Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Making a Cookbook

Once upon a time, I wanted to make a recipe book. It was my senior year of college, and I tried. I really did. I used a plain white binder, Microsoft Word, and my cheap printer, which printed black as gray and really light colors.

That was in 2010.

Now, I REALLY want to make a nice one. I have so much on my plate right now with the end of the school year wrapping up, though. I am making the yearbook for my 8th graders and a big slide show (plus 30 copies on DVD) to be played at their ceremony. OH - and my wedding is a week after school gets out, so I'm crazy busy doing last minute planning for that too. I probably shouldn't even be spending time blogging. Oops.

That said, I have BIG PLANS for making this recipe book once we move to Ohio after our honeymoon and get unpacked. It may be mid-August before I actually get to begin, but I'm excited. I am planning what I want it to look like right now since I can't find any I LOVE on Etsy. I want a fabric covered binder with lots of categories inside with BIG tabs that make it easy to find what I want. I want to create a template for my recipes to be typed into so they are uniform. Maybe I'll even sell my creation in my Etsy shop if I like the finished product enough!

For now, though, I'll have to just daydream abut this recipe binder and continue organizing my recipes when I have a spare minute here and there.


  • Have you ever made a recipe book?
  • How did you do it?
  • Or do you just keep your recipes stored on the computer?

4 comments:

  1. Ah, it has been my dream to create my own recipe book as well. I hope you can create the perfect one once things get settled down.

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  2. I never write recipes down. i make something amazing like once...and I can never remember how to make it when my husband asks me to do it again. Maybe i should start writing stuff down? lol. That's so cool you've got enough stuff to make your own cookbook! How exciting!

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  3. That will be really fun to do this summer! Definitely go for it once you are settled in. :) I recently started researched e-scrapbooking (want to make a family photo album), which led me to thinking about creating a cookbook to have made for myself and family. I was thinking of using a site that prints the book for me. I still have a lot to learn on the digital side of it...as far as picture quality goes.

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  4. I bought one that has the inserts that you can write your recipes on and just wrote a couple every day until I had all of my recipes in there! Not the most creative way but it got the job done and the book is really cute and so well organized!
    -Marley
    http://www.afandlove.blogspot.com/

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