This is our story
Venice was one of my dream travels, so I decided to include it on my vacation that year, I had no idea of the impact this would have on my life. When I left the train station I was astonished and amazed admiring the beauty of the city.
The next day and for the rest of the trip,I walked through streets, museums and all possible places could fill me of art and Literature, I visited the 5th National Library, the Great Library Marciana, I had lunch at the Harrys Bar, Ernest Hemingway´s favorite place, I admired masterpieces of famous painters and sculptors in my tour of churches and palaces of this fascinating city . I enjoyed the experience inmensely.
On my return to USA, I continued with my normal life, and like any girl in a relationship, I decided to marry and raise a family. The start was happy, but soon the problems started, what once were happy reunions with friends, fun dinners and a few drinks, degenerated into stormy moments where a serios drinking problem approaching. Being a wife of a drinker means continuing domestic fights, mistreatment, psychological and physical abuse, along with other problems, like work, money and the sadness and helplessness of seeing a family falling apart.
During these dramatic moments I looked how to keep busy and entertein my mind with something positive and encouraging and came to my mind my wonderful trip to Venice, every time I remembered all the art I had seen and books I had read I found comfort and took forces to find a solution for my problem, get out of that situation and seek happiness in my life. It is at this moment where I made one of my first pendant necklace with the image of Young Girls at the Piano by Renoir, one of my favorite paintings, I wore it all the time because it made me feel near to art all the time.
It had been 5 years and all my efforts to help him had been completed and the situation had reached a point where I had two options: continue the hell that had become my marriage and destroy me, or write the word END to the last chapter of that novel and start a new book ......... but this time with a Happy Ending.
I chose the second option, I decided to risk it all, quit my job and moved to Venice, to start a brand new life, it was difficult at the beginning but hard work and the willingness to overcome obstacles made me find harmony in my life for the first time after many years........I was happy again.
A few years laters I met my husband, an Italian woodworker artist with the hobby of reading, collecting books and write short stories. Just a Perfect Match made!, and as the saying goes, all roads lead to Rome, in this case, all roads led me to Literature and Art!
That is how we decided to join our backgrounds, he as an artist and I as expert in sewing and handcrafted jewelry and create LiteraryArtPrints, to celebrate Love, we started with a romantic scarf from Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, with Paolo and Francesca fragment, my husband original illustration was such a success that we sold the first batch in one weekend and we had to make prints to fullfil our customers request, still Dante Scarf is a bestseller in our store.
Soon I decided to add to our collection a line of handmade Literary jewelry, pendant necklaces and other interesting items like laptop sleeves, quotes headbands and book bags.
Today, with our bookish products, a book and art lover gets to be surrounded of literary items to wear, use and admire all day long, we include on our collection Edgar Allan Poe, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Alice in Wonderland, Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Anna Karenina, Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, les Miserables and much more.

My husband and I work out of our home-based studio in, wherelese? .... Beautiful Venice, Italy, "The most romantic city in the world"
Every item is fully handmade by us, my husband became expert in handprinting and I professionally sew each scarf, laptop sleeve and assambly each piece of jewelry, we believe that this kind of products have to be made with heart, love and with our own hands and no matter if is a large order, like the one we had a few time ago, a request of 200 scarves for Duke Ellington Event at Stanford University in Washington, we were thrilled and so happy to do it!
We run every aspect of LiteraryArtPrints, from designing the unique and original illustrations, choose the beautiful quotes and art images on our necklaces and jewellery, and make beautiful packages that every day arrive to our bookish audience.
We are so proud that our products are now sold in selected places like the Museum Shop of Fondation du Chateau du Chillon in Switzerland, and supply lovely book shops like Village House of Books in Los Gatos California.
We also love to create Custom Orders, if you have a favorite book quote, special short message for someone special, a dedication or a single word, just send us a message, we can make your words and images on a lovely piece of art!

Throught our Literary business, I always looking to support associations of abused women and we are happy to give a hand and support the Association for Abused Women and Children.

My advice to other women is - never give up-, no matter what has happened in your past, always is possible to make a fresh start in every aspect of your life and the right attitude and determination will help you succeed.

"If you want to be Happy, Be", Leo Tolstoy, my favorite pendant necklace of my Collection!
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