Be still my heart.

Dr Martens is putting a creative spin to their footwear by inviting craftsters of all kinds to update the brand’s classic boots as part of their FREEDM campaign. On www.dmbootdesign.com, you can submit designs for your own low or hi-top boots with different colors and even upload your own images onto the boots. The site allows you to work with all kinds of tools – virtual colored markers, lighters to “burn” your leather with and pre-designed shapes that you can apply to your masterpiece. You can even build a design from scratch using a downloadable template.

Here are my attempts. This first one uses colors from the standard ballerina’s uniform of grey, black and pink. (If I can’t quite dance it, I might as well wear it on my feet!)

And this one, using an illustration that my brother did for me, after I pleaded with him 75 million times to draw me a fairy.

Try your hand at it! Dr Martens will produce a winning design for sale in their stores across the universe. While you’re at the site, check out all the WAY cooler designs other craftsters came up with.

I have lusted over Docs for years, YEARS I tell you! Ever since Singles came out in 1992.

Perhaps I’ll finally bite the bullet and get a pair of my own. (Cue Paul Westerberg’s ‘Psychedelic Heart’.)