mixtape and Whipup‘s joint venture, we both share our ideas, cool links and general goings on. Oh my! a bit of craft action has happened here at mixtape headquarters:
Inspired by Nicoles post and my mate Fi’s pattern. I finally sat down last night and started my first foray into this calming craft action! It has been nice to start with these tiny ones.
Vickie Howell’s Crafty Corps
…The primary goal of both the blog and the book is to nurture our wonderful community by telling your stories and elevating the perception of the value of craft, all crafts, amongst society. Being creative, as a hobby or professionally, is a gift and deserves to be celebrated…
Handmade Nation
When is this out on DVD?? Everybody should see this doco, everybody!
Emerging Writers Festival
mixtape has a stall in the atrium at FED SQUARE on Sunday May 31st from 12-5pm. You will able to buy the current issue.
VINCE
Meaghan is the CUTEST thing ever and her letterpress cards are to die for.
Can’t wait to purchase Gracia’s latest zine
Aunty Cookies latest craft scmaft is totally killing me! I will need the WHOLE alphabet.
Susy Pow has an online zine shop which you can check out here
Listening:
Justin Townes Earl – Midnight at the Movies
Watching:
Revolutionary Road
Reading:
Business as Un-usual, thanks for the recommendation Kelley
Got something you’d like to suggest I write about in this weekly update? email me!!
Justine
mixtape and Whipup‘s joint venture, we both share our ideas, cool links and general goings on. Like Kathreen from whipup I missed a week of writing the mixtape mashup. The week prior I had spent in Brisbane working my mixtape magic at the Stitches & Craft show. Talking to people for 8 hours a day takes it’s toll on you after 5 days! Anyhow I felt like a week was needed to recharge my batteries and now here I am back and ready to play!
One of my customers at the show actually found out about mixtape via whip up – so it’s nice to know someone is reading!
CRAFT/ART:
Madeline Stamer who designed Issue 8′s cover is having an exhibition in Bendigo - read more about it here.
I now have an intern! can you believe it?!! Her name is Manderlee and part of her job is to look around this wonderful online craft community and report back her cool findings. Her first photographs for mixtape will appear in Issue 10 in an article on the Threadden girls.
For this week my two top finds are:
PedroSprout – Michelle’s little baby shoes are KILLERS
madebymaisie – Catherine’s dolls are beautifully made and I love that they all have their own names/personalities
MUSIC:
mixtape is now an official business subscriber to my most favorite station here in Melbourne town RRR.
The family and I spent Friday afternoon in Basement Disc’s seeing The Wagons play live, have you heard them? Well their song “Love me like I love you” is hands down the song of the year for me.
BOOKS:
I’m currently reading the charismatic Russell Brand’s – My Booky Wook
I’ve also pre-ordered Soulemamas and Amy Carols upcoming crafty numbers.
I popped into the AMAZING Metropolis Books yesterday and they are down to ONE copy left of mixtapezine 8, YAY!!
I also purchased a children’s book called, “Rosie’s Walk” for a birthday present. Rosie’s Walk was one of MY favourites as a kid, do you remember it?
DON’T FORGET ….. Issue 9 is available for pre-sale NOW
mixtape has just embarked on a joint venture with
Whipup. We will both be sharing our ideas, cool links and general goings on.
My aim is to post once a week and give you a “round up” of the week that has been. The post will be put up on the
mixtape blog and also on the
Whipup blog.
What is
mixtape?
click here to find out***HOT OF THE PRESS**
Get your badge action on! Click here for details. Only 30 packs (Limited Edition) being made up and they go on Sale Monday morning 9AM E.S.T. The first theme is Alice In Wonderland.
Every month we run a past issue article through the kids style website, check it here
We got sent Beci Orpin’s sweet Tiny mammoth clothing labels winter range magazine. It’s full of sweet things to do with your kidlets, a pull out poster, an interview with Justine Clarke, how to make heart flowers and the list goes on. This is all amongst the cool winter clothes you can purchase. Nice work!
Live in Melbourne? Love coffee? then this is for you!
Cupcake maker or lover? check these out awesome ;) – thanks peta!
Have you seen this great looking tote ready to be fancied up by you?
The latest issue of Bust has been on my desk for the past two weeks. Do you know how much I love this mag? It has EVERYTHING that is interesting to me, craft, music/book reviews, art, pop culture IT IS DIVINE – do you read it?
I’ve always been a big fan of blogging but I just can’t seem to get into Face book or Twitter. What are your thoughts?
That’s enough rambling for this week. Happy Easter/Passover. I’ll write again in two weeks.
Justine
Editor/Publisher mixtapezine.com
mixtape has just embarked on a joint venture with
Whipup. We will both be sharing our ideas, cool links and general goings on.
My aim is to post once a week and give you a “round up” of the week that has been. The post will be put up on the
mixtape blog and also on the
Whipup blog.
What is
mixtape?
click here to find out
The week that was:Well it’s the end of the month and the end of an era for mixtape. We decided a few weeks ago that as of the 31st of March 2009 we would stop printing back issues (1-7). They will however are be available to purchase as a PDF file as of March 31st. What this means is that every issue beginning with the current (8) is a collectors item, a one off professional print job!
Did I tell you that mixtape will be at the Stitches & Craft Show in Brisbane from 29 April – 3 May 2009. You just gotta come and check out the incubator section, see handmade nation and check out the tea cosy revolution. There are still all your traditional stands and the like mixed in with a lot of new. I’m looking forward to meeting all the Brissy Style chicks!
***I am looking for people to help me out during the show just for a few hours each day, please email me at feedback.mixtapezineATgmailDOT com if you are interested and want to find out more***
Mixtape has finally gone and got a proper mail list updater, please join us.
This weeks sweetness:
upstyling contest from the rockin’ sublime stitching
beautiful quilt pattern
feed your soul with issue 6′s cover artist Mandy Sutcliffe
Australianresidents who have an active blog can join in this fabric Blog VIP club
Wardrobe Refashion has a mixtape comp going on as I write.
looking forward to the 2nd issue in hardcopy
Happy April peeps!
Justine
Inspired by Nicoles post and my mate Fi’s pattern. I finally sat down last night and started my first foray into this calming craft action! It has been nice to start with these tiny ones.
