Zine Shopping 101.

Last Saturday at the Melbourne Zine Fair there were a few great little zines that I just had to have from some very talented zinemakers and I thought I would share a few.  I loved the simple little concertina style art zine called "The Rising Wave," from the very talented Lizzy Sampson .

Lizzy Sampson is a Melbourne artist who specialises in collage work with recycled paper elements. Her work has a beautiful feel about it and I love her use of colour and the intricate detail of her use of envelope patterns to create the wave.

My other favourite purchase was from my very talented friendEm. This little bundle of joy is about everyday people's Random Acts of Kindness. 

Its a lovely little collection of random acts that will make you realise there are nice people in the world doing nice things just for the hell of it.  She uses a mix of hand drawn details with cute little collage pieces to create this awesome zine.

So if you would like more info on either of these great zine makers you can visit there websites below:

http://www.lizzysampson.com.au/

http://consciousness-collection.blogspot.com.au/

Have you found any fabulous zines you would like to share with us please leave a comment I would love to add more to my growing collection.

Let's Party!!!

I launched this new mini zine at yesterday's Melbourne Zine Fair, which went  really well. I purchased a couple of zines too, which I will share in a later post.  The mini zine is just a series of little drawings of my little bunny character and her friend piggy having a tea party.

If you would like to purchase one I have a couple left here.

What did you do over this glorious weekend?

Off to the melbourne zine fair we go.

Okay so I have some super exciting news to share with you!! I am participating in my very first zine fair this coming Sunday with my crafty friend Em. We will be selling our little zines at the "Festival Of The Photocopier Zine Fair."

I will be selling my "Crafty Collage," and "Miniature Worlds," zines so if you are in Melbourne for the weekend and would love to come and say hello, here are the details:

Festival Of The Photocopier Zine Fair

Melbourne Town Hall

Sunday 12th Febuary

1pm to 6pm

There will be over 100 stallholders selling their zines, so come down and show your love for the photocopier, its going to be awesome!!!

I'm off to finish off some more zines!!

New sketchbook in progress

I have already sent off my last sketchbook for the "Sketchbook Project," but I also am participating in the "Limited Edition," project too.  My topic for this book is "Create & Capture," which is alot more broad which I like because it really leaves it open for me to be fairly free.

I have only just started and decided to continue using acrylic paint for the front cover but this time with a little window cutout, so you can see a glimpse of the first page, pretty neat idea I thought, but my hands are a little shaky sometimes and its a bit jagged oh well.

I decided to add a little quote to the first page that I wrote myself which says "Create things with love in your heart, to capture hearts of others."  I'm not to sure where this little sketchbook will lead me but I'm sure it will be a fun journey.

Is anyone else doing the "Sketchbook Project ?"

http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject

It's all about love.

Okay so "Valentine's Day," is on the way and I thought I would make a couple of mini original illustration for my store. My nephew suggested the little bunny illustrations so here they are.

There are three little original illustrations available to good living homes. All of them are created on little scraps of paper I had in my ever growing paper collection.

I used Derwent pencils and PITT fineliner pens my favourites. All three of the bunnies are holding little gifts for you.

You could pop one into a little Valentines card for a little extra something or keep it for  yourself if you like.

So if you would like to have a closer peek pop on over to my little store 

Aah Mail Day.

You know how I love a good mail day well here are to of my latest zine purchases of late and they are very cool.

The first little delight comes from Maps & Fragments photographic darling  Sewon. This is her latest photographic zine that chronicles her travels through China. The pictures are so crisp and detailed you feel apart of her travels. 

The next zine is one of my faves edited by the lovely Anthea and many talented contributors Spoonful.  Each little happiness companion has great little heartfelt articles, recipes, gorgeous illustration and a craft project all in this compact zine.

It always brings a little smile to my face when I receive it. Hopefully you may go and check out these lovely little zines for yourself and bring a little zine happiness into your life too.

For more info:

http://www.mapsandfragments.com/

http://spoonfulzine.com/

Miniature Worlds "Mini Zine."

Okay so I have finally created another zine to my little store and it is really cute!!  Its about my little fascination with terrariums. I have always grown up with terrariums in my house and always imagined there cool little worlds so what a perfect subject for a zine.  Its little in size but big on cuteness.

It has eight full colour pages and measures 4 by 6 inches, perfect size for your pocket.

So if you would like to get your hands on a copy they are found in here. 

Have a lovely weekend everyone I am off to make a smoothie. I'm thinking blueberry and vanilla ice cream yum. What's your favourite smoothie flavour?