Hi all, this is the thread for all our cook book business.
Here's the "rules" and instructions. All in one place. I"d like to limit to 15
I will furnish everything needed to make the books but you will buy your own 3 ring binder when I send the "pages" to you. I am going to figure on $7 per person. I am figuring on the acid free paper and cardstock, page protectors, printer ink, glue, embellishments, etc. I want to make it special so it will be an heirloom.
MONEY FOR BOOKS WILL NEED TO BE TO ME BY MARCH 10TH. I WANT TO GO AHEAD AND GET THE MATERIALS AND START WORKING ON THEM AS I GET THE RECIPES, ETC. INSTEAD OF WAITING TILL THE LAST MINUTE.
Basically, We will gather all our good recipes together, send to me, I'll make the pages, organize everything and send them out.
Here's how it will work.
1. Get your recipes together. We will have these catagories. a. SOUP AND SALADS
b MAIN DISHES
c. SIDE DISHES
d CAKES, COOKIES, CANDY
E. PIES AND DESSERTS
e. MISC. (This would be for Jim's frog legs, etc. lol)
f. BREADS As we go along, if we need another category, we'll add it.
G. CANNING AND PRESERVING (includes hot sauces too)
h. QUICK AND EASY Recipes for days we've just gardened too much. Things we can fix in a few minutes. (Youknow, stuff we can open cans and throw together fast)
Recipes need to be to me and ready to go by March 15
If you have them it would be good to have at least one of each thing, but if you don't have that, just send what you have. Please make these recipes you really like. No space fillers. Send as many as you like. I will go through them and if we have too many "chocolate cakes", (for example, I'll use what I can. Also, if there are duplicates I will use the recipe and put both sender's names on it. I'll do the same if there is something that is almost the same with just one small difference. I will talk about the diff and put both names. No need in doing a whole new recipe if the only diff is the amount of eggs.
2. How to send.: PLEASE DMAIL THE RECIPES TO ME IN A "RECIPE" FORMAT. NAME, INGREDIENTS, INSTRUCTIONS, ETC .
iF YOU SEND A PICTURE, ETC, PLEASE SEND THAT BY EMAIL: GOLENAGO@HOTMAIL.COM
I will shrink, etc, or enlarge when I get them to make them fit where I need them to be.
3. It would be nice if you can type up a few little "stories" about the recipes, where you got them, stuff like that. Won't have room for long stories about each one, but just little tidbits. Pictures of the cooked product will be good too. However, those you will have to snail mail to me and one for each book. If you hae a photo processing program, you can make the pictures 2 X 3's, etc. and get them on a couple pages of "picture" paper.
4. Whjen I get the recipes, I will print out as many as we need. Before I do that, I will e mail to Robin(Arejay) and she will proof them one more time
I know you will proof them , but we'll do this just to be extra safe. If there is any thing questionable, (You know, does c. mean cup or can, stuff like that) she'll get with you and make sure)
5. Since "frogs" seem to have become our little mascot (cute frogs, not ugly horney toads, lol) if you find any cute little frog graphics that would look cute at the bottom of a page, etc, please send those to me too. Jim found some cooking ones and we'll choose one of those for the covers. But other cooking guys might be cute. Won't use too many, but a few here and there. Also any other cooking graphics, etc. you think would be good will be welcome as well. May not use all of them, but would like to have some to choose from. Stickers would be good too , if you want to send those, you'll need to send several. Those you would have to mail.
I found some cute stuff by googling "cooking stickers" and stuff like that.
Anyway, if you have embellishments you would like to send, please let me know. If I cn download and print out I will, if not you can send them or have them sent directly to me. I'm going to try and find some to buy, but don't want to go over our budget.
TRISHA is working on designing the front cover. If you buy a notebook you can slip something in the front, you can use it there.
I know I have probably just confused you more or left out info, so please ask and I'll add it to the instructions, etc. PLEASE CHECK THE SECOND POST, cause I'll use it to put new info, participants, etc.
PS. Jim is our go to guy for graphics. He got the picture I'm using here and he said it was screaming "Lorraine" when he saw it. Now, lets figure out what that means. lol
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