Quilt tops are done, sandwiched, basted, and sorted by quilting type. The ones that will be hand quilted are well started. The sweater for DH has the pattern sorted, and the yarn is bought and waiting to be dyed. Plus I have bought all sorts of odds and ends over the course of the year. Since the dollar versus the euro is so utterly abominable at the moment I may have to figure out a different main prezzie for DH though. I was going to get him this:
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The last thing on my making list is cookbooks for the DDs. I am going to put all the holiday recipes, and all the stuff they are constantly calling to ask how, into a cook book for each of them. DD3 is still at home, but I see no reason not to get a jump on it. In fact since she is the dashi queen of the kitchen she can contribute! (G)
My first notion is to just write them out into a nice blank book. My second notion is to print them out on the computer and put them into a binder with plastic sheets. Perhaps more practical, but much less personal.
What would your choice be? I've spent the last two weeks talking myself back and forth.
If 'twere me I'd find a really nice font on the computer, type everything in the nice, warm, readable font, put the whole shebang on a thumbdrive and take it to the local print shop so that it can be printed off and bound so it will lie flat while open to the needed page.
Just me. And I love that still. Wow .... never thought about having my very own still before. Papaw may have had one .... way back. I'm thinking it was slightly larger than that pretty copper one.
I am of the practical persuasion and cookbooks are practical items. My vote would be for the printout/plastic sleeves/binder option. That way you can always do a 'starter' version and add to it as you can, which also allows for adding different things to each if desired. Also the plastic sleeves will help keep the pages a bit better protected. And from a time standpoint, which is going to be more logical.... and get done well? Personally I would also get bored out of my mind trying to write out the same thing three different times.... and I would not get much done on any one of the books. But that may just be me.
Sounds like a great gift idea. And something I may add to things. Last year I did print out some favorite holiday recipes for some of my family. Meant to get it all done for the 'far aways' but didn't manage it. But I didn't put them into binders. That may get done this year.... and become a tradition, to add a few each year. hmmmmmmmmmm.....
If they're things like bits of books, handwritten notes from your mum or magazine clippings, why not scan or photograph them and put them on a CD or a photo site?
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I'd do it on the computer, but then my handwriting is execrable. And if I spot a mistake, it's a lot less frustrating just to fix it and print out a new page.
That alembic is so pretty! Does the price include tax? Maybe you should ask. No idea what the VAT might be in Portugal, but here it's
Just when I had opted on the side of sanity (print the thing out), DH had to voice an opinion :rolleyes: He is combining Jack's notion with Sunny's and a couple other's notion, and suggesting I organize, write out where I need to, and then take it down to the print shop and have it all scanned, printed, and bound. So it would be a properly bound book printed out in my, and some of my gramma's and a few friend's and neighbor's handwriting. If I did that I think I would have to type everything out and make the thing twice as long by including fully readable versions as well. Besides, I don't think the girls would understand instructions such as "dextrinize the grains in a spider", "mash the boiled chestnuts and put them through a tammy", or "draw the fat from the gammon in a stout pot"
I am very annoyed at being unable to get the alembic. I had a notion to get the 3 liter one for him. It would be a great help in his perfuming and such. But at 86 euros for the item, 54 euros for shipping, and with the dollar running at 1.4 per euro, it would be more than a little silly to buy one this year. VAT is paid to the destination country and we do not have one, yet.
One of the irksome things about it, is so far as I can tell there are three artisan shops in Portugal that make them and they can be found nowhere else. There are sites that sell them, but they all come from the same three portugese shops at dramatic mark-ups. Except for a few mega-giagunda made in the USA models that cost as much as a car.
What he really wants is a very old style alchemical alembic, perhaps ancient style. One that has great similarities to a thing called a pelican, crossed with a bain marie, and can operate at very low heat. Glass is a poor second best to copper in his opinion, and glass versions cost three and four times as much. The debate over copper versus glass amongst oil makers and distillers is not someplace I am going. He prefers copper, good enough!
Ah well, perhaps next year.
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If you have the recipe book bound, I recommend a spiral-type binding so that it lays flat when opened. I have a couple cookbooks and quilting books that I had the spiral binding added for that reason.
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