day #3 cook book art

last year i joined my second altered book swap...all of us came with a book decorated on the outside in a theme we chose...one was "forest lovers" another a vintage cookbook by erikia ghumm, famous for her paper crafts and collages....it was a three ring binder of better homes and gardens full of color saturated food pictures that almost looked inedible...we all have seen these pix that make the food look gross...

well i finally got around to (ehem) finishing mine (looks down at her feet in shame)...you cannot see the buttons, the recipes and the collages very well from the pictures i took but here they are...the section i selected was "pies"...i had snagged some of the cut out newspaper recipes her pack rat family member had squirreled away...helpful hints from helloise, newspaper articles about hugh hefner's business prowess (????) and a recipe for millionaire pie...

the above pix (sorry it's tipped on its side, i couldn't make my photo program run today..could bode ill for my future posts...) but this one is my fave...it has very rusty bottle caps...i rusted some vintage material...i learned the technique from an article in cloth, paper, scissors ...the fun old photo i cut from a national geographic mag of a class for immigrants to learn verbs related to cooking...thus, "cooking with verbs"...


off into the mail it goes...back to its rightful owner...arrrr