ZMACS: MAY: L' accordeon Zine

C'est irresistable!

Mais oui! On peut voyer que les jolies filles aiment bien l'accordeon ... et Weird Al aussi :) And juke boxes, they definitely love the accordion as well.

Santas also love accordions!

Check out this junk mail accordion fold book -- 138 pages!

Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson could move people to tears with the accordion ... sorry, that's a serious accordion,

CPO Jackson was playing at Franklin Delano Roosevelt's memorial, and as we know, many sailors and naval officers have a serious love of the accordion ... and there is an accordion player in every port, even in Malta ... see Malta's first female MP and her accordion here.

The Agatha Barbara story is so cool. Of course she had a soft side - she played the accordion, didn't she? And if only I had known as a lonely high school student the affinity les jeunes filles have for the accordion. Ah well, c'est la vie.

Wasn't that cool?! Which reminds me, I owe you an accordion-playing Mastodonna ...

Ah, be still, mon coeur....

This zine style does flip around and around a bit -- I advise making a small dot in each rectangle for the "front side" before folding. The zine works great as a "read forward/ read backward' sort of document because of the flipping around. As I have been playing with it, I have made a bilingual read forward from each cover/ cross over in the middle zine as well as a poem that reads either way.

Am I doing something wrong? I took a scrap page and folded based on directions above, numbered the pages, then unfolded. The last 4 pages are on the back of the piece of paper. that's gonna make the photocopying step difficult (although I suppose that's an argument for 32 page zine!)

Success! I used Tanya's tips as sent by email, folding the first and final pages before the middle, and that time it worked out properly.

{breathes sigh of relief}

Well, you know what they say:

That's right, they are filthy rich :)

Sent yesterday. Forgot my wallet on Tuesday and had to mail it all on Wednesday

I want to apologise to my partners for sending late. It's been an awful month here.

I have also found the diagram frustrating re the folding. Partly because just when I think I know which are valley folds and which are mountains, I look at the diagram again and they totally flip on me! Without more than one visual point of reference, they do that. (Origami diagrams v cleverly avoid this; also they sometimes point out which are which!)

The other thing I realised was throwing me is Diag 4. What in earth!? Why is it suddenly 5 x 4, then reverting to 4 x 4?

:0

*on earth :)

• • 'reverting to'

Halp! Hay-alp! Need EDIT function re comments. ;D

See? That should've been ASTERISK MINUS 'reverting to' bc those words were redundant.

Ohhh, OCD-girl gives up. Not without pressing PREVIEW first this time, though. :)