YUM! Shoes and Chocolates Do Mix

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Story is in today's Breeze. The owner told me that her pregnancy wasn't planned for this time, even though they've wanted to have a second child for a while. So she hired a larger number of employees (five) than if she weren't pregnant. She plans to make her work/life balance work, she says.


Business and Pleasure
By Muhammed El-Hasan

When entering the Elleni store in Manhattan Beach for the first time, you may wonder if you had just walked into a women's designer shoe store that also sells gourmet chocolates, or a candy shop with couture footwear on display.

Owner Skylar Tourigny says the store is a shoe store first - even though she sells truffles to appeal to chocolate lovers.

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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

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