trade tuesday : tinypaperhearts

Amanda and Mary Helen from Tiny Paper
Hearts (www.amandapandajapanese.etsy. com)
made all that pretty personal zines with
vintage pictures that I love so much!

So imagined my excitement after purchasing
some of their zines, they'd love to trade with me
too! Yay! So I sent them some of my cards
and they sent me those zines in red and blue
cover plus others! Thank you
Amanda and Mary-Helen!

me and zine: a dream come true workshop

last saturday I had a zine workshop for Femme, an independent

organization of 25 women related to drugs and HIV/AIDS. they

had this gorgeous arpirella exhibition for a week as you can see

from all these photos and the workshop is part of it as the ending.

it's such a small and warm yet fun workshop. after i gave a short

introduction and stories on zine itself, i have also invite a

girlfriend of mine that also making zine to share her experiences.

afterwards, we all busy cutting, gluing and eating our lunch while

making our zine.

there were 8 zines being presented at the end of the workshop.

mostly personal zines that deals with homosexuality, parents,

motherhood and love. oh how grateful and proud I am of them!

thank you so much girls! you all rock!

me and zine: an inspiring zinester

Dear Sweetie Pie Press,

I'm still wondering about that whole envelope that I sent

you for that security envelope button project of yours.

I certainly wish they arrived safe and sound so that you

will have fun with them, but apart from that I would like

to tell you how happy I was to found your blog,

http://sweetiepiepress.blogspot.com/.

You have so many awesome finger power project with

or without your friends that really takes this whole DIY

culture in so many interesting level to me, a zinester

from Jakarta. I certainly envy your plastic bag yarn project

and those awesome buttons. I wish we could trade zines

but mine is in Indonesian language. I really am glad to read

that the craft bazzar that you organized turned out to be

a huge success, somehow it reminds me of my own

experiences organizing a gig or a workshop here.

I think I should stop writing now. I think I will keep them

for my handwritten letter to you. Hopefully someday we

will be able to have a big glass of iced cappucino together

and chat while you knit and I make collages.

Thank you for sharing and thank you for being you,

Vantiani.

me and life: quote of the day

"Whatever it is that you are creating: comix, zine, or maybe you are a doctor or you recycle wine bottles or something, you are keeping yourself alive. You are defending your soul". - Free To Fight! And interactive self-defense project

do you have any quote to share with me today?