That Other Thing: Announcing the 2008 Dress A Daybook
Remember a while back I was going to announce something (I thought was) cool? Well, after much not-working-on-it delay, I've finally finished it: a 2008 Dress A Day daybook.
Some caveats: I haven't gotten my copy yet, so I don't really know how it looks, but other Blurb books I've seen have been nice.
Today's the last day to order for Christmas, with hugely expensive next-day shipping. I highly recommend you don't do that, honestly.
There aren't a lot of pictures in the book. At all. It's just quotations I liked.
If you don't want to order from Blurb, but you still want one, here's a PDF file ... it's under a CC license so go ahead and take it to Kinko's or wherever; you might have to do some messing around with the imposition to get it to print all nice, but have at it! If you make a fancy cover for it (the pdf is just the innards) please send me a picture, okay?
Labels: daybook
posted by Erin @ 2:17 PM
13 Comments:
At Dec 12, 2007 3:12:00 PM,
belphebe said…
I do love the About the Book blurb at the end.
But I have to get a dictionary (New Oxford American, perhaps?) to figure out some of the words at the beginning. "vade mecum"?
Runs off to find a dictionary.
At Dec 12, 2007 3:31:00 PM,
Stephanie said…
OMGosh! So all those Christmas presents I've been mulling over and avoiding shopping for ... I could print out the PDF, make nice covers, and send Dress a Daybooks as gifts?
At Dec 12, 2007 3:34:00 PM,
Erin said…
Stephanie -- absolutely! (You'd have to figure out a way to bind them, but go at it!)
At Dec 12, 2007 5:16:00 PM,
Toby Wollin said…
Darn - I was so sure that vade mecum was latin for something, but no luck at all....
At Dec 12, 2007 5:28:00 PM,
Erin said…
all right:
vade mecum |ˌvädē ˈmākəm; ˌvādē ˈmē-|
noun
a handbook or guide that is kept constantly at hand for consultation.
ORIGIN early 17th cent.: modern Latin, literally ‘go with me,’ from Latin vadere ‘go,’ from an Indo-European root shared by WADE.
You know my day is not complete unless I've sent someone to a dictionary, right?
At Dec 12, 2007 5:43:00 PM,
India said…
Yay! The date book lives!
But, um, I don't suppose you want to know about the typo in the colophon . . . ?
At Dec 13, 2007 2:45:00 AM,
bani said…
Ooooooo.
Ooooooo.
:D:D:D
At Dec 13, 2007 6:29:00 AM,
LacciMacci said…
oooh!
i think i might make my own and have it sit on my desk so i can keep all those important dates down!
:)
At Dec 13, 2007 6:50:00 AM,
Mary said…
Thanks, Erin. The quotes are priceless, and the format, so elegant.
At Dec 13, 2007 8:38:00 AM,
Lisa Simeone said…
Erin, what a wonderful idea! I will definitely be ordering one (I certainly can't figure out the whole printing/binding thing). And, of course, being a student of Latin, I was thrilled to see you use "vade mecum."
Gratia tibi!
At Dec 13, 2007 10:31:00 AM,
cathy said…
All right, I looked up "colophon". Is this one at the beginning or the end of the book? (Not downloading it right now.)
At Dec 14, 2007 7:48:00 AM,
Sue M. said…
Erin, I don't get it...I thought that you were going to write a book book. I do hope that this entry book, nice as it is, doesn't stop you from publishing a collection of dresses and their stories.
Your public awaits...
At Dec 18, 2007 6:05:00 PM,
cindy b said…
Erin, places like Staples can do a spiral binding on things such as day planners for not much $$
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