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Happy Lammas!

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Today is mid-summer. Truly. We are halfway through summer, celestially speaking. Today(ish) is the cross quarter between summer solstice and autumnal equinox.

I think of it as The Feast of Sunflowers and/or First Harvest. Gardens are overflowing. Hopefully, your life is overflowing with abundance of growth, happiness, contentment, peace, change, permanence, love, and all the beauty that Life has to share with us.

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

—Oberon describes Titania’s bower, where she sleeps. Act 2, Scene 1

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare

Today, I’m working on finishing my Apocalypse zine. Zine Fest is upon us!!! October 4-6. So I’m trying to finish up my half-done zines for my table there. If all goes as planned – and we all know how that goes – then I’ll have 4 completed full size zines, 1 mid-size zine, and 3 mini-zines. I’m proud of myself.

can’t sleep. zine’ing instead.

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I work tonight. (nurse. three 12-hour shifts in a row starting tonight) I ought to be sleeping.

Can’t. Tried. Got my schedule outa whack on my days off.

So, I’m zine’ing. Working on the cover and the page numbers of the Road Trip Zine. Then it’ll be FINISHED!! Then I’ll figure out which pages to post as an excerpt. It’s a good one, filled with lots of photos and some fun word associations.

You’ll see.

II.VI.S.back cover

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back cover

 

The End

… or go back a page …

… or start at the front cover …

II.VI.S.v.vi.

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II.VI.S.v.vi.

& close the little book to see the back cover ….

… or go back a page …

… or start over at the front cover …

II.VI.S.iii.iv.

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iii.iv.

turn the page again …

… or go back a page …

… or start over at the front cover …

II.VI.S.i.ii.

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i.ii.

turn the page …

… or go back to the front page …

II.VI.S.front cover – Ornamental Patterns of Feminine Hygiene

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ornamental patterns of feminine hygiene

ornamental patterns of feminine hygiene

*open* the cover to the inside …

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Well, it took me the better part of the afternoon.  I cleared my desk of all the business-y sort of paperwork that had piled up in the past week. And now I can get down to the fun of zine’ing.

Worked on a mini-zine last week. I’ll post it later today. Promise.

And it rained this afternoon. Life is good.

desk is cleared, ready to zine

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home. road. house. family. journey. cloud.

some of the words from the Thesaurus and Dictionary and book of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Prepositions that I have that I’m copying for my Road Trip Zine. There are some interesting associations. Not as dramatic as some of the past issues, but, hey, it’s a road trip. It’s not supposed to be serious.

makin’ copies

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zine’in’. working on the middle touches. It’s like last minute touches, except that they happen in the middle. I’ve got most of the photos into the places where they’ll go. Now I’m adding zine flare. This is the really fun part!!

I’ll post a page later today (this week-ish) so you can see an example of what I’ve been working on for the Road Trip Zine.

middle touches