{"id":20604,"date":"2025-09-25T16:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=20604"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:04:54","slug":"decorating-with-vintage-stickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2025\/09\/25\/decorating-with-vintage-stickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Decorating with vintage stickers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictures below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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This maximalist sticker-based mural of enjoyable activities now decorates the toy store. Any time my art isn’t perfectly symmetrical, I tell myself that it was created by dorklets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The stickers on the posters in the kidsies’ play room are from sticker strips that I originally had in the toy store.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The mini dorklets’ playroom displays my favorite stickers so I can admire them closely. Note that the toy gas pump has also been beautified with stickers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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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… Continue reading Decorating with vintage stickers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[704],"class_list":["post-20604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sets-16-mine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20613,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604\/revisions\/20613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}