MY NAME'S MAUREEN,BUT YOU CAN CALL ME MO...
....and I love stickers. I'm a designer, a mom of four, and (most importantly as it relates to Pipsticks!) a child of the 80โs.
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We're celebrating our second birthday thisย month!! So, I neededย a party worthy DIY, and wanted to use stickers from our September sticker clubย packsย to commemorate it. Something awesome but not too tricky. Something stickertastic (yes, just made that up),ย yet cool. And then it came to me...KEDS!!
They're timeless. They're affordable. They're totally vanilla...until they're not.
What was it about Keds that made themย so integral to my childhood? I have no idea how long I actually wore Keds, but in my mind opening a new box of white Keds was on the same spectrum ofย adding stickers to my collection, getting a new Trapper Keeper, and opening a new box of Crayola crayons (64 count, with the sharpener in the box).
Though I have blossomed into more of a Converse girl in my old age, in my mind, Keds represent the virgin shoe of my 80's childhood. The pure white potential of Keds is so inspiring, so liberating.
Growing up, I doodled on my Keds, I puffy painted my Keds, I tie-dyed my Keds, I mix and matched all sorts of funky shoe laces. They grew with me,ย and were totallyย representative of the creative stage I was in at each moment.
I'm also pretty sure there was a solid period of time (when I was most experimental) that my mom switched to aย knock off brand (gasp!). I did my best to try to distract peopleย from the missing blue tag on the back. ย Overall, I didn't care though: they were aย blank canvas (literally!), and my first chance to show the world how I saw fashion - which, let's be honest was pretty much an exact mirror of how Candace Cameron saw fashion, ha!
Looking back, Iย can't believeย that I never stickerbombed my Keds. Stickers were my life and I can only guess that I cherished each one too muchย to risk it gettingย scuffed or torn. And, I'm pretty sure Mod Podge didn't exist back then...
I've changed my tune these days (I guess it's taken being surrounded by MILLIONS of stickers to make me more liberal with using them). Stickers and Keds are a match made in the 80'sย and should have been married in my closet of hyper color t-shirts and stirrup pantsย long ago.
But no matter, at 36, I'm THRILLED to be wearing stickerbombed Keds. They're the perfect accessory to jeans and a t-shirt or a solid colored jumpsuit. ย It's pretty much impossible to be grumpy if you're wearing them. And, they've won me a firm hold on "coolest mom" award since I've worn them to volunteer in my daughter's kindergarten class.