I have fond memories of purchasing stickers, accumulating them in sticker books, and coveting them at stationery stores when I was a kid. I particularly liked stickers by Sandylion or Mrs. Grossman’s of non-licensed characters. Original designs and characters by both companies featured simple line art with vibrant, saturated palettes, expressive faces, and a wide range of imaginary creatures and activities popular with the target audience of middle-class kids.

Recently I’ve decorated some doll sets with stickers [mostly Sandylion]. I started on this project because I wanted to put stickers on the walls of my toy store set. I had stuck up a few sheets of stickers and, when attempting to remove them, peeled off the fake wood grain on the back of the bookcase. To cover this up, I decided to make a sticker mural for the wall of that set.

Concurrently I wanted to display some antique trade cards of a girl playing with a doll, but I didn’t want to use tape on them or plastic slipcovers. I covered a stainless steel sheet with white fabric and used it as a display board for the mini dorklets’ play room on top of my dresser in my bedroom. I stuck up the trade cards with magnets. I also displayed some stickers that I had gotten a few years ago when I was making miniature sticker books for my dolls.

Anyway I bought a bunch more stickers for my sticker decorations. All of them are from the 1980s and 1990s, and most of them are Sandylion. My most favorite ones I left on the original backing, but I did throw together a lot of them to make a poster for the toy store.

Pictures below.