Cookbook Progress
My main focus has been on getting my gift cookbooks printed, and I do have a shot of how my desk looks right now, waiting until I’m done here so I can start collating - that is, gathering the pages for each book into one handful so I can punch the holes and insert the cerlox comb. Since I am missing one sheet (4 pages) I won’t get the cerlox in today, but all this collating could take some hours yet.
(incidentally, the light green/yellowed one is the OLD one from which I copied to run this new Memorial Gift edition).
How many copies am I printing and publishing with this venture? 70 is the number I settled on. Not all will be for my own gift-giving though. I’ve promised my niece, Jalise, a batch for her giving this year.
I had sort of hoped that things would go so smoothly on Saturday that I’d have the whole batch done in one day. But you know that things don’t always run that smoothly, do they?
I had a couple drop in to discuss their ministry website, which is already part of my stable of clients. They stayed nearly two hours. Then I caught myself making some mistakes in the turning over of my batches of 70 pages and getting the other side upside down or ouch, getting the same page on the reverse!
That’s why I always push myself hard on my gift-making early in the season, because I know there will be unforeseen delays. That there will be is a given.
I’ve made progress on my annual Christmas story and letter, but they need more polish before I print them and start addressing that mail.
My business agenda still gets some time, but it is being preempted at times. It can’t be helped, right?
As you read on, you’ll discover that I have gift baskets on my mind today. 
You’re right, I came up with another gift-making project.