Stuff I Do

A number of pictures of the book's creation will be listed as we go. Here's the first. There's stuff all over the table - important stuff like the pages; the covers; the ribbons; the paraphernalia (actually, that's just the collective term for the "important stuff"). Anyway, careful observers will notice the nearly empty jar of shellac, which has covered layer upon layer upon layer (told you it was about food!) of the front & back covers. I could well have kept going layer upon, etc, cause I reckon there's fifty billion layers there, maybe more. I lost count. What's not in the pic is the most recent book-closing mechanism (collection of ribbon); those in shot were actually used to line the concertinaed pages.