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Little Love Bug Co.

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I Never Planned to Start a Shoe Company. I was just a mom who wanted better shoes for my own girls. Somehow, that little problem became Little Love Bug. Before Little Love Bug, I worked in corporate sales. Then I traded quotas, meetings and deadlines for raising my two daughters — the original “Little Love Bugs.” Motherhood was wonderful, messy, exhausting and full of unicorns, laundry, coffee and a truly unreasonable number of toot jokes. I also needed something that was mine. So in 2017, during one of the hardest seasons of my family's life, I started creating. My dad was battling two forms of cancer, and Little Love Bug became somewhere to put my energy, my creativity and a whole lot of hope. I began with one simple idea: Make shoes that give little feet room to move — without making parents choose between function and cute. A mom. Two little girls. One idea. I loved the freedom of soft-soled baby shoes, but I kept running into the same problems: slippery bottoms, thin materials and shoes that couldn't keep up with real kids. So I started learning. Design. Materials. Manufacturing. Sourcing. Foot shape. Flexibility. Durability. There was no master plan. Just a lot of research, stubbornness and figuring things out as I went.