new stockists

Pussycat Black and Arthur's Circus are two new stockists of mixtape, yippeeee!!
Please go to our website to see who else stocks us, as it is updated weekly.

Issue 8 features Peta Pledger in our "Sweet As" section, here are a couple of her swallow brooches which I adore! Just need them in yellow and white and I'll have the set.


I also popped into sticky the other day and picked up a copy of "Set Lists" (second reprint)


It's a corker! Bands I hadn't thought about in years BUT love like, Warped & Dern Rutledge all handed over their set lists after gigs held at the Tote here in Melbourne. Something so simple like 45 set lists to keep me amused. A really cool foreword by Bruce Milne:

Set lists
They're like the hidden hieroglyphics of rock'n'roll...

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stitches & craft stall mock up #1

mock up number 1
imagine a big image of Issue 8 above mixtape writing
to one side all other covers framed
and on the other side a heap of quiet time pillows for lots more colour
i'm happy!

cupcake call out

Sorry to keep banging on about this but it's all for a very good cause.
Outre Gallery are hosting the live draw for the Art Fights Fire raffle next Wednesday Feb 26, 2009.
Fat Yak Pale have donated the beer for the event YAY!
Now they need cupcakes.
So do you bake? Wanna donate cupcakes? You will need to be able to drop them into Outre next Wednesday Feb 25, 2009.
email me at feedbackDOTmixtapezineATgmailDOTcom and I will pass your details onto gemma.

Thanks guys!
Justine

PS I have 5 tickets left so get to it!

Art Fights Fire

mixtape zine is selling tickets to this

Please spread the word near and far. This is a really positive way to address the terribly grim fire situation in Victoria - and add to your art collection too.

So the deal is $10 per ticket which you can pay into our paypal account (all money raised goes to fire victims) I only have 20 tickets to sell so be quick!

$10 gets you in the draw to win some wicked art from the following peeps

• Ali J (Western Australia)
• Angelique Houtkamp (Amsterdam)
• APAK (USA)
• Audrey Kawasaki (courtesy of Outré Gallery)
• Beci Orpin (Melbourne)
• Ed Janssen, This Charming Man
• FRANKIE MAGAZINE
• Gemma Jones (ahem, that's me)
• Ghostpatrol (Melbourne)
• Gina Garan, This is Blythe (NYC)
• Hybryd
• Iggy and Loulou
• Jenny Hart, Sublime Stitching (USA)
• Konstant Kaos (Melbourne)
• kozyndan (Los Angeles)
• Lab Partners (San Francisco)
• Magic Jelly (South Australia)
• Meet Me At Mikes (Melbourne)
• Metropolis Books (Melbourne)
• Natalie Jeffcott, Arthur's Circus (Melbourne)
• Neryl Walker (Melbourne)
• Radical Cross Stitch
• Rebecca Murphy
• Shag (Los Angeles)

Once you have paid I will send you an email with your raffle ticket number and I will also pop your ticket in the post.

If anyone wins from the tickets I am selling I will call you immediately after the draw next Wednesday Feb 26, 2009.

Overseas readers we would love you to be involved and all we ask is that if you win a prize that you are prepared to pay for postage (approx $25).

sweet as! #2

A couple of my favorite (sweet as) finds:

bluebird hand carved stamp from Holly $6 . Holly is also selling a stamp package and all funds will go to the Victorian Fires collection. She also has a sweet flickr collection here.
and measuring tape brooch made by yasmin purchased @ incube8r $12

If you are into lowbrow art please think about buying a ticket for this.

art fights fire

Fellow friend and talented artist/crafter gemma jones has got a kick arse fund raiser happening to help Victorian Fire Victims out. Some amazing peeps have donated their work. Tickets will be on sale from this monday February 16. mixtape major sponsors "sublime stitching" have donated a piece of Jenny Harts art. See the post below taken (slightly changed) from gemmas kaotickraftkuties blog. Me and the family will be at the live draw and I'm going to sell tickets around the joint. Please get involved.

"Pink Birds" by Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching
available as part of our Art Fights Fire Raffle

Raffle tickets for "Art Fights Fire Fundraiser" will be on sale this coming MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY. Then a live draw at:

Outré in Melbourne
on Wednesday 25 February 2009,
249 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC 3000

The tickets will be available for $10 each over the counter from the following super ace stores:

Outré Gallery

249
 Elizabeth
 St

Melbourne


Meet Me At Mikes

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Brunswick 
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Arthur’s Circus

631 
Queensberry 
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Metropolis Books
Curtin 
House

Swanston
 St

Melbourne

There will also be a PayPal option from Monday Feb 16 on the Kaotickuties blog.

Please spread the word near and far. This is a really positive way to address the terribly grim fire situation in Victoria - and add to your art collection too.

Toy Society

My friend and fellow blogger Bianca who also founded The Toy Society has written a few posts here and here.
Please get in contact if you can help in any way shape or form.

Cheers :)

(post taken from my personal blog)
...So much is being written about the devastating fires we have in Victoria at the moment.
I don't know anyone personally that has been affected by them but I do feel stunned by the enormity of it all. The lives lost, the homes and lively hoods, the towns wiped out the list goes on and on and on.
I feel like a zombie walking around at the moment. It's times likes these when we see real humanity, people pulling resources and working together for the greater good. It makes me want to cry.
So many people are posting about how to help, click over here for a detailed list.
My family and I are personally donating our little lady's first 4 years of clothing to a family that have a 6 month old and lost EVERYTHING to the flames. I am also going to give blood. It doesn't seem like enough but it's something.

mail order goodness

picture taken from kingpod

Ok so I'm an Angry Chicken groupie from way back. I have all of her mail orders and oh how I'd get excited when I saw that red envelope arrive in the mail box.
The last couple of mailouts have been PDF's and although it's not the same as getting stuff in the mail they are still real fun to get.
Read about and purchase mailorder 9 here, I just got mine and I'm off to make the slippers! Stay tuned for the end product ( I have picked my fabric out already)...

*on a mixtape note*
We have been asked quite a bit in the past if mixtape will become available to buy as a PDF and the answer is no. I like keeping it old school. We print on 100% recycled paper and try to do our bit to help the environment. There's nothing like holding the zine in your hands. We all have enough time on the internet and I feel mixtape is taking the blog world off the computer and into your hands.
I do however support and buy downloadable PDF 's, it's just not where mixtape will be heading!
check out this rocking mag, their first issue is free as a PDF and from now on it will be in hard copy.

4x4 #14 Shannon

I first met Shannon way back in early 07 at the first blogmeet Nic and I organised.
Shannon also did mixtape's first ever cover that featured Nic & I and our girls (pre Heidi)
Oh Ms Lamden! you make me smile and giggle out loud. Short, sweet and straight to the point!

1. What is the name of your blog, and how did you come up with it?
Aunty Cookie. Cookie is my mums nickname, and im not being all ' ohh I love my mum so much Ill name a blog after her' I mean shes nice and all, actually most of the time shes not, shes quite aggressive. But anyway, always thought it was akinda cute name.
2. FOUR random songs on your ipod
Im not sure as the battery is dead....Ill guess. Cheesy rap, cheesy madonna, tryingot be cool Jolie Holland and my constantly rotated Detroit Cobras.
3. FOUR favorite books/movies
Heathers, Amelie, True Romance & The Exorcist.
4. FOUR things you can't live without
Sunglasses, sugar, ADSL and netball runners.
**extra** somewhere on the web we must visit NOW! ...........

Thanks for sharing love!