cardboard box: Our All Expenses Paid Business Trip

CBB loves Wellington! And to be completely honest that works the other way too - our trip was such a positive experience, our zine has been so well received down there, it was quite overwhelming..

We spent the weekend visiting stockists and even adding another one to our list - Good as Gold on Victoria St - such a great store! We had a great brainstorm/diagram drawing session while scoffing cinnamon gelato on the waterfront where we finally sorted the problematic second cover, talked about the zine every opportunity we got and placed a whole heap of business cards around the city.

Here's Iko Iko's final copy hanging out on the shelf, only found after a depressing 10mins of browsing where we thought they didn't stock it after all! We got chatting to the gals behind the counter about CBB and a zine made by a group of (I think) 5 girls down there called Flouro, we even got a 10% discount on the kick-ass necklaces we both brought!

I was so excited to check out Swonderful as I had heard good things and religiously check their blog out, also they stock a rather ludicrous number of zines for us which is awesome! If the displaying of the signs we sent down to accompany the zines was a competition Swonderful would most definately win..

Zinefest was awesome! Nicola and I combined brought epic quantities of zines, they'll make for some great reading for weeks to come. I think we can be forgiven for not going to any of the talks, severe hangovers had been coming on all day and spending up large on zines really takes it out of you. We'll try and post reviews on the zines we brought, my favourite of which I can already tell you is - 'Neighbour Cats' for 50c.

Here's CBB on Cherry Bomb's stall, Tui definately had the widest spread collection of zines and books, very impressive.

Madame Fancy Pants is a stockist Mel approached for us so it was great to go in and meet the lovely ladies who run the shop who informed us that Wellington City Library had brought a copy off them for their permanent collection - exciting!