Family recipe book ?

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shupe

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My mom has sorted all the old family photos and recipes and now it's my job to scrap them into a family recipe book that can be printed for each family. :) What size should I do? My scrapbboks are all 8.5 x 11 slip in-I know that's not a good plan!! Never printed a photobook, so I'm not even sure what sizes are available. What do you all suggest?
 
I have a recipe binder w/ 8x10 pages printed on photo paper in page protectors. That way I can add to or take away if I want. I'm not stuck with a bound book. Mine are simple, just the recipes w/ a photo of what the finished product looks like.
 
this is on my future-project list too. I saw a gorgeous hardcover family recipe book on pinterest...I want to do one before my girls leave for university, or get married. LOL So I have a few years... (they are 4 and 2!!)
 
I made a 8x8 hard cover photobook (shutterfly) of my Great Aunt's recipes for my mom and her cousins... they LOVED it.

My mom wanted a cookbook of recipes he makes all the time... here is 8x11.5 so she can print them out at home and slips them into 8x11.5 D binder.
 
I'm working on one (for a while now, sigh) that is to be 8x8 hardcover (and softcover to give at Christmas time as gifts).
 
MamaBee said:
I made a 8x8 hard cover photobook (shutterfly) of my Great Aunt's recipes for my mom and her cousins... they LOVED it.

My mom wanted a cookbook of recipes he makes all the time... here is 8x11.5 so she can print them out at home and slips them into 8x11.5 D binder.
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Do you have the uploaded in your gallery? I would love to see them! :)
 
I'd probably go with an 8x8 Shutterfly book as well. I have tons of them for various other reasons so a recipe book would fit right in. I am, however, working on an 8.5x11 slip in one for every day use in the kitchen. I'm tired of little slips of paper all over with recipes on them.
 
shupe said:
Do you have the uploaded in your gallery? I would love to see them! :)
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Bummer... I had a blog post on this for SSD in July - but it must have been deleted.

Here are the photos from that post... I took the book I made for my mom's cousins and made one for me and expanded to include the last three generations of women cooks in my family...

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I also scanned in a recipe card in their handwriting and grouped it with a photo of them...
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MamaBee said:
Bummer... I had a blog post on this for SSD in July - but it must have been deleted.

Here are the photos from that post... I took the book I made for my mom's cousins and made one for me and expanded to include the last three generations of women cooks in my family...

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I also scanned in a recipe card in their handwriting and grouped it with a photo of them...
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Those are great! That definitely gives me some good ideas! Thanks!
 
I made a binder last year, so it's not a printed book - here's my blog post about it: My Recipe Binder

I did not scrap the recipes and don't plan to, as it will always be a work-in-progress as I include more recipes. But I do include old recipes from my mom and other relatives. It's all explained in my post. :)
 
I've made two recipe books. One was of family recipes and the second was for my daughter of recipes from a Mexican cooking class. Both are 81/2 x 51/2 pages. I have found Paula Dean recipe binders on clearance at Michaels. They came with the dividers and recipe card protectors. You can also find "half pint" notebooks at your local office supply store. I notice that Staples now has Martha Stewart half size notebooks. I have used page protectors from the office supply and also WeR Memorymakers makes 1/2 size archival quality page protectors that are available from several suppliers. You can print them at home-2 pages per 81/2 x 11 page or I print mine at Costco. I can print 4 pages on a 12x 18 and trim them at home. You can pm me if you want any other info.
 
maryinaz said:
I made a binder last year, so it's not a printed book - here's my blog post about it: My Recipe Binder

I did not scrap the recipes and don't plan to, as it will always be a work-in-progress as I include more recipes. But I do include old recipes from my mom and other relatives. It's all explained in my post. :)
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I saw this on Pinterest and repinned it. Then I bought the exact kit so that I can make one for our kitchen. :) I really love yours! My recipes aren't hand written or anything special, just stuff printed off from recipe sites so I will likely scrap some of them but just slipping the printed pages in a page protector will help.
 
Rebecca and Mary, those are amazing! I am in awe. I have wanted to do this for a long time but just do not see it happening anytime soon! Janet has some templates in Bargain Bites so I was tempted to take a crack at it! I just never photograph my recipes so this was sort of holding me back.
 
maryinaz said:
I made a binder last year, so it's not a printed book - here's my blog post about it: My Recipe Binder

I did not scrap the recipes and don't plan to, as it will always be a work-in-progress as I include more recipes. But I do include old recipes from my mom and other relatives. It's all explained in my post. :)
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Mary!! That is amazing!!! I totally need to do this for my own pile of recipes that are floating around the kitchen... totally swiping this idea!
 
Thanks all. :) I can't tell you how much I love it - all my recipes in one place. And when I find a new one online, I just print it and insert it.

That kit was awesome to work with - just perfect for what I wanted to do. :thumbup: And here it is...just to give some credit in this thread:
https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/sweetshoppe/product.php?productid=21159&cat=0&page=1
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And I used too many of Cindy's templates to list, but a lot of them were from her 2011 calendar templates, rotated.
 
Amy- I used quite a few of Janet's templates. They were easy to modify for the smaller size pages and worked well for recipes. Use the photo spots as is or combine them for your recipes.
 
This has been on my to-do list since Christmas. After watching my sister have to re-write out some of my mom's recipes for like the 3rd or 4th time since the old cards were falling apart I figured it'd be a good idea. Only problem is I want to surprise her and there's no way I'd be able to snatch her recipes without her knowing.
 
I am BIG into scrapping recipes ... some are paper scrapped from years ago ... since I joined SSD they have all been digi scrapped ... nice thing is that makes it easy to reprint when my boys someday move out and want specific recipes. These are all 6x6" albums (they don't take up too much space on the cabinet) ... right now I have a "key" as to what is in them on the door of the cabinet ... but someday I will get something to label the books ... just haven't found what I want to do it with yet. ...but open to suggestions!


My cookbooks ... Digi-scrapped by Duct Tape & Zip Ties Racing Team, on Flickr
 
Rebecca and Mary! You two rock. Thanks for the inspiration! I have been wanting to do a recipe book as gifts for a long time and just haven't thought of how I was going to put it all together. Thank you for the ideas!!!!!!!
 
I do mine 4x6 and put them in a book that I was given. But, if you're going to include photos of the peeps, I would go 6x6.
 
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