[ Recipe Book?! ]

Hey y'all!

How are you guys doing? I'm ok ok, busy with lots of stuff like school and my bachelor thesis.
Anyways.. I'm writing this post because I have some exciting news! Well, I think it's exciting. I'M EXCITED!

Like I said in another post [birth of fooodies], I tried to make a recipe book in 2008. I was in my cuteness-for-the-win-phase. So the layout of my recipe book was really colorful, cute and messy? haha

I have some printscreens for you guys

Ok as you can see, lots of hearts, cute images, different fonts, butterflies and stuff!
I'm very proud of my recipes, because I only used Microsoft word and PAINT to make these. And if you're familiar with word and paint you will know I spend hours and hours to create a page!

I've put so much effort in making those decorations on the side. Every little heart or paw you see there is a single image, so I've moved, rotated and resized all those images like a thousand times to get the right composition. LOL I can't believe I did that.

It took so much time to make a page, so I felt a bit discouraged. I lost my motivation to continue with my recipe book.

In 2009 I started taking an interest in photography and I figured nobody wants to buy/read a recipe book with a messy and cuteness-overload layout. Ok some people would, but most people do not and it's not professional! =p

So I created other recipe pages with Stock photos (?) which took less time to make.

It still had some cute elements, but it was more "mature looking" (I guess whaha).
After this my inspiration for my cooking book was GONE, PASSÉ, FUTSCH,WEG for a couple of years. It kinda bothered me, because I've always wanted to make a recipe book since I was little *cry me a river*.

Uhm.. How did we end up here? lol


Three days ago, I suddenly had a great idea for my recipe book! Since I'm active on Flickr again (I had a break from Jan 2010 - Feb 2014, personal reasons derp) I thought I should make a recipe book with "REAL" photos. Photos taken by me!


I love photography. I find it easier than Word/Paint and I've noticed that photography is a great source of inspiration for me. I JUST LOVE IT!

I'm not good at photoshop and graphic design stuff, but luckily Mantik is. He was very enthusiastic when I told him about my new plan. And he told me he would help me with the layout and design thingies and I'm going take the pictures and write the recipes.

So these are my plans. What do you guys think? Do you want to see some sneek peeks? No? I don't care. HEREYOUGOOOO!

I'm so happy and excited~

Have a nice day y'all!

Ka Wai