personalized cook book

Hey, sorry it's been so long.

You see I wanted to write sooner, but I couldn't find my camera connecter cord (and it's been hellishly hot). Excuses excuses, but really I've missed writing.  

So last week I had this idea...you see I absolutely love collaging.  I will collage ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.  You leave your things around my house too long and I will return them collaged. Okay maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but that's aloud right?  So back to the idea...I had this idea that I wanted to make a cookbook for all my favorite recipes.  Personally, I hate having to bring my computer into the kitchen when I'm cooking and have to keep looking back at it (I would never survive if books were only made in kindle form).  So I thought, why not just print out all my favorite recipes into a collaged notebook.  This way all my recipes are in one place and I don't have to go searching for them online.  What I used is a regular composition notebook, magazine cut-outs, clear contact paper, double-sided tape, and my printer.

How to make it:

-Cut out pictures from magazines.

-Tape them onto the notebook using double-sided tape.

-Cut out your contact paper to the size of each cover, and cut out contact paper to seal all the edges.

-Place contact paper over collaged notebook (contact paper is pretty forgiving and if you don’t like the placement of it the first time it’s not too hard to peel off without doing any damage, but be careful.)

-Once you seal all the edges of the notebook with contact paper give yourself a high five because the hardest part is over!

-Make a table of contents in the first couple pages of the notebook (use roman numerals as the page numbers for the table of contents.)

-Number the remaining pages with regular numbers.

-Print out your favorite recipes and place them in the pages of the book.  (I put contact paper over the recipes inside the book to keep them in place, but you are certainly welcome to use tape.)

-You’re done!

Here are the results:

front cover

back cover

table of contents

recipes

This is a fun project if you have some time on your hands and would make a fabulous gift to give (to someone very special of course)!  If you have any questions let me know and let me know if you plan on doing this project yourself!

xx Larissa