Calendar envelope from Katerina

This nice envelope from Katerina...

...contained this collage and another colorful minizine.

Zines

Z is for zines, minizines to be precise. MMSA occasionally has  a minizine swap challenge. A minizine is a zine made from a single sheet. You can see how this works here.

The theme was 'For the love of chocolate'.

The ones I created didn't scan very well because I used a lot of metallic chocolate packaging. I should have photographed them. Here are a couple of images from the MMSA site.

And here are a few pages from the beauties that came in from Mary, Trudy and bonus ones from Honi.

My favorite is the poem zine from Joanne.

And there it is, the end of the A-Z challenge, my first time participating. Feel free to celebrate with me by enjoying some chocolate.

I learned that there are too many blogs out there to read them all. I also learned the ins and outs of leaving a comment, from the very easy, to the sometimes bewilderingly challenging - almost like some people don't want you to leave a comment! Not to mention having to do the image captcha thingy every now and again to prove I am a human...

What did you learn from your A-Z challenge?

Did you learn anything from my A-Z challenge?

SandPo

Or more fully, sandpaper visual poetry. I love how the torn edges look like snow.

Thanks for the scanner warning, Kat!

She also sent a wonderful collaborative minizine - great saturated colors - and a bonus moon and stars.

Bananas in

A month ago was banana day - here's what landed for the celebration!

A joke and a giant banana artistamp... and its babies on the other side. And a ruby red £1.00 - the current one is brown; I like this color better. Thanks, Scott.

Thanks to Dean for this double-sided wonder.

 

stripygoose sent this card, and when the bands are removed.... they are banana-shaped.

TicTac (Ptrzia) sent these incredible faux stamps.

Angie's banana card and another cool faux stamp.

And a wonderful package from Carina.

And then stripygoose sent an amazing minizine collection!

Katerina's banana moon went missing, so it is nice to see it in the zine.

This is not the minizine you were looking for...

From Steve D.

Where the envelope is also the letter (I almost missed this, and only saw the typing when I was putting the minizine back in the envelope).

Bananas

A month ago I sent out banana mail.

This is what came in from:

Momkat

Angie & Snooky

Heleen one - bananas, minions and zentangles.

Helen two - can you believe it, this is a banana guard - it's huge, too big for the scanner. Love the stamps, too, particularly the cow.

Rebbeca (who forgot to sign hers and made me laugh)

stripygoose (a card and a minizine)

Linda F - this fab galactic winter banana ornament is huge - only just fit on the scanner

And bonus banana mail from Tomoe, who wasn't on the initial list. Sent in an envelope with a stamp dedicated to International Letting Writing Week. Included a couple of bonus pieces - love the african wild dogs - they look a bit like over ripe bananas!

Thanks, everyone!