San Francisco Zine Fest 2012

 Last weekend my daughter Elana and her friend Annakai and I went to the San Francisco Zine Fest sfzinefest.org in Golden Gate Park. Jennie Hinchcliff of redletterdayzine.wordpress.com opened this world to us and we all had a great time at the Zine fest. I am going back next year! We could not see it all. And it was FREE to get in!

Elana and Annakai giving Jennie the Urban Journal. It is their high schools  literary Journal.

The SF County Fair Building was filled with people displaying and selling their Zines.

The wonderful table of mail art related material from the SF Correspondence Co-op.
I just joined this summer and I bought a lot of great material at this table and all over the festival.

The Fest had a library room of Zines to read and look at for your pleasure. 

Mail Art Workshop

                                          Postal Art Workshop

                 Join me at Ruth's Table and make mail art and support the U.S. Postal Service! We will make postcards, greeting cards and handmade envelopes using found and repurposed materials. 

A huge selection of my rubber stamps will be out for decorating and my die cutters as well. It should be a fun afternoon of creating items to be mailed. We all love getting mail. Make someones day and send a handmade greeting to them!

   Date: Sunday July 29, 2012 

              Ruth's Table

              580 Capp Street 

             SF, CA

          

             2:30 pm-4:30 pm

             Register at ruthstable.org

             Adults: $15.00 and children: $7.00

I got inspired to do more mail art  by my friend Jennie Hinchcliff  and her co- author Carolee Gilligan Wheeler who wrote  the book Good Mail Day- A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art by Quarry Books. Check it out!

I came across this little paper mail truck made by my daughter Elana when she was in 

kindergarten. Her class visited the real post office on a field trip. Of course I chaperoned 

the trip so I could get an inside look. Isn't it sweet? It is filled with Valentine messages.