It was a rush on Emma’s final day in my shop to get her shoes completed before I took her to the airport, and I’ve almost forgotten to share photos of her work. Emma is from London and I assumed she’d want a very subdued pair of shoes, but I was wrong! She went for purple quarters with bone and yellow flowers, and green vamps. I happened to have some lavender and yellow shoelaces that paired nicely with her shoes. My favorite part of having Emma as a student was seeing her enjoyment of the process at each step; she was celebrating with delight at the smallest and most mundane shoemaking tasks and that made it fun!