About my Emma who will always be my love and inspiration
Our inspiration for the shoes is my beautiful daughter Emma. Emma was diagnosed on 7/14/05 at the age of 22 months with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertention. She spent 2 months in the hospital with a few other hospital stays thereafter. She was one of quadruplets born 14 weeks early. (Her brother James passed away at 5 days old.) She weighed in at a whooping 13 1/2 ounces.
She was so smart (could read, spell at 2 1/2) and so funny and just filled up a room with her smile. She especially loved animals! She adored bumblebees, butterflies, zebras, giraffe, spiders and just about every animal you could name. Emma was a firecracker and knew what she wanted and when she wanted it and had no qualms about letting us know. She also had a heart as big as the world and loved everyone so very much. She loved her sister Anna and her brother John and all of her family. She loved to say her prayers each night and be sure to include everyone (I mean everyone, her family, friends, teachers, nurses, doctors, everyone!) She loved to have us sing to her and read to her and just hold her tight. We loved that too.
She was very particular about her clothes. She had a pair of zebra pants (as she named them) and had a black and white pair of shoes she called her zebra shoes. She loved to wear these so much that we decided to make her an actual pair of zebra shoes!! Thus, snanimals begins.
On January 19, 2007, Emma passed away unexpectedly in her sleep. We are devastated and sorrowful but believe she lives on in every pair of shoes we make. So when we say they are handpainted with love, it is more love than you could ever know.
I want to point out that Emma had the best Cardiologist ever, Dr. Brian Hanna from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Dr. Hanna He treated Emma with love and respect and we couldn't have found a better match for her spirit and needs. Thank you!
Please visit: http://www.phassociation.org/ for more information on pulmonary hypertension.
Also, visit: www.carepages.com and after signing in go to "ouremma" to read more about Emma's journey.
Thank you.
*** We will donate 5% of our online sales and 20% of our cure ph line to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association in memory of Emma. It will be an honor for us to carry on the fight to cure PH!! ***
Here is a video tribute to my beautiful Emma:
She was so smart (could read, spell at 2 1/2) and so funny and just filled up a room with her smile. She especially loved animals! She adored bumblebees, butterflies, zebras, giraffe, spiders and just about every animal you could name. Emma was a firecracker and knew what she wanted and when she wanted it and had no qualms about letting us know. She also had a heart as big as the world and loved everyone so very much. She loved her sister Anna and her brother John and all of her family. She loved to say her prayers each night and be sure to include everyone (I mean everyone, her family, friends, teachers, nurses, doctors, everyone!) She loved to have us sing to her and read to her and just hold her tight. We loved that too.
She was very particular about her clothes. She had a pair of zebra pants (as she named them) and had a black and white pair of shoes she called her zebra shoes. She loved to wear these so much that we decided to make her an actual pair of zebra shoes!! Thus, snanimals begins.
On January 19, 2007, Emma passed away unexpectedly in her sleep. We are devastated and sorrowful but believe she lives on in every pair of shoes we make. So when we say they are handpainted with love, it is more love than you could ever know.
I want to point out that Emma had the best Cardiologist ever, Dr. Brian Hanna from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Dr. Hanna He treated Emma with love and respect and we couldn't have found a better match for her spirit and needs. Thank you!
Please visit: http://www.phassociation.org/ for more information on pulmonary hypertension.
Also, visit: www.carepages.com and after signing in go to "ouremma" to read more about Emma's journey.
Thank you.
Here is a video tribute to my beautiful Emma:
