Drink Book

For one of our projects is to design a drink recipe book. I decided to do a book of 21 shots to play off of the joke of peoples 21st birthday. Where jokingly you are suppose to take 21 birthday shots. (which would kill you)...Anyways for the assignment we only had to do 5 of our own shots and then we could find 5 other pictures from the internet that matched out style. However, I thought it would be easier to just take ALL 21 pictures by self to make sure that they matched perfectly. Which, was where my project from hell began, because I decided to go big.. cause you know what they say go big or go home! Anyways, to garnish and set up 21 pictures was for one very expensive to buy all props and such. As well as, very time consuming, to take and then edit, edit, edit... Other then that things seemed to be going well layout wise and actually creating my book layouts and design. When it came time to print the book I was happy with it after doing a few test prints in class and took it to M&T because I wanted it printed on nicer paper to make my photography look nice. 20 dollars later... I found out that my type, which is really important for a recipe book was took close to the inner margarin by like half an inch. Meaning, when I bound it.. you couldn't read the beginning of the text. Flustered and frustrated I didn't want to spend another 20 dollars on printing this book out again.. but I also didn't want to print it on just normal paper from the programs printers. So my friend Lauren and I thought of the paper that the program offered to sell.. it would cost me 2.75 for 55 sheets of 12 by 18 in pieces of pace setter gloss paper and 55 print credits. Which is a WAY better deal then printing it for 20 dollars.. AND it came out even nicer. RIDICULOUS! So I finally have my book printed after all the stress and I cut all my pages and bind the one edge and let it dry over night. I come back the next morning and take it out of the binding clamp and find that one of my end pages got ripped during the binding process! Stress, stress, stress! If it was specifically on the sheet that the book needed to have end papers/inside covers, I wouldn't be so worried about it. BUT of course on the sheet they are a MUST. So instead of scrapping what I have I carefully glued another paged to the back as if it was originally binded with it. Problem solved! Sooooo, I take it to M&T again to get the last 3 sides cut so that they have nice evenly cut sides. So obviously now that I finally had my inside contents of my book the last thing to do would be the cover. Therefore, I spend all day designing and printing/ testing the cover to make sure the spin was the right size and it would work perfectly and smoothly. Once, I was happy with it I finally printed it on nice carolina paper and take it to cut and mock up. I take my knife to make the first cut and slipped and took a huge chunk out of my left pointer finger. It was so bad that I had to have my professor with first aid take care of it and then go to the security office and and report and have it bandaged. After that dramatic and traumatizing experience, I come back to my book and finish my cover and I am finally happy with my end project.. talk about blood, sweat and tears.