Swedanian Chocolate: My new Doctor Who shoes

I'm not really a shoe girl. I like mine to be practical first, then nice looking second. That might be why I mostly own running shoes and sport sandals. They're comfy, I'm happy! I'll never understand the appeal of high heels with the way they can ruin your back and knees and.... enough babbling/whining, this isn't about it after all. =)

I'm a Doctor Who fan. Lately, I've noticed that the 10th doctor wear Converse shoes. Since then, I've seen them everywhere. It's madness. Amy Pond wears them, some people in Torchwood wear them, they are plaguing me. So a few weeks before my trip to Canada, I started to obsess : I need me a pair of Converse. The doctor wears them white, maroon or red, which are none of my colours. I'm a fan, but let's not go bonkers. I wanted marine blue and my quest took me to many shoe stores in Sweden where I found that the price for these sneakers was quite high (easily 699 :-/98 $CAD, yikes!). To compare, those in Canada were selling for 35 to 45$ before taxes, so half price more or less. Anyway, apparently, girls ONLY want to wear white, pink or some other girly pastel colour. Blue is for men, yarr! Well, sucks to be me. Okay, I'm a little harsh. They did have a nice dark purple that was quite fine, but if I wasn't gettig blue, I was only settling for green. I think they just had selected colours left as even those that were available had very few sizes remaining.

So I figured I'd check in Canada as my trip was so close. Half price, yay! But still not my colours as they were out of stock nearly everywhere. I finally stumbled upon a small shoe store selling fake ones for 9.99 $CAD (or 85 SEK with taxes). White, black or pink... I grabbed a pair of white with a wicked idea in my mind.

This is Mr B guarding my newly bought shoes.

I have to admit, this new plan had 2 great advantages.

1) No Converse sign. They cover them in the series as they arent allowed to do publicity.

2) I could now customise them to my heart's desire!

So I bought some fabric pens and paint. I considered a bit what I'd write and draw and finally, after practicing on an old t-shirt, I took a deep breath and went ahead with the Dr Who shoes!

I decided to draw half of a TARDIS on the right shoe's outward side, and the new Doctor Who logo on the left shoe's outward side. It was just easier with the colours and the design. Then I made a scratch with the black pen while making the letters, so after a bit of "oh crap, I ruined them!", I noticed it could make a nice letter S and turned that into "Spoilers!" as I really like the character of River Song.

To add a bit more of fun, I wrote two words on the front of each shoe "Wibbly Wobbly" and "Timey Whimey".

On the tongues, I wrote "Bow ties are cool" and "Are you my mummy?"

Finally, I had 2 quotes I quite liked during the brainstorming but were a bit long. So I decided to put them in the inward sides of the shoes.

"Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically.... run." from 11th

and

"You and me

Time and space

You watch us run" from River