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I'm super excited that my Tutorial on Making Leather Baby Shoes won a Third Place Prize from Tandy Leather on Instructables! You can view all the amazing prize winners here.

Here's a sneak peak at a design I'm working on and will be offering in my online shop soon.  I'll definitely be offering it in black, but I think I really like how the pink turned out so I may offer that color too! Hope to have this available late October.

This is a copy of my instructable on how to make leather baby shoes. I don't sell this in my store - it was a personal project - but the pattern is available to download and use for free. While I've worked with leather for a few years, I've never attempted to make shoes thinking it would be really difficult and time consuming. So when a family member who is expecting asked me to make baby shoes my first reaction was "umm no". Then I did a little research and came across a lot of tutorials and realized it might not be quite as difficult as I originally thought. I ended up trying a few different ones out and in the...

A how-to on making a refillable leather journal that is both easy and economical.

  Just launched!! The Archetype Z Studio shop is live and ready to serve customers. I'll  be including some products here not available in my Etsy shop or anywhere else. And I'll be creating special offers just for this shop. I plan on using this blog to post announcements for both those things as well as anything else that pertains to my shop.  So welcome and have a look around! -Alia