Awkward Stage's Blog (20)

too many places to post too many things when i really don't feel like typing and would much rather just watch new music videos on youtube.

i will be teaching a mini-zine workshop at the creative space here in barrie. randomly i was talked into this by my newest artist friend jill. i am horrified that i agreed (since i am not a good teacher) and excited at the prospect of brining zines back to barrie (or at least getting a handful of people interested in small press).

i…

has been printed out and is waiting to be cut and paste into a zine. by this time tomorrow it will actually resemble something that can be photocopied!

finally!

it actually hasn't been that long since issue 9 i don't think... but this zine has been fighting me the whole way. it was just sentence fragments for the longest time. putting it together into something cohesive was epic. i am also making a mini-zine called 'ten years ago today... or a day just like…

i managed to put a hold on all my failings and dropping of balls and in a mad rush, late into the night, i cut and pasted my heart out and finished 'i was thinking about having myself a mustache II'... that's right. 75 more out of context quotes from people i know!

a handful of friends have seen it, giggled and raved. so it must be a success. also, i just listed it on etsy. more than willing to trade…

so, my zine 'i was thinking about having myself a mustache' made it to the front page of etsy the other day. pretty much the best thing to ever happen to me (as of lately anyway).

in other news, i'm stuck in an endless loop of nothingness. i have to start making fall/winter collection at work (its hard sewing wool when its hot outside). i keep fussing around with all those sentence fragments that are supposed to be the next issue of 'she was ready for anything'...... to no…

so much for making a zine a month. where did april go? where did may go for that matter? in fact, i might have lost much of february somewhere too.....

i hope these missing months have gone somewhere good. i fear they fell into the dark pit that has formed in my mind. i'm losing a lot of things in there. birthdates, phone numbers, plans i made for a tuesday afternoon.

so i wrote a lot of single sentences. i don't know why, but i can't seem to pull them together into any…

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the plastic bag, the shopping cart and the payphone:

i really enjoyed making mini-zines. the photocopying is easy and low in cost, so bonus. i just might be on a mini-zine rampage. more guides to inanimate creatures will be built slowly until i don't find this amusing anymore…

i'm thinking about mini-zines this week.

i've never made one. but everytime i see one, i'm instantly in love. they are so cute. what's not to like? tiny little pocket sized bits o' goodness. i am going to build my first mini-zine by the end of this month. in fact, i am going to build my first, second and third mini-zine by the end of this month.

my dear friend matt insists that things should come in threes. more specifically, he states that e.p's should come in…