You Gotta Eat issue 2 ~ zine

 

issue 2 of You Gotta Eat exists! it's companion zine this time is Idols Gotta Eat Too.

i'd wanted to make a food zine for years and then when i finally got around to it with issue 1 it felt so discombobulated but i just wanted it done and then i've had a weird year since then and issue 2 came together a little easier but still feels a little, forced maybe? but i also feel like i know what i want this zine to be now. and i feel like i've been working on a lot of habits that will make my creative endeavours flow a bit better (fingers crossed)(it's an ongoing effort!)(that will have ups and downs, no judgement!!)

some people can plan and make all the decisions and produce something that is this fully formed version of itself straight away but i need to do things to work them out so the first two issues feel to me like they're in a pupal phase and now they've hatched and i can get on with the next one knowing what i'm doing. although i may well be here a year later with issue 3 like, uh it took ages and i got stuck on it and it feels weird lol. but right now i feel good about it :) 

i enjoy this small, almost square format. i fit 3 spreads on one a4 sheet of paper which also makes it cheaper to print. and cute to hold.

even if it does feel pupal stage (which doesn't mean it's bad) i still made a thing and that's always worth it.
 

birthday boys

 

Peter Cushing's birthday is 26th May and i love him so i wanted to make him a cake. i decided on a fruit loaf and then added icing and Percy Pig sprinkles. i think you could make Peter any cake and he'd have politely told you how lovely it was.

and then 27th May is Vincent Price's and Christopher Lee's birthdays. imagine them all being so close together, perfect. i went with chocolate fairy cakes with coffee icing and halloween sprinkles for these guys. i'd be scared to present Christopher Lee with anything and i think Vincent would do that thing when you get sassed by someone but you're glad to have been sassed. 

ugly photos of tasty food #17

beans pizza // for a while, making tiny cakes with sprinkles was my distraction from life

i'm a bit obsessed with sprinkles, how they look, the texture, how the colour leeches out into the icing

warm enough for garden lunch :) // Will making a pizza never gets old 

pancake day // pizza day <3 // Cuppie Hut sharing

this incredibly dense and tasty ball was cut in half and shared, Cuppie Hut portions are mad // camo cake

ugly photos of tasty food #16

 

march 2025

 

 

 

ok, i'm "caught up" a satisfying amount now. i'm tempted to move things from tumblr to here but i'm not going to, i'll just start posting here now and link back.

 

i find editing photos quite relaxing, cutting and collaging and adding stickers and i've been mashing together a month's worth of pictures for a monthly post on instagram but i dont know if i'll keep doing that or just share things more as they happen but i don't want to deprive myself of my photo editing smooth brain hobby.

 

i'm writing this out as a reminder to myself when i read this at some point in the future. share photos with no editing, stick stickers all over a picture because it's a relaxing time, take a bunch of photos and collage them together. i don't need to be consistant, i can use the same photo more than once if i want to. stop restricting yourself <3 

i regret not pouring 2p's into that machine until i got the death note pumpkin.

february 2025

 

january 2025

 

 

week 53 2020

 

2020 end!!

week 52 2020

 

it makes me so happy when my mum draws on envelopes and cards