Of all the things Elena Zakharov thought possible as a Ukrainian girl growing up in the repressive communist era of the 1970s, cruising through Beverly Hills in a Mercedes Benz was never one of them.
Neither was moving to Canada, earning a second degree nor starting her own online jewelry store — yet the 46-year-old mother of two sons has done them all.
“I look at what has happened so far and I would never have imagined as a girl that my life would be like this,” says Zakharov, the talent and brains behind EZ Jewel Box, a collection of her own …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
