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Today’s post is a tutorial on making a mini zine holder out of paper, inspired by a Casio watch’s packaging. As zine fest season approaches and we all prepare to display our wares, print and fold your own DIY mini zine holder, and then share this with all your mini zine-making friends who could use a cheap, easy way to put their zines on display.

I realized that I made more zines in 2025 than any year prior, and that proliferation led to a few revelations about my “process”. Here is what making zines in 2025 taught me about my own art-practice.

January feels, simultaneously, like the beginning of the year… and a moment of reflection and contemplation before the year’s true start come spring… and part of an endless continuum that stretches on and on. I’m trying to cultivate the feeling that this image of rabbits that I found on tumblr gives me: a silk-soft, cozy warmth, a sleep ripe for dreaming. Hibernation. But, that being said, somehow my calendar has already filled up for January. Time stops for no mouse! When I reset my altar at the start of the month, I drew a card from my favorite deck (the Slow Holler tarot) to represent my year: the 9 of Vessels, […]

Today I wanted to share with y’all the different tactics that helped me bust through writer’s block as I crafted my latest zine, catmothcrow three, and a few prompts that helped shape the final form this zine took. Part of writing zines is dealing with writer’s block, but hopefully these tips and ideas will help the block be more of a tiny hurdle you can skip on over, rather than some sort of massive labyrinth that leaves you feeling lost.

Like many zinesters, I’m a journaler. A daily diarist, note-taker, recorder, and doodler. If I don’t write something down I tend to forget it, and while I rarely re-read my diaries, there’s just something about the act of writing that helps the memories gel. Which is all just to say that I’ve got a pretty sizeable collection of journals that I work out of.