Everyone loves ‘whimsymaxxing,’ including your local craft store

Whimsy can take many forms: a walk home among the flowers, collecting colorful oddities, or, perhaps, bedazzling any surface in sight with shimmering stick-on jewels. By late summer, so-called “whimsymaxxxing” acquired a much more specific meaning. People began affixing huge, colorful gem stickers en masse to their faces, dogs, cars, water bottles, phone cases, and truly any other imaginable surface. Across social media people showed off their bedazzled . . . everything. But to particpate in...