This one should be popular with some of us. I have a selection of faded stickers in my van window which haven't been added to for some time. These days I spend more time sticking Peppa Pig stickers anywhere my Granddaughter decides they are needed. Sticker Day is a day to celebrate all things stickers, from the custom made to the everyday label. Every sticker has a story. They can be used for decoration or information depending on the situation. They can come in many different shapes, sizes and colours and can be used on a variety of things for example lunch boxes, in paper planners, lockers or notebooks. European merchants in the 1880’s were some of the first to stick labels to their products, in an effort to promote their goods and wares to passers by. Using gum paste to get the labels to adhere and stick: hence “stickers.” By the 1900’s a sticker-specific paste had been developed and was widely used, most notably on stamps, which dried and then would re-apply when moistened. Sticker Day is January 13 in honour of R. Stanton Avery, who was born on that day in 1907. R. Stanton Avery, a rags-to-riches entrepreneur who created the first commercially feasible self-sticking, peel-off labels and founded what is now Avery Dennison Corp. to manufacture and market them worldwide. It was R. Stanton Avery who invented it in 1935, launching a new company and a new industry. These innovative products were manufactured in a 100-square-foot rented loft space in Los Angeles.
Did you see those diy World Cup panini stickers? I think they did them because they realised the cost of assembling a book full of the official stickers was stupidly expensive. Much better than the real thing . Will see if I can find a link.
Ha, that's brilliant! We tried to complete the World Cup 2014 Panini book at work, but it cost a bloody fortune and we never did finish it Mind you, I sold all the extra stickers on ebay…
I always wondered if people ever completed those things you used to see in the newsagents. You know, those Build Stevenson’s Rocket in weekly parts or similar. The first two parts were usually cheap, but you had to pay a few hundred quid to build the whole thing.
Ha! yes I always wondered that too..... the advertising always says about starting to build it for 99p and then in really tiny print at the bottom it says next 2000 parts at £9.99!
I like it when littlies first discover stickers and everything in sight is covered in them. I still find some in the camper from my nephew's sticker crazy toddler years