It has been a tremendous day. Today I finished the edits of the cookbook and re-ordered it some so that it has a better flow. I had arranged it my theme but the recipes were still in the order in which I transcribed them. This afternoon I moved them around so that, although they are still by theme, they are also arranged by type of food, type of meat, etc so that each theme has a natural flow to it, and the narrative continues to run well with it, but the recipes will be easier to find, arranged a little more logically. The cookbook really is a hybrid, somewhere between a traditional cookbook and a journal. Hope other people like it! I also started working on the layout of the cover. I have the artwork complete. I wrote the back cover text; I still have to do the “about the author” section. Honestly I have no idea what to write, not a lot to say really, it may just end up being really basic, hi, I’m Jamie and I like to cook! I did the font selection and the layout of the filmstrips of images and the front and back main images. I think I may do the script in indigo blue and the backgrounds a lighter blue, just depends on how it looks against the main front image. There is a lot of brown in the image from the cupboards in the picture so I have to find something that compliments it. All in all it has been a productive day and I feel like I am in the home stretch! Tomorrow afternoon, we are heading up to my parents for the afternoon. We are all coming home to celebrate my mother’s birthday. It should be a fun afternoon and a welcome break from these last few weeks. I gave myself a tension headache this afternoon working on the book and I am constantly exhausted so it will be really great to have the chance to just hang out with family, eat, drink, celebrate and laugh lots.
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