New Things Aren't Scary - A Mix for Dre

I'm posting this for Marky because I know he won't have a chance with all that's going on. He made this mix for our friend Dre who self-reports being stuck in 1998, musically. (What's wrong with that, I ask?) Anyway. My favorite part about this mix is that he hand drew all the art while on hold with our stupid cable company. Stellar.

I kind of want to live in that tiny house.

Epic Mix Project Progress!

This is, by far, my most in depth mix project. It has not found its way to its recipient yet, however, so until then, you only get this:


Yep, that's a box cutter I'm wielding there. Bet you didn't know that I used to stock shelves at a grocery store, did you? I also drove a fork lift. No lie.

There's Something Worthwhile Here: A mix for Steve

So, it was my brother's birthday. I got him a hat that makes him look 1940's swell and I made him a mix.


I used a polaroid I took of some fields outside of our parents' town, peeled off the outside and wrote the mix title under the plastic overlay.


I affixed the polaroid to the outside of an envelope I made using a template traced from a pre-existing envelope I had laying around... the vintage paper is from a scrapbook that used to be our Grandma Ada's.

Older Doesn't Mean Wiser: A Mix for Dustin

Alright! So! Here's my first posted project. This was a mix I made for my friend and band mate Dustin way back in December of last year:


This is a leaf I picked up off the sidewalk in Chicago last fall while we were all hanging out. I pressed it and then hand-sewed it to the front page.

I took two postcards to use as the front and back covers of the booklet. I had just finished reading How to Make Books and so was inspired to learn how to do this simple book binding stitch. I used vintage carpet thread I had laying around. The booklet is made of vintage paper, typed up on my '58 Royal Typewriter.



Here's the cover made out of the vintage post card and a page torn from an old hymnal.

I was really proud of this mix... it's one of my best, I think. Sometime I'll do a top five mixes of all time... This one is definitely on it.

First Post!

Hey there! My name is Heather and I'm a mix tape addict. I've been making mixes since I was 15 and haven't stopped yet. This is a blog about the mix projects I do. If you're at all interested in contributing as well (or if you're an addict and want to trade mixes), feel free to shoot me a message. Thanks for reading!