OT- searching for red ceramic sneaker ornament

[dowlinal]

I know this is a complete long shot but you guys are amazing when it comes to finding stuff. Many years ago my now deceased MIL bought red ceramic sneaker ornaments for all of her children, their spouses, and her grandchildren. On the bottom of the ornament she wrote each person's name and date of birth. There was one extra which became mine and now the whole family has a sneaker ornament that hangs from my tree. I'd really like to find something similar for Madeline and any future children.

Any suggestions? I'd settle for anything at this point. I've even searched for red shoes or other colored sneakers. I just want there to be some link to the existing ornaments.

TIA

[alkagift]

Ok, I'm still hunting, but I found this so far...It's not ceramic but it's a shoe.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=148&item=2285581130


I forgot to mention that the Metropolitan Museum has tons of shoe ornaments but they're all fancy dress shoes. Some are red, though, and they're resin so they're pretty durable. Here's the link--just scroll down to the bottom and put "shoe" in the search box--there's about 10 ornaments and about 3 of them are red...good for girls, anyway!

http://www.metmuseum.org/store/index.asp/shopperID/


Allison
Mommy to Matthew Clayton, 5/19/03

[August Mom]

I'm not sure how crafty you are, but here's a pattern to make shoe ornaments. http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_occasions_december/article/0,1789,HGTV_3270_3313692,00.html

This looks like a really nice shoe ornament:

http://www.europevillage.com/tyrshoor.html

I did find a ceramic shoe, but it is feminine looking with a heel:

http://www.equilter.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=29878

I found a golf shoe ornament at Crate & Barrel. Hopefully your family loves to golf!

http://www.crateandbarrel.com/itemgroups/2983_0.asp?cw=Golf%20Shoe%20Ornament

There also are climbing shoes, but I couldn't tell of what material they were made.

http://sierramountainworks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=gift-1046&Category_Code=ornaments

Hey, this might work. There's a hightop blue sneaker with a basketball that is set up to be personalized. In fact, there are a number of sports shoes on this site.

http://www.ornamentshop.com/SearchResult.asp?Search=1&new=y&key=shoe