Nice productive day today, after a kind of restless night full of weird and kinda scary dreams. Got up around 10, puttered around, then got busy and moved the giant paperweight, er, the now-defunct HP color laserjet out of the way and replaced it with the little workhorse HP inkjet. Also swapped out my powerstrips so I'd have the one with the long cord for the bedroom to run behind the bookshelves.
After that, I printed out the recipe cards and filler for Highfield's book. This took a little fiddling, as the inkjet has a larger print margin on one end than the laser (why I'd planned on using the latter instead), so it prints a little off-center. I moved some of the shorter recipes to the smaller yellow cards, which will also give me more room on the pages for schtuff in addition to the recipes, which I'm attaching with photo corners. I was going to use pockets, but they'd make the book too bulky and the doo-dads are going to do that already. I might do one or two pockets for the multi-card recipes, but I think there are only three or four of those. So everything but the photos Paul sent that I'm going to use have been printed out.
Oh, and the cover page, which I cannot get right for the life of me. I've never had so much trouble designing a page before. Sheesh. But that's just one page.
Also scored the interior pages, after setting up a jig with tape, a T-square and a triangle on the table. My poor kitchen table is really getting beat up, but it makes a great work table, especially with the Tru Edge on it.
Fiddled a bit with the back cover too. The hinge wasn't working quite as well as it should, so I broke it and relined it and also used the opportunity to glue in the bookmark ribbon with the dangly charms on it. Normally something like that would go in the spine, but since there isn't one, it's better on the back cover. This way I also get that soft edge on a third side of the back cover, too.
There are new pics (#s 7-12) up on the Making Books photo album, and more tomorrow, probably, too. Anyway, it's mostly laying out and gluing the interior pages now, and then the final drilling. I have a hunch I'm going to have to either beg Marcia or go down to Talus for post extenders of the right length. Anyway, It's starting to look like a real book.
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