When I bought these shoes, it was at a two-for-one sale. After I drew all over the first pair I set the second aside until I had decided what sort of doodling I wanted to do on them. Black on white seemed a little too stark, so I hunted down some coloured fabric pens. Blue seemed like a good idea, since I wear a lot of blue.

But then I couldn’t decide on the pattern. I wanted to do the same doodle all over, to make them different to the first pair. Spurred on by the workroom tidy-up and wanting to get some projects done to make space, I finally settled on this pebble design, which I used on the back of the iPhone cover.

(By the way, I’ve had to abandon the iPhone cover. The ink blurred with wear so it looks like I needed to seal it with some kind of matt varnish. I was going to paint over the doodles with acrylic paint, but I had such a struggle getting the phone out of it that I was afraid I’d break it. I didn’t, but next time I might not be so lucky. However, I like the idea of decorating a phone cover so I’m going to get one like Paul’s to doodle on. His is made of the same fabric but doesn’t hold onto the phone so stubbornly.)