 When people come into art elexia we're all about the experience whether it's all the different colors the murals the music we want you to come in and be transported somewhere. Art in Spanish is arte and my name is elexia with an i. Everyone says it with the name it's an i so I just combine the two. We sell everything from Mexico and inspired by Mexico. Back in 2009 I happened to be going down there for a family trip bought a whole bunch of product and brought it back with me and started out at the farmers market. By February 2010 I opened my first shop by having a space I was able to do art workshops events art shows redo sugar school making we'll make pinatas just last week did our third annual day of the dead festival little by little people would tell their friends about it or they'd come back and and bring a friend and so it was really a fun way to build my business while sharing like one of the things I love most. When I first started out my clientele it was mostly older people and now I have a lot of younger people that are looking to connect they're looking to understand more about their culture. We have customers all over the world they'll come in and they say we go on to your page and we see your product and we love to follow along and see what you're doing it's constantly evolving and changing just recently I was going down on my buying trips and posting about it and people would constantly say you know take us with you where should we go which we eat which we do. I organized a trip to Oaxaca for 14 people and it sold out and I took them down there for a week so they're week long craft and culinary tours to Mexico. These trips are so touching and the people that you meet and the experiences that you get to live through people just being brought to tears because they're they're happy or they're touched about something they're experiencing with us. When I close these doors I still live a very artilexia life. My home looks like this the events I work on look like this it's very much my life so that is all really I think shaped me this is my happy place.