Portland Zine Symposium 2011 August 13, 2011

The 2011 Portland Zine Symposium was wildly successful! This was the first year in a new location, which was really great! We had a lot more light, and separate rooms for tables, so it felt more split up and not quite so overwhelming to walk into. As usual, every single table was overflowing with great [...]

365 Days of Zowie January 21, 2011

Hands-down, my best handmade gift this season was the calendar I made for my brother, with pictures of Zowie Darling.  In the months leading up to the holidays, everytime she came over to play I would snap a few pictures with this project in mind.  Most of them ended up being her snuggling down in [...]

“The Left-Handed Knitter” Now Available Thru Multnomah County Library November 1, 2010

This week I received my check from the multnomah county library, for the packet of 6 zines I sent off to them about a month ago. You may recall that I was approached to sell them zines for circulation at the library this summer, at the Zine Symposium. I am now delighted to announce that [...]

“Masculine, Feminine” Book Project September 30, 2010

This is a book project I did in my junior year at Mills for my class, “The Artist Book In A Gendered Space.”* In it’s tag, it is listed as a self-proclaimed “unique artists book made of woven metal sheets, wire, hinges, balsa wood, paint, small pleasingly touchable things, and lots and lots of glue [...]

Portland Zine Symposium Summer 2010 September 7, 2010

Well, it seems I am still recovering from the symposium, a week and a half ago. I had a really amazing time, met lots of people, saw many familiar faces, and was completely overwhelmed with the sheer volume of impressive and wonderful things that people brought to trade and sell. I made many sales as [...]

Zine Making Party August 4, 2010

Nichole and I have had a few days of intense zine making sessions in preparation for the Zine Symposium. I am debuting a few new projects this year – one is a zine of a personal piece of writing, one was the Beat Writers notebook series which have been finished for a little while now, [...]

Beat Writers Notebook Series July 6, 2010

These are a set of recycled notebooks I made from old notebooks and ancient scraps I have been saving from projects, repurposed books, and scrap drawer raids back in the days of book art classes. The inside papers are colored, lined, graphed, tinted, textured, etc. and each notebook is unique in it’s contents. The cover [...]

Table Display prep for PZS 2010 June 30, 2010

I have been working on some really great displays for my table at the Portland Zine Symposium this august. So much of the experience as a tabler is about presentation. Not only is a decorated table more inviting and approachable, but the way that you present your goods can make or break sales! The past [...]

Portland Zine Symposium 2010 May 19, 2010

I just paid for and confirmed my table for the 2010 Portland Zine Symposium! This will be my 8th year in attendance, and 5th year tabling. Wow! It’s crazy to think about. I first started making zines after taking a zine workshop almost 10 years ago at Girls Rock Camp, and have been reading and [...]

Goodbyeology March 12, 2010

Goodbyeology was a poetry chapbook I made for my Poetry I class at Mills. The contents of the chapbook are a little scattered; it constitutes as one big piece that was modeled after some poems we read in class. The style I chose had bolded lines every so often, with a paragraph or two underneath [...]