I get married today (to the most amazing woman ever, who is also a big DW fan) and I decided to make her a wedding present. And I wanted it to be something old, new, borrowed and blue – and the only thing I could think of that ticked all the boxes would be…. TARDIS SHOES!

They are old – the Tardis is like 900+ years old. If not more.

They are new – she doesn’t own a pair already, and as these are original, I doubt anyone else does.

They are borrowed – the Tardis was indeed ‘borrowed’ by the Doctor.

They are blue – coz you know, the Tardis is blue. Seriously, look it up.

So I started by buying a pair of shoes in her size (I got some plain black heels from M&S for about £20) and then I cut up a load of old Doctor Who annuals I found in a charity shop.

However, I found that the annuals were too glossy and pages too thick, so in the end I just ended up printing out loads of pictures of the Tardis and using them instead!

It was then just a case of sticking pictures to the shoe with some good old PVA glue.

I found it easier to work in sections – I would finish one side for example, cover what I had done in PVA , let it dry, then add more images to the next section and so on.

For the heel, I found it easier to choose a big image and then cut it into sections. I chose to do the front door of Tardis on both heels.

But a shoe is only as good as the box it comes in.

Ok, thats not true. But a shoe box is about the same shape as the Tardis, so it seemed wrong not to paint that as well. Plus I was bored.

I painted it in a dark blue, then added lighter blues over the top to get a look of layered paint (its supposed to be 900 years old remember!). I then cut out the white door sign and the ‘Police Box’ for the top, and stuck them down – again using PVA glue.

Then it was just a case of giving them to my bride-to-be on her big day.

EDIT – Here is the bride opening her present on the big day: