I made a zine!

Some pages from my latest zine- created thanks to the fact I signed up for a 2 week art zine swap over on Swap-Bot. It's the first time i've really used my printer for making a zine and i'm wondering why I didn't do this sooner- the quality is really great! I think I could probably even use this printer to print off copies of some of my paintings and they wouldn't look too shabby.

I recently finished making 25 copies of my other new zine for the Generic Zine Exchange, and nearly bankrupted myself in the process, using a colour photo-copier to do the colour pages with. If only i'd known how nice my printer is I could've saved myself a lot of money!

At the moment i've not put any copies in my shop, but if you're interested in getting your paws on one let me know. There'll certainly be a copy in the selection of goodies for the 510th post giveaway!

Quick Quick

Just a few little bits really quick: The lovely Betsy has a new book out next week, Knitting for Good is available to buy here in the UK or here in the US. This is her first book and she's a bit shy about it, but I think you should all go out and snap up a copy in time for the holidays.

I just discovered the wonderful world of Swap-Bot thanks to noticing that the Cake and Pie/ Freshly Blended holiday ornament swap is being hosted on there this year. Swap-Bot reminds me a LOT of Nervousness.org that I used to be part of many years ago (and is how I first met some very good friends of mine) and so of course I have created an account and signed myself up for a few swaps. Knowing that I have rather a tendency to take on more than I can manage I have limited myself to a couple of simple postcard swaps to get started, and a zine swap.

Look how cute that logo is!
Are any of you using Swap-bot? I have an idea for a swap i'd like to host in the future, so if you're already a member of the site let me know and i'll keep my eyes peeled for you.