writing a zine

decided that i was going to organise my random ramblings into some semblance of order and inflict them on the unsuspecting public. the first one is about being queer. it's been only a few weeks and already i'm learning so much.

1. making zines is fun

2. open source software is halving my work

3. i know lots of interesting things and some of my favourite conversations are with myself.

4. perfectionism dogs my every step!

once it's done i'll put pretty pictures on the cover and give it to people i like. yay me.

lessons learnt

don't raise your voice

don't question anyone bigger than you

don't expect anyone to listen to you or care if you manage to get the words out

don't think you'll be taken seriously if you're in pain

don't be silly, or smart, or anything at all.

The story of the spree

I got an email from a friend telling me that there was a massive sale on at Spotlight. This of course led to my arranging to go to aforementioned sale.

There was a lot of fabric and quite a lot of it was hideous. They had also done that cunning thing where only some fabrics were on sale and those on sale were placed tantalisingly close to those at exorbitant prices. I dealt with this by having iron resolve and refusing to buy any fabric that was not on sale. So I walked several times around the two large tables of sale fabrics and made a number of passes of the just cut tables so as to maximise the finding of awesomeness.

So here is my haul... spotty satin fabric in purple and blue, teal silk, brown suiting, two lots of cotton shirting, checkered canvas, some lining, the cray grey and yellow print jersey, lilac with hippopotamuses (i?), and of course a lot of blue spotted tulle.

I paid $16.55 for around 34m of fabric!