books ~ zines ~ mail ~ crafts
Both the 30 Days of Mail and the Postal Society featured challenges this month to make a mini-zine for your pen pals. I eagerly took up the task. I decided to use my pen pal scrapbook paper and ephemera for the background and blitz. I used my typewriter for most of the text, it was nice…
Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Resource for Zines and Zine Cultures by Alex Wrekk is an essential resource on zines. I’ve written about it before and here I am writing about it again. Why? Because there’s currently a Kickstarter running to support the next printed edition. A resource like this must always be updated to keep up…
A little bit of cross-promotion here today. The zine that I run with some friends — Static Zine — has a call-out for pitches to our tenth issue! The theme is milestones, aka, important times in your life (not the restaurant, Canadians) and the deadline to just submit your ideas for the zine is this Friday….
**TRIGGER WARNING for mental health topics** Reading mental health zines — first-person tales that typically focus on a person’s mental state and experiences – changed my life. I had never read anything like the personal stories in these small, photocopied publications before. I had known about them for a few years, but it was when…
Whether you’re unaware of zines, new to the scene or have been around for a while, there are plenty of books out there about the DIY publishing routes. Over my three years of making and being really excited in zines, I’ve added some titles – both text-heavy and coffee-table-like – to my library. Just one…
I have been making and loving zines for about three and a half years now. They represent an amazing outlet for so many people to safely express themselves, and I’m constantly fascinated by that, besides the fact that you can do whatever you want with them. In early 2011, a group of friends and I…
Welcome! I am so excited to begin blogging about my favourite things! Here you will find: Books: reviews of some of my favourites, especially ones that have to do with paper goodness; magazines to check out; bookstores to go to… Zines: In-progress updates of the zines I make; features on the zines that I love; zine…