hello new zine grab bags!

I've gone through a couple more zine bins, and here is a new round of zines available, just for the price of shipping - details are below as before.

Info

• U.S. cost is $4.95 + .50 for paypal = $5.45
• Canada/Mexico cost is $10.95 + .65 for paypal = $11.60
• All other international cost is $12.95 + .70 for paypal = $13.65

1. E-mail me to make sure it's still available. Specify which package you want - feel free to give a few in priority order
2. Wait till you hear back from me (first come first serve) and then paypal me the appropriate amount (I'll confirm this amount when I email you back). If you want to get more than one package, I will combine them in any way possible that is cheaper.
3. If you would like delivery confirmation, just add another $1 to the amount you paypal me, and let me know that you want it.
4. I will send your package out this week!

Zine Grab Bag #1 : 22 zines about Fat pride/phobia/politics/stories zines, several perzines and some parenting zines including
- Shameless : A brief intro to fatphobia and the transformative power of fat lovin'
- Fat Farm
- Fat chicks rock the mother fucking casbah
- Already too much; never enough (fat girl in (and out of) love)
- Girlzilla
plus -- two Aaron Cometbus books (Chicago Stories and Mixed Reviews), Hard As Nails, Overcome, 2 issues of Zuzu and the Babycatcher, Vena Cava #5, Orange & Blue #0, , 2 issues of Ration, and She Wolf magazine - a shiny glossy full color art magazine.

Grab Bag #2 : DIY, Crafts, & Cooking!
this is an awesome bunch of zines -- 16 including: How2 Zine (no 1 & 2 in one fat zine), arts & crafts revolution, T-zine (t-shirt reconstruction projects), stale cake, DIY academy Nontoxic Housecleaning, Zine making, an introduction, an intro to book binding (make your own sketchbook), Tublegs Artzine, #4, Let's DIY (tips and tricks on organizing zine workshops), stoked on spokes (community cycling resource guide), CROQ zine - issues #1 and 4

Grab Bag #3 : 23 perzines and special editions
the beautifully printed project The Dragomen with compilation zines, 2 color printed folder cover and pockets, Nina the Librarian comic, Coffeeshop Crushes, Ride On #7, Deliciosa #9, Missives (celebrating the lost art of letter writing), Miranda #11, Gideon #4, 12 Items Or Less (grocery shopping zine), 2 way frek, Temp Slave, etc.

Grab Bag #5 : 14 including Fish Piss #5, vol 2 #2, and vol 3 #1
Complete Control, Not My Small Diary, the Science, summit, headlock, and more.

honored with a shiny seal!

Taylor over at Parcell Press awarded a special honor to myself and the prolific and lovely comic artist JP Coovert for having the most popular items in his shop for awhile. Mine is for Last Known Address and JP's is for Adrift. It totally warms my heart to hear it, and here's the best part!

We are both awarded this shiny, fancy seal:



awesome. I want it made into a belt buckle! Thanks Taylor!!

guess what?

check it out - this is a really neat community, with fun features like groups, various ways to comment and discuss, photos, forum...

new zines!

two new zines finally in the etsy shop

what the heck is the Lovely Letterbox?

I've mentioned the Lovely Letterbox here and there in a few places and wanted to let you all know exactly what it is, especially because it is one of my very favorite projects!

The Lovely Letterbox is basically a subscription service. I adore subscriptions, because I love mail, and love knowing I'm going to be getting mail. The idea of being able to send a package out each month containing whatever I was inspired to create or share that month really appealed to me. There are 11 participants in the first round who receive something in the mail at least once a month for 6 months. When I started it, I only knew that participants would receive original zines, zines from my personal collection (which is kind of monstrous and I'm trying to cut it down), crafts made by me, samples from new things I'm trying out, and craft/mail/ephemera supplies from my always growing collection of supplies.

We are two months in and even after two installments, I still can't say what all the future ones will include. I can share with you what I've done so far. I wanted to make this a special exclusive opportunity for the people who signed up, so I'm creating zines especially for it that won't be available until after their subscription is over, possibly offered in a pack or something like that.

I already know I'm going to continue this project when this round is finished because it has been a great success, which to me means that the participants have given me lots of positive feedback about being part of it. So if you would like to be on a waiting list for the next round, e-mail me and I'll get in touch a month or two before this round ends and the new one begins and give you the chance to sign up before I post about it here and open it up to first come first serve sign ups.

Three of my lovely participants have great craft blogs and have each done posts about Lovely Letterbox and you should check out their wonderful blogs anyway:
Average Jane Crafter, Craftypod, and PonyBoy Press

July was the first month and I made quilted fabric postcards for the very first piece of mail. I was already working on the goodies for the packages and carved stamps for everyone in the shape of the state they live in with a little envelope in the middle. I stamped this on each of their postcards as a little intrigue.

For the first package, I made a stencil and spray painted it onto their envelopes. In the package was: the hand carved stamps, a few zines each from my collection, a full color collage zine that I made at the Austin Book Workers book fair, some note paper that I stamped with various other stamps I've carved, some cute japanese note papers, and little punched out shapes I punched from patterned paper with a postage stamp shape punch and a scalloped circle punch.

For the August installment, I was really into the idea of a kit of some kind. I made kits for little plush teeth (my favorite plushy to make) with a tiny how-to zine in it, copies of the zine I made for the 24 Hour Zine challenge, pieces of this great screen normally used for screen doors/window screens that I used to make a mixed media collage piece in an art show, a letter about what inspired me in this installment and things going on in my life, some cool fibers, little sewn collage houses from the previously mentioned art show, and sets of sew on buttons.

ooh, the zineyness of it all!

I'm so excited to share this news! Parcell Press, one of my favorite zine distros, finally has a new and great site! It is really nice to navigate around, and Taylor shared with me that you can set up a customer profile and the system will keep track of everything you get, so you don't have that danger of getting the same one 6 months later...

List zine

One of my favorite zines is Ramsey Beyer's [List] zine. She usually has "guest lists" - lists done by friends or other zinesters. She did a call out on livejournal early this week and I put one together for the first time! She is an artist and the catch is her zine is full of amazing illustration and lists should be illustrated. Drawing is where I have somewhat of a hangup. I did my best to add illustration.



My list is favorite craft supplies. Here is a little bit: