And Now -- A 'Zine
Ok, today I visited the wemakezines.com site and spent a little time there again, clicking through posts and checking posted links for ideas. One got me over to Pinterest which had a nice variety of home made zines showing. It got me motivated to start a little project of my own.
I figure if I could come up with something Steampunk oriented, and got the creative juices flowing, AND it was put together nice enough to sell possibly on Etsy or at a Zinefest, that'd be great. Since I like Trilobites, I sort of got off on this quirky idea of blending those with a fake family history, putting things into a sort of alternative dimension remembrance.
It was a LOT of fun! Finding the old photos of bakeries, horse drawn delivery trucks, 'fake' ancestors and storefronts took about two hours. I had more than I anticipated, making for a larger booklet, but they were all too good to pick only a few so I expanded with more text and got deeper into the family history. Picking the font style to look 1920's to 1930's was easy, and I played around with the placement on the page, shifting to Landscape to get it to lay out right.
Heck I even put an advertisement on the back about the Trilobite Harvest Festival June 8th, LOL! Free parking and everything.
It's 5 pages, double sided, in black and white. I've got the mock up all done and it I'll stop off at Kinkos tomorrow to get a bunch printed up. They charge 10 cents a page, so double sided makes it $1 per booklet..... sort of steep when you think of it since doing 20 of them will cost me $20 bucks. But it's probably cheaper than me using up all my home printer ink getting it copied off.
Title is Making Trilobite Pies, A Family Remembrance. Selling price -- likely $2 or $3 for each. I'll make a few for family and friends, then the rest is for selling.
I figure if I could come up with something Steampunk oriented, and got the creative juices flowing, AND it was put together nice enough to sell possibly on Etsy or at a Zinefest, that'd be great. Since I like Trilobites, I sort of got off on this quirky idea of blending those with a fake family history, putting things into a sort of alternative dimension remembrance.
It was a LOT of fun! Finding the old photos of bakeries, horse drawn delivery trucks, 'fake' ancestors and storefronts took about two hours. I had more than I anticipated, making for a larger booklet, but they were all too good to pick only a few so I expanded with more text and got deeper into the family history. Picking the font style to look 1920's to 1930's was easy, and I played around with the placement on the page, shifting to Landscape to get it to lay out right.
Heck I even put an advertisement on the back about the Trilobite Harvest Festival June 8th, LOL! Free parking and everything.
It's 5 pages, double sided, in black and white. I've got the mock up all done and it I'll stop off at Kinkos tomorrow to get a bunch printed up. They charge 10 cents a page, so double sided makes it $1 per booklet..... sort of steep when you think of it since doing 20 of them will cost me $20 bucks. But it's probably cheaper than me using up all my home printer ink getting it copied off.
Title is Making Trilobite Pies, A Family Remembrance. Selling price -- likely $2 or $3 for each. I'll make a few for family and friends, then the rest is for selling.
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