Category: General

Most Thursdays, I have the pleasure of meeting up with friends for writing/creative talk as well as yummy nibbles. We’ve also recently added wine, which was an excellent decision. 🙂

Today I had the extra pleasure of introducing the group to zines! I am so excited (as were they), and the number ideas we brainstormed… I am so looking forward to what they come up with next week.

I will even get a start on my next zine: Don’t Call Me Cupcake…

Unfortunately, we had to say goodbye to our previous copier/scanner/printer. It did not operate as advertised.

Sigh.

Alas, we have found love! This beauty, henceforth named Sophie, is a copier/scanner/printer that does 2->2 copying, duplex printing for A4 and A5, scanning, photo printing…

I can see Sophie fitting in just fine at Sea Green Zines.

I’m still getting to know my printer/copier and have yet to give it a name, but we’re getting along well. I’ve now printed off everything I need to make 40 copies off all of my zines.

That’s right. The Perfect Pocket Guinness Guide is coming back for a limited time.

But after this? Both TPPGG and the Occupy Melbourne zine are going to be retired. I really want to concentrate on Dear Anonymous (especially as letters are starting to come in!) as well as get one or two other zines going. I don’t want to tend up spreading myself too thin again, which was why this place surrendered to the crickets for months.

So for now? I have a lot of folding to do…

I’m not sure what I want to call it yet, but it will have a name. After all, it is an important part of my plan for getting back into the zine world!

Okay, not so much part of the plan as a happy accident. I didn’t plan for my old printer to kick the bucket, but I did plan on getting a copier/printer when it did happen. No more running to OfficeWorks to copy my zines.

This little beauty and I are still getting to know each other. Things are going well so far. I think it could be love.

Zine Ninja says: My love is like a cherry blossom in the breeze.

I want to get my act together enough to own a zine distro.

<3

I… haven’t melted.

I went out in the sun in temperatures I’ve never felt before, and… I’m still whole. I haven’t melted faster than an ice cream sandwich on the footpath in, well, January in Australia.

I made it.

Go figure.

I am in the process of switching my technology around and decided to try out at WordPress app.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

I have always sewn my zines together because I am an impatient person and staples were pissing me off. Plus, I think sewing looks nicer. However, a lot of people staple their work, and they do it well.

What I am trying to say is that I don’t have a problem with stapled zines; I have a problem with me stapling zines.

Anyone care to weigh in? Does it matter do you? Have you spared a thought toward it? Do I really, really need to get healthy so I can stop spending so much time thinking about this stuff?