent for the last two weekends. Last weekend took us to St. Louis to celebrate the 90th birthday of my husbands grandmother. We had a GREAT time and enjoyed the free zoo and of course Ted Drewe's!!! We also had an incredible time catching up with all the family and we're excited that we now only live 4 hours from family rather than 12!

This week my niece has been here with us and helping me tremendously with the kids. She's been great and played countless games, colored TONS of pictures, read lots of books and beat me at Monopoly Deal more times than I can count. She's been getting me in the crafty mode too, since she loves to craft and it helps to have someone to bounce ideas off of (my husband always says "don't ask me, you're the creative one").

I got the shirts done for the kids to wear tomorrow for Father's Day. I'm so happy with how they turned out and can't wait for him to see them at church in the morning! I also have printed out this Super Dad banner and plan on hanging it up for him to see after church. I'll share photos of the kids in their shirts next week. But there they are!! What do you think?

In need of some Father's Day help!

You may remember this post from last year.
I told you about the shirts I've made for my kids to wear on Father's Day.

2008 - "following in daddy's footsteps"

2008 - "my dad is a perfect ten"

2009- "my dad rocks"

2010 - "my dad is the bomb"
So I'm still trying to decide what to do for Father's Day this year.
I've got three shirts to make...and not a TON of time.

I saw this cute shirt that Jess from Running with scissors made,
and I'm totally thinking about making it.
But my idea includes a personal drawing by the kids
(of which only Naomi can really do)
and embroidery floss on the t-shirt.


My other idea is to have the same words but in the middle do a
Supermanesque "DAD" logo with fabric paint.

The last thought I have is to make the kids AND my husband matching tie shirts.
I was thinking of putting "daddy's girl" on the ties that the girls would be wearing.

So, what do you think? What should I make?
I'm wondering if I should catalog the first idea and wait till all the kids
can draw pictures of them with dad? Hmmm....

Would LOVE to hear your thoughts...and then you can see what I make AFTER Father's Day.
I always like it to be a surprise when they show up for church,
since he doesn't see them dressed before we get to church on Sundays.

Happy Easter!

He is RISEN!
Alleluia!

I pray that you have a blessed Easter, that you are able to spend time with your family, but most importantly that you are able to hear the GOOD NEWS of Christ's death and resurrection. He loves you so much that he stretched His arms and died on the cross just for you! If you were the only person on the earth He still would have gone through all that suffering, agony, separation from God JUST FOR YOU! You are LOVED! With an everlasting love!!! Praise be to God that Jesus was raised from the dead and that we worship the LIVING GOD!

So, you may or may not know that I am a photographer. As a photographer I try to get my clients to steer away from matchy matchy outfits (and no denim with white shirts...) and go with coordinating outfits, but as a mom, I LOVE matchy matchy outfits for my kiddos. But it's really hard to find matching outfits for a 4 year old girl, a 3 year old boy and a 6 month old girl. So, I get the honor of making the matching outfits (but usually only for big occasions or holidays).

Luckily after we moved I found some time to get this idea out of my head and into wearable clothing for the kids. They LOVE their outfits and it couldn't make me more happy. I dread the day that one of them tells me they don't want to wear something that I made for them! We had a little mini photo shoot yesterday so that I could document Easter and the cute outfits I made. I love it when something actually comes together (and on time is even better!).

Here are some of the photos from the photoshoot!

The headband for the girls came from a tutorial that Kelly at Sewing in No Mans Land wrote!

If you have any questions about anything I made feel free to leave a comment and then check back here for my response...or email me at
purejoycreative at gmail dot com

Happy Easter!!!