Swap-A-Cloth

If your wardrobe looks anything like my sister's you should probably head along to Swap-A-Cloth, held at 8A Mount Eden Road, Saturday 21st February, from 10-4pm, as you'll have a lot of pre-loved (clean!) clothing to choose from to put in a bag to take along!

Take $5 with you and swap to your heart's content till your bag is refilled - you may not diminish any piles of clothing cluttering up your room but at least the piles will be of new clothes!

To make the day even better there will be screenprinting, sewing machines and other do-it-yourself crafts to modify existing items, that, along with the drinks and home baked goodies that will be available and the fact that it's all for charity should be all the reasons you need to head along!

Contact Felicity Perry - felicity.perry@gmail.com for more information.

Exciting News!!

I went into OUi Boutique (where the zine is stocked along with World Sweet World and Makeshift) in St Kevin's Arcade today to take some sweet pics to accompany the interview for Issue Three with Lou, the owner, who is so awesome that she's offered to have a CBB #3 Launch Party at the shop! Which we are both very excited about! As this can only happen once we have Issue Three out it means we've just got one more reason to keep working away at it.

We've officially got all content so thanks to everyone who is contributing, it's going to be a great Issue!

See you all at the Launch! 

Back On!

CBB #3 is officially back on! Keep your eyes peeled..

taking a break

I pinched this image off Swonderful's blog because it's so beautifully shot and the zines look so nice and pristine!

So, we've decided to take a bit of a summer break due to financial issues amongst other things, we will aim to have Issue Three out by the end of February but we'll have to see what happens. Don't worry though Cardboard Box will be back.. hopefully catch us as Cross Street Carnival on February the 14th, if we don't accepted we'll still be there with bells on - it's going to be an awesome day!

Issue Three

So Issue Three is well under way and we've got some exciting people featuring! Some of our lovely artists whose work we will have the pleasure of showing off include Sophie Corban, recent graduate of a BVA at AUT (what Nicola and I both did) and also a very good friend. She's been snapped up by dealer gallery Seed in Newmarket already and it's not hard to see why with her edgy work: 

Sally Shand originally contacted us about the art swap advertised in Issue One but her work was so amazing (self described as like 'frankie') we just had to get her to feature! 

Jo Galvin is an artist/photographer/curator involved in some cool projects around Auckland, her photography blows me away, it's so beautifully shot..

Oh and Kraftbomb is coming up this Sunday - Grey Lynn Community Centre from 11-2pm so come along and buy a copy of Issue Two or one of the 6 Issue One's we have left - we'd love to see you there! It's the Christmas edition so it's sure to be good.

the stall..

Craftwerk was such an awesome night, sold plenty of zines.. Also Oui Boutique in St Kevin's now stocks CBB which is very exciting for us, Marita Hewitt who featured in Issue One has her amazing work up at Oui right now - check it out!

Craftwerk

We just got into Craftwerk! Yuss!! Come and check out our stall this Thursday night in St Kevins Arcade..

a wee mention

A big thank you to Julia from Studio Home Creative who stumbled across CBB in Queenstown and put up a lovely post about it on her blog - check it out! 

HOARD

I thought it was high time I reviewed another zine purchased at Zinefest - well two actually - Issues One and Two of HOARD. Nicola brought Issues Three and Four but these ones jumped out at me because they both document collections of items that I have been known to hoard myself. Infact I am a chronic hoarder of all things useful and more often otherwise and these zines send such a massive wave of nostalgia over me it's amazing. 

In the intro to Issue One - Stamps, writer Hurricane wants me to join him in 'this several part series where I waste my time and space on collections so you don't have to' but actually he succeeds in the opposite - I want to drag my stamp collection (in an official album of course) out of the cupboard and get back into it!!

The stamps are all well organised, according to countries and what's pictured on the stamps - planes, outerspace and animals etc..

I actually have the entire butterfly collection pictured here..

Yeah.. so when I was overseas when I was younger I collected sugar, as well as sand (which produced a solitary bad-ass moment when I got caught taking a few crumbs off the Pyramids!) and coins, so this one brings back memories too..

I love the backgrounds of maths and refill paper!

I think my sugar collection is gone forever but at least with this zine I get to relive the feeling of satisfaction I had upon returning to NZ laden with sugar sachets!

Kraftbomb!

In my mad rush out of the door in an intensely hungover state on Sunday morning I stupidly forgot my camera but rest assured.. our stall looked great!

It was our most successful outing to Kraftbomb yet and we sold a record number of zines, with at least three people I can remember specifically purchasing Issues One AND Two - one of whom was fellow Kraftbomb-er Miss Deb who makes awesome sock monkeys - we're hoping you aren't regretting succumbing to our persuasive pitch!! Such a positive experience.

We have just been confirmed for the Christmas edition of Kraftbomb (21st of Dec) which sounds like it's going to be epic so come along and find all your friends and family members awesome Christmas presents - a few issues of CBB perhaps?!

#2

Yuss!!

Our first review!

Sarah Gauntlett from Nzgirl.com popped by our stall at the last Kraftbomb to pick up a copy of Issue One to review..

The review is now up as part of The Art's Insider: November and we have the pleasure of featuring alongside other fellow Kraftbombers. I love how inclusive calling us nzgirls is! Follow this to check it out..

Thanks Sarah!

Neighbour Cats!

Neighbour Cats one of the awesome zines Nicola and I brought at Zinefest.. It is basically exactly what the title would suggest, with every cat in the neighbourhood of the writer getting a portrait of themselves, an in depth character description, notes on colouring (both making spotting them easier if you were to say, go looking for them as I am severely tempted to do on my next Wellington trip!) and a friendliness rating.

Each cover features a different cat and I love the little guy on the front of mine! The zine is printed onto that great refill paper that little kids use to learn to write on - the triple thickness lines with a dotted line through the middle.

This is a map giving exact cat locations, each cat corresponding with a letter.

Jobbles (A.) is undoubtedly my fave, he comes first in the zine and is followed by his neighbours including Gate-Face, who in desperate attempts for affection tries to squeese himself through his gate, Dogloo Cat, who lives in an igloo shaped doghouse and apparently isn't too friendly and Lexi who unfortunately has no hair.

Awesome! 

November Kraftbomb

This Kraftbomb will be especially exciting for us because it will be the launch of the much anticipated (by us anyway!) Issue Two! We've put together all the pages, designed a great cover to rival the success of the brown paper of Issue One and are all ready to go except it needs to be laid up by our super computer lady Jess and then printed.. minor details..

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!

Some great graffiti spotted on Cuba Street!

Mintie's Market

So this weekend Nicola and I head to Wellington! We can't wait to check out all our stockists, hit up Zinefest (I've just designed some cute business cards to be on hand for networking purposes!) and now we've been told by our awesome friend Mel that we may just have a stall at the newly set-up Mintie's Market on the Sunday! Even if we don't end up with a stall we will still be there with bells on.. oh to live in Wellington..