Book Report....

Well, I received my book on Wednesday. My book cover is really nice, however I would have liked the first 12 pages of my book to be included. Yes, you read right, I am missing the first handful of pages of my book. I am not shocked and people who know me would not be either, it is called McCallum Luck and unfortunately we are what people call very "tight". Its sad but true. Anyway, I wrote Blurb (because they have no phone number). They responded 24 hours later and were "sorry to see this". I am getting a new book reprinted and I paid for one day shipping. There is obviously no guarantee that I will receive it before Tuesday, but I will keep my fingers crossed. Blurb is printing the second book free, I am paying for shipping and I am required to ship my old book back ASAP. Okey Dokey Then!


Over all I am pretty pleased with the quality of my photographs. They are still a little bit darker than I like and the text seems blurry to me. Before uploading my book, for Blurb's second attempt, I lightened the photos that really bothered me and made all my text a lot smaller. Maybe this was a blessing in disguise. I got to preview my book and make changes. Now please can the book arrive by Tuesday?

Event #10 Little Italy's Art Walk

My family and I headed downtown Sunday afternoon to experience the art walk in Little Italy. There were tons of artist booths set up. Even the art galleries were open for the public to walk on in. I saw a lot of talented artists. I noticed a lot of the photographers would mount their pics under Plexiglas somehow. It really gave the photographs an extra "pop", as Deb would say. I would like to know how they were able to mount the photo to the glass, I would have thought the adhesive would have bubbled or worse ran the colors of the photo. My mother really liked the ceramic fruit by Kent Conklin, which is a high complement since she is not a knickknack type person. It was the cherry she liked best, I think I will put it on layaway and give it for an X-Mas gift this year. There were a couple of photographers that took pictures of nature in an abstract way, which is what I like to do. I found one of the artists website but I lost the business card from the other. John Villinski took close up cactus pictures and the other artist focused on tree bark. Anyway we had a nice time even though it was 98 degrees outside.

Book is off to the Printer...

My book is finally finished and on its way to me. It should be here Tuesday. What a process to get your InDesign project into Blurb's Booksmart. I don't know if anyone else had trouble but I was stuck for a couple of hours. I didn't realize that I needed to save my InDesign as a PDF and then open the PDF and save as high resolution JPG. I was trying to get InDesign to do that????? After I figured that out it was pretty much smooth sailing. Booksmart crashed on me about five times, however most of the progress that was made was saved and it didn't cause too much of a headache. I am looking forward to seeing the print quality.

Book Progress Cont.

Book Progress

Here are the first few pages of my book. My husband doesn't like the white space... but I am not too concerned with it and actually like it...so thats that. I have seen a lot of coffee style picture books that have a lot of white space and I think its quite beautiful.

Event #9 Wyland Galleries

Wyland was another artist I found having increased fame right when I moved here. I believe he did a few murals around town and now it was announced he will be the official artist for the 2008 Olympic games. I think of all his works the murals are most impressive. How one even goes about doing large works is beyond me!