A Morning Full of Possibilities

Having an entire morning to myself is so rare that I actually have to call attention to it. Is that strange for you childless people? I'm sure you have stock in spare time. Me, though? Yeah. It's so rare that I blog about it. Haha

I've been really rolling around a massive amount of ideas in my head about my very own zine, Loco Pantaloons. I have sososo many ideas and things that I want to do I hardly know where to begin. 

First, I want the cover to be handmade and delicate. I am going to be making the cover by making the actual paper for it with scraps of paper around the house. I am going to hand-bind the zine with embroidery thread or ribbon. I am not going to make more than 100 at a time or at all, for each individual issue. 

When I decided to make my own zine, I came up with a list of things that I loved about zines that not one single zine possessed all of. Here's the list.


Something funny
Something heartfelt
Something educational
Poetry that isn't self-written
Quotes that are meaningful
In-depth zine reviews, but not a bunch of them
A really thoughtful cut & paste layout (No receipts!)
A handmade feel to it
Text-heavy, but a good balance of visuals and words
More than 20 pages. I like thicker zines that I can read for a while.

So after I took a look at that list I decided to write my own zine. And write it I did. Except that I started making a quarter size zine and I realize now that I write way, way too much to have such a small zine. I should have made it half-size. But I love the smallness of the quarter-size. Maybe it's a good thing I have an industrial stapler that will staple through 50 sheets of paper. I may need it.

I just have to remember that I actually have the room to elaborate on backstories now. Before I never did. "Suffice to say" became a regular written phrase of mine. Now I have a whole zine to do whatever I want with! Oh, the possibilities!

So, I will be writing a little bit this a.m. for Loco Pantaloons. I'm also thinking of doing some album art if I can. I have some old records that I want to do something artistic with, but just haven't figured out what I want to do EXACTLY yet. I'll doodle a little today and see if anything comes of it.