Holy cow that's amazing Jill! Your cobbler did an absolutely amazing job, you're so luck to have found him. It must've been such a great feeling when you saw them the first time and they had come out that well! They really do look like new shoes.
Sometimes I'm just floored at the work of these cobblers, it really is such an art to reconstruct a shoe like that. Speaking of which, I have a couple pairs that are due for a "tune up..." I'm lucky to have found a great cobbler too, and he's worked more than one miracle for me on shoes and bags!