{"id":1670,"date":"2011-01-13T10:31:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T10:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2012-10-19T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:02:08","slug":"mellybee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/01\/13\/mellybee\/","title":{"rendered":"Mellybee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/33512.jpg\" class=\"image\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Mellybee\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Mellybee aka Melanie Chadwick<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> United Kingdom<br \/>\n<strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melaniechadwick.com\">www.melaniechadwick.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How about a brief introduction?<\/strong><br \/>\nI graduated back in 2002 in Fine Art and since then have been making a living from some form of creative output. I\u2019ve been fortunate to have lived in a variety of cultures both in Asia and Europe- and have met amazing folk from all walks of life! Although I love to paint landscapes and flowers I also enjoy drawing and it\u2019s through my Mellybee brand that I let myself create quirky illustrations for print, textiles and web.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you get involved with zine making?<\/strong><br \/>\nI had been thinking about it for a while but it wasn\u2019t until I submitted a piece to a collaborative zine project with the theme \u2018I heart&#8230;\u2019  that I started making my first zine! <\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us what\u2019s your goal when it comes to zine making?<\/strong><br \/>\nMaking something that is a joy to pick up, easy on the eye and something that you can come back to for smiles, facts and perhaps some inspiration&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any favorite artists that inspired you to make your zine?<\/strong><br \/>\nGemma Correll\u2019s Treasures of Sky Mall- funny and sweet, and Kate Bingaman Burt\u2019s obsessive compulsive monthly zines- labelled and categorised- both had a part in inspiring my I &#60;3 <span class=\"caps\">TEA<\/span> zine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the one tip you\u2019d like to share with people who are interested in making their own zines?<\/strong><br \/>\nStart off by making a zine around a topic that gets you excited and you know lots about- that way you\u2019ll be able to fuel your project quickly without too much time spent researching (distracting yourself)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mellybee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26842,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/26842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}