I love the current dip-dyed trend, and have long been looking for an excuse to use the ‘Stained by Sharpie’ pens I picked up a little while ago. We’ve also been looking for an opportunity to try doodling and decorating our own shoes, so this project was a way of bringing all those things together. My younger son also fancied having a go, but used a more direct approach than me, to draw directly onto the shoe (see below).     For myself, I decided to try  a more experimental ‘dip-dyed’ technique as illustrated at the top of the page, and described below: First of all I dipped the whole shoe…