Our love for handcrafted goods, my personal need to use my hands creatively, led me and my partner Vassili to get involved with the creation of our own handmade jewelry.
We design and make jewelry with simple materials that nevertheless feel and look good - semi-precious stones, leather, waxed thread, brass, alpaca wool, recyclable fabrics and various metals depending on the design.
We combine in innovative and originals ways all of the above materials so that every one of our creations is unique.
Our slogan is “Dreams come true” – and it perfectly expresses why we are trying to turn our dreams into a reality for ourselves and our 9-year old daughters.
Someone once told me the phrase, “do what you love to do, and you will never have to ‘work’ for even one day”, meaning that what you enjoy is not considered ‘work’. After 38 years I understood that what I love to do in life is to create jewelry and I drew Vasilis into this love of mine.
The joy of creation now floods our hearts, our lives and our home.
Dreams come true but our efforts alone are not yet enough, and this is where you come in.
Unfortunately at this time, our earnings do not yet allow us to make it on our own.
We need your support so that we can find the resources to cover the costs required to set up our business, communicate with and attract new clients. With your help we can reach out to new customers who would like to purchase our creations.
Through our campaign we are offering our supporters the best of our current handmade creations!
One small gesture and purchase from you - a big leap forward for us!
Category A | Category B |
Ring made of alpaca wire and agate gemstone | Macramé Bracelet with unique metal design fixture |
Category C | |
Medallion made of brass wire, agate gemstone and dark chocolate suade cord |
Medallion made of brass wire, turquoise chaolite with a soft, brown-sugar suade cord |
Category D | Category E |
Wire rings of brass | Macramé Medallion |
Category Z | |
Macramé coal-black bracelet offset with turquoise chaolite gemstone |
Macramé sugar-brown bracelet offset with turquoise chaolite gemstone |
Category F | |
Azure macramé necklace interlaced with curved metal bar and beautiful geometric design |
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We would like to warmly thank all those who listened to and read our story, and for your support. We’d especially like to thank all those who worked with us, our family and all those friends who have stood by us to help us get to this point. You are our inspiration in our creations! Thank you!
We also know very well that many of you don’t necessarily have the means to support us financially – you can however support us in a different way! Share our story and help our campaign travel as far as possible!
Dina Dragotinli – Vassilis Vassilakis
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Footnote:
All donations are managed by the NGO PRAKSIS. In other words, your financial support is not provided straight to the entrepreneurs as a one-off cash donation. A specific process is followed whereby the entrepreneur receives a pre-agreed amount once s/he has met a specific set of targets. Upon reaching a specific milestone, new funds are released. By managing donations through an independent and credible NGO we ensure that the full amount of the entrepreneur’s funding, is used to maximum effect, that the businessman is held accountable. This allows us to provide continuous updates to each donor on the activities of the entrepreneur and to ensure that the entrepreneur works closely with us. One-up provides information, monitoring and transparency in order to secure that every cent of your donation is used in the most effective manner possible.