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November 11, 2019

Happy Mail Monday – Mentally Scattered Edition

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Hello and happy Monday, zine and mail friends. Today I am sharing wonderful mail that has landed in my postbox from US friends as well as a friend one state over here in Australia. Check out the zine (and sticker!) goodness.

Thank you so much for watching.

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Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:

*Poopsheet Foundation – https://poopsheetfoundation.com/
*Amy of Lost Projects – https://www.facebook.com/LostProjectsPress/
*JEM Hast – https://www.jemhast.com/
*True Zine Marin – https://www.instagram.com/truezinemarin/

*ZineWriMo – https://www.seagreenzines.com/happy-zinewrimo-2019/
*Billy – https://www.patreon.com/iknowbilly
*NaNoWriMo – https://www.nanowrimo.org/
*Sticky Institute – https://www.stickyinstitute.com/
*Small Zine Volcano – https://smallzinevolcano.bigcartel.com/
*Apples – http://chickencollective.storenvy.com/
– Wildlife of Victoria Vol 1 – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-wildlife-of-victoria-vol-1-semi-domesticated-animals/
– Wildlife of Victoria Vol 2 – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-wildlife-of-victoria-vol-2-entirely-domesticated-animals/

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My PO Box:

Jaime Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

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You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com

Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/seagreenzines

November 11, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 11: Make a Mini-Zine: Double-sided Goodness

Hello, zine friends!

My, my, my. What a day it has been. On this eleventh day of ZineWriMo, our prompt is…

Make a Mini-Zine: Double-sided Goodness

Alas, today also happens to be Happy Mail Monday, and I have spent the day dealing with various technical difficulties. Now it’s starting to get late, I am exhausted, and – while I have an idea for a double-sided mini-zine – I didn’t get the chance to work on one like I wanted to.

That’s life, though. These are the sorts of things that happen that are our of our control and that we just have to sail with the best we can. In the end, the day has been what it has been, and WIP Wednesdays just so happen to be great days for catching up when one gets behind in this.

How was/is your day? Have you made a double-sided mini-zine? Let me know in the comments.

Until next time, spread a little sunshine.

Other Participants:

https://www.instagram.com/violett_komplett/
https://www.instagram.com/bydhiyanah/
https://www.instagram.com/dungeon_maven/
https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/
https://www.instagram.com/gothcupcake/
https://www.instagram.com/14thframe/

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 10, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 10: Have Supplies, Will Travel: Make/Update a Zinemaking Travel Kit

Hello and welcome to the tenth day of November and ZineWriMo as well. Jumping right in with today’s prompt…

Have Supplies, Will Travel: Make/Update a Zinemaking Travel Kit

I’ve tried a couple of different travel kits in the past years. I quite like all the little compartments and zippers in my travel kit from last year, I’ve found the flatter, more notebook-like travel kit from the year easier to put into a backpack or smaller bag.

I still find something really amusing about the fact that this is a bag meant for organising cables and coords, and it ended up working so well for ziney activities. Not pictured is my A5 notebooks for collecting quotes as well as planning out various projects, both of which fit quite nicely in there. I think I’ve finally settled in.

How about you? Do you have a zinemaker travel it? If yes, what’s inside?

Until next time, spread a little sunshine…

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 10, 2019

Call for Submissions: Workaholic 2

November 9, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 9: Sharing is Caring: Connect with Other Zinemakers

Hello, zine friends, and happy weekend if this is the start to your weekend. If it is not, happy day. 🙂 Today we have a Sharing is Caring Saturday, and the activity is…

Sharing is Caring: Connect with Other Zinemakers

Connecting with other people is one of many elements that makes the zineverse great, which is why listing other participants for events like ZineWriMo (and zine trades, and zine review zines, etc) is important to me. You can find the list of other participants at the end of each post this month, and there are other ways to connect, too!

There is a ZineWriMo Facebook Group as well as the hashtags #zinewrimo and #zinewrimo2019 that you can check out on Instagram and/or Twitter.

That is it for me today, wonderful creatives. Until next time, spread a little sunshine.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 9, 2019

Call for Submissions: Phenomena 2

November 9, 2019

Call for Submissions: Final Dear Anonymous Zine

November 8, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 8: Friday Night Highlights: Show Off/Write About Your Progress

Happy Friday, zine friends! And hello to the eighth day of ZineWriMo. On this fine Friday, we have…

Friday Night Highlights: Show Off/Write About Your Progress

It all begins with washi.

Okay, so it technically begins with thinking about what I want to write about in a Missive, but after that, it usually starts with washi (or other design elements if I decided to make the Missive purely on the computer – I go back and forth).

I started to feel bad and drop back into the same old habits. Why haven’t I accomplished more, why don’t I have more energy, blah blah blah. These old habits are certainly difficult to break! Alas, I remembered what past Nyx has been saying all along: no stress! Some days, you can make a whole zine in 24 hours. Other days, getting some washi laid out on some pages is pretty awesome. Still other days? Well, sleep is good.

So no matter what you have or haven’t done today and so far in ZineWriMo, it’s all good. No judgments here.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 7, 2019

Zine Review: LeToMaGiC Issue 3

LeToMaGiC Issue 3
https://twitter.com/letomagic
https://issuu.com/letomagic/docs

LeToMaGiC Issue 3 is a 9.5cmx9.5cm black and white mini-zine about beer, zine spots to visit, and football (soccer for American zine friends). This zine mixes some Athens goodness in along with Australian locations.

What a start to a zine! I had immediately been wondering about the mix of capital and lowercase letters of the zine, and it turns out that the totally cool title is a shortened version of another totally cool title: Letters To Marina Ginesta Coloma. I don’t want to spoil any more than that, but what a fun way to create a title and honour an important person!

LeToMaGiC starts with this to-the-point and yet not at all lacking introduction touching on the title and dedication before launching into a collection of mini-beer reviews as well as mini place reviews/thoughts. I write ‘reviews’ but it’s more like the aforementioned letters sharing thoughts and enjoyable moments about the various places.

I had a bit of a chuckle about the different names for different beer sizes in Australia. Things vary from state to state (for instance, a Victoria ‘pint’ is a South Australia ‘imperial’). I loved learning about so many things to do with my own country. With limited space, the zinemaker gets right to the interesting points like, for example, how Two Birds is the first brewery in Australia founded by women. (Of course! What a name. Haha.) And even with things I do know about and places I’ve been to (love to Sticky Institute), it’s always interesting to get a different perspective.

I enjoyed the little elements in this zine like the ‘this book belongs to’ with a blank line for writing down your name, the highlighter blue border around the cover along with highlighter orange thread handbinding, and, of course, the small colour photos of tiny footballers pasted in on some of the pages. I know pretty much nothing about football, but I still enjoyed the element.

All up, LeToMaGiC Issue 3 is an interesting zine that had me looking at places I’ve been with new eyes and even left me curious enough about some of these beers to have a go. Not to mention eager to read the other LeToMaGiC zines.

November 7, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 7: Write it Down: Create a Zine Ideas Book

Day 7?! Woosh! Haha. Hello, zine friends, and welcome to another day in ZineWriMo-land. Today we have a fun one in the form of…

Write it Down: Create a Zine Ideas Book

I’m a sticky notes all over my desk and scribbled-on napkins stuck in my pockets kind of woman. However, I do still carry a little notebook around with me most times because you really never know when inspiration will strike. (As I’ve said entirely too many times at this point haha.)

Today’s zinespiration was actually really easy for me not because I already have an idea notebook going (you do NOT want to see the state of the zine cave) but because…

Stickers! True Zine Marin sent me this little lovely that she stickered up for me, and I knew it would be absolutely perfect. I forgot to take pictures of the inside, but there are even perforated pages.

It’s the little things in life. Haha.

I’m planning on adding some more stickers and some washi tape as well. In the past I’ve been focused on just having the notebook with me, but this time I’d like to have fun in creating the notebook as well as writing down the ideas that it will store.

Do you have a favourite notebook? Will you make one for your glorious ideas? Let me know, and be sure to check out the others participating in ZineWriMo 2019.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza