GOALS ZINE February Progress

So it's the end of February, which is a good time to remember that I have some goals. One of which is to make the previously mentioned zine tracking goal progress, successes and failures.

I think it is also a good time to meet ( Katrina, Shawna ) to talk about what our goals are and to get started on some drawings ( On a Tuesday for Shawna's convenience? ) 

Here is a list of my 2014 Goals:

*** Don't over do it; Make time for relaxing and quality time with friends and Eben

*** Spend less time worrying about art and career aligning and use that time to make more art; Take a weaving class

*** Call your Mom and Sister weekly

*** Spending money on food is OK/important; Learn to make stock and stop buying cartons of stock; Pickle something 

*** Read 8 books; Read more nonfiction and worry less about reading the classics

*** Participate in at least one craft fair; Consider making things that people can use 

*** Don't be lazy at the gym

*** TV is not more important than sleeping 

xx

Sarah

Commenting not working for me?

I tried to comment three times and nothing is showing up! I don't know what's going on! Halp!

also my comment was about the New Years Resolutions Zine! I'm in! I've resolved to make more little art and to hold a show. Maybe a show with you guys? In the fall or around that time? Also very excited to make some textile art! What are people making?

A 2014 Zine Project about Goals or Whatever....

Katrina and I are making a zine!  It's a year long project (a goal in and of itself!) about 2014 G O A L S !

This is my proposal: Set some goals. They can be anything (Katrina wants to make a rug, I want to make stocks and broths instead of buying the carton kind)! Make drawings, etc. about how it goes or doesn't go. I don't want this to be a zine about WORKING OUT EVERY DAY/LOSE WEIGHT!!!!!!!!! Because I think those kinds of goals are lame/setting yourself up to fail is a crappy thing to do to yourself. These goals will be about trying to do something and it's ok if doesn't work out!

Hopefully there will be at least one or two entries per person per month.  Right now I am in the process of thinking about the things I value and what my goals should be. Some are serious and some are fun... 

Let me know if you want to be a part of the zine!

xxxooo
Sarah

MONSTERS AND CLUB BUSINESS

(by katrina)

My mom wrote me some monster drawing instructions for christmas! Here they are! 

Now down to club business...

We have not been meeting as doodleclub lately. We have been meeting as craftclub and that is fun because it includes additional fun ladies. We still talk about drawing and look at books/pictures but we also get to teach and learn different fiber arts skills.

We will be having a show at Caffetto in May. It will be fabric/fiber based things. Probably mainly embroidery and some mixed media stuff. If you are interested in taking part in the show, let me know.

THIS WEEK!

(by katrina)

This week we will meet at the Nicollet. I have confirmed that there will be NO stand up comedy.

See you boogers around 730/8.

MODERN TIMES SHOW

Up until the 4th of December. 

It looks great. Great things by Molly, Sarah, Shawna and Me. 

Party on the 18th, 7 to 10 pm. 

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30th NOTES

Tonight those who attended were Shawna, Molly, Sarah and Me (Katrina).

I brought the Aesop's Fable cards again, Shawna brought a Beatles Illustrated Lyrics book. 

We met at the coffee shop and SURPRISE it was stand up comedy night... they were sooooo loud and said a lot of things that pushed my buttons and were mildly to blatantly offensive. I felt like an angsty easily pushed over the edge teenager again (as a feminist and as a woman...). We looked at eachothers childhood obsession drawings and drew some. It was hard to concentrate and hard to communicate with eachother, so we left. We went to the Bad Waitress and spent another two hours together girl talking and drawing and eating delicious food.

Drawings for the show will be picked up Sunday or Monday. Childhood Obsession pages should be turned in by Friday. 

It was a great evening. It was beautiful and foggy outside. Makes me want some SNOW! 

THIS WEEK

Hey  friends,

THIS WEEK WE WILL MEET AT THE NICOLLET.

I might be a titch late, but I'll be there.

xokatrina

NEXT WEEK - WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30th

(by Katrina)

PLEASE work on your child obsession zine contribution. ALSO, if you want to hang anything in the show at Modern Times let me know!

We will meet Wednesday night, Location TBA, around 8 pm.

If you want to craft, there will be a craft night the next Wednesday (November 6th, also location TBA).

Official call for submissions!!!

Hi!

As most of us know, Katrina has an art show coming up in November.  I would like to get the HORSES HORSES HORSES zine finished for her opening! This means everyone should please get me a drawing or two by our next meeting on Wednesday, October 30th. If that isn't possible then you can bring them to me at work.

here are the specifications:

I'll be making a black and white half zine. That means your drawing should fall within the paper size of 8.5"x5.5" I would like the zine to be portrait orientation.

In case you forgot HORSES HORSES HORSES is a zine about childhood obsessions. My childhood obsession #1 was obviously HORSES so you can expect a drawing about all the different horse books I had and read religiously and a drawing of all the different horse toys I had.

repeat: please bring me a few drawings you want to have included in the zine SOON because Katrina's opening is SOON!!

xo
Sarah

ACK another busy non-drawing Wednesday approaches

This Wednesday is the Wedge Community Co-op annual member meeting, that is where I will be. I think quite a few of us will be there. Should we meet Thursday? OR just busy ourselves with nesting and independent drawing and have a grrrrreat meeting next week?

let me know please.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 17th NOTES

(by katrina)

It was a nice rainy Thursday evening. We met at Molly's beautiful house (with heated floors!!!). There was no drawing, but there was pizza and book browsing (and for me, the fun of watching a friend's family interact). 

in attendance ... Molly and me AND Molly's sister Sarah and their parents.

Books we looked at...

The Book of 100 Hands
Drawing the Female Form
Drawing 50 Vehicles (I'll find a link for this later)
The Mountain that Loved a Bird by Alice McLerran (thank you Sarah!)
Aesop's Fables card set (I will try to find online images/information for them)
Molly's big printing book (I want to look through it and I don't remember it's name)

THIS WEEK

(by katrina)

Can we meet on Thursday instead of Wednesday? Does that work for people who want to hang out?
(we would meet at someones (molly) house and have snacks and draw and look at books.

I was poking through this website today... http://imagespublicdomain.wordpress.com/category/library-of-congress/
Maybe you will like it too?

NOW, Lets work on more mini zines.

If you want to be in charge of making one, post it on here (email me your gmail address and I will add you as an author!) and figure out what you need and when you need it by. 

What is it called?
What is it about?
What are you looking for in submissions? 
When you plan to have it ready? (is it for an event?)
When you need contributions by?
Do you want/need cash help for production?

Also, what is the...
size
image orientation (landscape or portrait)
edge margin
wanted contribution pages per person (minimum and maximum)

Will it be black and white?

I am making one about 'monday' type moments. I will post soon my list of details so that you can contribute.

Text, fb or email me (katrina4ever AT g m a i l DOT com) about meetings, if you have questions, etc...

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9th NOTES

(by katrina)

This week was a small small meeting. Only Sarah and me.
We met at the Nicollet and were able to lounge in the sqishy armchairs around a small coffee table.

No drawing happened except for I drew a sad mouth and Sarah drew a sad sad face.

Books that were present and looked at...

• Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake
• Drawing From Life, The Journal As Art by Jennifer New
• Acme Novelty Date Book - volume one and two by Chris Ware
• Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick - a Book of Postcards by Cristy C Road
• Celtic Design - A Beginners Manual by Aidan Meehan
• One! Hundred! Demons! by Linda Barry
• Scrapbook - Uncollected Work 1990-2004 by Adrian Tomine

Other notable topics of conversation were house plants, Bright Eyes and that I admitted to owning the record box set, Amelia Bedelia and other childhood favorite books, decorative tittles - love or hate and changing opinions over time, the variety of bean in my cup of soup that was not fully cooked, Sarah said to make sure to chew those ones really well, I ended up picking them out. Also Sarah had coffee that was hot and tasted strong. We had prime people watching views of the intersection from our seats and learned that skateboards are really loud.

I am having a show at Modern Times in November. If you, doodle club member, would like to contribute to the show, let me know!!! So far confirmed I have Molly and Sarah. Hopefully Shawna too? I am making a thing to display zines, they will be on hooks to take down and read.

I think we should set up an etsy page to sell the zines also; maybe some crafts too. I'll get on that later this week!

LAST MINUTE CHANGE

(by katrina)

Instead of at that* house, lets meet at the Nicollet at 730/8

cool? cool.

*I think we will be meeting there later this month though

and, boo, wednesdays look bad for the rest of the month, what are Mondays or Tuesdays like for folks?

we did not meet this last week and other club business

(by katrina)

Two people couldn't make it, I had an awful headache, the storm was coming in, blah blah blah. We did not meet. But next week we will. At someones house. If you are interested in joining us, contact me for details.

Lets all work on our jokes and childhood obsessions. Emily and Sarah, please post sizes and deadlines.  

Lets get some more zines done, then I will send a package to Quimby's in Chicago. I would also like to get some out to Moon Palace Books and Boneshaker Books. Boneshaker will be having a zine event in a month or so. Jenny and I went to the last one. It was nice. All the zines brought were set on tables around a room with people milling about trading zines and browsing. Where else could we put our zines? I Like You? Big Brain Comics? 

I would like to make patches with the 'logo' of the club. 

On another note...



For each future doodle club meetings I would like to make a post containing:

• who was there
• what books we brought to share (linked to information on them)
• any links to pages we discussed or looked at that are worth sharing
• draw battle/collaboration documentation
• any interesting things we think you should know, like upcoming shows and events...
• etc...

AND lets start linking up our own blogs and things we love as gadgets on the side bar. Everyone draw a 2"x2" picture of themselves and that will be your link list image. We can also use that to identify who writes posts or whatever.

GOING FORWARD...

(posted by Katrina)

Thank you everyone who came out for Zine Fest. It was a really great time. There were so many great people tabling their zines and posters and other neat things. There were so many great people just there to check it out.  Thank you Minneapolis.

Last week was Jenny's last doodle club get together, this week was Emily's. Oh ladies. I am going to miss you so much. We will work together using technology and the USPS. You will form auxiliary chapters and hopefully we will all meet our drawing/book sharing/girl talk/nerdy craft talk needs.

This week was our last meeting at Anodyne. 

Next week will be at someone's house. If you don't know who that someone is, message/call/talk to me (or whoever you know about doodle club from) for details.

After next week we may rotate between coffee shops and houses. It will be getting cooler soon and so knitting and crafting will be in the air too. I wonder if maybe it would be a good idea to have every other week be drawing, and then the next knitting/crafting?  Most of us do both so we would still get our weekly girl time in, I have some other friends who don't draw but we like to knit together regularly in the cooler months. It would be fun. On the crafting weeks we could take turns leading some sort of tutorial or informational talk and help with something specific (like gel medium transfers, book making, mitten gussets, crochet, blah blah blah).

TWIN CITIES ZINE FEST

 

This directly copied and pasted from the Facebook invite page...   "Zinefest is the Twin Cities’ premiere DIY and self-publishing event, and we are celebrating our tenth anniversary this year! The TC Zinefest strives to connect the Twin Cities community to DIY culture as openly and easily as possible by making tables affordable to exhibitors, and admission free to attendees. Come to trade, buy, talk and learn! More than 60 exhibitors will showcase their cut-and-paste creations at the tenth annual Twin Cities Zinefest on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Powderhorn Park Recrea...tion Center in Minneapolis. Saturday, Sept. 21: 12-5pm Twin Cities Zinefest Powderhorn Park Building 3400 15th Ave S, Minneapolis FREE! 60+ exhibitors, as well as a pop-up table for those who didn't get a table, or who have only one zine--so bring a few zines! Also, the traveling vegan chef, Joshua Ploeg, is making a return this year, so make sure you come hungry! See More"    --------   I went to kinkos tonight and made my new second tips and tricks zine. I plan on going back tomorrow and running off more copies of the 4th of July one and maybe some cookbooks. Not sure... If you would like to join me, text me or email me or FB me etc... I am thinking 7 or 8 pm? Maybe earlier if that works.

I hope to see everyone on Saturday!

xoKatrina

♞ Childhood Obsessions Zine ♞

Hello D O O D L E C L U B !

I would like to put together a zine about childhood obsessions! The title is going to be HORSES HORSES HORSES because my childhood obsession #1 was all things equine. I'm undecided about the size, but I'd like it to be portrait orientation.  Please, bring ideas/drawings to next weeks meeting -- the final zine will ideally have 2-4 drawings per person.

-SKR

sept 4

same same same I will probably get chili again also
-katrina