THE COOKBOOKS ARE DONE!!!!

I'm SOOOOO excited. The cookbooks that we collaborated on in our Yahoo group, are finally finished. I completed the binding this past week and will now mail them out to everyone. Only those people sneaky enough to know I post everything here will know to check to see how the covers came out. This is the paper I made in a previous blog post and it just came out great. The back covers are antique brown paper bag with vintage images on them. Silly me, I forgot to take a picture of those, but that does leave an element of surprise for the group.

We had such fun doing this project. We each created an art card incorporating a recipe from six groups, i.e., appetizers, meat or soup, vegetables, casseroles, desserts, etc. We then made six cards each of those categories (a total of 36 cards) and everyone mailed them to me. I then laminated each page, because how sad to put so much effort into an artistic page and have it ruined by an ingredient while cooking, and then bound them together. I made tabs for each section as well. They will be mailed out hopefully next week. We have recipes from Nevada, Arizona, Kansas, Illinois, and New York. I'm so proud of my girls. They hung right in there and got it done, and very artistically. Each person in this group is such a talented artiste.

Can't wait to see how you like them ladies.