and it's done! I decided on a soft cover and a hard cover for "My Baked Alaska" 

let's just hope it looks okay. This "dropping off a project halfway through its process and having someone else finishing it" business is really strange and I've come to realize that I don't actually like it. 

next book I make, I'm binding it myself. 

Question Three:

I would like to have a secondary component to my book. Whether that's a box, or bag, or something, I'm not sure. I think it could really benefit from having an additional piece to it. The problem is deciding what. My book is by no means a fancy pants one, and a box might be too stuffy for it. I've even considered displaying it either in a cake pan, or on one of those really funny cake dishes, that have the giant glass lid. Could be kind of funny. But I definitely think it could use an additional piece. 

Any suggestions?

Question Two:

The working title for my book : 

option one: Phrase    (to the point, no messin around here)

option two: Fraise     ( I like that it sounds like phrase, but is really a strawberry)

option three: My Baked Alaska     (way out of left field, I know, but it's my favorite 70's dish of all time, and its kind of fitting for my book. There are underlying connotations of drug use throughout the book, and well, I guess Alaska's pretty neat.)

Any suggestions?

Question One:

I have been trying to decide what paper stock the Etiquette pages should be on. I want them to be different from the book pages (a matte paper with a bone finish) so it is apparent that there is something else happening. Suggestions?

Illustrations

These are a few of the illustrated phrases that will be featured in the book!

I like black markers, and they like me. It's a good relationship.

Photos!

These are some of the photos that will be layered with the illustrated phrases. (They're looking really blue here, and they're not supposed to be, so hopefully they don't look blue to you right now.)

An Example of the Etiquette Pages:

"We go right on using the old forms of introduction in spite of the fact that practically no one bothers to listen to a name when introduced. The first name mentioned is determined by the sex, age, or importance of the person, the theory being that the smaller fry is presented to the greater. If you must be formal, you may say: “Mrs. Stone, may I present Mr. Flint?” But the more current form is merely: Mrs. Stone-Mr.Flint.” Your own friends are just “Mary Vernon” or “Jack Hill” when you are introducing then to your parents. “How do you do?” in a way of acknowledgement is sufficient for any occasion. “Charmed,” “Pleased to meet you,” and similar remarks are terrible-never to be used under any circumstances."

"In preliminary conversation the trivial should be selected rather than the profound. As a brilliant authority has pointed out, the lady to whom one has just been introduced is more likely to be set at her ease by the inquiry “Do you like string?” than by asking her “Do you love God?”

"When it comes to the greatest adornment of conversation – wit – you are either born with it or not, just as you are born a boy or a girl. One cannot cultivate wit, but of course one can cultivate an appreciation of it. And anybody who can quote at the appropriate moment the witty things he has heard other people say, is an addition to any social circle"