Category: Zinewrimo

Hello, zine friends, and welcome to a brand new week. It’s already day 19 of ZineWriMo, and things are buzzing right along. Today we had an interesting prompt for making a mini-zine…

Make a Zine: Make a double-sided zine

Haha! I actually really like how this one turned out. A GTT is a glucose tolerance test and usually means you’re stuck at the clinic for two hours or so. And they make you drink this nasty glucose concoction as well. I have these tests more often than I would like thanks to my PCOS, and I actually had one recently. When I saw today’s prompt, the idea for the zine popped right into my head.

Talk about making something good out of a grumpy situation.

How did you go? Did you make a mini-zine? Let me know about it in the comments.

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things
*Maybe Magick Zines

Hello, zine friends! This month just keeps flying by, doesn’t it? Haha. I’ve spent the day finishing up a few zine projects and doing a lot – A LOT – of printing, folding, and sewing. Funnily enough, that rounded up quite nicely with today’s prompts because I needed zine-making fuel.

Sharing is Caring: What are your snacks of choice?

Tom and Luke Snackaballs may have a funny name, but they hit the spot when I want something sweet and reasonably healthy. I say reasonably because I could easily eat a whole bag if I let myself, and that’s not so good even if what you’re eating is only made of dates, cashews, and coconut. (That’s just one of the flavours, by the way.)

Anyway, I’m not going to turn this into an ad for Tom and Luke, but I’d give them a go if you want something sweet but don’t want added sugars.

What are your snacks of choice when you’re working hard?

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things
*Maybe Magick Zines

Hello, zine friends! I don’t know about you, but we had an absolutely gorgeous sunny day here totally perfect for doing some zinemaking in the sunshine. So good. I hope your weekend has jumped to a good start and that the universe is treating you kindly. Today, I think the universe was reminding me to finish what I start.

24 Hour Zine Day: Make a mini or a full 24-page zine in 24 hours

I decided to take today’s prompt and use it to finish the three mini-zines I’d started yesterday. I did think about the full 24-page zine in 24 hours, but I decided it would feel better to get the triplets (haha) sorted – and it did. As much as I love the excitement of starting a project, the feeling of finishing a project is lovely, too.

What did you decide to do with your day? Work day? Play day? It’s all good! No stress here. Let me know what you did in the comments.

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things
*Maybe Magick Zines

Hello and happy Friday, zine friends! I hope this week has treated you well. Though if most of my friends’ lives are to go by, then everyone has had a very, very busy week! In that event, I hope you get a good, restful relax time very soon.

Make a zine: Get prompts for what to put in your zine from friends and strangers

I asked for zine prompts on Instagram and received three responses from Latibule, Miss Muffcake, and Natalie Michelle Watson. Rather than three pages in one mini-zine, I decided to make three mini-zines.

I love the idea of getting prompts from other people. Unfortunately, I didn’t think it through before I got started and bit off more I can chew. I didn’t quite finish any of them, so no peeks inside just yet. Thank you so much for the prompts, Latibule, Miss Muffcake, and Natalie!

How’d you go with getting prompts from friends?

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

A special fun surprise from MissMuffcake is here…

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things
*Maybe Magick Zines

Is it the weekend yet? Did I ask that yesterday? Haha. Thank goodness for ZineWriMo days that allow me to chill out at the end of a long day with some zine reading.

Halfway through the month: Your day, your way

As I mentioned, it’s been a long day and, in fact, a long week. I am so, so ready to sit down and not get up unless I’ve run out of zines to read. Haha. A pleasurable night by any standard. Well, any standard of mine, anyway.

I’m afraid that I don’t have any zine reviews for you this week, but I will be back to regular reviewing next week.

How are you spending your day, your way? Something zine-y or taking a break?

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things
*Maybe Magick Zines

It’s already Wednesday, and we’re already nearly halfway through the month! How did that happen?

Work on your work in progress

Today was absolutely full on with various appointments and whatnot, so I’m afraid I don’t have anything new to report on the zine front. I’d rather not show you repeat pictures of Dear Anonymous 8, so here we are. I do have a picture to share – of a very naughty dog who will still sook with the best of them for some treats even when she’s been naughty.

I hope that makes up at least in small part for the lack of anything exciting. Haha.

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things
*Maybe Magick Zines

Hello, hello, hello. Today has been a day of catch up for me, but being in that work focus mindset has been good. I’ve accomplished a lot. Phew! I even managed to finish one of the comp zines I’ve been working on, so big plus there!

Progress Pics: How are your WIPs going?

Dear Anonymous 8 is printed and folded! Woohoo! The sewing will still take me a little while, but I am very happy to have at least one of the zine goals I set at the beginning of the month finished (well, except for the sewing) already. Upward and onward!

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things
*Maybe Magick Zines

Hello, zine friends! Well, I made it to day 12 before I fell behind with the prompts. Haha. Not too shabby. I had an appointment that involved a bit of a road trip, and I didn’t have it in me to make a fanzine when I got back home. However, I did putter away with yesterday’s prompt this morning.

Make a Zine: Make a fanzine

I decided to make a fanzine about one of the first – if not the first – zine I ever picked up on Steam. I’ve been playing it since the very early days (2013) and have absolutely loved it. Even though I’m really bad at it. Haha. It’s Don’t Starve!

If you want to see a video of me flipping through the zine, check out my Instagram account.

This is not a zine I will be reproducing because I don’t have any rights to any of the art. Maybe if I can up my drawing skills in the future, I will come back to it. For now, it was a fun exercise, and it was nice to think about all the reasons I love Don’t Starve.

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things
*Maybe Magick Zines

Hello, zine friends! Is it the end of the weekend already? Nearly so in this time zone. I am enjoying a beautiful end to a lovely weekend weather-wise, though, so I certainly can’t complain.

For today in ZineWriMo…

Sharing is Caring: Show off your favourite zine tools

I’m afraid for today you get a little repeat of yesterday. These are the ‘tools’ that I use most by far.

My washi tape collection is a favourite go-to of mine because it can add beautiful elements to any page with ease. There are so many different patterns and shapes – and there are always more out in the world if you don’t happen to have what you’re looking for on hand. I also use washi on zine mail as well, so it gets all kind of use (and I go through a lot of it).

The tool(s) I use even more than washi? Embroidery thread and a needle. I like the sew the binding of my zines and consider the green thread to be a sort of ‘signature’ for Sea Green Zines. I didn’t start out doing it with that in mind, but that is the fun thing about some traditions – they sneak up on you.

What are your favourite zinemaking tools? I imagine there are more than a few favourite staplers out in the mix. Let me know in the comments.

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things
*Maybe Magick Zines

Hello, zine friends, and a happy ZineWriMo day 10! Today is a day for headless chook mode around the zine cave with heaps to do and never enough time to do them. Still, I have been poking away at my various zine projects and was lucky in that today’s prompt didn’t take very much time at all.

Organise your zinemaking goodies

When it comes to me and the zine cave, I’m reminded of my beautiful dog Zenna and her bed. Most of the time, it’s absolutely fine. But every now and then, she decides it’s still not quite right and fusses with this or that until she finally settles down.

Well over a year since I’ve moved, I’m still fussing, poking, and prodding at various things, trying to create an ‘ideal’ workspace (whatever that will end up being). But it worked for me today in that I’ve already packed up all my zinemaking goodies.

I’ve somehow managed to accumulate a huge amount of washi tape that I put into a clear bowl-thing that I actually won at the pub ages ago. My zine sewing supplies are also nicely packed all together (though there isn’t really much to pack) in a green box so neither needles nor thread wander away from me.

What’s not pictured (because I forgot and now don’t have the light for it) is the one cube on my cube shelf reserved for the scrapbooking paper I use for backgrounds in some of my zines. I have a few 12×12 pads and quite a few 6×6 ones of all sorts of different patterns because I also make cards.

And now that you know more about me than you wanted to… Haha! Let me know how you keep your zine making goodies all nice and tidy. Or do you keep them in different ways? Does tidiness take away from the creativity? Let me know in the comments.

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things
*Maybe Magick Zines