Requiem for a Water Bottle

I got a new water bottle for my birthday and while I really needed a new one since my old one was all wobbly, I was sad to say goodbye to it’s sticker collection so I took some photos to memorialize them.

One of the first stickers I put on when my water bottle was new was the Picasso sticker we got from our real estate agent. They actually send us two of everything, so this sticker is also the first sticker on my new water bottle!

The mermaid sticker came with a 2022 Christmas gift from my Missouri niece.

Turning the bottle reveals an octopus that Chicago Children’s Museum Liz gave me last Christmas. I stuck it over a sticker from Rosa’s Lounge that had almost completely disintegrated. At first, I liked the way it was weathering. I thought it looked like an old poster when I posted the picture below on Instagram right after I bought the guitar with flowers sticker from @beksstitches.

The sticker I was saddest to lose was the Support Live Music sticker, which I got on the first day of the 2022 Chicago Jazz Festival.

I picked up the two blues stickers at the 2023 Chicago Blues Festival.

Since the water bottle was becoming a kind of catalog of things I like – art, music, mermaids – I thought it needed a book sticker, so I ordered one from @b.z.creations. That sticker below it from the Lakeview Festival of Arts held up extremely well. While I’m sad to let this water bottle go, I’m excited to see how my new one turns out!