#if you pile your mistakes up tall enough nobody can see them anymore pro tip right there

[notwhelmedyet]

I put what I hope is the last finishing touch on my copy of Deep Roots tonight - replacing the one chapter frame I somehow forgot to print.

You see, I printed all the text on the laser printer so it would be more crisp and then used the color inkjet to overprint all the colored elements. Which worked shockingly well, the color inkjet is feeds very evenly.

But somehow I forgot the frame on the last chapter of Deep Roots (thankfully my copy and not the author's). Totally fixable...if I had noticed before I folded, sewed, trimmed, marbled and then cased the damn book.

fuck.

theoretically I probably could have trimmed out the offending page, tipped in a replacement, trimmed it perfectly to size & edge painted it to match the rest of the marbling but gods. the effort involved.

Zhalfirin suggested printing on vellum instead and trimming it slightly smaller than the book so it wouldn't show too much against the marbled edges and that was so much easier. In real life you can read through the vellum pretty easily and it's a lovely effect. I love vellum overlays in books.

So now they are actually finally actually fully done. & coincidentally Ealcynn's copy just went out in the mail this afternoon. So I think that's a wrap!