Sunday, March 15, 2009

Nothing

Finally, some new collage, thanks to my recent retreat with my writers groups. Jen and I got collaging, and I suggested we have some collage weekends in the future as there's no point getting out all those words and make all that mess for just one poem.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Zazzle shop

Now that Zazzle has tools to create many products at once, I'm spending more time in my zazzle shop:

Come and have a browse!

Labels: writing, zazzle

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Saturday, August 02, 2008

Long time, no collage

It's been a long time between collages...




but with Jen back in town and the Byron Bay Writers Festival to renew our mojo, new collage poetry was created.



Because Nicky, the main character in my story Diary of the Future creates collage poetry, I have been aiming to create poems that relate to teenage life. So I created the following about a teenage party:

Grin and party
Hot new hook-ups
Touchy-feely french kiss
too much to drink
spirals out of control
Let your lips do the
Slurring, staggering
The party is over
Everybody
Forget

I didn't create the next one to be part of the teenage theme, but as I posted it to the blog, I realised that there was a natural progression in themes. Hee hee! Actually, I'd created the next one, because I was amazed at how many times the word 'pregnant' had turned up in my box of words. And 'pregnant and paranoid'? I just had to use that.

not pregnant
pregnant!
you're pregnant?
PREGNANT AND PARANOID
too stunned to speak
the horror

I'm hoping that this new spurt of collaging will result in a renewal in the desire to collage. As I said, I want a number of poems that will fit in with Diary of the Future, and with the news that lulu.com now has a printer in Australia, a combined anthology featuring poems from both Jen and I is a real possibility.

Labels: 365 Day Collage Poetry Challenge, Byron Bay Writers Festival, Diary of the Future, pregnancy, teenagers

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The collage poetry recipe

The recipe seems simple enough but I haven't been following it lately. The magazine collection has been growing but the words haven't been making it to paper.

But I really have to focus if I'm going to produce an anthology by the end of the year.

I have a fascination with cardboard coloured drawers to collect the cut-out words in. I've taken a small set of drawers to work - if I fill it with words, I may be able to turn out a poem during my teabreaks.

I've also started some visual collages of my novels - 'I'm with the Band' collage in progress is pictured.

Meanwhile, Jennifer has made some gorgeous Easter collages. I feel like eating Easter Eggs just looking at them.

Bright and colourful. Who says you only need to send cards at Christmas?

Available at The Chickollage shop right now!

Labels: chickollage, collage poetry, Easter

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

New shop open at zazzle

I've taken the plunge and opened a zazzle shop, firstly focusing on gifts for writers.


make custom gifts at Zazzle



When I should be writing, I'm thinking about more great products for writers. But guess I actually have to do some more writing for Nanowrimo to be a writer, instead of just wearing a t-shirt or drinking from a 'writers' mug.

Labels: gifts, nanowrimo, writers, writing, zazzle

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Sunday, September 30, 2007

New collage projects

I've been very slack on the new collage front. Trying to develop systems to make the collaging easier but there is still so much to do which has nothing to do with collage.

Actually, I lie. I've completed a 3D collage poetry project. I cannot show it to you here now as it is a present for a friend and I don't want her to see it until she opens her parcel. But all will be revealed once I know she has her custom collage. This is probably the first of several 3D projects as long as I can get my hands on the raw materials. Unfortunately, items pictured in the Spotlight catalogue do not always appear in my local store, so I'm going to have to talk to someone to have them ordered in.

I think the anthology will be next year's project. We're heading into Nanowrimo in a month's time, and I want to knock my novel Diary of the Future into shape for submission so I doubt that I will be able to collage every day. It certainly was a nice idea but realistically I cannot keep it up for any extended period of time.

I also have now registered chickollage.com so am deciding what needs to go on that site. Last year when I first came up with the term chickollage, somebody registered the domain name, obviously thinking they would be able to sell it back to me at a profit. Well, the registration lapsed so I grabbed the domain.

I've also added a large number of Jennifer Gordon's photo collage designs to the greeting card section of The Chickollage Shop. It's great to see that you can now buy greeting cards in lots of 1 or 10, and there are also notecards.

Labels: collage poetry

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

A hiatus from Collage Poetry and a Cafepress special promotion

Okay, I admit it. I've been really really slack when it comes to the collage poetry thing.

My scanner died, and combined with all the extra work I've been doing, I just couldn't fit in the time to collage. Until I got inspired to collage a mask for the upcoming Romance Writers of Australia conference. Here's the result.

Now it's that great time of the year where I actually get some money back from my taxes, so I've purchased one of those all-in-one scanner-copier-printers. I love it!

So it's time to get into the collage again

I haven't neglected it completely. I have bought a heap of second hand magazines and have been cutting out the necessary vocabulary. And I realise before the trip to Sydney in a couple of weeks, I may have to clear the magazine shelves at home to make room for four. Robbie's father has been storing a heap of magazines from the nineties for me. In fact, picking up half of them 18 months ago lead to the creation of Chickollage and the beginning of the collage poetry obsession. I guess he still has them....anyway, I'm prepared to pick them up and bring them home.

Cafepress has announced a special promotion on t-shirts: buy three t-shirts and get one free. Head over, check out the range....you just never know. I just purchased one of Jen's designs...Legendary Punk Poet...to wear to Byron Bay Writers Festival....

Jennifer Gordon on the other hand is making inspired photo collages with gorgeous flowers and colour designs. I have added a new section to the store purely for greeting cards because these collages will make stunning cards. You can now buy cards singularly, in packs of 10 or packs of 20 and Cafepress have also added notecards. Check out this new range - Jen has an amazing eye to putting these designs together.

Labels: chickollage, collage poetry, photo collage. Cafepress

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