Indieweb Secret Santa Gift For Sara

When Sara posted that she was organizing a secret santa I jumped on it. I thought it was a really cool idea. Later Sara messaged me to tell that there wasn’t much interest but she didn’t want to let me without a gift so she was preparing one for me. I messaged Sara back saying she would also get one gift from me.

So two weeks ago Sara posted my gift. I was thrilled how thoughtful it was and thankful not only for Sara but for all the people that Sara gathered replies from to answer the question I put on as a suggestion for my gift: How Small Online Communities can be a Better Place than Large Social Network Websites? I am preparing a reply for that post but today I want to post my gift to Sara.

My original idea for Sara’s gift was something different, but the idea evolved and I created a zine. The inspiration for the content came from one of Sara’s post I read not too long ago: In Reply to Tracy’s Guiding Principles for my website.

The inspiration for the zine itself came coincidently from two distinct individuals Austin Kleon and Doc Pop. Both use this format, and Doc Pop even have a cool zine teaching how to make your own zine.

You can check out and download Sara’s Website Guiding Principles zine here. Sara, I hope you like it.

A special thanks to my wife whom I bounced ideas from for some of the drawings that I’ve added to the zine.

I made a quick video showing how to fold the zine, you can watch it below.