Eggshell Art

Watermelon Art

Japenese Book Binding

Not feeling like a perfectionist for the first time!

Its crunch time and everything seems to be going wrong. I already dont have much time in a day thanx to the two jobs im working. I wish I took GRD 3150 last semester so it wouldnt run up on me like this considering I have to prepare for portfolio as well. There are so many things going wrong but I have lost my will for perfection because its been one of the most hectic weeks of my life. Im very upset that Im not going back to fix all the mistakes but I just dont have it in my anymore. I feel like im going insane. It was a good experience but I feel very low right now and not too happy with myself!

Nothing seems to be going right!!

My pages finally came out some what how I wanted them to but the sizes were all off. So I took each page individually and matched all the sizes. I had the most trouble with the bi-folds. They came out really thick and wouldn't fold and then the bi folds didn't match up so...because Im so smart...I cut the end forgetting that the page behind I was cutting the middle which would split the bi-fold in half. It couldnt get any worse but it did. I reprinted alot of the pages that I messed up on and was pretty content with my pages. So I took my "wonderful" book to alphagraphics to get it bound. I left the exact amount of space they told me to. When my book came out they had cut into the words, placed a half-page wrong. It was a complete DISASTER!

Problems

I spend all friday and saturday printing my pages. I didn't have any scaling issues or paper issues, but I had major problems with color. Every page printed looking washed out and I was trying to get the rich color to print that I had intended. I wasted alot of paper and spend many runs trying to get the correct color.

THE WORST DAY EVER!

I finally finished my book on thursday and was ready to print. So I took the day off of work on friday thinking I can go ahead print all my pages, come home put them together, trim them down and it will be ready to bind by monday. I first went to alphagraphics by my house and they were busy and said there was a 5 day waiting period. This was at 9 am. From that stop all the way till about 5 pm I went to almost every print shop I can think of. I went to school, all the alphagraphics, kinkos (imagine how desperate I was) and all the mama papa printing stores trying to get my pages printed. I faced problems like we can't run that texture paper through our printer, we don't put 12x12 in our printers, we charge $5 for each pdf to open, and god knows what else. I was so fed up and ready to quit on myself. Then, I called Gaye and vented a little bit and she offered to have me come over on sunday to print my pages. I realized I would be invading on her time and it could take forever to get stuff right. Thats when it hit me and on impulse I went and bought myself a printer. Its the first time I spent $600 on impulse. If I had only thought about that 8 am, I wouldnt have wasted about 10 hours running all over town trying to get my stuff printed.