Prints

I just added some prints to my Etsy.
Go see :)

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Sketchbook

Some scanned sketchbook pages.
We went to the Alternative Press Fair yesterday, it's got me itching to get started on my next zine.

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Birthday

William had a birthday yesterday.

The tea lights instead of cake candles was clearly planned and not just a last minute idea because I thought we had cake candles but didn't. Ahem.

But at least it looked really pretty!

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Hatfield House

We went to the Christmas Frost Fair at Hatfield House on Friday.
Everything was oh so lovely. If I had any money I would have spent it all.









It was really quite foggy when we left. All the trees looked really spooky.
There are a few more photos on my flickr.

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Russell

Russell the Meerkat loves nothing more than taking a day off from keeping watch at home and trying to make his sled go as fast as possible.

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Digby

This is Digby and he is about to head off on his first ride on his brand new trike that he has just been gifted with.
He's rather pleased with it.

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Quote of the Week

"Without Van Halen, none of this would exist"
-Man in music shop

It hadn't been the best week but then I had a lovely day with Will and yesterday I went to the Post Office and we went to see 'The Kids Are Alright' which I highly recommend.

Now I shall draw.

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Zine

My very first 'zine is now available in my shop.
I'm really proud of it so I hope you'll like it too.

I've recently seen in a few different places people complaining about the 'quality' of 'zines they're bought so I thought I'd just share my views on the matter.
Obviously that's quite vague so I don't know for sure what in particular they mean by 'quality' but I've had the feeling they're, at least in part, talking about the quality of the printing and/or the paper. So I just wanted to get it out there that as far as I'm concerned 'zines are meant to be made cheaply, not necessarily sent off to fancy printers to be printed on fancy paper (although I see nothing wrong with that either) but I would never be disappointed with a 'zine that had simply been photocopied from the original drawing, folded in half and stapled together. That's the beauty of them, anyone that has something to share can share it by making a zine without the worry of printers costs.
My 'zine is printed on my basic home printer on regular white printer paper.
I suppose I wanted to say this just to be sure people knew what they were getting, a nice simple homemade 'zine, put together and printed by me with care.
I hope no one buys it expecting a professional quality magazine and is then disappointed that they've got something different and end up classing it as bad quality. I guess my point is, there's nothing wrong with sending things off to the printer and making a fancy 'zine but there is also nothing wrong with photocopying it onto cheap paper but I personally think if you purchase a 'zine it's best to expect 'low quality' printing and paper and see the beauty in those things rather than expect a glossy magazine and then be disappointed.


In slightly more coherent words from zinewiki.com:
A zine - pronounced zeen - derived from magazine - is an independently- or self-published booklet, often created by a single person. Zines are customarily created by physically cutting and gluing text and images together onto a master flat for photocopying, but it is also common to produce the master by typing and formatting pages on a computer. The end product is usually folded and stapled. Zines can be printed and bound in any manner. Offset printing is a relatively common alternative to photocopying, though there is some controversy among zine writers as to whether professionally printed products may be defined as zines.


So there you have it, some people think photocopied 'zines are bad quality and are disappointed by them while hardcore 'zine geeks are out there complaining about 'zines that aren't photocopied.

Each to their own.

I hope you get your hands on a copy of my 'zine and I hope you like it.

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Halloween

During the afternoon I turned this...


into this...

My first time cooking with a pumpkin and my first pie.



During the evening I waited for Will to get home from work then during the night we ate food and watched spooky films.





As much as I love Halloween I can't help but now feel a little sad that it's already November.
I have so much I want to get done by the end of the year and all of a sudden it's passing by really quickly.

Time to really get on with stuff.

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